Alarm Clock HD - Pro Reviews

by SargAl

Works perfectly for me! UPDATE: The last update caused a lot of problems with AlarmClockHD. A constant 2:15 alarm showing up and you can’t turn it off. Tried everything. Finally had to disable notifications for it to stop. Please Fix. UPDATE: problems have been fixed and now this is once again my favorite app on my iPhone X. Works great. Thank you.

UPDATE: AlarmClockHD has once again started acting goofy. Same old problem. Had to disable it in notifications for it to stop constant random alarms. I gave AlarmClockHD several chances and now I think I will delete and search for a different one.
UPDATE: Looks like all the problems have been fixed. I decided to take a final look and to my surprise AlarmClockHD is working great. Thank you. My favorite alarm clock app once again.

UPDATE: To the developer, Every time AlarmClockHD is updated, something else goes wrong with it. Now the shuffle music option is not working well. Same song keeps repeating. You have to shut down AlarmClockHD , shut down the iPhone, then restart everything to get the shuffle option to work correctly. Every night I have to go through this which is Extremely Frustrating. Remember, If It Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It.

UPDATE: SAME PROBLEM WITH THE SAME SONG REPEATING ITSELF OVER AND OVER AGAIN. SHUFFLE MUSIC MODE JUST DOESN’t WORK, AND THIS FEATURE IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME. ZERO STARS. DON’T KNOW WHY THIS PROBLEM CAN NOT BE FIXED.

by Ddrummer68

I’ve used AlarmClockHD for years, and it’s always worked a certain way: push a button in the top right corner to set the alarm, and then push the big red button to silence the alarm.

Now, pushing the top right corner leads to ads for this developer’s other products. There’s really no good reason for it, other than the developer knows I will tap on this exact spot out of habit.

Worse, when the alarm goes off in the morning (when many of us are asleep and not functioning at 100%, and maybe our eyesight isn’t that good) the big red button is still there, but is now just a very brief snooze. To turn the alarm off, you have to hold down on a tiny white button just below the big red one. This is kind of like getting my car back from the shop and finding out the gas & brake pedals have been reversed.

Finally, the long fade-in of the alarm now takes about 5 seconds. This morning, my family had been awakened before I figured out I was hitting the new Snooze button and held the off button.

I always support AlarmClockHD developers, so if there was ever an option to purchase AlarmClockHD, I’ve done so. At this point, I will now be looking for another alarm clock app. It’s hard to believe anyone would so drastically alter the basic functionality of an app that was working fine for years.

by Alexandra_recovered

I have used AlarmClockHD since 2013 and since getting the iPhone 12 have not been able to get AlarmClockHD to function properly. I have made sure all the settings are correct and even will do a test alarm at night which works and then for whatever reason the alarm I set for the morning continues to go off WITHOUT any sound! Why is AlarmClockHD so inconsistent and glitchy? I’ve emailed support about this same glitch on my previous iPhones and have appreciated their prompt reply but their apologies don’t help when I’ve overslept multiple times! While I appreciate the developers taking time to optimize AlarmClockHD, I don’t understand why AlarmClockHD requires so many updates especially when there haven’t been any significant new features released in the time I’ve used AlarmClockHD. I’m sad to say, if you need consistency in your alarms sound going off, I would avoid AlarmClockHD.

by Jhgfdyyuhn

I have had AlarmClockHD for years and loved its reliability and functionality. After a recent update of both AlarmClockHD and ios, the weirdest thing started happening. In the middle of the night, AlarmClockHD jumps to Impala Studios page in AlarmClockHD Store! If I try to turn that off, which is annoying enough in the middle of the night, it pops right back up like it is fighting me for control! If I leave it alone, it starts cycling through my apps trying to open them! Once, it downloaded Angry Birds, which I had removed from the phone but still had in the cloud, all by itself! I don’t know whether I’m being hacked or the phone is possessed!
This only happens when AlarmClockHD is on. Tried to email Impala Studios, the only way they would allow contact, but, not surprisingly, have received no reply.
Truly sad because this had been one of my favorite apps!

by Jondrew

AlarmClockHD does what I want. Provides a good clock face for my phone so I could get rid of my old alarm clock.

Some bugs and or improvement suggestions:

Sometimes the Weather bar and alarm indicator won’t show up even though Weather is enabled on the display settings. If I close out AlarmClockHD and restart it, then the weather displays. Sometimes the weather will show up in portrait mode but not in landscape.

Setting the alarms seems tricky. There’s a bunch of iPhone settings you have to enable for the alarm to work. I really don’t need the alarm function as al always seem to wake up without an alarm. But if you depend on an alarm to get up, this could be a problem.

Display seems smaller than it could be. One of the things I like about using my iPhone as a clock is that it can display large numbers. When I wake up and want to see what time it is, I don’t want to have to put my glasses on to read the clock. The numbers on AlarmClockHD in portrait mode is too small for me to see. Landscape mode is just big enough. But there seems to be lots of screen space left on the table by AlarmClockHD such that the full numbers and other info could be much larger. Not quite sure why this is.

Besides that, this seems like a good clock app. I paid $1.99 to get rid of the ads.

by VinBob

One of the best alarm clock apps available and I also purchased for the integration with my Apple Watch. Unfortunately, AlarmClockHD is a little flakey with the watch app in that the next alarm time doesn’t correctly show on the watch or if you have two alarms set, it only shows the next alarm from one of the set alarms and not the other. So for example, I have Alarm 1 for Mon, Tue and Thu for 6:30am and Alarm 2 for Wed and Fri at 7:30am. Once the Tue alarm is done, it shows as Thu being the next due alarm and not the one for Wed. So it does not seem to play accurately with the Apple Watch. I had reached out to the developer in January but never heard anything back. Good app otherwise and hopefully they improve the watch functionality...

by GG777

AlarmClockHD is really great and I use to wake up every morning, but lately, AlarmClockHD has been experiencing problems with its volume control and when I close it on days when I wake up earlier than I intend to, the alarm keeps nagging me about the volume being too low to sound even though when I check the volume on my app the volume is all the way up on both alarms. And when set a new alarm to see what’s going on the alarm goes off but something in AlarmClockHD causes the alarms volume to go down to the point where I only barely hear it. Please fix it, this bug causes some problems on some nights.

by MintyMe

Add on: Thank you for fixing the RS Feed!!! ❤️
I'm not certain if there has been an upgrade/update, but I haven't been experiencing the problem with disconnect pop ups. All my alarms have gone off on time and I haven't missed any appointments. So we're back to five stars!
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Revision: had to take away a Star 😥 ... Sadly I've discovered a
critical flaw. If ones Internet / WiFi connection goes out, as has
been known to happen, then Ooooops! No alarm! Yup! Why? Well
a notice pops up letting you know about the disconnection, and until you click on it, your alarm doesn't reset. Guess that's fine if a
person is sitting around watching for it. But I set my alarm when I GO TO SLEEP!!!! Not too useful then, eh???
Sigh

old review, before all those days ... Ummm, afternoons, when my alarm failed to wake me 😴💤 🕐----------⬇

I love this Alarm App. As you're wide awake watching the clock, thinking how you'll never get enough sleep to be coherent again,
there's an entertaining / distracting ( good thing ) RSS feed on the bottom.
Nice ... Cool choice of colors too, if one splurges and pays the .99 cents, which I did this time, lol
:0)
Also set Alarms for all my medications, my Chihuahua's ... and which days for them to go off on. Again ... nice.
Lots of options and cool features, pleasant surprise.

by The Judge9

Once you get it figured out, it’s a straight forward and easily used time piece and alarm clock. You can readily adjust its brightness level by swiping across the top of the screen (whether it’s horizontal or vertical). Multiple alarm settings can be input for convenience. You may need to tap the face to get the setting menus to show st the bottom of the screen. You can shake the phone to activate your flashlight. It’s probably best to plug your phone in on charge with AlarmClockHD open and running for complete reliability as an alarm clock. If you’ve set your i-Phone to auto sync to the cloud when plugged-in and locked, you might remember to manually direct it to back up before opening the clock app to use it as an alarm.

by Try2Remember

I’ve been critical of changes to my most used app in the past. However, I just got the iPhone X, and before I could suggest moving the time around on the screen to avoid burn-in and getting rid of the white bar at the bottom, here came the update that did exactly that and more.

I’ll admit there were many changes that creatures of habit may not like. Jury is still out for me on the new wake screen and notifications when closing AlarmClockHD . I’m sure I’ll get used to it. And I had to relearn where to go for settings. Good job, but the dev is playing with fire in changing so much on an app that people expect to just work and not evolve.

by Its.pronounced.fee

No other alarm lets me set a 30min volume gain with my own music randomized! Pairing this with my light alarm’s 30min to full brightness makes an absolutely perfect alarm, imho the best way to wake up! Now with the latest update adding the feature to use actual playlists it’s become my favorite alarm hands down! No more manually adding tracks after updating my playlists. I could care less about all the other features. Thirty-minute audio gain with playlists is an absolute must! Thank you devs! Lets just hope iOS doesn’t break any features in the future.

by Pcman3550

I’ve used AlarmClockHD for over year and has run flawlessly. I like the choice of colors or ability to dim the display. The alarm I depend one has always run flawlessly. This is an excellent app.
I would only have one complaint. When I have a calendar notification that normally slides down from the top, usually with other apps, the notification will slide back out of sight after a set time. With this clock app, the notification stays down and remains blocking part of the display. I don’t know if this a function of AlarmClockHD or the fault of the calendar. Maybe the developers might chime in?

by BWolsey

When I first got my iPhone many years ago, I searched for a bed side alarm clock and used quite a few. I found this one to be the best one for me. My favorite features are that I can use whatever music/sounds I want for the alarm and the Escalating volume feature. They’ve even added and updated many features over the years and are sure to keep it optimized for each new version of iOS.

If you are debating between this and another clock app, you cannot go wrong with this one. I strongly recommend it.

by CbusCher

I appreciate the update that makes it much easier to find menu items. AlarmClockHD is also fairly feature-rich for a clock app. One dislike and one issue: I like that AlarmClockHD tells me now when the device is charging but miss still seeing what the battery level is; and this morning when I hit snooze, AlarmClockHD didn’t keep my iPad on but rather let the screen turn off, something I don’t want when snoozing. Keep moving forward - still my clock app of choice for sure!

by MFWare

I paid the $0.99 fee to remove ads from AlarmClockHD earlier this year. It was the best alarm clock app on iOS. This latest revision of AlarmClockHD has given me a very different experience.

After my regular alarm awoke me this morning, I tried to stop the alarm as usual. I discovered that the alarm was only in snooze mode. “Hold to Stop” simply does not work. pressing “Snooze” resets the snooze countdown to 9 minutes. Pressing the “Alarms” icon does nothing. I can’t get AlarmClockHD to return to regular clock mode.

I deleted AlarmClockHD and downloaded its iCloud backup. My alarms we gone. Ad-free mode was gone. Ads now can’t be dismissed. I set a new alarm. The new alarm instantly took over AlarmClockHD and, to a lesser, my iPhone.

I was forced to delete AlarmClockHD once more. In its new incarnation, Alarm Clock is less than useless. It does real damage to my iPhone experience.