Wake Up Light – Sunrise Alarm 4+

Simulate Dawn Sunlight at Home

Andreas Ganske

    • 1.0 • 1 Rating
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

Wake-up more naturally with your own wake-up light based on your smart HomeKit lights and improve your morning routine with Wake Up Light.

Are you tired in the morning? Does your body feel like it doesn't want to get up? Create an artificial dawn with Wake Up Light, so getting up in the morning feels easier and more natural. Built for use with HomeKit enabled lights, now it’s easy to add a wake-up light alarm to the Apple Home app.

Set a light alarm that starts your day before your desired wake up time (a recommended duration is something between 30 and 60 minutes). Your light brightens to the maximum intensity by the time you’ve set, by shifting from dim warm red, ending in bright and cold white after its light up duration. The brighter the light, the better the effect will be on your body. The goal is to put you into lighter sleep, so that you awake easier.

FEATURES

– Alarms that turn on lights and shift colors as they brighten
– Support for all HomeKit enabled lights
– The alarm is set in your Apple home hub (required)
– no need to keep your iPhone connected (or even on)
– Set the days Wake Up Light should wake you
– Shortcuts and Siri support to activate, reschedule and deactivate your alarms
– Create multiple wake-up lights and control multiple accessories per alarm
– Preview your wake-up light

Wake Up Light lets you easily create wake-up lights that fit your needs. Just select your light and preferred wake-up time and Wake Up Light will create HomeKit automations for you, turning your lights on gradually over time.

You can adjust the duration of the brightening phase from 10 to 90 minutes (between 30 and 60 minutes is recommended) and adjust the brightness, your lights will reach. Your light then brightens to the maximum intensity by the time you’ve set, by shifting from dim warm red, ending in bright and cold white after its light up duration (if supported by the light bulb). The brighter the light, the better the effect will be on your body. The goal is to put you into lighter sleep, so that you awake easier.

Add multiple wake-up lights as a weekly schedule. Control different lights with their own custom time, duration and brightness. Everyone in the same house can control the wake-up lights, too – thanks to HomeKit.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

A wake-up light alarm clock brings you slowly in shallower states of sleep by gradually increasing the brightness in your room. The light travels through your closed eye lids, notifying your body the same way as a natural sunrise. This gradual transition from deeper to shallower states of sleep has been found to wake you more naturally and boost your mood, energy and productivity for the whole day through.

Let your lights brighten your morning.

App preview music is Haven by Nihilore: http://www.nihilore.com/license
Terms of Use: https://wakeuplight.app/terms-of-use/

What’s New

Version 4.5.1

This update fixes loading old alarms with steps every minute.

Thank you for using Wake Up Light!
If you have a problem or feedback, please reach out to us on wakeuplight.app/contact.

Ratings and Reviews

1.0 out of 5
1 Rating

1 Rating

Drinky123 ,

Useless without a hub

I wanted to use this app with my Ikea tradfri setup which has a tradfri hub. HomeKit can make automations and control my lights when my phone is at home but this app needs a standalone hub. If I had that I wouldn’t be using this and use homeassistant instead. If I had a Hue setup it would’ve been built in. I literally can’t see a reason to use this app.

Edit: I’ve read the developers response but still stand behind what I wrote. You can in fact trigger scenes using “shortcuts” on an iPhone without using a hub (which is how I trigger my scenes automatically when I’m at home). Additionally, I wanted to use this app with the Tradfri system which already has a basic wake-up light feature built in the ikea app, it’s just not very customizable. I believe the Hue app also has a similar function built in. However, this app might be useful for people who are using a different system from that so I’ve changed it from 1 star to 3.

Developer Response ,

Hey Drinky123, one of the requirements from Apple for creating HomeKit automations (e.g. triggering a scene at a set time) is a home hub, which you can read about here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208940

I can not work around this requirement.

It's unfortunate, that you find no use for this app and I hope you find a better solution! It's really sad that you give my app you downloaded for free a one star rating, just because you find no use for it. It would be great if you could think about revising your rating, as this really hurts my small indie business.

kgxig ,

Hij doet niets

Alles Geprobeerd maar niets werkt. Ik kan ook niet aanzetten. Moet ik een aparte week up light hebben om deze app te laten werken?

@Bartlamers ,

Great app! Very useful!

Very happy with this app! I have now all my “standard” automations converted with this app and my lights turn very subtile from different colors and brightness.

I use IKEA Tradfri lights.

App Privacy

The developer, Andreas Ganske, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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