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• displays when the next alarm will play
• tap on the alarm to edit the alarm settings
• fling the alarm to skip it; this will automatically schedule the next alarm

• list of all alarms
• quickly see which alarms are disabled, which play on weekends, etc.
• purge expired alarms
• tap an alarm to adjust its settings

• program individual alarms
• assign an alarm profile describing how the alarm will play
• you can set an alarm to play every week on given weekdays or on a specific date only
• if you can not afford to sleep through an alarm, you can mark it as a "safe alarm" to play an additional ringtone at full volume after the regular alarm sound (e.g. an mp3 file) has finished

While you sleep, you drift forth and back between phases of deep sleep and light sleep during which you dream (also REM phase, rapid eye movement). The key to a refreshing sleep is to wake up during a light sleep phase. If your alarm clock starts blaring while you are in deep sleep, you will feel groggy no matter how much sleep you got that night.

So how do you make sure you wake up during light sleep? During the last few hours of sleep, a sleep cycle takes about one hour, so light sleep and deep sleep alternate every 30 minutes or so. Let's say you need to wake up at 7am and you set your alarm to that time. Now we program an additional pre-alarm at 6:30am at a much lower volume.

This is so simple that we are almost embarrassed to write about it. But the effect is huge: If, at 6:30am you are in deep sleep, you will not hear this pre-alarm. At 7am, you will then wake up to the regular alarm and probably even be in light sleep at that time. However, if you are lightly sleeping at 6:30am, you will wake up to the pre-alarm, refreshed even though you got half an hour less sleep than your regular alarm time would have allowed (sleeping that extra half hour would have put you back into deep sleep).

• list of all profiles; you can add as many profiles as you like
• profiles describe how an alarm plays; it can be just a single alarm or a complex two-phased program that checks half an hour before your wake-up time if you are in light sleep
• setting up different profiles allows you to quickly program different alarms for weekends, workdays, naps, etc.

• set snooze interval, fade-in time for your alarm sound, volume, duration and many other parameters
• select the sound for the alarm
• optionally set an additional pre-alarm at a low volume to wake up at the optimal time during your sleepcycle

• choose from ringtones, mp3 files, and playlists
• playlists allow you to wake up to a randomly selected song from the list
• can create playlists on the fly for selected artist or genre

• expandable list shows all mp3 and ogg files listed by artist
• selection of a song will play the song at the programmed alarm volume

• optional captcha on dismiss checks if you are really awake before stopping the alarm sound
• highlights a configurable number of buttons showing a path
• you must memorize and follow the path to dismiss the alarm

• optional flightmode to minimize electromagnetic exposure during sleep
• display moves very slowly to prevent screen-burn
• stays on so you can always see the time (optional)
• adjust brightness and font size with the volume keys

• choose your favorite color for the night display