Gradual Alarm - Wakening

Hirschkorn

About this app

● Wake up gently: Wake up gradually with pleasant sounds and increasing light
● Beautiful high-quality sounds: Choose the sound of ocean waves, forest rain, a bubbling tea kettle, or pick your own sounds
● Multiple recurring alarms: Set which days of the week the alarms repeat
● Offset or skip the next alarm: One tap to offset or skip the next alarm without resetting the recurring schedule
● Dark theme: No need to stare at bright lights while setting your alarm
● Customize your alarms: Choose the time to gradually wake up, the screen color, volume and brightness
● Weekly or One-off: Define a weekly schedule, or create an alarm that only rings once
● Free - No ads - No purchases

Wakening is an alarm app that gradually brightens the screen and play's pleasant sound that gently get louder, helping you wake up peacefully. It has all the features you expect from an alarm clock, but lets you wake refreshed instead of being shocked awake every morning.

Ratings and reviews

I've tried a few of these sorts of alarms over the years, and they make a massive difference to your morning start. To be able to combine a gentle wake (no more adrenaline) and a little bit of light to reinforce your circadian rhythm is perfect. This app has worked almost flawlessly across several android versions, despite the ever increasing limits on background apps and screen access when locked etc. Nothing worse than a missed alarm because of system permissions! Useful updates too :)

I've been using this for a couple of months now and it has never let me down - nor does it shock me awake like some alarms! My only criticism is that setting the snooze timing is a bit confusing. I just want it to give me ten minutes and then start the "wakening" from the beginning but you have to work backwards to achieve that and I'm not entirely sure I've got it right as I'm always half asleep when it goes off!

Does exactly what it says. User friendly and simple. Ideally your phone would have to be vertical for the light to be emanating toward the bed rather than the ceiling, otherwise tend to wake up to the sound rather than the light but still gentle enough and gives off enough light by end of wake up cycle le to see safely. Only could be better if sound was also separately phasable and if it was also available for iOS (big niche could to be filled for iPhones, would you pretty please!?).

What’s new

- Added ability to duplicate alarm
- Fixed notifications that didn't close
- Fixed menu drawer
- Fixed display of enable days
- Fixed bug that reset enabled days of week
- Added wakelock to improve reliability of alarm going off
- Fixed edge-to-edge layout bug in previous release
- Updated to support Android 15
- Fixed bug so vibration is stopped by snooze
- Fixed bug so brightness setting works correctly
- Fixed bug that could cause wrong alarm settings when alarm is skipped