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Looking for an alternative alarm clock app (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 days ago by nokturne213@sopuli.xyz to c/ios_community@lemmy.world

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I am one of those ND that controls their divergence with alarms. And yesterday I ended one of my work alarms instead of snoozing it. This caused me to miss placing my weekly order with one distributor.

When I was an android user I had an app called Alarm Clock Xtreme. 7/8ths of the screen was a snooze button, and there was a small button to end the alarm. You could configure the snooze duration. And when ending, or snoozing you could require a puzzle, or solution of a variable difficulty math problem.

This prevented me from ever ending an alarm when I meant to snooze it.

Sadly the android app I used does not have an iOS counterpart. Does anyone know of an alarm app that at the very least is difficult to turn off?

I am willing to pay for an app, but will not do a subscription.

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[–] Sumocat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I don’t know of a purpose-built app, but I make the stock alarm do a lot more using automations in Shortcuts. I modified my morning alarm to make each snooze raise the bedroom lights a bit. Stopping it resets the lights to 100% before turning them off, plus a few more tricks. You could do something similar with each snooze triggering a vibration that increases in count each time, and a loud alert when you stop the alarm. Or stopping the alarm could trigger the creation of a second alarm, which you can delete by answer a prompt. Even if you don’t trick out the prompt, deleting the new alarm requires a second prompt, so it’s a two-step process to confirm you don’t need the second alarm. If you stop the second alarm, that’s on you, but you could make this work on all alarms, including the newly created one. Here’s an example I threw together. Set it to run in an automation when your alarm stops. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/be78b93ff29a4fbab53d25aa041d4f61

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So it is not about getting out of bed. I have no issues with that. And actually I have not set a morning alarm in probably 5 years other than a random one when I have to get up super early.

I have alarms set throughout the day to remind me of different tasks I have to complete. They are mostly time sensitive tasks at work. I set an alarm for something that needs to be completed by 4:30 at 1:15, then if I have customers i can snooze until I am free. But more than once I was unlocking my phone as an alarm went off and it killed the alarm. So I want something that requires more than a button press to turn off the alarm.

[–] Sumocat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The shortcut I shared, set to an automation triggered by stopping the alarm, respawns the alarm until you go through a minimum two-step process to kill it.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I missed that and will look into it.