Friday, August 5, 2011

Amazon's Free App of the Day - Alarm Clock Xtreme

written by: Nick Kosmides


Alarm Clock Xtreme is free today on the Amazon Appstore.

If you've been unhappy with your stock alarm clock and are curious what the difference would be with a different alarm clock, this is a good way to find out.  Alarm Clock Xtreme has quite a few features, most of which aren't in the stock clock.

How about when your alarm goes off at the crack and you can't find the snooze button?  Alarm Clock Xtreme features a humongous snooze button.  Just smack your screen and snooze away.  Everything within is customizable of course.  Create as many custom alarms as you desire.  No limit.  Set the alarm to use local music files instead of the in-app sound files.

Alarm Clock Xtreme includes the gentle alarm which was highlighted in another free app of the day on Amazon called Gentle Alarm.  It is an alarm that slowly increases the volume so as not to startle you out of your peaceful slumber.  Said to reduce morning stress and help you transition more smoothly from a deep sleep into awareness mode.

Wanna wake up smarter than you were when you went to bed?  Use the apps built in math alarm.  A little like torture if you ask me, the alarm requires that you correctly answer a math problem before it rewards you with snooze.  Since snooze duration and number of snoozes are customizable, you could be either late for work or asking for some serious wake up punishment.

A whole lot of snooze options and automatically dismissing alarms based on your GPS location rounds out this highly customizable and highly appreciated app.  If you missed the freebie window, this may be one of those apps worth paying for.

Alarm Clock Xtreme - $1.49 FREE