Three Best Alarm Clock Apps For Android : App 3 - AlarmDroid

In my last two posts I have covered two of the three best Alarm Clock apps for Android. If you have read about those in my previous posts then you must have downloaded those and tried out. With these Alarm Clock apps for your Android phone you must be waking up on time now. In case you are visiting this post directly and have missed my earlier two posts about Alarm Clocks then you may read those at Alarm Clock++ and Alarm Clock Extreme Free or you can read those from blog archive.

AlarmDroid : This is third app from best three Alarm Clock apps series I am covering here. This one too is feature packed and I leave up to you to try and decide which one you think is best of these three. This app has many wonderful features like Alarm by date and time, provision to control the snooze and stop by flip, shake and power button. When you run the app you see it's first screen as shown below.

AlarmDroid - Alarm List

This screen displays the list of alarms you have added so far. On this screen you can press the menu button of your phone to display all the available menus of this app. The menus of the app are displayed in the screenshot given below.

AlarmDroid - App Menus

I am going to describe in detail about the menus "Add Alarm" and "General preferences" shortly.

"Speaking clock" is very nice feature where you can select how frequently you would like the app to voice the time. Once set you would see a icon in notification bar indicating that "Speaking clock" feature is enabled and it would speak a time at specified intervals.

"Sort" menu allows you to select from "Sort manually" or "Sort by status" options.

"Backup" menu allows you to take the backup of the AlarmDroid app database and also allows you to restore the information from backup file.

"AlarmDroid Pro" menu is for you if you want to switch to Pro version of this app.

"Add Alarm" menu adds new alarm entry in the list of alarms and launch the Alarm Settings screen where you can select various parameters for your newly added alarm.

AlarmDroid - Alarm Settings

Here you can enable or disable alarm, set title for your alarm, set the time when it should fire, select time duration between snooze and decide if you want your alarm to repeat on days of week or it is one time event. You would find more settings when you scroll down this screen.

AlarmDroid - More Alarm Settings

Interesting thing about AlarmDroid app is, not only it allows you to select the days of week for repeating alarms but you can also select from between odd or even weeks when alarm should be in effect.

"Soft alarm" setting can be used to set the time span during which alarm increases. When you tap "Ring tone" settings it launch a new screen where you can select either ring tone, music, playlist or online stream as the sound of your alarm.

Here you can enable or disable speaking clock feature which I have briefly described earlier. Power nap is again a wonderful feature which allows you to select the duration of your power nap up to seconds. What I liked that Alarms defined as Power Nap are also displayed in list of Alarms and you can alter the settings if required or utilize the same again when required.

"Arithmetic problem" setting allows you to decide if you would like to solve arithmetic problem before you are allowed to click snooze or stop.

If these settings are not enough and if you are looking for more options then you can go for "Advanced settings' where you can select ringer duration, how long to continue in snooze mode, whether to allow snoozing and maximum snooze count.

"General preferences" menu of the AlarmDroid app provides lot many options than you can imagine ever.

AlarmDroid - General preference

General preferences screen is shown in above screenshot. Here you can select Display, Sound, Control, Weather and Advanced settings. Every option launches yet another screen with more choices. When you tap Display settings following screen is launched.

AlarmDroid - Display settings

Theme option allows you to select the theme for items displayed on alarm list screen. Background option allows you to select from Transparent, System wallpaper, Image of your choice or just plain color. Status bar symbol  option allows you to decide whether you want to display alarm icon in notification bar of your phone. You can find more options on this screen when you scroll down.

AlarmDroid - More display settings

Here you can choose to hide Stop or Snooze button. Similar to display settings there are quite a few "Sound settings" which are shown in screenshot below.

AlarmDroid - Sound settings

With sound settings screen you can choose to lock volume button, allow volume adjustment by volume button or play random track from playlist as your alarm sound. You would find more such controls if you scroll down the screen.

AlarmDroid - More sound settings

With more sound settings you can decide whether you would like to use default music volume for your alarm or want to set specific volume level. Similar to display and sound settings there are plenty of Control settings and are shown in screenshot below.

AlarmDroid - Control settings

You can see in screenshot above there are many wonderful settings here to customize the app behavior the way you like. You can choose what can happen on phone flip, shake, on pressing power button or on proximity to device. These are great features which many Android lovers would enjoy. Sensor sensitivity is again a great feature to fine tune the sensitivity of AlarmDroid app with Flip, Shake and Proximity. You would find more control settings if you scroll down this screen.

AlarmDroid - More control settings

Similar to control settings, Advanced settings also has quite a few options to choose from and it is shown in screenshot below.

AlarmDroid - Advanced settings

With advanced settings you have the option to control the behavior of AlarmDroid app with respect to Airplane mode, Wifi, Language, Crash report and Audio Stream.

Apart from all these menus and option described so far there are few more which can be of your interest. When you long press the alarm entries in alarm list screen it invokes a context menu for more actions.

AlarmDroid - Context Menu

Here you can change the settings of the already created alarms, you can delete unwanted alarms and skip the alarm event. One interesting feature you can see here is ability to create alarms with date and time. This could be very useful when you want to set alarms for future dates or want to set alarm as reminder.

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This brings us to end of the third of best three Alarm Clock apps for Android. You can download AlarmDroid from Android Market for free and start waking up on time from tomorrow. I would be writing about more such exciting and wonderful best apps for Android phone. Keep checking back here for reading about more exciting and wonderful Android apps.

Three Best Alarm Clock Apps For Android : App 2 - Alarm Clock Xtreme Free

In last post I talked about Alarm Clock++, a wonderful and simple to use Alarm Clock app for Android. You must have downloaded it and waking up on time now. In case you are visiting this post directly and have missed earlier posts then you may like to read those from blog archive or you can read last post here: Alarm Clock++. Today I am presenting the second of the best Alarm Clock apps for Android from this series of  three best Alarm Clock apps for Android.

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free : This is second Alarm Clock app for Android from this series of three. This one is feature packed and if you are looking for any specific feature in Alarm Clock app then probably you would find it in this app. It has very nifty features like snoozing on phone shake, snoozing after predefined time, decreasing snooze duration after every snooze and so on.  It is well designed to wake you up without fail and with as gently or harshly as you like. As name suggests it is absolutely free.

When you start the Alarm Clock Xtreme Free it starts with screen which displays the important messages and change logs informing the improvements done in the app.

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free

You have choice to not launch this screen when you run this app again. For achieving that select the "Don't show on start" check box which is shown in screenshot above. When you close this screen, you can see the next screen of the app.

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free - Alarm List

As shown in screenshot above you can see the current time and already added alarms. The check box at right of each alarm tells you if it is active or disable at the moment. In above case all are disabled. You can see there are three buttons at the bottom of the screen, using which you can perform all the operations you are interested in, with this app. Tap the "Add alarm" button and you would be presented with "Set Alarm" screen.

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free - Set alarm

"Set alarm" screen provides all the settings you would need to decide how your alarm should function. You can set time, repeat the alarm on week days, name the alarm using labeling it and choose if your phone should vibrate. "Sound type" setting of "Alarm Clock Xtreme Free" allows you to choose from various options like Silent, Ringtone, Music, Random Songs by Artist and Random Songs by Playlist. You can listen to different music when you wakeup every morning by using random feature of this app.

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free - More Set alarm

You can scroll down to "Set alarm" screen and see more options as shown in above screenshot. Snooze method setting provides you options from "Press on screen button", "Press side buttons", "Shake phone", "Solve math problems", "No snooze". Similarly dismiss setting provides choices from "Press on screen button", "Shake phone", "Solve math problems", "Travel at minimum speed (uses GPS)" and "Place in car dock".

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free - Advanced settings

If you are looking for more ways to control the behavior of your alarms then go and tap the Advanced settings and you would find more ways to do that. Advanced settings are displayed in above screenshot. If you scroll down on this screen then would find more settings as displayed in screenshot below.

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free - More advanced settings

Advanced settings screen provides wonderful features like Auto Snooze, Auto Dismiss, Decrease snooze duration and Increase share duration.

One of the interesting features of Alarm Clock Xtreme Free is "Nap timer". You can set up a Nap timer from the second most screen from top which is shown in this post. This could be very useful when you want to take a quick nap and want your Android phone to wake you up on time.

Alarm Clock Xtreme Free - Nap timer

If you notice the "Settings" button in the Nap timer screen above, you can use it to define the settings of the alarm for Nap timer. Most of the settings for Nap timer are similar to those for normal alarm except one setting, "Keep screen on". Using this setting you could keep the screen ON during count down of Nap timer.

So that was second Alarm Clock for Android phone from the series of three best alarm clocks for Android.  You can download Alarm Clock Xtreme Free from Android Market for free and start waking up on time and as gently or harshly as you like. In case you are from the people who prefer to use tangible products instead of software for Alarm Clock then check out this Clock Radio for iPod and iPhone.

Clock Radio for iPod and iPhone

Next time I would bring to you the third of the best alarm clock apps for Android phone. Keep checking frequently or subscribe to RSS feed so that you do not miss the posts you like to read. Bye for now, keep visiting us.

Three Best Alarm Clock Apps For Android : App 1 - Alarm Clock++

In last ten posts I have talked about the ten best apps for Android. If you have not read it yet and interested in reading it then check the blog archive.

One of the most frequently searched Android App by almost every android user is "Alarm Clock". There are many Alarm Clocks in Android Market today and question is which one to use. Here I am going to talk about three of the best Alarm Clock Apps which Android users would like to use. Today I am going to talk about first of these three Android Alarm Clocks.

Alarm Clock++ : This is one of the best Alarm Clocks available for Android phone. It is very simple to use, equipped with many required features and it is free.

Problem with most of the Alarm Clock apps I have seen is you need to tap or drag some button on screen to snooze the alarm. This is very stupid user interface because if you open your eyes to perform snooze then you are already awake and then what is the use of snooze feature. Alarm Clock++ provides a very great feature to snooze the alarm without opening our eyes. We have to just flip the Android phone to snooze the alarm. I love this feature and this allows me to snooze alarm for couple of times before I wake up.

When you start the Alarm Clock++ it displays the FAQ screen with frequently asked questions by app users and it provides very useful information.

Alarm Clock ++ FAQ Screen

Above screenshot shows the FAQ screen of Alarm Clock++ app when it is launched. This screen can also be seen by tapping FAQ menu of the app. One of the important information to note and take care of from FAQ screen is if you are using any Android Task Killer app like Advanced Task Killer then you need to put the Alarm Clock into Ignore List of task killer app. You can read about how to put a app to Ignore List of ATK at Advanced Task Killer post.

Alarm Clock Main Screen

The screenshot of the main screen of Alarm Clock is displayed above. At the bottom of the screen the + (plus ) icons are customizable shortcuts to launch your favorite apps. To set the shortcut, you need to press and hold the + (plus) icon for some time and it will allow you to select one of the apps from your phone. For example first two positions of the shortcuts are set for Calculator and Calendar app from phone.

Alarm Clock Display Mode

The small sun / moon looking icon at right hand top of the screen allows you to switch the display mode of the app from bright to dark. This is also called as day and night display mode. Tap the same icon again to switch the mode from dark to bright.

Alarm Clock ++ Menus

When you press the menu icon of your Android phone you could see the available menus for Alarm Clock app. These menus are displayed in the screenshot above. FAQ menu we have already seen in the first screenshot and it provides the useful information which app user should read and understand. Weather menu allows you to enter the name of the city and displays the weather information in that city. Out of these the most important menu is "Alarms". As name suggest Alarms menu allows you to set multiple alarms of different kind.

Alarms Added in Alarm Clock ++

Above screenshot displays the Alarm screen of the app. At the bottom of the screen you can see the current time which can be handy at times when you want to set the alarm after certain duration. For adding a new Alarm, tap the "Add alarm" button at the top of the screen and it would display "Set alarm" screen.

Alarm Clock ++ Set Alarm Screen

As displayed in screenshot above, "Set alarm" screen is very easy to understand and use.

Turn alarm on : Allows you to turn the alarm ON or OFF deciding whether it would be in effect or not.

Time : Using this you can set the required time for your alarm.

Sound Type : This setting allow you to select between Ringtone or Music as your alarm sound.This is very useful if you want to set your favorite music as your Alarm sound.

Ringtone : You can select from the list of available Ringtones as your alarm sound.

Music : You can select any of the music file from your phone as alarm sound.

Alarm volume : Here you can decide the volume of the given alarm.

Alarm Clock - more of Set alarm Screen

Volume Ramp Up Time : You can use this setting to ramp up the alarm values after certain time duration.

Repeat : Repeat is very handy feature to decide on which days of the week this alarm should be effective.

Vibrate : Set the vibration ON / OFF of the phone during alarm.

Snooze duration : You can decide for how much time duration the alarm should be snoozed whenever you snooze it.

Flip to snooze : You can select whether flipping the phone should snooze the alarm. This is very useful feature and you would love it once experienced.

Label : You can name the alarm so that you can identify it easily from the list of created alarms.

So that was first of the three best Alarm Clock apps for Android. You can download Alarm Clock++  from Android Market for free and start waking up on time from tomorrow. But in case you would like to buy actual alarm clock instead of Android app then you may like the nice one given below.

Next time I would bring to you second of the best Alarm Clocks for Android phone. Check again to read about next alarm clock and more exciting and wonderful Android apps.