Waking up isn't always easy. An alarm clock certainly gets the job done, but not always in the most useful or pleasant way. Luckily, there's a variety of free online alarm clocks available for almost ...

There’s nothing wrong with your smartphone’s alarms. As long as they wake you up in the morning, they’ve accomplished their primary task, and you should commend them for not forcing you to resort to ...

We all know that waking up to an alarm clock is pretty much the worst way possible to get up in the morning, although arguably the most efficient. The iOS and Android app Beditations kind of turns the ...

Some people start their morning by pressing snooze, including me. It’s so easy to turn off your alarm and delay it for nine more minutes, or sleep through it entirely as you continue your blissful ...

Here on Earth, our sleep is synchronized with the sun. Our bodies stir at daybreak and slump at nightfall, the light acting like a metronome for our delicate body clocks. This biochemical ebb and flow ...

Perhaps your cell phone does a fine job waking you up in the morning, but an alarm clock is a superior device. By now, it’s common knowledge that using your phone at bedtime—or even sleeping near it, ...

Andrew Zheng, an incoming Apple intern, found Apple’s alarm function to be missing critical features and found that most alternatives on the App Store were poorly designed, ad-ridden, and missing key ...

Who needs an alarm clock when you’ve got your Android phone handy? In the past year or so that I’ve relied on the Clock app on my Nexus 5X, I’ve rarely overslept. Now that I’ve got the hang of the ...

Sanuj Bhatia, the managing editor at Pocketnow, is responsible for supervising and contributing to all the content published on the website, including news, reviews, features, and how-tos. He began ...

A new iOS app called Awake, designed specifically for heavy sleepers who must complete missions to turn off their alarms, launched Monday. The app is only available to users with the iOS 26 update, ...