What are the best alarm clock apps for iOS?

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Best alarm clock apps for iOS	Price	Last Updated
-- Sleep Cycle	-	Oct 26, 2017
-- Alarm Clock Free	-	Feb 13, 2015

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Sleep Cycle

Top Pro

Supports data export

All the collected data can be exported into an Excel spreadsheet. See More

Top Con

Not suitable for couples or people who sleep with their animals

The app simply tracks the movements during the night, it has no way of knowing who are the movements caused by. See More

Top Pro

Comes with set of natural sounds for sleeping

Sleep Cycle comes with soothing sounds to help alleviate troubles falling asleep. See More

Top Con

Doesn't work on hard beds

App tracks the movement of bed during the night. If the mattress is hard, the smaller movements might not get detected. See More

Top Pro

Nightly or long term graphs

Users can see how they slept during the previous night, or they can look at a night-to-night graph of overall sleep trends. See More

Top Pro

Analyzes sleep

The app will give an overview of each night's sleep. It will allow seeing the quality of your sleep, comparing nights to find patterns and ultimately take action to improve sleep. Sleep analysis is improved by providing a space for nightly notes, so users are able to see correlation between stressful events and sleeping patterns. See More

Top Pro

Makes getting up a lot easier as it sounds the alarm during the lightest phase of sleep

The alarm is set by choosing a 10-90 minute window of when to be woken up. The app will analyze sleep patterns throughout the night and sound the alarm during the lightest phase of sleep within set interval. See More

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Alarm Clock Free

Top Pro

Has to be shaken to snooze

At first it is sort of hard to shake it without waking up a little bit, but once you get used to it, it's not much use. It is always fun however. See More

What are the best alarm clock apps for iOS?

2 Options Considered

Sleep Cycle

My Recommendation for Sleep Cycle

My Recommendation for Sleep Cycle

Supports data export

Not suitable for couples or people who sleep with their animals

Comes with set of natural sounds for sleeping

Doesn't work on hard beds

Nightly or long term graphs

Analyzes sleep

Makes getting up a lot easier as it sounds the alarm during the lightest phase of sleep

Alarm Clock Free

My Recommendation for Alarm Clock Free

My Recommendation for Alarm Clock Free

Has to be shaken to snooze

Lots of ads

Any song from music library can be chosen as the alarm

It's free

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