About this app

This alarm clock offers many very useful features and is highly customizable.

For a full description of the app, go to http://bit.ly/alarmclockreminder

There is also a free ad-supported version available: http://bit.ly/1UiITnC

Features:

* Get woken up by ringtones, vibration, the screen light or flashlight - or all of them (at the same time or each starting at a different time).
* Each alarm type can be configured individually, e.g. to use the phone screen fifteen minutes before the ringtone starts on low volume and gets louder in the next five minutes.
* Use NFC tags to lock alarm buttons, forcing you to get up to disable alarms (requires a device with NFC chip)
* Light alarm with either a single color or changing colors to gently wake you up and help you start your day the right way!
* Set up "active ranges" - dates during which the alarm won't trigger, e.g. your vacation. No need to manually deactivate the alarm on your last work day and reactivate it the night before - and no chance that you'll forget and show up late
* Set up alarms which only trigger on certain dates / date ranges, e.g. to wake up at 9 am during your vacation.
* Set up text messages which will be sent to your contacts if you're not awake by a certain time - e.g. to tell your car pool that they don't need to wait for you if you're not up at 7.00 am and your co-workers or boss that you won't make it on time today if by 8.00 am you're still using the snooze button.
* Timezone support
* Headphone support
* "Early riser": set up a target time and date, and your alarm will continually ring earlier every day until you wake up at your target time. Perfect if you're starting a new job in 30 days or are travelling to another timezone soon.
* Night clock: display a fullscreen clock on your phone after a configured time if you don't have a wall clock in your bedroom

Permissions:

* Send SMS messages: required if you're using the Auto-Text feature to deliver the text messages.
* Take pictures and videos: required if you want to use flashlight alarms. We don't actually use the camera.
* Read your contacts: required if you're using the Auto-Text feature to select a contact.
* Read the contents of your USB storage: required to get ringtones from your device (e.g. from MP3 files on your phone)
* Control Near Field Communication: required if you want to use NFC unlock
* Run at startup: required to make sure that alarms still trigger after you rebooted your phone
* Control flashlight: required if you want to use flashlight alarms
* Control vibration: required if you want to use vibration alarms
* Prevent phone from sleeping: required to prevent device from falling asleep before or while an alarm is triggered

New features

It took quite a while to be done, but I'm sure you'll like what we did with this update.
Not only did we spend a lot of time to improve the reliability of the app, we also added some new features and updated the user interface and design of the app.
A list of the new features can be found in the app itself, it's too long to be featured here. But among other things, there's now:
- start and end dates for alarms
- timezone support
- audio channel selection

App Permissions

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to send SMS messages.
Allows applications to perform I/O operations over NFC.