Dawn Chorus
By Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
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Description
Wake up to nature’s chorus with a bird alarm clock developed by Carnegie Museum of Natural History and The Innovation Studio. This artfully designed app is a calming, nature-inspired alternative to your usual blaring alarm. When the alarm goes off, birds begin to appear in trees to create a chorus of song. Choose from 20 birds to create a custom alarm. All of the birds are native to the northeastern United States, and users can hear their calls and learn more about them on bird cards developed with museum scientists.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. The museum is an active research institution with an environmental research center in Rector, Pennsylvania called Powdermill Nature Reserve. The birds in this app were studied at the museum, are often banded at Powdermill, or are frequently impacted by window collisions—a phenomenon that the museum helps study and prevent as part of BirdSafe Pittsburgh.
The Innovation Studio is the design, development, and workflow laboratory at Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, where it supports a culture of innovation throughout the museums.
What's New in Version 1.1
- Sample a chorus as you create it
- Alarm notifications sound for 5 minutes
- New alarm mode lets you hear your alarms when your phone is on silent
- Opening a notification lets you hear the chorus singing together. Notification actions are still available: stop and snooze.
We’re also excited to announce the Chorus Bird sticker pack, which is included in this update.
Use our bird illustrations as stickers in iMessage!
We appreciate the feedback and support, cheers!
Customer Reviews
Instructions?
I finally realized that I must turn on "sounds" in notification settings for the alarm to work on my iPhone 7. It would have been helpful to have instructions posted somewhere. I'll report back after using the app for a while.
Love the idea but...
There are issues with this, maybe because I'm using an iPad but: I can't get the alarm to stop without unlocking the device, and the chorus isn't a chorus, it only features one bird at a time. Disappointing. I would use the app if these bugs were fixed. I was expecting a chorus, just like the sample alarm, and not to have to unlock the device to to turn it off.
Yay for new update!
I downloaded this as soon as I heard about it because, birds. So glad I can use this now even when my phone is on silent, because it always is. That was the only thing keeping me from using it. Will there be more birds added, maybe regional or habitat specific groups of birds? I'd love a SE Arizona/desert dawn chorus!
- Free
- Category: Utilities
- Updated: Apr 21, 2017
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 139 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: The Carnegie Institute
- © 2017 Innovation Studio
Compatibility: Requires iOS 10.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.