By TRECIA TAN SHU HUI
For many people, getting up in the morning is a tiresome affair. It requires much willpower to break free of the comfortable chains of your warm bed every morning.
Students especially face this struggle when they have to wake up for 8am lectures or to arrive at campus early for a good parking spot.
To make the waking up process easier and less boring, you can check out these free, creative alarm clock apps that can replace your phone’s built-in alarm.
1) Shake-it Alarm
This app is merciless because it does not allow you to snooze or decrease the volume of the alarm, and turning off your phone is not an option as well. Trust me, I tried.
The only way to turn off the alarm is to either shake your phone vigorously or shout at it loudly – depending on which option you selected – until the on-screen meter fills up. By then, you would have already shaken off your morning grogginess.
Shake-it Alarm is so effective for a serious snoozer like me that I contemplated removing my phone battery once, but decided against it because it would have defied the purpose of the app.
Another function of the app is it will send a text message to an emergency contact of your choice, requesting for help to wake you up if you do not turn off the alarm within 10 minutes.
This app is only available on Android. For iOS, try out an alternative app – Wake N Shake.
For many people, getting up in the morning is a tiresome affair. It requires much willpower to break free of the comfortable chains of your warm bed every morning.
Students especially face this struggle when they have to wake up for 8am lectures or to arrive at campus early for a good parking spot.
To make the waking up process easier and less boring, you can check out these free, creative alarm clock apps that can replace your phone’s built-in alarm.
1) Shake-it Alarm
This app is merciless because it does not allow you to snooze or decrease the volume of the alarm, and turning off your phone is not an option as well. Trust me, I tried.
The only way to turn off the alarm is to either shake your phone vigorously or shout at it loudly – depending on which option you selected – until the on-screen meter fills up. By then, you would have already shaken off your morning grogginess.
Shake-it Alarm is so effective for a serious snoozer like me that I contemplated removing my phone battery once, but decided against it because it would have defied the purpose of the app.
Another function of the app is it will send a text message to an emergency contact of your choice, requesting for help to wake you up if you do not turn off the alarm within 10 minutes.
This app is only available on Android. For iOS, try out an alternative app – Wake N Shake.
2) AlarmMon
If you don’t wake up on time, your virtual character, Bready, will die in an explosion after being left in the toaster too long. The loud timer and explosion will keep on ringing until the alarm is turned off when you pull down the toaster handle.
This is only one of the many quirky alarm options provided by the colourful and cute app. There are several virtual characters you can choose from, each having a different ringtone and game scene to keep things lively.
The app also rewards you with virtual coins, which can be used to download more characters, if you wake up within 30 seconds after the alarm rings.
This app is available on both Android and iOS.
3) Alarmy (Sleep If U Can)
If you are one of those people who are often late to class because your five more minutes of sleep tend to end up being two more hours, this is the right app for you.
Alarmy forces you to get out of bed in an innovative way through a photo matching system. You have to first register a location where you want to turn off the alarm by taking a photo of it, and this is usually far away from the comfort of your bed so you won’t be tempted to crawl back under the covers. For example, the bathroom would be a good location.
When the alarm goes off, you will have to snap another photo of the registered area to stop the ringing.
This app is available on Android for free, but will cost USD 1.99 for iOS.
4) I Can’t Wake Up! Alarm Clock
This app is equipped with eight different wake-up tasks that require you to solve puzzles, problems, or equations in order to disable the alarm.
It was extremely stressful having to solve math equations when the alarm volume was gradually increasing in the background the longer I took to complete the task. I have to admit that this app is effective because I was wide awake by the time I succeeded in shutting off the alarm.
Besides the math task, there are other wake-up methods such as rewriting lines of text, repeating a randomly generated click sequence, and playing matching games. The difficulty level of the tasks can be changed based on your own personal preference.
This app is available on both Android and iOS.
Some people just need a simple nudge to wake up from a deep slumber; while others won’t wake up for anything short of an earthquake.
No matter which type of sleeper you are, with these creative (or some might say annoying) alarm clock apps, waking up in the morning will never be the same again.
If you don’t wake up on time, your virtual character, Bready, will die in an explosion after being left in the toaster too long. The loud timer and explosion will keep on ringing until the alarm is turned off when you pull down the toaster handle.
This is only one of the many quirky alarm options provided by the colourful and cute app. There are several virtual characters you can choose from, each having a different ringtone and game scene to keep things lively.
The app also rewards you with virtual coins, which can be used to download more characters, if you wake up within 30 seconds after the alarm rings.
This app is available on both Android and iOS.
3) Alarmy (Sleep If U Can)
If you are one of those people who are often late to class because your five more minutes of sleep tend to end up being two more hours, this is the right app for you.
Alarmy forces you to get out of bed in an innovative way through a photo matching system. You have to first register a location where you want to turn off the alarm by taking a photo of it, and this is usually far away from the comfort of your bed so you won’t be tempted to crawl back under the covers. For example, the bathroom would be a good location.
When the alarm goes off, you will have to snap another photo of the registered area to stop the ringing.
This app is available on Android for free, but will cost USD 1.99 for iOS.
4) I Can’t Wake Up! Alarm Clock
This app is equipped with eight different wake-up tasks that require you to solve puzzles, problems, or equations in order to disable the alarm.
It was extremely stressful having to solve math equations when the alarm volume was gradually increasing in the background the longer I took to complete the task. I have to admit that this app is effective because I was wide awake by the time I succeeded in shutting off the alarm.
Besides the math task, there are other wake-up methods such as rewriting lines of text, repeating a randomly generated click sequence, and playing matching games. The difficulty level of the tasks can be changed based on your own personal preference.
This app is available on both Android and iOS.
Some people just need a simple nudge to wake up from a deep slumber; while others won’t wake up for anything short of an earthquake.
No matter which type of sleeper you are, with these creative (or some might say annoying) alarm clock apps, waking up in the morning will never be the same again.