More people are shunning the traditional alarm clock by their bedside in favor of their mobile phone, especially when combined with a cool recharging dock to ensure your phone doesn’t run out of battery at the wrong time! While iOS has its own built-in alarm feature, the App Store is full of alarm apps, many of which offer interesting additional features or try to make the act of waking up far less irritating than it has to be! We’ve gathered ten such apps here, so take a look through and click their title to go straight to the App Store in order to download them. WakeApp will wake you up during your light sleep phase, so you feel more relaxed and ready for the day.  The app also monitors your sleep patterns and body movements, then provides data on how long it took you to fall asleep and other statistics.  Your Read More

By Chris Hall on August 19th, 2010 Progressive Alarm Clock uses no notifications to wake you... it is a real background app. It didn’t hit me til our review of Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock many months ago, but alarm clocks are a big business in the App Store. Each of them are touting different things, from sleep trackers to sound customization to social network integration, but not many seem to focus on the fundamental task of making the iPhone resemble a real, fully functioning alarm clock. According to Brad Fullmer, the developer of Progressive Alarm Clock, his app is the first alarm clock app that actually runs in the background. Sure, there are plenty of apps that have notifications that run in the background to wake you, but they are limited to 30 second alarms with no option to snooze. Once the alarm is done, you’d better be up because the Read More