When comparing I Can't Wake Up! vs Sleep Cycle, the Slant community recommends I Can't Wake Up! for most people. In the question“What are the best alarm clock apps for Android?” I Can't Wake Up! is ranked 2nd while Sleep Cycle is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose I Can't Wake Up! is:
Every feature, especially the tasks, can be customized to a great extent so that it works in the best way for you needs.
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Pros
Pro Highly customizable
Every feature, especially the tasks, can be customized to a great extent so that it works in the best way for you needs.
Pro Awake test
This feature is a fallback in case the user turns off their alarm and goes right back to sleep. The awake test is an optional second alarm that will go off to ensure the user is either already up or to reawaken them. If the user fails to turn off this alarm after a set period of time, the primary alarm (and all of the possible wake up task(s)) goes off again.
Pro Most wake up tasks
8 available wake up tasks can be enabled. Yes, upon waking up, you can force yourself to complete 8 tasks before the alarm can be turned off. These tasks can be customized. The difficulty levels for some of the tasks can be altered depending on how grueling you want your wake up to be. It is even possible to set the alarm to have a random number of tasks.
Pro 'After finish' application
Want an app to automatically open up after the alarm is turned off? This makes it possible.
Pro General settings
Just like most alarm clock apps, this one provides the options to set appearance, notifications, alarm screen, smooth wake ups, time format, and custom alarm tones.
Pro Supports data export
All the collected data can be exported into an Excel spreadsheet.
Pro Comes with set of natural sounds for sleeping
Sleep Cycle comes with soothing sounds to help alleviate troubles falling asleep.
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.
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.
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.
Cons
Con Ads
The app does have some banner ads. However, they do not get in the way nor are they abundant.
Con Plain interface
It uses the default white text on black background formatting. The entire app has a plain layout with nothing aesthetically pleasing. Sometimes simplicity is best.
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.
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.