Dawn Chorus Reviews

Realistic Bird Sounds Gentle Alarm

Aurora_Sky

The bird songs are great and I prefer waking up to a gentler alarm that is less likely to wake up other family nearby who are within earshot. Also our cat and parrot really respond to the sounds. It gets the parrot to stop screaming. Two issues are that you have to disable the “do not disturb” or reschedule so that you can hear the alarm. Also, I have difficulty unlocking my screen in the early (dark) morning as the iPhone cannot see my face. After entering my passcode, I have to go directly to the app to turn the alarm switch to off. This morning, I did that, switched off the alarm and the bird sounds were still going! Had to switch to silent mode briefly to make it stop. So yes, there are some usability issues with iPhone 11.

Pretty birds and great to awaken

Pastor Matthew

A great way to listen to birds instead harsh alarms. Problem is you have to change all kids of setting to make it work. Like leaving the phone unlocked. That is dumb.

Good idea, flawed execution

PutMeInTheSkY

I like the idea of waking up to bird sounds, but I don’t want to have to keep my phone un-muted to habe it work. This is they only way that I can get this alarm to actually make noise.

Great potential but fatally flawed for now

RebralPlayer101

To use the alarm I have to leave this brightly lit app running, this has a number of problems, it pumps out white light not great for sleeping (sure I can turn my phone upside down), said white light drains power and, finally, I don’t think that lighting my phone up overnight is great for the longevity of its screen. Please could you add an option to fade out your app after a certain time (a screen saver essentially) then it would be five star awesome.

Please upgrade

Mine78

I really love waking-up to the bird sounds and really wish this app was more practical to use. It is very hard to snooze this alarm and you cannot do it from your lock screen. It also does not allow you to change the snooze time. When my alarm goes off it takes a while for the snooze option to show-up. It would be some much better if you could turn the alarm off or snooze it with the side buttons on the phone, or if it allowed you to tap a button on the lock screen to snooze or turn off the alarm (like the apple clock allows you to do). It would also be very helpful if you could hear the alarm while your phone is on silent (again, like the apple clock). I have my work email on my phone and I hate having to hear my email notifications throughout the night due to not being able to put my phone on silent. The developer states the new version allows you to hear this on silent, but the app specially tells you to turn the silent feature off to hear the alarm. I tested the alarm with my phone on silent as well and it only vibrates. You cannot hear the alarm. I hope an upgrade is coming soon, because I really want to keep using this app, but it is just too cumbersome to use everyday. Please fix!

Best Way to Wake Up

AndrewAnonymous

I use this every morning to wake up and it’s changed my life. Instead of hearing an annoying beeping or buzzing, I can wake up to the natural sounds of birds. It wakes me up more gradually and softer. It’s amazing.

Recurring alarm badly needed

DeepLearningGuru

Love this app but no recurring feature is a pain. Would gladly pay for it.

Can’t wake up

Millie_veee

I love the concept of this app so much and the birds are so cute but there’s one problem. Whenever I put on this alarm,I can never wake up. I think it’s because I’m used to bird songs but I always sleep through it. I never even know it went off. When you want to get this app, consider if you have songbirds outside your window that can wake you up

Can’t get it to stop!

Froggy1923

Loved it at first, then became super buggy and I deleted it. Problem is that it’s still going off at 7am. Would love to know how to get rid of it. Thanks.

Fantastic

Boomschmidt

This is so vastly superior to the bird alarm on my iPhone I can’t believe it. What a wonderful way to wake up in the morning!

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