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This soft alarm clock app will slowly ease you into your morning routine help you sleep distraction-free by muting your phone's notification alerts.
Glimmer is an alarm clock app that comes with customizable themes and features that will help you wake up on time as well as sleep distraction-free. Once you set an alarm through this app, the app will softly wake you up 30 minutes prior by slowly increasing the brightness on your screen. Also, if you didn’t wake up on time, it will play a long, boisterous sound one minute after the alarm that is guaranteed to wake you up for whatever you have to do. This app is also built to respect your time of peace and quiet by muting your phone’s notification alert tones while keeping the Wi-Fi/mobile data signal open for you to check your emails and other messages when you wake up.
Some of the other features include adding multiple alarms, customizing the theme with colorful backgrounds and fonts and“night” and “day” modes, set to preserve energy and battery power when needed. The downside of the availability of some of these features is that it will cost you at least one euro (roughly $1.37 USD) to unlock the full version of the app. The free version will still give you the ability to set one alarm for any day(s) using one of two default themes.
Glimmer is a great upgrade from Vuxia’s Glimma, a soft alarm clock app that functions similar to Glimmer. The UI is simplistic, easy to navigate and is aesthetically pleasing with its minimalistic themes. I like how this alarm functions to ensure that you to awaken visually and audibly, as well as easing you into your early morning routine with the soft alarm concept. What also makes this app appealing to use is its smooth and clean graphical interface. Normally, you would expect free apps are not so mainstream, such as this one, to feature attractive graphics. But, Glimmer proved otherwise and I applaud the developers for it. The only change I would make is adding an option to switch between the standard and military time formats for those who may prefer the 12-hour format over the 23-hour format.
Although there are features within the app that costs a one-time fee to unlock and access, Glimmer is available to download for free in the Google Play store for Android devices and is the ideal app for users who are not particularly fond of waking up early.
App Name: Glimmer
Developer: Vuxia
Market: Google Play
Cost: Free
