Wave Alarm vs Sleep Cycle

Choose from over 10 given tones, or use a sound file on the phone as the alarm tone.

Phone will not sleep when the device is charging when this option is enabled. This makes it easy to use the phone as a bedside alarm.

Feature allows the app to take over the entire screen by hiding the notifications bar. This makes it useful as a bedside clock.

The main screen displays both a digital clock with a surrounding modernistic analog clock and the current date. This design incorporates the local weather with high and low temperatures. An option allows the use of swiping vertically on the screen to increase or decrease the screen's brightness.

You can wave your hand in front of the camera to snooze the alarm. If you don't have a camera on your phone, you can also swipe the display.

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

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

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

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.

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.