Dawn Chorus

Wake up to nature’s chorus with a bird alarm clock developed by Carnegie Museum of Natural History and The Innovation Studio. This artfully designed app is a calming, nature-inspired alternative to your usual blaring alarm. When the alarm goes off, birds begin to appear in trees to create a chorus of song. Choose from 20 birds to create a custom alarm. All of the birds are native to the northeastern United States, and users can hear their calls and learn more about them on bird cards developed with museum scientists.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Utilities	Free	The Carnegie Institute	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Carnegie Museum of Natural History is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. The museum is an active research institution with an environmental research center in Rector, Pennsylvania called Powdermill Nature Reserve. The birds in this app were studied at the museum, are often banded at Powdermill, or are frequently impacted by window collisions—a phenomenon that the museum helps study and prevent as part of BirdSafe Pittsburgh.

The Innovation Studio is the design, development, and workflow laboratory at Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, where it supports a culture of innovation throughout the museums.

Reviews

stickers ?
Spitefullime

The app itself is okay. I wish there were more birds and longer recordings so it didn’t sound so repetitive. The STICKERS that it gives you for iMessage though, honestly are so cute it makes it worth it. ?

Not
Lynnesy

Set it for this morning and it didn’t work. Deleting.

Won’t shut up
Eric Weir

Since I updated to iOS 13 I have been unable get the app to stop running once it starts. The usual things—tapping the button the screen that displays when the app starts running, turning the alarm off, shutting the app down—have no effect. This is frustrating. I rely on the app three times a day. It is now effectively unusable.

Nice...but needs support
Zubeneschemali

Should be renamed "Cat Magic" since mine magically appear the instant it goes off. Works better and faster than the sound of a can opening. I love the calls and the idea. i'd like the bird calls to be ringtones that i can also use, through other apps, with notifications. Also, I realize it's a free app, but i'd be willing to pay for it for support -- and if it were more flexible, as mentioned by other reviews.

Wish this worked with current iOS
Breadbubb

As of iOS 13 this app cannot work as an alarm. It will pop up as a silent notification. Once you open to notification, then you can hear the beautiful birds, but not until then. Interesting concept though. Wish it got an upgrade to work properly !!!

Alarm doesn’t work
3071tim

The concept is great, the birdsongs are nice, but I set an alarm for 5am, put my phone on the nightstand, 5am comes and goes with no alarm. Sorry but I need a reliable alarm clock.

Sounds like home
Discover Section

Absolutely love hearing the sounds of birds in the morning that I usually hear at home! It’s a great way to start the morning in a good mood, especially during a winter slump. I was so happy when I realized that I now get the CUTEST animal stickers for my text messages too! Amazing illustrations and I love that I can create different symphonies of bird calls. Thank you for making this app and I am recommending it to all my my friends!!! ?

Needs ability to repeat
makeswell

Great concept and the birds sound nice. Hopefully future updates will include the ability to have the alarm repeat every day or weekday. Right now it goes off once and then it stops.

Love this app except for one thing.
marc boyo

I downloaded this app because i was sick of that ugly beeping alarm on the iphone alarm app. When I opened the app I was amazed at how you could customize different bird song alarms with different birds. One issue though, about after a month of using the same bird song I began to notice when I would walk outside I would get that weird jolt like when you hear your alarm outside of you using it as an alarm. The real bird calls were giving me that sort of negative ASMR. Other than that it’s great.