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Summary
I’m probably not the only one here that hates waking up early in the morning. Now there’s an alarm clock that can make the painful process a little more enjoyable. AlarmDroid is meant to be an alarm clock that lures your soothingly out of bed. Find out if AlarmDroid is as dependable and effective as it’s made out to be in today’s test.
Features & Use
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AlarmDroid is an alarm clock for your Android phone. As far as functions are concerned, this alarm app has got just about everything you’ll ever need on board.
You can set a standard ring tone or select an MP3 from your phone to be the alarm sound as well as turn on a speaking clock that tells you the current time. AlarmDroid also includes a Soft Alarm that gradually increases the volume of the alarm sound in order to softly wake you from your dreams.
It’s up to you to adjust the snooze time that let’s you nap just a little more before actually having to get up.
One of the coolest features is the fact that you can adjust the way you turn off the alarm or go into snooze mode. You can select between flip’n’snooze, shake’n’stop, snooze by power button, and long click, which makes you long press the snooze or stop button on the display to turn off the alarm. That way you won’t accidentally shut off your alarm half-asleep and wake up an hour later.
Bottom line:
AlarmDroid has been waking me up very gently and soothingly for the last week. I have set it to ring 5 times between 07:00 am and 8:00 am, so that there isn’t a chance of me sleeping through it. There’s nothing more I could wish for in terms of functions and use with AlarmDroid.
Screen & Controls
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When you start up AndroidDroid all you can see is an alarm on the app’s main menu. By using the long press you can:
- Switch alarm on/off
- Edit Settings
- Duplicate
- Delete
Simply taping the alarm directs you to the alarm preferences screen. Add new alarms by pressing the menu button and selecting Add Alarm. The menu button also let’s you access the AlarmDroid Settings.
In General Preferences you can personalize and set up your alarm just the way you want it. You have the option of:
- Giving the alarm a title
- Adjust snooze time
- Select days on which alarm should ring
- Activate the speaking clock
- Adjust time span for soft alarm
- Select the alarm ring
- Access Advanced Settings
You can select your default ringtone or use any MP3 as your alarm ring. You can sort through your phone’s tracks by:
Title
Album
Artist
In conjunction with the alarm ring, you can activate the speaking clock, which tells you the current time and a programmed text (Time to wake up!) that you can compose yourself. You’ll have to install the Text-to-Speech module in order to take advantage of the speaking clock. You can also select the interval between the speaking clock announcing the time (once, constant, every 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds). You can test the way the alarm ring and speaking clock sound before activating them.
In the Settings, you can determine how to turn off your phone by either shaking it or flipping the phone over. Both of these features worked really well during the test. You can even adjust the sensor sensitivity for both based on your phone.
In addition, you can deactivate the lockscreen (this feature doesn’t work on all phones) and/or activate the status bar notification. This way you’ll know when an alarm clock is set by looking at your notification bar.
Bottom Line:
AlarmDroid is really awesome in terms of controls and layout. All the Settings are easily accessible and simple to figure out. Great stuff!
Speed & Stability
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AlarmDroid worked perfectly during our test and rang without fail when it was supposed to!
Price/Performance Ratio
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You can download AlarmDroid for free from the Android Market.
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A Google User, May 14, 2013
Weather is not working Something wrong with weather station. Now I can't receive data for cities in Kent UK. As well the Polish language is replaced with Brazilian.
A Google User, May 13, 2013
Reliable. Flexible. Works intuitively and works well... Except on new SGS4 you can't cancel or snooze an alarm without unlocking the lock screen first.
A Google User, May 13, 2013
Nice Gratuliere App, but now i got Samsung s4 and now the Alarm doesnot make an Sound...
A Google User, May 13, 2013
Getting unreliable! Sometimes the alert does not work. (Killer, now it cannot be trusted to wake me!) This might be an memory issue. But the alarm should just keep trying until it does ring! At some point the Linux OOM killer will have made the space for a speaking alarm. Just keep trying to ring the alarm until I press stop or snooze! An alarm cannot stop before it has rung for 10 minutes or before the user stopped it. If it does stop "unexpected", you will have to re-ring the alarm!
A Google User, May 13, 2013
Extremelly annoying flashing add! There is an intrusive advertisment that jumps out and starts flashing in red color! It is unbearable!!! Otherwise a good app. Some useful settings have gone missing compared to an older version I was using.
A Google User, May 13, 2013
Ok As far as an alarm pretty fair for free. I would rate it better, however the C vs F does not work in the weather portion.
A Google User, May 12, 2013
Excellent I've been using this alarm for ages and it has never failed me. Best alarm most definitely.
A Google User, May 11, 2013
Better before last update Really like this app and use it every day, however it was much better before the last update as now when I hit snooze it often times comes up again and the alarm goes off immediately after I hit snooze a second time. Fix this for 5 stars, very frustrating.
A Google User, May 10, 2013
A little bit off The alarm is great but the talking weather tells me its 66° Celsius at 6 am so that's like what 140°F. Its always way off so much I think its on purpose.
A Google User, May 10, 2013
HATE! IT'S GOOD UNTIL IT GOES OFF IN CLASS AND I CAN'T TURN IT OFF! UNINSTALLING!!
A Google User, May 9, 2013
Worth paying for the hard work Only one I could find that displays a long large message on the screen when the alarm goes off.
I had another alarm that I hated! In order to shut that one off I had to unlock my phone and then sweep the STOP button across the screen. That's not so easy to do quickly when waking from a sound sleep! Especially when one doesn't want to wake ones spouse! With Alarm Droid all I have to do is shake my tablet and it shuts off! Wonderful! All the other features are well done as well. I'm going over to make a donation. I encourage you to do the same if you use Alarm Droid (and no, I've never even met the programmer!). --Michael