Description
- Sunrise Alarm Clock for Heavy Sleepers is a thoughtfully designed wake-up light that ensures a gentle and refreshing start to your day, particularly ideal for kids and heavy sleepers. This Sleep Aid digital alarm clock combines modern technology with a sunrise simulation light that gradually brightens from 10% to 100% in the default 30 minutes (adjustable to suit your preference) before your wake-up time. Paired with 7 soothing natural sounds, this smart clock ensures you wake up naturally, promoting a healthier sleep routine.
- Sunrise Alarm Clock for Heavy Sleepers also features dual alarms, perfect for households where multiple wake-up schedules are needed. The snooze function is specifically designed for those who need a few extra minutes of rest, allowing up to 5 snooze intervals of 9 minutes each. The conveniently placed “Snooze” button on top ensures easy access without disrupting your slumber.
- With 7 vibrant color options, including blue, indigo, purple, red, orange, yellow, and green, this clock doubles as a bedside lamp and decorative piece. The adjustable brightness offers 20 levels for the sunrise light and 3 levels for the LED time display, allowing you to create the perfect ambiance for any setting.
- Equipped with an FM radio function, this alarm clock lets you tune in to your favorite stations within the 76–108 MHz range. Simply press the “Radio” button to enjoy music or news. With 7 alarm sounds, including birdsong, ocean waves, streams, and soft piano music, the clock provides a versatile and relaxing way to wake up. The adjustable 16-level volume ensures the perfect balance of sound.
- Whether used as a bedside clock, reading lamp, or nightlight, the Sunrise Alarm Clock for Heavy Sleepers provides warm, soft lighting ideal for nighttime activities such as feeding a baby, reading, or navigating in the dark. Packed with thoughtful features, this versatile clock is perfect for promoting better sleep and brighter mornings.
Amazon Customer –
Since the day has been getting shorter and morning has been dark, I have been struggling to wake up and report to work on time. ( I have to clock in at 7:30 am) My alarm goes off but it’s so dark and my body would not wake up. This alarm clock ( I’m only using the light feature) start gradually lighting up my room and becomes brighter as the time goes by. I begin to naturally wake up before my cell phone alarm goes off and I feel well rested. Prior to this, I felt exhausted and felt not rested at all though out the day. But now, not only I’m waking up on time but I feel great all day. Set up is not as complicated as people mentioned.
Tammy A. –
Compré este despertador porque no me gusta la alarma del celular y porque me cuesta despertarme muy temprano en la mañana cuando hay poca luz. Para despertar es genial, dependiendo de los ajustes de luz y sonido, tendrás tu alarma a la hora que lo indiques y es mucho más agradable a despertarse con cualquier alarma de celular.
También el modo atardecer me ayuda bastante a la hora de dormir. Igualmente, dependiendo de los ajustes, de manera paulatina la lámpara va disminuyendo la intensidad de la luz, acompañada de sonido ambiental. Al haber tenido problemas de insomnio en el último año, este modo de la lámpara ayuda bastante para quienes nos sentimos más cómodas y cómodos conciliando el sueño con luz y sonido ambiental.
En general la lámpara-despertador tiene un montón de ajustes que se pueden modificar como mejor nos convenga o nos guste. Entre ellos la intensidad de la luz (para despertador, modo atardecer, o simplemente como lámpara), el volumen del sonido, la duración de la luz en modo lámpara, el color de la luz cuando esta es para “colorear” el espacio, diferentes sonidos para despertador y modo atardecer.
Me parece un buen producto en relación costo-beneficio, realmente me ha resultado bastante útil y me gusta mucho.
Entre las cosas que se pueden mejorar y por las que le doy 4 estrellas son:
-Manual de uso: es bastante concreto y creo que se podría extender para explicar más ampliamente la configuración y uso de la lámpara
-Botones sobre la lámpara: hay 3 botones en la superficie circular de la lámpara (no el perímetro) que son para ajustar configuraciones, pero (en mi caso, no sé si haya pasado con otros usuarios) a veces estos botones no responden al tacto, y se supone que son sensibles. Esto hace que se me dificulte configurar mis preferencias cuando tengo que hacerlo. Nota: no pasa siempre, es ocasional y parece que los botones siguen su comando sin que yo los toque, aunque desconozco por qué pasa esto.
-Duración de la luz normal: la lámpara maneja de 5 a 60 minutos para mantenerse encendida con cierta intensidad de luz, a menos de que se ajuste a más o menos. Creo que sería mejor que tuviera periodos más largos, para no tener que estar prendiéndola constantemente después de que se cumplió la duración de encendido.
A pesar de estos puntos de mejora, es un producto que recomiendo ampliamente. Llevo casi un mes usándola y me ayuda bastante temprano en las mañanas y a la hora de dormir.
Jem –
Love this little alarm clock. It’s got such a nice glow to it and good options for the alarm sounds.
VICTOR HERNANDEZ –
Agradable despertador, utilizando el sonido de la naturaleza y la luz cálida para despertar para que sea más ligero el levantarse
Xx –
I love waking up to a nice natural sound and light rather than that cranking iPhone alarm. The light is wonderful especially in the winter months. Took away a star because it isnt the most user friendly in terms of set up, but once you get it set up the way you want, it’s just 1 button to turn on/off the alarm.
David –
I haven’t done extensive research on all similar products, but from what I can tell, the one distinguishing feature from such products in a similar price range is that this clock has a USB port to charge your phone. So rather than have to pick what thing to lose from my bedside outlet, I can just replace my phone charger with this clock. This helps put this light clock over others for me.
Downside: charging though the clock is slower than my normal adapter. But when I’m just leaving it through the night, no big deal.
The rest of the features seem to be the same as similar products, but I’ll comment on them anyway because I really enjoy them. And if these features weren’t there, it’d be harder to pick this clock over other clocks despite having the charger function.
1) You can turn off the LED lights that display the time. If you just want the waking light functionality but don’t like small red lights glaring in the darkness, reminding you how it’s this late and you still haven’t fallen asleep, you can turn it off (and back on) with a couple clicks of a button.
2) You can turn off the alarm sound and just use the waking light on its own. I like the preset sounds, but maybe sometimes you just want the light to slowly reveal itself rather than it be accompanied by a sudden sound.
3) Makes a good lamp, and I enjoy the additional color light show feature.
4) I don’t really think I’ll use the FM radio feature that much or at all, but it does automatically scan and preset ALL radio stations that have some signal. So you can just scroll through the stations that actually air something (though it does pick up poor quality ones too) rather than scroll through the channels that air nothing.
5) You can use a 24-hour setting rather than AM/PM. I’ve always liked not using AM/PM.
6) It’s kind of…cute.
Those features stood out most to me and made this a great clock. But just to mention some more: two alarm presets, can set brightness of alarm light, can set volume of alarm sound, a sleep mode (light will dim instead of brighten), 9-minute snooze, and some more fine-grained settings I don’t want to bother listing that allow you to really customize things to your preferences. Oh, and there’s a battery that preserves your settings if you ever have to unplug the clock (though I actually haven’t checked this function).
Downsides:
1) I think I’ll always need the instruction booklet because there are so many features and settings that use the same buttons. I may have used it enough now to know how to work everything, or at least the functions I primarily use, but there really is a lot. Single click this, double click that, long-hold this. That kind of stuff. You kind of have to learn the clock; I had to refer to the booklet for the first more than a few times. God help you if you forget how to set something you want in the future and don’t have the booklet. (I still like the features themselves.)
2) Even though the radio scans all the channels, scrolling through them is a pain in the butt. You have to long hold a button to move through the presets. As soon as I found a decent station I just left it there. Regular click is reserved for radio volume. Not sure why they couldn’t use the same buttons that control alarm volume, but I don’t know anything about how hard that sort of wiring or whatever is.
That’s it. It’s a great clock.
Judith Cano –
La alarma llegó bien empacada, con todos los instructivos y piezas necesarias.
Tiene bastantes funciones que son fáciles de programar a tu preferencia siguiendo el instructivo.
Siempre a funcionado exactamente como lo programé y el hecho de que la alarma se tenga que apagar con un pequeño botón a un costado en lugar del snooze de arriba hace que sea mucho más fácil el tener que levantarme cuando la alarma inicia.
Estaba un poco preocupada por las opiniones de baja puntuación pero mi experiencia ha sido excelente con el envío, el producto y la función de la alarma.
Fhqwhgads –
I bought the Dekala alarm light after comparing reviews for about 10 similar products here on Amazon. I chose it because it seems to be the most full-featured compared to the Philips SmartSleep Wake-up Light I’ve used for about 8 years. The SmartSleep was around $130 when I bought it, and is $109 today, but the Dekala is only $32, so this is hardly a fair comparison by price range; yet the Dekala stands up to the comparison; this Dekala is a really terrific wake-up alarm light.
I would have just bought another Philips except that I never liked the capacitance touch-screen controls, which were hard to push while laying on my bed, and not intuitive. Additionally, these seem to be the cause of the failure of the Philips light after 8 years. Now when its light is illuminated, it makes ticking sounds like the touch controls are being touched, but very rapid ticking, and finally now it is doing a strobe-light with the ticking, so it’s truly not usable anymore.
The Dekala has all the same features of the Philips light and seems like a direct clone of it, for the most part. It is well designed and seems quality built.
Comparing the two products, I assigned 20 points to each to start and deducted points for disadvantages.
Philips light: -1 point for the unintuitive, hard to use front screen touch controls
Dekala light:
-1 because the wake up sound comes on rather suddenly / loudly rather than getting gradually dimmer like the Philips
-1 because the go-to-sleep light shuts off suddenly rather than getting gradually dimmer like the Philips, and also because when transitioning from the reading light to the go-to-sleep light it turns the light off and back on, which could disturb a partner already starting to drift off to sleep next to you
18 points for the Dekala vs 19 for the Philips makes it 95% as good, for 29% of the price.
I love the various colors the Dekala can make, although I probably won’t use them because I like the orange-yellow light that is similar to the Philips so I have everything set to the same color. The alternate colors are beautiful shades, though, and some people may like having the options. The sounds are good, and the birds chirping is nice to wake up to, even if I would like it to start softer and get louder over 60 seconds or so like the Philips instead of being abruptly loud like the Dekala is. Still, it’s a gentle enough sound that it is hardly like waking up to one of those beeping alarm clocks, and beating the birds to the punch is enough reason for me to stop lying awake yawning and just get up and switch it off based on the light already waking me up.
One other minor critique is that I wish the clock display got much darker at night. I could switch it all the way off, but I do like checking the time if I wake in the middle of the night so I know how much more time I have to sleep. Still, it’s darker than most old beeping alarm clocks, and it will be ok. If it really bugs me, I could find a way to tape a piece of amber stage lighting gel over it or something. But I’ll probably leave it as-is because I use a blindfold at night anyway and it’s really not that bright on its dim setting.
If both lights were priced at $108, I would probably get the Philips, even though I really don’t like the front panel controls and hate setting the time on the Philips. This is because the Philips is just smoother with the light and sound transitions. But at $32, the Dekala wins. The disadvantages are not very bad, just issues of refinement they may improve with later versions. Even though I can’t compare how long it lasts vs the Philips lasting eight years, at $32 who cares. If it lasts two years it will be worth it, and it seems quality built so I’m betting it lasts about as long as the Philips.
Overall, I’m glad I tried the Dekala, and I reccomend it.
Judith Cano –
My Phillips clock stopped working after several years and I bought this one to replace it. It seems to work well. I rarely use an alarm to wake up as my body clock always has me awake before the birds. I do use this for the light benefits as where I live, winter brings significantly reduced hours of daylight. On the rare occasion I want to use sound, the nature sounds work well.
My only complaint is that even on the dimmest setting, the display is much brighter than I’d like it to be. My Phillips clock had a much dimmer display at night/in the dark.
charles –
It seems to work fine, but the way they set the controls up is just so cheap and cheesy. Too many things they’re trying to do.
I just want to wake up to the sun up version, but the switch does about 10 different things and it’s easy to mess it up, and hard to be sure you have it right when you go to sleep
Also would like to be able to make the light that tells you the time much darker, even in night mode it’s pretty bright