Summarise - Talking Alarm Clock
By Project Dent
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Description
A personal, talking wake-up alarm for iOS. Summarise can wake you up each morning with weather, news, your calendar, reminders and more.
Each panel is read out by voice, in a way that feels like you're in the future. "Good morning Andrew. The weather today is Partly Cloudy, 48º Fahrenheit."
Panels:
Weather - Local forecast for the day ahead
News - Latest stories from your favourite source
Calendar - Schedule for the day ahead
Mail - Email from the past 12 hours
Reminders - Items due to be completed
Twitter - Tweets from the past 12 hours
Birthdays - Your friends’ current birthdays
Additional features:
- Wake up to music, or a selection of sound effects.
- Add, remove and re-order panels to include only the details you care about.
- Alter the settings of each panel, and the whole alarm, to make it personal to you.
- Browse through an updated feed of all your content, at any time.
- Night mode gives you a minimal bedside clock. Or, put the device to sleep and be woken with a notification.
What's New in Version 1.1
Now with Playback Mode - Play through your alarm at any time of day. Preview your alarm as you're setting it up, or come back later for an updated summary.
Also includes bug fixes
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Customer Reviews
I really love this app with some caveats.
This app has become a part of my daily ritual. I feel like it is not clear how best to utilize it. The night before I go to bed I create messages to myself via reminders. These messages usually revolve around my goals, dreams and plans for the day. Waking up to these messages helps me get out of bed and get started with my day with a positive attitude and a focused mind.
There are some small changes I would really love to see.
One would be slowing down the voice. She speaks very fast and my groggy morning brain cannot keep up. I often have to replay it because I miss things. Changing the voice in accessibility did nothing, unfortunately.
Another thing that I would change is I would like to see an option to choose how many posts it plays from each RSS feed. Some of the websites I use only post once a week so every morning I listen to three of the exact same RSS feeds from each site. It is a bit repetitive. I would love to have the option to choose from 1 to 3 posts from each feed every day.
I also see the app has not been updated in more than a year. In the past that has meant that the app is soon outdated and doesn't work anymore. I seriously hope that isn't the case with this one because it has become such an important part of my day.
I have to give kudos to the developer. It really is well thought out and they did a great job. I just strongly hope they continue to support it.
Sorely disappointed
I am a long-time user of the Today app, which has always been one of my favorites. I have used it for a long time and recommended it to many people. I was surprised that it changed to this version which in my opinion is horrible. I had the first day I used it it didn't wake me up. Everything was set perfectly it just simply didn't go off. It's a waste of $2.99. I can't afford to keep taking chances on an alarm not waking me up for work every day. I will be looking for another app that gives me the features that Today did but that actually works.
Really love this app!
It's already so convenient and it makes it easy to keep yourself focused and organized. I would love to see pandora radio or iTunes added for the alarm/snooze feature. And possibly more content such as daily horoscopes or status of device and Bluetooth peripherals. Even stocks or bank balance would be cool but I imagine that's harder to do. :-/ thanks for a great app though! It's a wonderful idea!
- Free
- Category: Utilities
- Updated: May 22, 2015
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 26.5 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Project Dent Ltd
- © 2015 Project Dent Ltd
Compatibility: Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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