Awaken

Name: Awaken
Price: 9.99 $
Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)

6.0.2

28 May 2016

Digital alarm clock uses iTunes to wake you.

Overview

Awaken turns your Mac into the ultimate music alarm clock and sleep timer.

Alarms

Wake up to your music or built-in sounds
Supports multiple alarms with sorting and labeling
Customizable snooze control
Create one-time alarms, weekly alarms, or target a specific date
Gradually fade in the music volume and screen brightness
Launch applications or files at alarm time
Controllable via Apple Remote and keyboard shortcuts
Auto-stop alarms after a customizable duration

What's new in Awaken

Version 6.0.2:

Resolves compatibility issues with iTunes 12

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Well, after a few days they did write me with a suggestion for fixing the problem. Alas, it didn't work. I've written their tech support back more than once telling them it didn't work, and after a week or more, I've heard nothing. It's a shame. I really like this product and was very happy to pay for it, but it just doesn't work on my iMac now, and I'm getting no help at all from the developer. Time to move on, I guess.

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Version 4.0.20

Mhoutman

25 October 2015

MAS version 6.0.1, Non MAS version 6.0.1 needs updated d/l link

Version 6.0

"Refined user interface with Retina display support. New application icon." Yep,- now i have a ugly black clock in my Menuebar (10.9.5), and it starts the timer slowly. But its is a good tool,- never let me hang.

Version 6.0

1 answer(s)

Embraceware

19 November 2014

Could you send a screenshot of the ugly black icon in your menubar? Also, regarding the timer - can you give us more detail about this problem?
Our support team is available via support@embraceware.com

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Buggy. CPU usage of over 20% when sitting idle is not acceptable. Also many crashes on OS X 10.9.5. While the program looks nice, it's basically not a good idea to use it, in it's current state if you are trying to be productive.

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Version 5.0.12

1 answer(s)

Embraceware

19 November 2014

I'd highly recommend updating to version 6.0. It's a free major update. You CPU usage will go to 0% while idle.

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Tekl

03 October 2013

To bad it cannot shutdown. It only supports sleep. Cool would be a feature to shutdown after playing an album or a playlist in iTunes.

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Version 5.0.12

1 answer(s)

Embraceware

19 November 2014

The only reason why we don't offer shutdown is because we have no way to log you back in. We could start your Mac, but not get beyond the login screen. I'd be interested to hear your feedback on this.

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Nontroppo

28 September 2012

This is currently very broken on a retina macbook on 10.8.2. I've emailed embraceware twice, and no responses. Plus we cannot download the latest version outside of the app store. Not a good experience at the moment...

Version 5.0.6

3 answer(s)

Nontroppo

09 October 2012

Just to update, I got a belated reply from Embraceware letting me know the retina problems will be fixed in Awaken 6 and it will be a free update for Awaken 5 users, and it will be available outside the app store. Looking forward to the update, will post a proper review at that time

OhEssex

14 September 2013

I pretty much abandoned this quite a while ago because it was never robust enough. It's been about a year since you reckon the developer said he would have your issues fixed with the intro of version 6 and that still hasn't happened. Are you still having your Retina problems?

Nontroppo

14 September 2013

The developer had released a minor point update of V5 a while ago to fix the retina issues. Still looking forward to V6, but in this case for new features, not bug fixes!

This app was once unstable, sometimes, and not so pleasant to use. I think it is now almost perfect.

Version 5.0.6

1 answer(s)

OhEssex

02 May 2012

That's not my experience - I find it doesn't work well with spaces enabled in Lion. The alarm goes off OK, but if Awaken is in another space and it is in full screen mode you can't click on anything to make the alarm go off (I just quit the application). I think the developer knows about the issue, but when I ask him about it via email he doesn't respond.

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Aargl

03 March 2012

I'm surprised the dev doesn't answer to those bad reviews: I had the same problem on PPC when I switched from Tiger (where Awaken was perfect!) to Leopard, and had to find alternatives...

Version 5.0.5

2 answer(s)

Embraceware

08 March 2012

Hi Aargl, The latest version of Awaken (5) requires an Intel Mac. If you'd like to run Awaken on PPC - email support@embraceware.com to request a free license for Awaken 4.

Aargl

15 March 2012

Hi! I wrote you as you suggested but still had no answer... But I've just switched to Mac Intel, so... ;-)

Qwertyale

26 February 2012

I got 5.0.5 but the Awaken Helper don't power up my MBP. It only wake up from sleep... I'm very disappointed. =(

Version 5.0.5

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