Barcode Alarm Clock App Reviews

This alarm works perfectly for two days. I want to love it, because it gets my butt out of bed. However, when I change the alarm from the wake up time of 6 AM to 5:30 AM it now is screwing up. Believe Im doing everything right and still have notifications enabled as alert, have the barcode alarm app in the foreground and have my sound enabled with the ringer turned all the way up. The alarm without fail three nights in a row has gone off at 5:55 AM instead of 5:30!?!? So weird. When this bug gets fixed then I will give this app five stars.

I really love it!

Perfect alarm clock!! Genial idea!!!

Great app, has changed my mornings. It forces you out of bed, which is what I need to make sure I dont sleep in. It would be improved by allowing the use of personal music already on the phone as ringtones.

Its great but we should be able to use music from our music library because the alarms arent that annoying and I just sleep on.

It was all going well until the alarm went off, I scanned the barcode, and it didnt shut off. I tried plan B but that didnt work either. The only way I got it to shut the heck up was uninstalling the app.

Finally an alarm I cant put on snooze! This works every time.

I leave a pair of underwear in the bathroom at night so when I scan the bar code on the soap in the morning I dont have an excuse to not start a shower and slip back into bed. This app has made possible what I have always struggled with. Sleeping longer than is needful!

Very good concept and I am sure it would have worked if the alarm went off instead of only sending me silent notifications that I will not wake up to.

I friggin love this alarm. Ive got the barcodes set to my coffee can, a bottle of Baileys, and my shampoo so I dont forget to shower. A word of caution: disable the "type in the barcode to shut off" feature, and make sure that your phone/iPod is NOT on silent mode. The alarm works like every notification (except your regular alarm) in that if the alarm goes off and your phone is on silent, it will just vibrate. Disabling the type in barcode thing will keep you from mashing numbers until you get it right and pass right out again. I recommend setting your phone alarm about 5 minutes before the barcode alarm to help wake you up, and then setting several barcode alarms to keep you moving. Also, let your phone charge on the other side of the room, preferably hooked into a stereo set to max so you wake up like you just got shot at.

Went from hitting snooze till I was late to being up when I need to be.

Until I found out theres a backdoor that lets you cheat the alarm off by typing in the barcode. Fail.

Could use an option for alarm through silent mode. Works great otherwise. Was surprised that the alternative was only entering a code. I thought a picture secondary picture recognotion wouldve been cool.

The app works fine, and it has no big issue. However, the tone seem not to play if your phone is set to vibrate. So, like an incoming call, your alarm will be silent and a short vibration is going to occur instead. I usually keep my phone on vibration especially when Im sleeping and Apple probably guessed it: thats why the standard alarm app plays the tone even if your iPhone is set not to.

Great idea...this app forced you to wake up...it would be perfect if it could ring also if the phone is silenced...otherwise you can shut the alarm down without waking you up!

As you can tell from my title, I have issues waking up. Ive tried everything, currently the only thing that wakes me up is a set up I made using x2 1700+ lumen natural light light bulbs set on a digital outlet timer to go off at the time I need to get up, my problem is that the light timer is within arms reach so I half awake flip the switch to turn the sucker off and I pass out again. This app is awesome because I taped a barcode to the wall next to my coffee pot, so the light wakes me up and the alarm gets me out of bed once Im awake enough to realize whats going on. Then since Im up and the barcode is right beside the coffee pot I just turn it on and start my day. Im practically never on time to work and Ive been up, getting out, and showing up to work on time every day Ive used this alarm. I love it. Thank you, it has definitely been a game changer:)

I havent woken up this consistently each morning before this alarm clock! This idea is so smart && it helps me get out of bed every single time!

This is such a simple idea yet surprisingly so efficient. There are so many points that make this a great alarm for me. One of which is that is gets me out of bed on the MINUTE that the alarm is set. It sends a series of notifications repeatedly which makes it vibrate. However its definitely less ANNOYING then some alarm that vibrate crazy. It also gets me out of bed to scan the barcode needed. It alarm is not too intense nor require much energy to shut off the alarm, meaning i am not aggravated and less likely to go back to bed. Absolutely love it.

Would be even better if it worked when phone was on silent mode

Makes me get out of bed and walk to the items to turn them off. I have alarms set throughout the morning to make sure I get out the sop with everything I need. Only wish is it have adjustable volume as I live with other people who I dont want to disturb so much