Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock is an app created by Northcube that allows you to wake up without feeling tired. I found out about this app while in another one of my classes which was at 9:00 in the morning. I am not a morning person and so when I went to that class each day, my friend who sat next to me could tell I was not in a good mood. And it was kind of annoying how energetic he was every morning. So I asked him how he had so much energy and he told me about Sleep Cycle.
What it Does
Sleep Cycle monitors your movements as you sleep. It registers it as you awake if you are moving, and if you are not moving, it considers you as asleep. Everybody moves throughout every night. And then to wake you up, Sleep Cycle chooses when you are most awake for the alarm to go off. Now, I know what you're thinking, how will I wake up in time if I don't know the exact moment my alarm will go off? Well say you need to wake up at 8:00 AM. Sleep Cycle considers that number as the 'cut off' time. It has to wake you up by then. The user can decide the maximum time before it wakes you up. The default time window is 30 minutes. So Sleep Cycle will wake you up sometime between 7:30 and 8:00. But the reason it's great is because it will go off when you are least asleep. And trust me, it works.
Wake up Moods
Sleep Cycle has a cool feature it calls wake up moods. After the alarm is finished you can choose one of the three moods it has to keep record of what mood you were in when you woke up. I found that the mood I selected was generally the mood I was in the rest of the day. At first when I was using it, I didn't usually select the happiest mood, but the more I used the app, the better I felt every morning so now it's pretty common I'm happy when I wake up.
Sleep Cycle costs $0.99 and at first I was hesitant because I rarely ever buy apps. But I found that this was completely worth it. The only down side to this app is that it uses a lot of battery so it is possible for your phone to die while it's going. It needs to be on all night for the alarm of course so you have to plug it in when you use it. But I just charge my phone at night so it works out fine.
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