Time 4+

Nice look, but oh those settings!

The clock itself looks great, but setting the alarm is quite a silly process. Moving your finger around the clock face to set the alarm time means that you can't be at all precise about it as two "dots" representing the alarm hour and minute respectively (I think) move simultaneously at different speeds and so fast that it's very difficult to make them land on the desired alarm time. The slightest movement sends the "hour" dot racing to "another galaxy far, far away" and it's impossible to make fine adjustments to the alarm time.

I'd have much preferred the standard iPhone thumb-wheel mechanism for setting the alarm time. Also, there's no way (that I can find) to set the alarm tone or hour chime to one of the iPhone built-in tones.

Changing the background colour and the brightness are also a matter of using finger movement over the clock face: left-right and up-down respectively. This too is quite silly, as any movement that is neither perfectly vertical nor perfectly horizontal results in inadvertantly altering the alarm time (yet again!). Again, making fine/precise adjustments to the colour and/or brightness is impossible.

Whoever designed/programmed this app was clearly more interested in showing off than providing useful and stable functionality. Very poor programming technique if you ask me.

Documentation is pretty much non-existent. The calendar doesn't show the days of the week except that Sundays are shown in red. Big deal.

When first fired up, the clock hands (hour and minute) take several seconds to slide/glide into position. This supposedly "fun" feature also occurs when the phone is shaken, but there's no way to turn it off. Is it supposed to be clever? It's obviously another attempt to dazzle the user with superficial tricks at the considerable expense of usability. Not all of us are kids. I just wanted a nice looking analog clock that showed the time when I turned it on. If I wanted to be entertained and spend time giggling, I'd have gone to the circus.

All in all, a very disappointing app, and not worth the money. I've had better organised and more well-thought-out apps that were free.

If I thought it would get me anywhere, I'd ask for my money back. As it is, I'll content myself by advising others not to touch this sad little number with a ten-foot barge pole and removing it completely from my phone.