AutoWake. Smart Sleep Alarm App Reviews

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Once Was A Great App. AutoWake used to be SO good. However it seems that support for AutoWake has stopped which is unfortunate because it had a feature no other app provided: an alarm for when you’ve slept 8 hours (or any number you set) I used to love it. No matter what time I finally fell asleep I would be awoken after exactly 8 hours. That feature does not work anymore. I’m consistently sleeping past the 8 hours and waking up before the alarm so either the alarm doesn’t work or it’s not tracking my sleep anymore. It’s a shame the other apps in the bundle are supported still but not this one. This app is no better than the stock iOS alarm app now.

No PM alarm option. I first downloaded the Auto Sleep app and love it! So I decided to get the AutoWake app to be able to use the “tickle” and “nudge” option because I tend to wake up feeling very groggy. I was so disappointed the moment I tried to add an alarm right after purchasing app. App has no option to put alarm on PM. I work nights so I need an alarm to wake me up at 4PM. I’m upset I actually purchased the app and can’t even use it! That should be fixed. Not every one has a normal wake schedule. Also, it would be more convenient if we’re able to set alarms on you phone instead of strictly on the watch. It is too much bulk to fit on a watch. There should be an option to set alarms on phone.

Don’t do it... This app is garbage. It undermines your phone’s utility alarm settings. None of what you do/set on the app syncs with your normal alarm settings. (There is no option) There is no ergonomic feel to this app, the graphs and charts don’t make any sense and never will. The (auto) alarm has made me late for work since it (literally) decides to not play any sound when it goes off. Randomly, like you can have all your phones sound settings up all the way and the with it not on silence, and still, no sound playing because like I said, settings you have on your phone with the sleep focus verses the settings on the auto sleep app itself that works with auto wake, none of it will ever have conjunction between each other. And I’ve tried so hard to get everything set up appropriately and still, no remorse. It’s bad, collects neat fake sleep info that isn’t accurate at all. Good luck with this app, not worth losing my job over it when I can just use my standard apple alarm app and now that it’s going to actually (sound) when the alarm goes off.

Can’t even function as an alarm. I bought this app as part of the health pack bundle (with HeartWatch and AutoSleep) and I’ve been underwhelmed by the entire bundle so far, but this app in particular was a complete waste of money. Not only is it entirely and unnecessarily complicated, but the haptic alarm function doesn’t even work! I’ve tried multiple settings a variety of ways, but every time when the alarm is set to go off, my watch is silent. I tried contacting the app developers, and I got an automated response directing me to the websites FAQs. I tried following the steps laid out there but that didn’t do the trick either. If you just got an Apple Watch, do yourself a favor and stick to the regular alarm clock, at least that will actually work.

Not reliable. It’s not not reliable enough to recommend. Alarm apps need to be 100% reliable. They need to go off every time. I’d say the alarms go off half the time. The fact that “backup alarms” are recommended and effectively required is a huge, huge problem. If my smart alarm should wake me up no later than 9am, if the “smart” part fails, it should still go off at 9am until I wake up. That just doesn’t happen in my experience. You have to set backup. That’s ridiculously dumb. This “on-device” backup alarm should just be part of the normal alarm, if the reason that the smart alarms are flaky is the iOS connection. There’s no point in having it separate. It’s also just generally buggy. As an example, I set a 10am smart alarm at 4am. It never went off. I checked later in the day and it was still running, as if it was aiming for 10am the next day. That’s a massive oversight. Beyond that, the options and UX are poorly laid out. The clearest example is that the “periodic wake up nudge” and “early alarm” are in the same scrollwheel, which makes it appear to have a ton of duplicate options. Plus, there’s an entirely different “periodic wake up nudge” that has to be configured globally from the iOS app. There’s no need for it to be so confusing. This is an absolutely terrible app which could maybe be great if the developers made it make sense and made it 100% reliable.

Worth the effort!. This app has some really smart features that I didn’t anticipate when I decided to buy it along with AutoSleep and HeartWatch. All three work together in a sense so, “why not?” I thought. When I got around to start using it, I was pleasantly surprised at how you can choose to have it wake you within a set time period, 15 minutes for example, prior to your alarm time setting if you’re in a light sleep or medium sleep stage, again, your choice of which one. You can have the watch give you a “nudge” or a “tickle” and after a preview, decide if it’s something you want to use or not. You do have to put in some effort to review and possibly tweak the settings each night as well as confirm the alarm has been set but it’s a quick and easy process. I haven’t had any issues with changing alarm times or settings one day to the next so maybe there’s been an update from when another reviewer mentioned those problems...? I have narcolepsy and the features mentioned earlier are great to try out for someone like myself who has to pay close attention to not only consistency with my sleep but also with my wake schedule.

Currently Broken. I am a huge fan of AutoSleep and HeartWatch. AutoSleep is by far the beat sleep tracking app I have tried, and I’ve been using it for years now. I know the developers can make a quality app. But maybe someone fell asleep on the job with this app. It is broken. After using the app for one week, I finally deleted it this morning. The alarms are going off outside the time window I have set, which is a huge problem for me. They keep going off earlier than they should. The biggest problem is that I am not being awakened in a light period of sleep. Maybe part of that issue is the settings are confusing. It seems like the developer is trying to account for a bunch of scenarios that are irrelevant to a sleep alarm app. I swear that I have gone into the watch app to turn on the alarm multiple times this week and the alarm was already turned on. I feel like I can probably figure out the quirks with this app, but when you are messing with my sleep, I don’t have time for that. Maybe I’ll check back in six months.

A good start but definitely not there yet. Relying on the phone and the watch is probably an inevitability but the way it is set up is really buggy. Not only do you need to make sure the app is open and the complication is on, but sometimes you have to try a bunch of times to even set an alarm. The alarm display is a bit strange. You can’t really see all the details about an alarm and the UI is a bit unintuitive. I really like all the apps by these developers so I’m hoping they will work out the kinks in time, but right now it’s not quite production ready.

Getting better. I was having a lot of issues with the latest version and left my original review below. Since then things have improved. I deleted and reinstalled again. At first I tried using the smart alarms in place of the scheduled ones and I thought it was working better. Then I went back to scheduled and they have also been better. It’s possible some of the updates Apple have been pushing out have improved the communication and my reinstalls didn’t really do the trick but in any case it seems much more reliable now. Bumping to 4 stars while I give it some more time to verify reliability. Original review The app worked great until the last iOS and watchOS updates. Now it’s completely unreliable. It has only work once correctly in the last 3 weeks. I have deleted and reinstalled the app. No luck. Wiped my watch clean and completely reinstalled everything. No good. Unpaired and paired Watch to phone again. Nope. You end up waking up and seeing the message “Limp” on the screen. I switched to the default alarm on my watch.

Works well. I read all the reviews before I purchased this app; I was worried it wasn’t going to be worth my money based on poor ratings. I’m here to say the app works well once you get the hang of it. It’s true that the app it fairly complicated. A lot of settings, and a bit of a learning curve. I thought about taking a star off my rating for the fact that the app seems a bit overly complicated. But then I realized, it m not sure myself if they should simplify it. I like the options.

I wanted this app to work so badly but it’s way too inconsistent to use for real. The idea is awesome and I wanted someone to make something like this for years, but it just doesn’t work. The auto schedule never works, you have to manually turn the alarm off then back on again if you want it to go off the next morning. The backup alarm hasn’t worked for me yet either. Even when I do manually set the alarm each night, it’s way too easy to turn off while half asleep so I have done it and fallen back asleep on several occasions. Also the sleep cycle function never seems to work and it always wakes me up at the earliest limit of my sleep window (ex: 5:30 if latest alarm is at 5:45 with a 15 min window) I really want this to work but the pieces just aren’t there right now, and it’s way too inconsistent to actually rely on as an alarm in its current state

Drains iPhone Battery; Can’t Handle wOS Ypdates. Rinse and repeat. 15.4 updates on iOS and wOS and once again…alarm won’t set (because, remember kids, the “smart” alarm is dumb and needs set each and every night!). Can I rate an app with 0 stars? Developer: FIX THIS ISSUE AND THE BATTERY DRAIN ON THE iOS host! First and foremost…THIS APP DRAINS YOUR iPhone’s BATTERY. Period. Proven through updates of it. Proven through the developers suggestions for restarting everything. IT DRAINS THE BATTERY. Second, it cannot handle watchOS updates, and barely tolerated iOS updates. Proven through recent updates. ….Workaround for this….uninstall the app from the watch BEFORE a watchOS update, reinstall, and your alarms and complications come right back and work that night. Prior to this, alarms would not set, which brings me to my next point… Third, this is NOT A SMART ALARM. I have to turn it on each night even though I setup the alarm to be all weekdays, etc. I need to turn it on each day. I used to do that on my Sony bedside radio alarm clock in the 80’s and 90’s…I think tech has advanced since then. The good: the other two apps from this developer are awesome!!

Long way to go. I don’t write many reviews but feel compelled to write one. I am so disappointed with this app, especially comparing it to the AMAZING AutoSleep app by the same creator. One of the biggest flaws with this app is battery consumption- after a full charge and sleeping 7 hours I wake up to 47% battery. That’s unacceptable. People who sleep with their watches on need to preserve battery life. Without running the app I would have around 80% battery remaining at the minimum, sometimes up to 92%. Also the app simply doesn’t work. Despite waking up within my window time and moving my arm around to try to induce the alarm, the alarm only goes off at the latest possible time. Nothing “smart” about it. I remember using an app like 8 years ago that woke me up based on my phones movement on my bed that worked much better than this. And this app has access to detailed sleep data. As of now this is a 1 star app. I am giving it two stars because I like the idea, I love the developer, and I am optimistic they will see this and completely start over to create a great new app I can change to 5 stars.

Love this app, but have a few suggestions. I love this app. It makes it very easy to set an alarm and gently wakes you up in the morning. I’ve never been a morning person and always hated getting up early, but this app helps make the mornings a little more bearable. It slowly wakes you up by vibrating once every five minutes starting 30 minutes before your alarm is set to go off. I haven’t found any other alarm app that does that. There are a few suggestions I would like to make to the developers though: -The option to edit an alarm after its been set without having to turn that whole alarm off and restarting it. And -The ability to hit snooze in case you just aren’t ready to get up yet. I definitely recommend this app if you have trouble walking up in the mornings!

Great app so far. I just recently began using the suite of apps from this developer, and so far I’m very impressed. I normally hadn’t been wearing my watch to bed, but I was interested in the benefits and good reviews from other people. My first experiences with AutoWake have been very good, and it is working well. It properly detects my lighter sleeping cycles as I near my alarm and wakes me sooner, as appropriate. For those of you that are having trouble, I suggest using the “How it Works” button and then clicking the “Learn More” button inside. Everything is explained well and was easily configured.

Cool If It Was Reliable. I bought AutoSleep, Autowake and HeartWatch as a bundle. While I believe that AutoWake and HeartWatch are excellent apps (and have reviewed them as such), I cannot say the same for AutoWake. You can set AutoWake up to automatically wake you at a certain time for each day of the week. In my case I have it set to wake me at 7:00 Mon-Fri. You can also override this behavior as needed, i.e. I disable the alarm if I am taking a day off work or have a holiday. Its greatest advantage IMHO is that it is supposed to find a time when you are sleeping lightly near to your set alarm time and then tap your wrist to wake you up. It more or less works most of the time. And when it works it works very well. I have AutoWake added as a complication on my primary watch face (my ONLY watch face) as required and my phone sits charging on the end table beside my bed so there should be no reason for failure. But the alarm has failed to go off in the morning 4 times over the past two months. This might not seem terrible, but if you need to catch a plane the next morning - which I sometimes do - I don’t want my alarm to be flakey. What usually, but not always, happens is that the alarm will go off later in the morning, 9:40 and 10:20 AM are two times that I recall specifically. This morning it just didn’t go off at all. I will be deleting this app and falling back to the Apple Watch’s built in alarm.

Directions need made clear. I just spent half an hour or so trying to change the haptics and set an alarm on this without success... Then I opened your website and the lightbulb went off. 💡Why? Because your directions refer to the "Watch app" repeatedly. For someone who just bought a Watch (like myself) that makes you think to open the Watch ⌚️ app on your iPhone 📱 But looking at your website the images make clear that you're referring to YOUR app on the Watch. 🧐Clearly someone didn't think this thru when you published the Help section. You need to change this to specify the AutoWake app on your Watch... I'm betting that's why a lot of users who have published reviews are having difficulty.

Highly customizable, effective. There are a number of customizable options with this app, which can be somewhat tedious when you first start using it. I have all of this developers health-related apps, and have had the same experience with each of them (great customization, which leads to a somewhat overwhelming experience for newcomers). HOWEVER, once you figure things out this app is awesome. I wear my Apple Watch to bed, and the app has a “smart wake” feature that I find exceptionally useful. It monitors when I’m in lighter sleep close to my wake time, provides very light taps as I get closer to wake time to ease me into waking, then wakes me with stronger taps once I’m in the 15-minute wake zone. There’s also a “fail safe” alarm that plays music through my phone if it senses I haven’t woken up. Nicely done.

Where is AutoWake 4???. I love both of your other apps! They are so insightful and keep up with a plethora of health data. But what’s up with AutoWake??? It hasn’t been updated in years, which I find extremely frustrating!! Even the oldest of apps still have regular updates containing bug fixes, minor improvements, new features, or modernized UI/UX. Why have you abandoned this app and left its development so stagnant?? I just don’t get your intentions here… If I were to stumble upon this app today, I would NOT buy it! Part of my process in assessing the quality of apps before buying or downloading them is checking how recently it was last updated. Consistent developer engagement in their products is so important to consumers! Who wants an app that is left to fade out and die? I say you should either put out an update ASAP or just remove it from the App Store. Again, what’s the use of an app that is stuck in stagnation?? Like I said, I love your other apps, which is why I simply can’t comprehend why you don’t give this one any attention. Maybe you should use AutoWake to wake yourselves up and roll out an update!

Great in Theory not in Practice. App wants to be great but can’t quite get there. I liked the various options to wake you in your lighter sleep stages and the way you can schedule different alarms to go off on different days. It’s even nice that you can do that from the watch itself. What’s frustrating is you can ONLY do it from the Watch and the functionality is to complicated and clunky to be a watch only mechanism. - Deducted one star because there is no on-phone functionality for setting, adjusting or turning off alarms - Deducted one star because Of how complicated all of the alarm setting features are - it’s not a smooth nor intuitive system - Deducted one star - and this is my big issue and why I won’t use the app anymore - when turning an alarm off early it DOES NOT WORK. Several times I’ve wanted to turn the alarm off or change it to another time and it simply doesn’t work after a certain point in the night. It just continues to blink “wait” but doesn’t turn off. HOWEVER - it I do that, then it seems to cause an issue with the app for the next 24 hours and the next alarm WON’T WORK at all. Very frustrating and could cause issues if you’re counting on the alarm to actually do what it needs to to wake you up. Disappointed because I like the other two features it integrates with. If they could fix these issues I’d be more than happy to try again but as it stands now the app is useless.

Seems great but not quite. This really seemed like the best solution for a smart sleep alarm for the watch but there’s a significant amount of bugs. For starters, I’ve had a few times where the alarm is active but won’t even go off. As I’m writing this I have an alarm that was supposed to go off 30 minutes ago and it’s just counting the time since it was supposed to activate. Additionally, if your phone isn’t nearby and charged, it also appears to be impossible to turn the alarm off which makes the watch app kind of pointless. And the last thing which is super minor is that the normal way to “stop” the alarm isn’t available unless you wake up right at the alarm time, so if you wake up earlier you actually have to deactivate the alarm which means that every night you have to reactivate it again. I’m still giving 3 stars because as a developer I know these are easy fixes and I still like the design and everything, but it’s just not fully there yet

This is a good app. This app has not given me any problems in my month or so of usage. It does exactly what I would want it to do and doesn’t really do any more. That’s not a bad thing though. I just got it because it was the only way to make my Homekit light turn on when I woke up and turn off when I set my alarm each night. It does that perfectly. I don’t know why people have given it an average of like 2.5 stars or something. From my experience, it doesn’t deserve that. It can be complicated but that’s just because of the nature of the app. It provides details on exactly what to do though to make sure your alarm goes off and everything works. I think that a lot of the reviewers didn’t quite understand the directions and that could be the reason they had a negative experience. The only reason I’m giving it 4 stars is because I really think that Homekit should have just been integrated into the original app. It seems like a relatively easy thing to do, and I don’t really see the point of creating a whole new app that’s only real extra functionality is that Homekit integration.

New Version Good. I like the new version 3 more than the previous version. Now that everything is done directly from the watch things are simpler yet the app still has some advanced features. I really like how now I can have one regular scheduled alarm for the days I get up at my regular time, one regular scheduled alarm for the days where I get up a little earlier to work out, and then one advanced alarm for the rest of the days set to give me a set amount of quality sleep but wake up no later than a set time. Good app that deserves a higher rating that what’s reflected here.

Making a significant difference in my health. I have all three apps and I recommend all of them and I recommend purchasing them. The awake and the sleep apps are making a significant difference in my health. By using the awake app I am now capturing heart rate variability and waking heart rate which are two important vital signs that reflect health and vitality. Using the app has helped me with insomnia and not getting enough hours of sleep. If you are serious about your health and need to monitor your vital signs in order to manage a chronic health condition then you should have these apps. They are quite detailed in the information that they capture however the information is displayed in a way that’s easy to understand.

Lacking in features. For a paid app, this should have much more features. My main gripes: 1. I can only set one alarm. The wake up when you’re in light sleep thing is nice if you’re motivated to get up but when I’m asleep I mostly want to stay asleep. So when this thing vibrates to wake me up, I just press my watch and it shuts off. And that’s it. There’s no snooze function, it doesn’t detect if you went back to sleep or anything AND it only lets you set one alarm. So really it does nothing. Maybe you could set it to go off slightly before your main alarm but that’s not what I wanted it to do. 2. It doesn’t detect when you are awake. I mentioned this in the last comment but sometimes when it does actually wake me up, I just slap my watch until it stops and get up. Later, when I go to set it again for the evening it has this timer for how long past my alarm it has been and it is counting since my alarm went off. It wants me to manually press “I’m awake” for it to know you are awake. Why it needs to know that when it doesn’t even re-vibrate, I have no idea. 3. Phone app is useless. At least put docs in there. It links to external website for documentation when it could be in phone app. I would also prefer to set alarms in the phone app but it will not let you. While I enjoy the other apps from this developer, this one is a huge miss, at least for now. I’m not sure how actively they’re developing this but I hope more features are added.

Was great until it wasn’t. I used this for like a year with very few issues. But all of the sudden, no matter what I do, it doesn’t work. The alarm either doesn’t go off, say it can’t connect, or wakes me up hours earlier than I need to be woken up. Which those first two I can understand, but why on earth does it go off in the middle of the night and wake me up??????? I’ve tried deleting the app and reinstalling, I’ve tried changing the settings. It’s like the app one day just decided to be a piece of garbage Don’t bother downloading. At worst it won’t work, at best it will work for a while then randomly stop and you’ll be disappointed. Part of the problem is it hasn’t updated in forever, and it seems that the company has no intention of updating the app given how long it’s been

The idea is great but.... Such a smart idea? It appeals to the geek in all of us. I love their other products but this one falls a little short. First off, it is not reliable. I have had times when it alarmed me an hour or two later. At the beginning it didn’t do anything except alarm me at the alarm time - which is no different than setting the alarm on my watch. Finally when it did awake me, honestly, I felt like I just lost sleep period. I didn’t feel any better - just felt like I woke up early and lost sleep time. The talking alarm is cool and the concept seems so cool but in the end, I just set the alarm on the watch. For me, it just didn’t work well. Their other products are outstanding!

Must have app. This app is AMAZING I honestly didn’t think it would make any difference having it wake me in a lighter sleep and honestly thought there’s no way that the other app which is the (auto sleep app ) could actually tell it when I was in a lighter sleep but for real it works! I wake up in a better mood and more energized. Using the auto wake and auto sleep app has made me feel so much better overall I would totally recommend both apps together because wow I’m sleeping better and waking up with ease versus when I didn’t use the apps I would wake up tired dragging and cranky I’m guessing due to waking up when I was sleeping deeper. Spend the 2.99 on both apps it’s well worth it.

Wish it worked the way it was supposed to. I first purchased AutoSleep and, after the alarm failed to go off the second morning, I foolishly decided to add AutoWake. The features it promises are great. And I liked it the first morning, despite the fact that the alarm went off a minute later than the latest wake time I set. This morning, despite having both a smart alarm and scheduled alarm set, despite having turned on the smart alarm when I put the book down and turned off the light, neither went off. When I realized half an hour later that it was suspiciously bright in my room, there was an “I’m awake” option which I selected and the app then told me my safety alarm was now off. Gee, thanks. I’m not spending money on an alarm app because I naturally spring out of bed at the appropriate time each day, so an alarm that only goes off sometimes is useless to me.

Useful alarm; people don’t follow instructions. Majority of negative reviews here are from people not following the instructions properly in the app. If you follow the directions, and you set it up and use it properly, it tends work just fine. I’ve had great success with using the advanced features and the standard alarms. And I don’t wake easily. All of that being said, the instructions and layout of the iPhone app, and the naming and terminology used in the apps could be improved and made more intuitive. There is a bit of a learning curve, which I believe could be largely cleared up with some renaming and light UI tweaking. All in all though, it’s a great alarm app and a great boon to people like me who typically need to set numerous alarms starting an hour before the time I actually need to rise.

In theory an excellent app, in reality it’s terrible.. I have tried this app for a few weeks now and it’s honestly awful. Half the time it doesn’t go off at all. And yes I have the complication on my watch face, yes always allowed is on screen time, yes my phone is plugged in. The other half the time if I wake up within the 15 minute light sleep window the alarm never goes off. Don’t even think about not getting up because the alarm will never go off. Today was the last time I was willing to deal with it. I was up before my alarm. Turned it off and got out of bed. Within 5 minutes the emergency alarm was going off and there’s no easy way to turn it off. Then the alarm spoke to me when I turned up the volume on certain apps during the day. Maybe one day the Apple Watch will have a native smart alarm. I’ll go back to the regular alarm. It never failed me and wasn’t this much trouble.

Life changing. I don’t know why people hate this app so much. Yes it has its quirks but it’s really helpful to wake up nicely and feel awake and not have to wake up to an alarm noise. Sometimes it will get messed up and you have to turn the alarm off, then on again. No big deal. I do it daily just in case. I have an auditory backup alarm just in case but usually end up turning it off because I’m already up for the day. I wish they’d update this app. But regardless I’ll continue to use it. I don’t know or any alternatives.

Useless and unintuitive. This app's user interface is atrocious. It makes no sense, settings are scattered all over, the "Last Alarm" and "Home" screens lack any functionality. On the watch, I have AutoWake in the main screen of the modular face. It has a useless counter that counts up from the time of your alarm (is that supposed to be how long I've been awake?). Sometimes it'll count for days, other times it'll change to counting down until the alarm sounds (moderately helpful). The rest of the watch settings interface is actually decent. But I figured if I could set and forget the alarm I could live with the other UI issues. Unfortunately it never works. Auto schedule turns on and off at will, I don't have weekend alarms set but somehow it sets one on its own, and the alarm has yet to work. Each day this week (6am alarm) the alarm has failed to go off on time. It's only gone off twice - once at 6:18 and another at 6:40. Not helpful! Not surprisingly, it also fails to give the taps to wake you from deep sleep as it advertises. A complete waste of money. AutoSleep is a good app (UI is okay but works better than this), but AutoWake is utterly useless.

Functionality great, alarms not. The timing and all of that is great, being to determine a wake up time and just let it do it’s thing is awesome! But... if they could just have an alarm that slowly ramps up in volume with some peaceful sounds, that would really make it worth it for me. This is just my experience and if none of the following applies to you, this app will work wonders. As of now the current alarms are either too harsh I get angry and turn it off (the voice commands), to light I snooze and keep sleeping (Apple Watch buzzing on my wrist), or too easy to turn off (music playing after I skip my alarm). Also, the ability to set multiple alarms at once would be nice - or at least several back up alarms. For people like me I tend to snooze even the smart alarms... and it’s a pain to have to remember to set backup alarms in other apps.

I wanted to like this app. Considering I paid for the bundle I wanted to like this app. After multiple failures and multiple contact with support I am finally just sticking to the watch alarm app. Maybe they are just trying to do too much here? Support was never very helpful outside of saying it works for me. I followed the instructions to remove, reboot and reinstall the app at least 4 times over the last 2 months. After it has failed 2 times in the last week alone I am giving up. It can’t be that complicated right? Alarm set for 6:35, when time is 6:35, sound the alarm. I have not been running any other alarms while this was going. Thankfully I’ve had enough failures that I set a back up on another device. Could have been great app along with the sleep tracker but I guess they got my money and did not really want to fix actual problems after I voluntarily offered to help test.

Reliable/Advanced Mode is Great. I think all these reviews are outdated and about an older version of the app because my experience with it is fantastic! I don’t know where everyone else is coming from when they’re saying it’s not working consistently. There is some setting up to do to make sure it works but after setting it up once, it’s dead easy to activate. Make sure the app has a complication on your night time watch face and that you’ve set an exception for screen time. Just swipe over to your night watch face, turn on the alarm, activate theatre mode, and you’re good! It can wake you up up to 30 minutes early depending on where you’re at in your sleep cycle, for me this is consistently typically about 10-20 minutes before my alarm but I feel great when waking.

Great way to wake up. I’m not a morning person. I always wake up in a foggy stupor when the alarm goes off and then I hit the snooze…and again… This wakes me up gently, over time and I wake up…awake. I don’t even remember waking up and I'm not desperate to go back to sleep. Of course if someone said to me that my day was cancelled I would still go back to sleep. But this is the least painful way to wake up by a mile (or a snore). I feel better the whole morning.

Alarm clock it is not. This app has let me down too many times to list. It seriously fails to function like an alarm should. The widget must be on the face of the watch for it to work (not sure if that’s a requirement for other watch apps but it invites disaster.) It actually goes off at one minute past the time you set it for(?) The automatic mode has sometimes switched itself off. I’ve had it shut off when I pushed snooze and snooze after shut off. It has turned off its automatic mode (changed to manual) after pressing the off button in the morning. The app simply does not give me confidence that it will function when I need it to. The final straw was a complete implosion on the morning after the spring foreword time change. It didn’t go off at all. The alarm time for the next day said 6:00am but the setting “wheel” read 5:00am. It would not correct itself for until I restarted my watch. I wrote the developer and was told that they knew about the problem but didn’t realize the time change happened so early in the US this year! It’s been the second weekend of March since the Bush administration. Don’t waste your money or time here.

Great potential, but too many major bugs. I’ve tried this app for a few days. I can not recommend it in its current state (September 2019) due to major bugs in basic functionality. 1) Setting scheduled alarms does not work properly - app on phone reflects different alarm setting than watch, causing wrong / missed alarms; 2) changing an existing alarm doesn’t work properly; 3) attempting to turn off an upcoming alarm within 30 or so minutes of the alarm time causes the watch app to show a confusing purple HAL-9000 “wait...” screen until the original alarm goes off; 4) the UI for setting smart alarms on the watch is unintuitive (“no way”? “Bump me?”) I do like AutoSleep, but AutoWake has a ways to go before it’s ready for prime time.

Potential. **UPDATE** First let me say the developer is very responsive. I’ve changed from 1 star to 5. The issue was that if using the screen time feature in iOS 12, you MUST exclude autowake from being affected. In other words, always allow AutoWake otherwise the alarm will not go off. Since figuring this out, the alarm has reliably gone off as set. Love it. I’ve been using AutoSleep for awhile now. Great app so I jumped on AutoWake based on that experience. It has not lived up to its potential. Been using for a week now. The alarm has yet to go off once. I’ve tried all the features even the safety alarm. Nothing. Watch is series 4 with a full battery when I go to bed. I’m using with the autosleep app as advertised and have read the instructions several times. Still no alarm. The alarm is the whole point and can’t give anything but 1 star. Please fix. I love the idea.

Needs some major bug fixes. Have had this app for a few months now. Was a little quirky but generally worked. That is until the spring daylight savings switch. Since then I would generally have 2 days a week where the app would not go off. My wife gets up at the same time so she would wake me on those days. Sometimes the watch would just display the time normally and other times the alarm screen would be showing but no sound or haptic was happening. These are even after I would double check the watch before going to bed to make sure the widget was on and counting down to the alarm set time. This has just happened way to many times now so uninstalling and going back to stock alarm again. Will revisit possibly in a few months hopefully it will be more stable and reliable. Note I own both his other apps and enjoy those greatly.

Works perfectly as advertised. I downloaded AutoWake a little over a week ago to help me improve my sleep schedule and wake up more refreshed. While obviously the app didnt work miracles and make me suddenly become a morning person, it did help me craft alarms more suited to waking up feeling refreshed. I have a tendency to oversleep so my favorite feature of this app is the ability to schedule an alarm to go off after you have achieved your set threshold of sleep quantity with the secondary setting to go off at a set time if you never make it to your goal quantity.

Worked great until this latest update. This used to be a fabulous app, but with this update it is not working. I emailed support, will update my rating review if/when they respond. UPDATE-Great customer service! A reply to my email was waiting for me when I got up this morning, with step by step instructions on how to delete, reinstall, and set auto wake up. Appears to be working fine now. Best watch alarm I have seen! I have not yet played with the new advanced alarms but they look very useful for weekends, in addition to my normal scheduled weekday alarms.

Don’t buy this app (maybe just yet). I have both AutoSleep and AutoWake. The AutoSleep app is working fine. However AutoWake is super buggy. If you follow the instructions step by step and set the complication on apple watch and then select one if those advanced timer (that’s really the whole point of this app) it just stuck at “wait” and you are not sure if it worked or not. It might wake you up in the morning or not. Everything is possible with this app. I would say avoid buying this app for now and wait for a proper update from developers. The last update seems to be from 2 years ago so the might have abandoned this app.

Not reliable. Prior to AutoWake 3 I loved this app and would have given it 5 stars. Now that “AutoWake 3 is here” it is useless and I find myself using the Apple Clock Alarm instead. Moving the alarm setting interface to the watch was a bad call. The usability of the limited interface make setting alarms frustrating and it kills batter power of the Apple watch. This app used to auto turn on alarms for me on a schedule so I would never have to think about setting an alarm. Now I spend a could minutes a night messing with the interface trying to decide if the alarm is going to wake me up, or if I need to set another alarm. Just use the Apple Clock alarm. I would not recommend this app in the state is is now.

Works but somewhat complicated. I use this app every morning and I really appreciate the HomeKit integration. Turns off bedside lights and starts fan when I activate my alarm at night (and starts AutoSleep tracking). Turns on the downstairs lights and starts the coffee when I turn off alarm. You must have an active complication on the face to allow app to work. Takes some review but once you have settings adjusted, it’s a great app. Definitely recommend and recommended review of Help page online before you depend on the app.

If it isn’t working for you, exclude it from Screen Time. iOS 12 offers the ability to prevent you from using apps after a certain time at night. If AutoWake is part of the apps that are restricted during the morning, it won’t be able to wake you up. Simply add it to the Always Allowed section. This is all based on anecdotal evidence, but I’ve noticed that it wasn’t working for me when Screen Time was blocking it, but it worked fine after I unrestricted it.

A must have with HeartWatch and AutoSleep. Yes, the 3 apps in this bundle seem overwhelming at first install and have a learning curve (and I generally take longer than others to figure things out). However, all 3 are beyond worth the effort, and I found myself using them like a pro in a few days. This app in particular has been fantastic, and this coming from someone who was a chronic snooze button abuser... literally setting my alarm for an hour before I had to get up so I can do an hour of snooze buttons before exiting the bed for the past 10 years at least! Now, I set my alarm for the time I need to be up, get the taps on the wrist 3 times in 5 minute intervals prior to the actual wake up time, and am feeling ready to get out of bed on time the first time the “alarm” goes off. The best part, is that all of this is silent and doesn’t disturb my sleeping wife at all (and you can be sure she had NOT been a fan of my previous morning ritual! I honestly believe those who didn’t 5 star this app were too impatient to give it a full try. It integrates well and works flawlessly. In my opinion, this app alone makes my Apple Watch a must have... I’d give up my phone first!

I love this app…when it works. I really think I’ve benefitted from this smart alarm. However, every couple of months, it simply stops warning—in two stages. The first—it allows me to set an alarm, but simply doesn’t go off at the appointed time. Next, it stops allowing me to set the alarm (push the “set alarm” button and you get back to the main screen that confirms NO alarm is set.) then I have to uninstall and reinstall to get it to work again. I think with this last round of glitching I’m going to have to find another smart alarm.

Not quite but I have faith. Hmmm to be brutally honest at this time this app barely deserves 1 star but I’m giving it 3 just because I’ve seen the quality these people have already produced. Part of it’s problem may be hardware limitations but you now have to meet a couple requirements that I can’t easily meet. It’s a great start and a great idea I’ll use nightly once it matures. I’ve been through literally hundreds of apps over the years and beta test many of my favorites but none meet the standards these guys have with their other apps. And I rarely review I just like to help the best when I can.

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Do NOT BUY this. It worked grate in the past, I rely on this heavily back in 2019. Not working anymore now.

Unreliable. The alarm will stop automatically after a few seconds if you don’t do anything. It should auto snooze instead.

Does not work. Does not work with the latest watch os

Good but only in certain circumstances. AutoWake is quite a solid alarm app for Watch. You can schedule alarms on it, and alarm vibrations can be customized! I love the gentle alarms as I find the default Watch alarms are a bit too strong for my taste. It has a few issues however. Due to it requiring a connection with a phone via the complication, alarms do not always go off and I’ve noticed can go off several minutes later than the set time. It’s just not that reliable, although 95% of the time it works fine. In addition, alarms only vibrate for a short period so it’s very easy to fall back asleep after the alarm goes off. For this reason I only use AutoWake as a secondary alarm 5 minutes before my main alarm goes off. AutoWake feels much more like a companion app to the (generally) superior AutoSleep app. I use AutoSleep for my primary alarm, and in combination with an automation that turns on Water Lock on wake-up + an additional back-up alarm on my phone, it successfully gets me out of bed. My recommendation: do not buy this app individually, only buy it as part of a bundle.

Great under the ‘right’ conditions. This suite of apps works great for tracking sleep, however the biggest flaw when using AutoWake occurs when you change time zones. I frequently travel for work and find that once you switch the watch out of flight mode, the alarm time that you select is stuck in the original time zone from which you departed. E.g if you select 7am for your alarm in the new time zone it reflects as 10am on the AutoWake home screen. This happens even if you close and reopen the app. If there was a workaround my rating would be much higher - as it stands the only fix is to power the Apple Watch off and then on again.

Nothing auto about it. Being a happy customer of their AutoSleep product, I jumped on this promising an equivalent of SleepCycles natural wake alarm but on your watch. Less obtrusive right? Sadly no. To start with you have to set it every night. And only if you are using a watchface with the AutoWake complication on it (which I never default to). And the way it tells you this is LOUDLY announcing it on your phone (ignoring mute). The opposite of unobtrusive, and pissing off my wife! Condescendingly it defaults to calling you DARLING and loudly calling out “WAKEY WAKEY” over and over if you don’t react to the tap. Finally, even with most these options turned off, and remembering to set the alarm every time you go to sleep on the correct watch face, it doesn’t appear to use the set window to wake you at the lightest sleep. I’ve been awake watching it count down to the set time and then go off. It has to work around limitations set by Apple, sure. But between being completely obnoxious and not actually working I can’t recommend this at all in its current state.

Doesn’t work. I downloaded this a week back and despite doing everything the guide said this does not work. I just get the message no complications detected. Considering I paid for this it’s pretty disappointing.

No longer works on I-watch (3 at least). Disappointedly suddenly stopped working - reinstalled repeatedly on I-watch without success.

Not as useful as AutoSleep.. I bought AutoSleep and HeartWatch from the same developer, and they are my favourite health apps - I can’t do without them. Whilst AutoWake provides some utility, it isn’t quite up to that same standard for me. Nonetheless, I bought the three in a package deal, so it effectively cost me next to nothing. In fact, given that all three apps can be purchased outright (and not subscription as seems to be becoming increasingly common), it’s still worth the money. Make sure you get the other two apps though - if you can’t afford all three, skip this one.

Disappointing. The user interface is extremely unfriendly, further, the app did not work as intended. My watch did not wake me for the past 2 nights. And throughout the day, the phone app was ringing non-stop no matter how many times I disabled it. Had to delete the app. Disappointing.

Helpful. Works well and is relatively simple to configure. Perhaps the addition of snooze being on my default might be handy (I know, I know...) as I was caught out on my first morning using it, accidentally just turning it off and going back to sleep.

Latest update rocks!. Great app! Developer responds very quick to questions as well. Thanks and keep up the good work!

Alarms do not go off anymore. Please fix this

Love the idea but not great for shift workers. I work variable shifts, sometimes including night shift and there doesn’t seem to be an option to set an alarm for the same day?! You’re forced to set it for the following day, so sadly I can’t use this when on night shift 😐 I realise I could probably set my alarms for the whole week via set schedule but I find that option much less flexible and intuitive. This seems a disappointing limitation of the app— please fix it!!!

This app drains a lot of power. To be specific, it drains 15% of power over a night sleep.

Disappointed. App doesn’t work at on phone or Apple Watch and app maker won’t return emails to rectify. Very disappointed seeing their other apps are good.

Not working. Alarms no longer working. Running iOS 13 and series 1 watchOS 5.3.1

It’s ok, but of a chore to get it working. The scheduled alarm doesn’t seem to work at all, even after all the troubleshooting on their help page. What I noticed is when turning on an “advanced” alarm, the status will change to active on the mobile app, and it’ll say when it’ll go off. When turning on a “scheduled” alarm, it’ll show when it’ll go off, but still show as inactive.

I have the whole suite and they work so sweetly together!. I’m a long time Heart Watch then Auto Sleep and now Auto Wake user. This is definitely the benchmark for tracking your sleep and now with an integrated alarm...if you’re an Apple Watch wearer. Just charge 20min before bed and again while you’re getting ready in the morning and you are laughing! No need to wait for the next Apple Watch :)

Can you add auto present alarm Mon - fri. Sorry my last review was harsh. I must not have set it up properly and thus it didn't work. I still reckon there are few things you could add to make this work well. I am setting this alarm and the one on the Apple watch just in case. But do wish you all the best and will be keeping an eye out for updates.

Woke me up at 4am three times! Can’t disable the alarm either. I set a scheduled alarm for 8:30 and it kept buzzing my watch several hours early. I couldn’t see anything that would indicate why, but by the third time I uninstalled the app and that fixed it.

Latest update has broken it. Since the latest and greatest big update my alarms will not work. No longer are they reliable at all and I’ve almost been late to work twice ( thankfully I set an emergency alarm ) Uninstalling and reinstalling hasn’t helped at all. No idea why or how to get things working like they used to

Does not work. Alarm does not go off to wake me up.

The best way to wake up!!. Long time user of this app as well as AutoSleep since I got my Apple Watch 3 yrs ago. I’ve been using it up until 15.4 when an apple bug broke the app. However with 15.5 it’s back at it best!! The way it knows how to wake you is great and make sure you never feel like your waken from deep sleep. Highly recommend using this if you want reliability and good way to wake in the morning. Pair it with AutoSleep then you get great sleep tracking and all secured on your device no third parties getting your info like other sleep apps.

Glitchy. I really liked this at first but I stopped using it a while ago because the alarms weren’t actually ever going off. I came back recently and all was fine until I tried setting an alarm, it won’t let me set any. Even after I press add. I own HeartWatch as well as AutoSleep they’re great apps, but AutoWake is glitchy.

Great developer. ust wanted to support the developer by purchasing this app. He’s doing such awesome work with AutoSleep and HeartWatch - putting out a massive update for AutoSleep just recently. Love your work matey and thanks!

Never worked. Downloaded as I use AutoSleep which is great, but this one never worked, alarms never went off and had to set up back up alarms on my phone. Also chewed the battery on my watch and it went flat over night. Ended up deleting it.

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Abandoned?. It appears that the developer stopped supporting this app. No updates, crashes etc. I love the Heart watch app and had high hopes for this one. Should have paid attention to all other reviews alerting about the issues with this app.

Work in progress. I feel it is not yet what I need it to be or at least have some options to better tweak it. I just want something that wakes me up at the right time but the last few times I only got my normal alarm do not sure what happened. Maybe more details about the results and being able to see what went wrong would help.

Disappointing. AutoSleep and HeartWatch work seamlessly. But AutoWake is another story. Was able to set the time and it ends there. Any attempt to modify or add results in a screen with a flashing strobe saying it’s working. 10 minutes later it’s still working. I don’t get any of the screens show in the support area. For now to me it’s a dud and a waste of 3.99. Beware if you decide to buy it.

Great little app. I’ve started using this app and for me it works great. The setup instruction are more complete than I would like but that probably to to circumvent blocks and limitations apple puts in place on its mobile platforms. I would recommend you read the How to’s before use!

Disappointed. Bought the app since AutoSleep was good good. This app isn’t very good and fails to work on latest watch OS on Apple watch series 4. Please make the complication better. Thank you.

Vaporware. This app is essentially useless. Alarms will never go off unless you’re lucky. Get AutoSleep instead. Shame the same dev has such a different standard for each all.

It was working great, now "no complication" error. Will update the rating if it starts working again. Right now it's literally unusable. I have the complication on my watch face, i have tried different watch faces, reinstalling the app, re-adding the complication. Nothing worked.

Has potential, needs a way to shut off all voices. Edit: it now allows the option to shut off iphone sounds. Boosted rating. ------ I love the idea of smart wake via haptic vibrations. And I love Autosleep. So I was super excited to try this app. But, whenever I did anything with it, a loud robot voice would speak from my phone! I don't want that - especially at night when others are sleeping. I turned all voice features off, but it still gave me a battery warning on my phone "you have forgotten to put me on my charger" No, I didn't. Because I'm using the phone to set the alarm before sleeping. Please provide a way to never make the phone speak again. And is the phone needed for the alarms? I sleep with my phone in another room. I just want vibrations on my watch. That's it. I would love to try this, but I can't trust whether it will make my phone speak while I'm asleep, and bug people in another room. It even disobeys silent mode and speaks! And even if the app isn't open. I don't know how it does that. If all the voices could be shut up I suspect this is a five star app.

Do Not Buy; Still Extremely Unreliable. — Find myself having to force-close every other day just to get the Alarm to actually trigger nowadays. — Oftentimes, when it doesn’t trigger, I’ll notice that the “countdown” merely turned into a “countup.” Meaning, the App counted down to “0,” and instead of triggering the Alarm, it merely continued to count to “1” and upward, indefinitely. — Cannot cancel Alarms when the “countdown” has already started. It just says, “Working,” and hangs indefinitely. Even force-closing doesn’t work. Restarting the Watch is the only way to cancel an Alarm that has already started. — There’s just a certain lack of control I feel using this app. You guys want us to not have to worry about it, but it’s so unreliable. There’s no way I can use this without setting a backup Alarm using the Clock App At this time, I seriously cannot emphasize this enough; DO NOT PAY FOR THIS APP. v2.x.x and below was like an alpha, v3.0.0 is like a beta. If your livelihood depends on waking around a specific window of time; this app is highly likely to fail you. Any high-star reviews here were either naively posted in haste, or are fake. I really want to like this app, but maybe what you guys are trying to do just isn’t possible with what Apple provides and allows for Watch Developers. You definitely shouldn’t be charging anyone for this at all. It is not ready. Given the apparent technical-hoops it jumps through to even function, perhaps it never will be until Apple opens up WatchOS more. There hasn’t been an update in 4 months, so maybe you agree. Worse would be if you guys feel like this is somehow “complete” and that your work is done. Hopefully you have a trick up your sleeve that will take this to GM-status, but I highly doubt it.

Can’t recommend. As of Dec 2020, this AutoWake app is not fault tolerant; not idiot proof. There are too many things that you can do to NOT make it work, and then you’ll be making excuses to you boss as to why you’re late AGAIN. Why your alarm didn’t go off. But what worries me is that this app hasn’t been updated in over a year !! So it seems that the developer may have abandoned it. After a week of patience, I found a magical procedure to make it work, that I don’t see simplified in the instructions. As long as I don’t deviate from that then this app might work, and IS pleasing when it does. But then my iPhone kept complaining that its battery was almost dead by morning. The iPhone Settings Battery shows that this app is severely draining my battery all night long, reducing my long-term battery life. Better off just using the Apple Alarms app to wake up — it works. Or the alarm feature of this developer’s related app AutoSleep — and unlike AutoWake, AutoSleep hasn’t let me down so far. AutoWake could be made more idiot proof, and better integrated into AutoSleep for those who’ve also purchased AutoSleep.

Working as expected, lean on features.. For an automated smart alarm app for my watch this has been fantastic and much more reliable in my experience compared to Pillow. There are some features that I miss from Pillow though, as well as some quality of life adjustments I would be happy to see. I frequently take naps and a quick 1 or 2 tap nap alarm would be incredibly helpful as the current system is a chore to try and do this regularly. Having homekit functionality is incredible and am glad to see it in the app. Some additional functionality I would love to see with homekit is the ability to set a custom scene so multiple users in different rooms could each have their own AutoWake scenes. The ability to activate a scene before an alarm goes off would also be a very nice addition (like a sunrise to help wake you up). This could be done with homekit automation but would not change with altered alarms in AutoWake.

Very much a fail. This app really does not work. After going over the insanely complicated directions and settings we realized you have to keep Bluetooth on while you sleep. This is not something we want to do because of radiation. We just use the built in alarm on haptic. That’s all you need. And you can have your watch in airplane mode.

Just not working. Scheduled alarm just not working I tried everything for some reason it just not working

Downright Dangerous. Do not rely on this app to wake you up for work or school, especially if you're using it with the Watch App. I have been using it for a couple years, and it works *most* of the time--except for when it just decides to do something totally different, like use your weekend alarm on a weekday. Sometimes the correct alarm is selected, and the "countdown" is actually in the negatives, past the time it was supposed to go off. Sometimes it will go off twice, once when it's supposed to, then again several hours later, when I'm in a meeting or something. I also have scheduled alarms that are supposed to reset daily without me having to interact with it, but I routinely find that it thinks I don't have any alarm set at all...until I open the watch app and then it remembers it was supposed to be set.

New “features” make it worse. I’m not happy with the new update, before everything was easily setup on my phone and now I’m having to reconfigure every alarm on a tiny little screen on my wrist...what is the point of the iPhone app anymore if everything has to be done on my watch? The least you could have done is transferred previous alarms to the new version instead of requiring them to be setup all over again. Still giving 3 stars as all the other new things seem useful so far.

Loved this until it broke. This was the best alarm because it would wake me after I got enough actual sleep, with a latest alarm time setting. Too bad a bug in iOS broke it

Buggy!!!. Extreeeeeemely buggy. Good luck sleeping in, the alarm will go off even if you had turned it off in every way possible.

People, give it one star review if you want Dev to care. Doesn’t even go on time. Just trigger the damn alarm when time has countdown. Why does it wrap around and count up. So dumb. Dev doesn’t understand how alarms work.

Great idea, poor execution. In theory this is a great idea, it just doesn’t work. Constantly complains about no complication (which is incorrect, I launched it by tapping on the complication). Support suggests reinstalling, but otherwise has nothing of use. I tried it for a week straight, twice it worked. Great? I woke up before the alarm, so I was able to monitor. Did it decide to go off 30 minutes it’s early when it detected motion like it should? No. Did it go off on time? Still no. Not a peep out of the watch until my Apple alarm went off (this triggers on the phone and I can dismiss from the watch). Shame, as it was reliable in older versions, but it just doesn’t work. Even when it tries to work, it still doesn’t.

Overly complicated. I suspect English is not the native language of the developers. They use all kinds of unique verbiage and weird terminology. You literally have to read pages of detailed instructions if you want any hope of using this app correctly. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the “unreliable” one-star ratings are actually caused by people not understanding this overly complicated app.

App drains battery and doesn’t work. I tried this app to try to get up easier. I liked the AutoSleep app so I thought why not. For the last 4 nights I tried to use it to get up earlier. I set the AutoSleep alarm earlier than my real alarm and found I was woken by my real alarm every night. Another con of this app is it drained my watch and iPhone battery so much. I do not charge either overnight since it is bad for battery health and have woken up to a dead iPhone twice. The bad UI design is also included in the review. Not impressed, if I could get a refund for it I would. I am definitely uninstalling for the sake of my battery life!

Sorry for this morning. I was mad so I sent you bs I review my alarm setting for more efficient alarm. Still, the savety that the person is awake need to be adress. I don’t know if the song started to wake me up, but for sure it didn’t wake me up. Now I putted a more hardcore one to be sure I wake up. When the alarm decide it’s enough time buzzing, it should start a normal biping sound straight from the watch. There’s a speaker on the watch you know... it doesn’t help just to make an “I’m awake” button if the app stoped trying to wake you up an hour ago. I didn’t press the button so why it doesn’t continue to try to wake me up. Hope I’m clear with my point, I’m French speaking person. And btw, HeartWatch is in French, AutoSleep is in French, but not AutoWake. I’ll appreciate AutoWake in French too.

No complication !!!. Seriously??? Useless!

Auto Schedule Doesn't Work. I've been using this for a couple of weeks and it will alarm (but only at the exact time, not in my light sleep) if I manually schedule the alarm the night before. But, if I leave it to auto schedule, the alarm doesn't go off and I sleep in. It's unreliable. This is unfortunate because I love their other app, AutoSleep, and was really hoping for this to work.

Awesome. Changes the game, wakes me up at exactly the right time. Doesn’t disturb anybody else. Pretty much exactly what it says on the tin, and it works great

Doesn't seem to work. Please please please don't waste your money. The alarms literally don't even go off whatsoever. You'll set an alarm and the you can be staring at the count down...and then...nothing. Even when the iPhone app is open, nothing happens. The app shows there is an active alarm. And it just...doesn't go off. Complete waste of money. Don't get this. Absolute garbage.

Not Auto At all. The word “Auto” was the buying driver for me. However, I was disappointed to find out that you have to activate alarm every single night MANUALLY if you want to wake up, I can’t use my fav watch face as this app requires a special face to work, so there is at least 2 manual steps you need to do in order for you to wake up early. Plus, after all the extensive configuration, I still was not able to use this app to wake up. It tells me that I can’t activate an alarm before, for example 10 pm, so if I go to sleep earlier, I am “doomed” in the morning. Support didn’t help after I asked to clarify the fine print “that there is no way to bypass “manual” daily setup for the “auto”wake app. Very disappointed.

Alarm rings on wrong time. My alarm’s set at 9 am, but it rings at 5 am occasionally, which is so annoying because I can’t sleep back again after it rings. The app’s supposed to help sleep but turn out ruined it. Uninstalling

It has yet to work once. Guess I was lucky that I still had back up alarms. I used fix time alarm with Light 15 feature, and for a week straight, AutoWake failed to ring when the time has come. Often half an hour or something after I’ve woke up from the other alarms set a few minutes after AutoWake I’d remember I have AutoWake and go turn it off. Then comically AutoWake would start ringing only when I turn it off. I did have it put on a complication and also turned off the sleep mode so the watch face is always on. Maybe I’m not using this correctly but I’ve done everything I could and it’s still not working, at this point if it’s still my fault then I’d say it’s a really bad user experience design.

Unreliable. Fails at its primary function as an alarm. Worked well for a few weeks but then suddenly stopped. Now it doesn’t go off sometimes. I have to set a backup alarm just in case. Also, there hasn’t been an update in 6 months now, I’d avoid this app as it seems like it might be abandoned. Not fixing such a major issue quickly raises alarms —ha!

Incredible. This app is just unbelievably good. I have been using it for 2 weeks and I always wake up naturally without feeling the alarm going of or having to vibrate nonstop to wake me up. I feel that people should get Apple watches just for this app

3 strikes you’re out. Set an alarm for 5:25, both watch and phone show it is set, look at watch face with AutoWake and AutoSleep complications on it. Go to sleep 6:00 I look at my watch. Late for work the third time. Complication is counting up as if taunting me “yeah you should have been up 35 minutes ago but it’s not my problems.” Yes it is your problem alarm, yes it is. Bonus points to autosleep telling me the complication is not on my current watch face as I stare at it.

Stopped working after few weeks. It worked for few weeks and then suddenly stopped working. Waste of money.

Fails. Used to work, now the alarm never goes off. Uninstalled/reinstalled. Still does not work. Back to the built in alarm.

New update is buggy. I live the idea of the new update, but there are issues: three times in the past two weeks my "scheduled" alarm hasn’t gone off at all, and I’ve been late for work. This is in spite of the settings (alarm is “on” and settings are correct) . An alarm app I can’t trust is an alarm I can’t use - especially if the functionality of the alarm (some days it goes off, others it doesn’t go off at all) appears to be random. I hope this gets sorted out, because the concept is awesome.

Interesting that my review is gone.. Here it is again. I’m tired of “ o complication” messages when the app is on the watch face as a complication. Tired of no connection messages even though the watch shows a connection to phone. Deleted. Really wanted to like this. Fix and I’ll try again. Until it is fixed, don’t waste your time or money.

Do not buy AutoWake. What a terrible app. I can’t believe you released it in this state. I have HeartWatch and AutoSleep and I really like them. I thought I’d really like AutoWake too. But it’s terrible. Confusing to setup and use. I started getting error notifications constantly one night. So I uninstalled the app from my phone. Except it didn’t fully uninstall from my watch. I’m trying to reinstall it on my phone to remove it from my watch but it’s not working. I’m probably going to have to reset my phone and my watch if I can’t get it to properly uninstall. This is beyond annoying.

Doesn’t work combined with unhelpful support. I should have paid more attention to the reviews. I’ve had a smart alarm app before that worked splendidly with little effort. For this, even after putting all the info in and adding the watch complication, it simply didn’t work. What a disappointment. The developers idea of support is just sending a link. It is probably also indicative that the last update was quite a while ago. Buyer beware!!!

Buggy. I bought this because the AutoSleep app was great. However this app is buggy and it is not even functional

Doesn't work with iOS 15.4. The phone app just says "no complication" and doesn't turn on. It's completely useless now.

No reply from developers. The app was working the way it should until the last update. Now says no complication. I did what the developers suggested but didn’t change. I left an email to support more than month ago and no response. Believe all the newest ratings and don’t buy app till it’s fixed.

Doesn’t work. The smart alarm feature of this app doesn’t work for me. I’ve repeated their reset instructions twice. No dice. I’ll stick to the regular Apple Watch alarm - simple, free and safe (you won’t be late for work).

The best haptic alarm 💯. I don’t get where all of the negative feedback on this app is coming from. It works well and I love the HomeKit integration. I simply just turn my alarm on and like magic all my lights turn off at the same time. It always manages to wake me up at the perfect time.

Alarm Doesn’t Worm. My alarm never goes off even though it says it is set on a fixed time. I missed class because I slept in 2 hours since my alarm never went off even though it was set. I tried playing around with the settings but every morning it does not work.

Something wrong. I have AutoSleep and it’s amazing I also have the HeartWatch also great but with AutoWake something not right when I set alarm sometimes goes to loading screen sometimes says no complication not sure if I’m doing something wrong or app got issues I have it 5 stars because I have AutoSleep and I love it I also have the HeartWatch and I love it so I’m giving the developers a break to figure this out I won’t be quick to judge if it’s my fault I would like to learn if it’s developers fault then it’s ok I’ll give them time to figure it out people shouldn’t be quick to judge because we are enjoying other amazing apps so I hope this gets figured out thanks for making great apps anyways

Impressed. Wow I love this app it is has so many features, is easy to understand, wakes me up at just the right time during a light sleep prior to alarm time. The 3 app bundle works awesome together. Great purchase.

Important - iOS 15.4 Issue. Important - iOS 15.4 Issue Apple has introduced a bug in iOS 15.4 that prevents an iOS app from knowing which complications are active.

Useless. I’ve been using this for 2 weeks, did not wake me up once. Not even close. The app says if you ignore the watch vibrations it’ll turn the alarm on on your phone, didn’t do that. Not worth the money. Total waste.

Stopped working. All of a sudden the watch app says “no connection” 99% of the time. The few times it does connect, the alarm does not go off and begins counting upwards. Edit: try reinstalling if this happens to you.

LovED it. I really liked this app before the update. The haptic taps to wake me up were so much better than waking up to noise(s). And, hearing Arthur’s voice telling me “You’re so lazy!” put a smile on my face. Sadly, after updating it got buggy. I contacted the developer and received support but their suggestion didn’t work. My sense is that they know they’ve got a real problem and I will install it again after they’ve fixed it because it’s a great app.

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Never works.. So to start this review I should say I bought it because the AutoSleep app worked so well. I absolutely love seeing the data it gives me in the morning. And I was hoping the other apps from this developer would be the same. But sadly this seems to be nothing more than a buggy mess that never actually sets my watch nor my phone off to wake me up. Even though I’ve tried everything I can think of through all of the broken options to fix this. I have an iPhone XS and an Apple Watch Series 4, so it should work no problem. But sadly it’s terrible and I can’t give it more than 1 star. Definitely don’t buy this app.

I retract my earlier sentiments. I left some poor reviews on your products before being fully aware of the fact Apple watches are almost completely worthless if you are covered in black tattoos. My apologies. I am again excited to use your products however. Now that I have learned this and found a workaround. Thanks

No longer works for me. I previously used this app every day is my alarm until mysteriously it stopped working. I even tried offloading and removing the app and reinstalling it. I have a watch face set up with the AutoWake complication however it never works for me. I get an error that says missing complication essentially. Because of this I have to switch to another app for the smart alarm feature. It is a shame as this app clearly had a lot of work put into it and it would’ve been nice for it to continue to be updated.

Horrible. With AutoSleep and HeartWatch being such good apps that I use on a daily basis, I decided to take a chance on AutoWake. Unlike the beauty of AutoSleep and HeartWatch, which is they just simply work without any additional action from the user, AutoWake requires the following. User needs to have AutoWake complication on watch, phone plugged in and AutoWake app running in background on iPhone...all for the alarm to work properly. This combo of manual action and app running in background is beyond ridiculous and unacceptable. Deleted app immediately. Anyway I hardly ever write reviews but I feel obligated to leave this feedback.

Last update made this app not worth it.. I liked this app till they updated. Now setting an alarm is WAY too complicated and won’t always go off. I love rest of the trackers form these people but an alarm should be much similar to set. Now I can just have my different times alarms and set the one I need before I go to sleep. It’s so complicated and new alarms I set don’t trigger. I’ve missed two days in a row. If they fix this I’ll go back, but for now I’m finding a better solution.

Clunky at best. Added it to my watch face and set up an alarm, didn't close the app on my phone. I've had multiple issues with this app, I've been attempting to use the bump setting which works perfectly but when the time comes the alarm doesn't go off. This morning I woke up to my backup alarm, auto wake froze 43 minutes before my alarm went off so I didn't even get the bumps. I really wanted this app to work but now I need to seek out an alternative.

Worked flawlessly for years... now? Nope.. This app is one of my go to apps since I first purchased my series 3 Apple Watch. I’m on series 6 now and the alarms hasn’t gone off a few times. I don’t know what changed but if I can’t rely on this alarm to work consistently, it is completely useless. That’s a shame because the data and layout of the app is awesome. But it’s like having a sports car that doesn’t run with any consistency.... beautiful but not worth the frustration. Please fix whatever is broken then update your user base. I’ll update my review to five stars when you do. Thank you!

Does not function as described. Not pleasant experience customer service-wise either.. Unfortunately the app does not work reliably. Alarms don’t go off when set and no troubleshooting seemed to correct the problem. The developer was contacted before posting a review out of courtesy, but though the developer responded relatively quick his responses were more directed at how the app was developed for “more advanced users” and it must be an issue on my end. Not a great experience all around. I am requesting a refund as soon as able and do not plan to further use this product.

Comprehensive and confusing. For apps with “Auto” in the name they take a lot of work to get started using. The developer makes very detailed and comprehensive apps with lots of data tracking, and they’re generally worth the money. But I always find them very dense with terminology and confusing to figure out. Wish there was a simpler metaphor to understand this app, or a way to ease in to the basics, then layer on more features over time. I’m waiting until vacation to try to figure it all out.

Cool Concept, Unreliable App. I purchased AutoWake as part of a bundle that also included AutoSleep and HeartWatch. I love the other two but AutoWake has been a pretty terrible experience. The alarm may or may not go off, and I can’t figure out what causes this. The auto schedule is just as shady. It also doesn’t seem to be responding to Daylight Savings? My alarm is set for 6:00am, but now goes off at 7:00am, no matter what I do. I wish I could get a refund for just this app and keep the other two!

Outstanding Concept. So far this app is working well for me. Like others have mentioned, setup takes some time because there are so many options and the explanations could use a little tweaking, but with some common sense, you should be able to figure everything out and get it setup correctly in about 10 minutes. Once setup is complete, it should wake you gently with the haptic feedback from the watch (if that light tapping would normally wake you up). It has worked perfectly fine for me so far. You can set your regular alarm for a few minutes after this one as a safety precaution if you need to. I look forward to its improvement over future updates. Great job Dev!

Three Strikes and You’re Out. I have downloaded and deleted this application three on three separate occasions, and on each occasion it has let me down. The sheer volume of bugs renders this application useless. Frankly the developers should be ashamed, but since the last update was over a year ago I imagine that they have already packed up their offices, and for good reason. I typically like to give every app a chance, regardless of a low rating, but please hear me when I say don’t bother. The concept is great, but they really should have hired competent coders.

A bit buggy and doesn't seem maintained. I love the AutoSleep app but I really wanted a snooze functionality, and this was the recommended app since they're made by the same developer. But it's still pretty buggy and my alarm won't go off half the time even after going through troubleshooting. Given that it's been a year since the last update, doesn't seem like it's really even maintained compared to AutoSleep. Please update the bugs in this app or just deprecate and move functionality to the main AutoSleep app instead of recommending a buggy product.

Novelty, but useless as alarm. If you want to fiddle around with what sleep tracking may be able to do in a few years, try this app along with the companion AutoSleep, but if you want a reliable alarm, look elsewhere. This app only works intermittently. Some mornings the alarm activated, on others nothing happens. If you plan to use it to wake up in time for work, you’ll be out of a job soon. I assume the WatchOS just isn’t reliable to give apps like this the right permission to run, even when it’s set up as a complication.

This app STINKS. The only interface is on the Apple Watch, and it is too complicated to be limited to such a small screen. I’d like it a lot better if I could set my alarms and alarm settings on my phone. Furthermore, when you set an alarm, the watch needs to “connect” back to the phone (which my watch is always connected) but the app has problems with it. So I was never able to actually get a single alarm to work! I paid $3 for this app and was never able to use it! DO NOT BUY!! If I buy an app, I expect it to be “top of the line!” This app doesn’t even work!

Daylight Savings Time Error. When we shifted to daylight savings, this app got thrown for a loop. Now if I set my alarm for 5:00, it sets it for 4:00 and the countdown is incorrect. I’m not sure when my alarm is going to be going off in the morning now. Otherwise, this is a great app and something Apple should ready have standard on the watch. The problem with the standard Apple alarm is that you can silence it by covering the face of the watch with your hand, and then your subsequent snooze alarms won’t sound.

Fails installation.. Installed 3 times. The app. Does not recognize that the complication is installed on the watch. Hence, it does not respond. The web address of the developer does not work. I really like their AutoSleep app. though. I just wish this app. I also really like their HeartWatch app. I have now given this 5 Stars!!! Dave, a developer helped me correctly install this and I truly enjoy and rely on this app. I’m working on getting the music feature working. But, I'm not sure that I really need it. Dave said many new improvement updates are down the pike within the week. I’m anxious to see what’s next!!! Dave, thanks for your patience with a very unsavvy untechhy.

Way too complicated for an “Auto” app, better to stick to the regular Apple alarm clock.. Absolutely terrible alarm clock app. I wish I hadn’t wasted my money. Takes way too much to set up and use for something claiming to be an “Auto” app. My biggest issue is that the snooze button does not work. It appears to snooze for the requested time but the alarm never goes off again. If an “advanced” alarm is snoozed, or dismissed, the “Backup” alarm doesn’t go off, rendering it completely pointless, especially if you fall back asleep after hitting snooze.

Doesn’t work. This review is a bummer for me to write because I’m a massive fan of the developer’s other 2 apps. Auto Wake, unfortunately, is a bit useless. For starters, it has yet to work. The developer is very responsive with help, which hasn’t worked. The other thing that I find pretty bothersome is that the app has to keep a Bluetooth connection with the phone all night long. I like to keep my devices in Airplane mode over night to avoid EMFs, but that’s obviously not an option here.

Doesn’t support Daylight Savings Time. I set the alarm for one time and it shows another on the watch. I’ve tried deleting and removing all data then reinstalling but no change. This app isn’t the most straight forward to use. I’ve had it a few months and I’m still struggling to figure it out. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes the app won’t even turn on on my watch. I’m hope to one day figure this out before I get too frustrated and dump it.

Great smart alarm when paired with AutoSleep. Not so sure why many of the reviews are the way they are, but this app works seamlessly. It’s especially nice since I also have AutoSleep for sleep tracking. But for AutoWake, it woke me up during my light sleep in the morning, within the 30 min that I wanted to wake up. It’s exactly what I wanted, and I felt refreshed when it woke me up.

Good idea but needs some improvement. App is really good and i like the idea. But app has some disadvantages. It doesn’t work without phone. On phone it consumes too much power for alarm clock and makes phone hot. It is active for whole night and consumes 20-30% of battery. it should be activated 1-1.5 hours prior to waking. P.S. i love your other apps : AutoSleep and HeartWatch 👌 they are awesome 👏 Update : This app needs to be reincarnated in what it was meant to be.

Confusing and Can’t Just Turn Off. This seems to be an app that either tries to do too much or the developers over thought it. It starts beeping 30 mins before the alarm time and if you get up earlier there is no simple off switch. Shows some Promise but feels like some techies just got too in their heads creating this.

Works perfectly. I’ve been using this app for the past week without any problems. If you set it up according to the developers instructions, it works perfectly on my Series 4 watch. If you’re looking for a smart alarm watch for the Apple Watch, this is the one.

Odd app to work with. I used a similar function on my Fitbit and had high expectations. The app is from the same company that makes the Autosleep app, so I thought that it would integrate with that. It doesn't. It's clumsy that I need to schedule my wake time separately in the Autowake app instead of it picking up my schedule from Autosleep and the Health app. It should just nudge me before my set wake time, and if I change it elsewhere, adjust accordingly. It doesn't. I deleted the app; I don't need something to complicate my life.

Great when it works. The first 4 days I used this, automatic alarms worked fine. On the 5th day, the alarm did not get raised. In fact, the “countdown” on the watch complication was actually counting up from the time I set the alarm to when I actually woke up, instead of saying OFF like it does when the alarm is raised and you stop it. It’s actually still counting up right now, gonna see how far it goes and if it fixes itself without manual intervention.

Good for 3 nights. What’s up with this?? I use AutoSleep and HeartWatch by the same developers and really like them so I thought I’d give this a try. For $2.99 I’d say I did not get my money’s worth. This is crap. I can’t uninstall and reinstall because I see now that it hasn’t been updated in 3 years. I’m afraid I won’t get and option to restore purchase. It worked for 3 nights. I changed one minor setting, the volume within the app , and it doesn’t know what to do anymore. 2 mornings in a row I’ve overslept because I assumed it would go off after the first 3. Bad idea. Even if you like their other apps, this one is not worth that money.

Love this! But have one issue. I have been using this app for many months now and I Love It!! My only problem is about once a month the app on my watch stops working. The alarm no longer works to wake me with wrist tapping only. The sole reason I purchased this was to be awakened WITHOUT noise from my phone as this also wakes my wife. The only solution provided so far has been support suggesting I should uninstall from my phone, and this from my watch and reinstall. Obviously then I have to go back and enter all my setting again. No joy here. Everything else is wonderful! Would have given 5 stars but for this not so minor issue.

Does Not Work. I’ve had this app for several months and given it so many tries, but even after the most recent update the alarm fails to reliably work. It’s worked maybe once in the time I’ve tried it. I’ve done the trouble shooting steps, followed the instructions, and am sure to not force close the phone app, but it just doesn’t work. The count down timer will hit 0 when the the alarm is supposed to go off, but instead of the alarm sounding, the timer just starts counting back up from 0 again... This was using a fixed alarm too, not even using the smart settings.

Very dissatisfied. I was very excited to get this app in the bundle with auto sleep and the heart app. I am disappointed to learn that you have to set the alarm every night. I mean it’s called auto sleep.... Also there have been times when the alarm never even went off in the morning, then when I did wake I checked it and it was counting up a timer. Have no idea what that was. Also, just had a random alarm go off today at 5:23 pm hmmm too many bugs but alas I already paid for it.

Like the update but snoozing is broken. Glad this finally got overhauled a bit, but it’s not quite there yet. Snoozing either doesn’t work correctly or there’s something about it I’m not understanding. If I snooze once the alarm will go off again in 5 mins as I expect it to, but if I snooze again it seems to shut it off for good. This has happened two days in a row now. I expect that if I snooze the alarm then it will keep getting pushed ahead by a few minutes until I shut off the alarm or some significant length of time (like an hour) has elapsed.

Problem with resetting. I’ve not been able to fix this problem where after a few days of successfully working, the watch infograph gets stuck on the original time set and keep going. Currently have 343 hours since I last uses AutoWake and when I go into setting to reset the alarm does not allow me to turn off/reset the alarm back to tomorrow’s time. This has been going on for about 6 month now and only fix is to delete and reinstall the app. If this is fixed I’d give 5 starts.

AutoSleep and Homekit. I like that this integrates with AutoSleep “lights out” feature. And I love that it has Homekit integration too. So only one tap does all kind of automations in the background. Very powerful tool. It would be even nicer if it had the same “tickle” vibration as AutoSleep’s smart alarm feature. Right now the vibrations provided by AutoWake is too harsh. But please, never drop the Homekit support. This is the only sleep app that has it and it is awesome!

Not worth a separate app. I’m not sure why this is a separate app from AutoSleep. It should be the same app. AutoSleep, AutoWake HeartWatch...that’s a lot of complication space to take up my my Apple Watch. Why doesn’t AutoWake “AutoMatically” turn on when I tap “lights out” on AutoSleep? Seems like an unnecessary step. I have my Apple Clock app alarm set to wake me every morning-I don’t have to think about it: it “just works.” The AutoWake Alarm should too. Love HeartWatch and AutoSleep. I want to love this too. Integrate it into AutoSleep and let me set my alarm and forget about it.

You need to read the detailed instructions.. I had previously written a good review. Until this morning, when I had woken up on my own and just happened to be looking at my watch when the alarm triggered. NO HAPTICS AND NO SOUND. I was staring straight at my watch face looking at a big red alarm clock and the option to dismiss. This app had worked for me about half the time. But some days it either never triggered or it did trigger with no vibrate and no sound. I can’t rely on that.

iPhone Battery Drain. Simply put, I used the alarm for 3 days and it worked fine but the app drained my iphone battery so badly that I uninstalled it. Yesterday I left for work with 100% iphone battery and at noon my iphone battery was 38% and this app was the top drain. Today without the app installed my iphone battery was 80% at noon with same basic usage. I emailed support and the response I got was the app was designed to be used while the phone is on power over night. The day time drain is unacceptable.

Where to start. Don’t forget to activate the alarm every night. I wouldn’t think that would be necessary considering you choose which days of the week and the fact that the app is called AUTOawake. This app drained my phone battery in the middle of the day. Why an app that you can’t do anything with on your phone would drain your phone battery is beyond me. If you force close the app on your phone, it will prevent the app from starting.

Breaks every time there’s an iOS update. Every time there’s an iOS update the app stops working. I went a long time where this worked and I got the hang of uninstalling from my watch and reinstalling and it’s always fixed it. Since the last update even that’s stopped working. It’s frustrating that this app doesn’t appear to be working anymore, that I paid money for it, and most of all, Apple hasn’t made this a regular function of the watch.

Great developer. I'm a daily user of AutoSleep, AutoWake, and HeartWatch. This developer is awesome. Very rarely do I see an app that has this level of thought, research, design, and execution put into it, let alone 3 apps. I legitimately believe these apps have helped me live a healthier life style. The first iteration of AutoWake left a lot be to desired, but that is no longer the case. More than worth it to purchase the three app bundle!

Not reliable. I have been using AutoWake for almost 2 weeks and have been late to work all but 1 day. This is a great ideal but is not reliable. At the beginning I thought it was me because I had do not disturbed set for an hour past my alarm so it didn’t notify me. The first day after changing that the app worked like a charm but that was the only day. After that i had no alerts from my phone and my watch only vibrates and most days the snooze didn’t work. Last night I set it for a regular 4:30am alarm. It vibrates at 4:30am. I hit snooze and it never sounded again. I’m going back to a regular phone alarm. I’m glad I don’t punch a clock.

Great sleep tracking app, but take care of your Watch battery!. This app does exactly as advertised, but be sure to have your Watch fully charged before bed! The latest update drained my watch from a full charge overnight. This was not the case before the last update. I’m sure there will be some work done to correct this soon.

Hated the voice alarm. Perhaps it needs a better tutorial. The first time I heard the voice alarm, not only did it sound off at night BEFORE bed, it sounded like it was saying “My friend, wacky wacky!” I spent two days changing settings and resetting my phone because I thought I had a virus. Worse, even after finding out it was this program, I couldn’t figure out how to cut it off. Finally had to erase the program. The alarm was set for 6AM. I have zero clues what use it is to have the voice alarm go off at 11AM.

Issue making new alarm. Hi, It would be nice to be able to just say what time I want to wake up *tomorrow* instead of making a whole new scheduled alarm and set it to go off on the day of the week that tomorrow will be. But this is not my main annoyance. I just tried to make a 9:15 alarm for tomorrow and then wanted to change it to “light 15” from having no leeway at all. So I did that and it deleted itself. So I tried to remake it several times and it won’t show up anymore. I literally cannot make an alarm for tomorrow. Please fix. Thanks.

Consistently fails.... I could go over the list of reasons why you should not purchase this app, but to keep it real simple, if you need to wake up in the morning, this app is not for you. Contacted support multiple times and they’ve been great, but the app continues to fail... sometimes it will tell you why, most times not. It fails consistently if you update either your iPhone or watch. Some of the features are a really neat idea, but it’s an alarm that can’t consistently perform its primary function... I love the HeartWatch and AutoSleep apps, but this one misses the mark

Does not work. I have been using this for a month and a half and the alarm has worked twice for me. I believe I followed the instructions, I have the complication shown on my watch, I have verified the settings in the app and it is set to auto schedule. I think the first day I had it, it did correctly schedule itself and went off in the morning, and after it not working the next day I tried manually turning on the alarm and it worked, but it has not worked correctly since then. I love the author’s app AutoSleep, The only thing missing is a smart alarm so I was really hoping this would work.

Good idea but but has some real issues. love waking to a slight buzzing on my watch. it’s just a far superior way to gradually get up in the AM. find the UI to be lovely but the UX to be complicated. after daylight savings the time has been inaccurate and needs adjustment nightly. I updated today’s alarm and it never went off, so I’m late for my first day back to work after a long break. simply unacceptable! UPDATE: here we are in time change AGAIN and my alarm hasn’t gone off morning after morning. I know the developers aren’t in the US, but if you release in another market, you really need to understand that market. this is really lousy. it’s time to delete.

Great app. The app works great. Not sure why everyone dislikes it so much. I just turn it on with my Apple Watch when I go to sleep and make sure the app is also running in the background on my phone. I had mine set to “30 minute window” during light sleep and woke up for the first time not needing coffee. Wild.

Doesn't work & dev won't tell you. I relied on this app to wake me up for years and previously gave it a great review. Now, it doesn't working on iOS 15.4 and the dev didn't tell anyone! Apple made a change to iOS that caused this problem and the developer knew about it since the first iOS betas. They didn't have the foresight to notify their users in advance that IT WOULD STOP WORKING! They waited until the iOS update went out and just put a small text on their website about it. That's too little, too late. I'm never buying anything from this company again and I recommend you don't, either.

Great idea, too buggy to rely on.. The theory on how this works is a great idea and does lead to a better morning. Unfortunately it’s too fragile and requires coordination between the watch complication and the phone app so both need to be working. If the complication says limp and the app says next alarm is in the past, it doesn’t work. Developers help advises against auto updates and outlines a update procedure. Feels like it is fighting the watch/api limitations and it just isn’t capable of pulling this off yet.

Doesn’t work. Unfortunately I’ve never been able to use this app. As other reviewers have noted, the developer knows it doesn’t work but released a new version to fix it yet. It has been 2 years since the app was updated. I purchased this as part of the bundle with the AutoSleep and HeartWatch apps. It seems like this would have been a great app to complement AutoSleep. The other 2 apps in the bundle are great but it seems like the developer has given up on this one.