Light first. Then a silent buzz on your wrist, as your backup.
Here is a man who gets up before his wife.
He wrote this in a review of a vibrating alarm watch:
"Ordered this vibrating alarm watch a month ago because I wake before my wife. My audible phone alarm woke her up."
A review of a vibrating alarm watch · 5★
He is not alone.
37 reviews were about an alarm waking the person next to them.
So why not just turn the alarm down?
Fair question.
If you sleep through alarms, a quiet one will not help.
236 reviews said they sleep through alarms.
78 reviews were about being late, or worse.
Loud wakes the whole room. Quiet can be slept through.
So what is left?
A silent way to wake up. You will see it below.
First, how we found this out.
We went through 1,692 reviews of sunrise clocks and vibrating alarms.
We looked hardest at the 1 to 3 star ones: 1,208 of them.
We wanted to see what keeps going wrong.
Loud alarms wake the whole room.
Now the partner's side of it.
Here is one, in a review of a sunrise clock:
"without the constant mind-breaking snooze-fest my husband puts us through every morning with his stupid phone alarm that sounds like a wailing siren."
A review of a sunrise clock · 5★
And here is one person who was jarred awake:
"I really, profoundly despise being jarred awake by horrible grating midi-like alarm sounds through a distorted, tinny little speaker by my head."
A review of a sunrise clock · 3★
A loud alarm wakes the whole room.
A sunrise clock turns the light up slowly, before your alarm.
Many people love it. 352 reviews praised the gentle wake.
But on a heavy morning, a light can miss.
71 reviews said the light didn't wake them.
Here is one, in a review of a sunrise clock:
"gradual sunrise-like glow didn't wake me up, so I would just hear the alarm like normal and then wake up to an annoyingly bright light."
A review of a sunrise clock · 3★
And here is a parent, in a review of a sunrise clock:
"if my daughter sleeps through her alarm, her room then becomes dark and quiet and she keeps on sleeping until I come wake her up."
A review of a sunrise clock · 4★
Read the end again.
The room is dark and quiet. She keeps sleeping.
That is a heavy morning.
A gentle light works for many people. On a heavy morning, it needs a backup.
In the reviews we went through, people tried:
And the cost is real.
78 reviews were about being late, or worse.
"I would miss alarms every once in a while and it was really affecting my job."
A review of a bed shaker · 3★
"I have been getting scheduled clopens at work constantly and recently was 40min late :("
A review of an alarm clock · 5★
Now, naturally, it feels like your fault.
It isn't.
Some mornings are heavy.
And a loud alarm in the dark is the wrong way to wake up.
Here is a different way to wake up.
Two parts. Two jobs.
STEP 1 · THE SUNRISE CLOCK
A soft light rises before your alarm.
STEP 2 · THE WAKE BAND
A silent buzz on your wrist at alarm time.
Your backup for the heavy mornings.
Illustration of how it works. Not a product photo.
A gentle light to ease you up. A silent buzz as your backup.
Want it silent? Turn the clock's alarm sound off. Your wrist buzzes instead.
That is the silent way to wake up.
No app. No subscription.
The SunUp Wake-Up System is a sunrise clock plus a silent wake band.
We call it the System. It is made for heavy sleepers.
It is for you if:
It is not for you if you won't wear a band to bed.
Fair question. Here is what we found.
We went through 580 reviews of vibrating alarms.
These are reviews of other vibrating alarms. They are not reviews of ours.
You get 60 mornings to find out.
If you do not get up easier in 60 mornings, we give back every cent.
Right about now you may be thinking:
What if it stops working?
You are right to ask. It is what reviewers raised most.
So we built a promise around it.
If it stops, we replace it. The details are on the next page.
It goes on your wrist at night.
A buzz on your wrist makes no sound.
24 reviews said they chose a buzz alarm for that reason.
Use this list on any alarm.
It comes from what went wrong in the reviews we went through.
(We hold ours to it too.)
1. Will it keep working?
226 of the 766 low-star clock reviews said it stopped working.
So did 165 of the 442 low-star vibrating-alarm reviews.
Ours: if it stops, we replace it, free for 1 year.
2. Are the buttons and the setup easy?
174 low-star clock reviews said the buttons were bad.
174 said setup was confusing.
Ours: the clock has real buttons. No app.
3. Does the light come up slowly?
70 reviews said it jumped to full brightness or started too bright.
Ours: the light starts before your alarm.
You set how early: 10 to 60 minutes.
4. Can you feel the buzz?
90 reviews of vibrating alarms said it actually wakes them.
Ours: if you do not get up easier in 60 mornings, we give back every cent.
5. Can you get your money back?
Ours: 60 mornings, every cent back.
You get a full refund of what you paid.
Some mornings are heavy. I know.
I used to work the morning shift at a gas station.
I hated waking up. I always have.
So I started looking for a way to wake up easier.
I looked at how sunrise lamps wake people up.
Then I looked at what buyers said about them, and about wake bands.
I had 1,692 reviews read and sorted.
A gentle light works for a lot of people.
Some people sleep right through it.
So the System has both.
Light first. Then a silent buzz on your wrist, as your backup.
I put it together for people who hate waking up, like I did.
Harshdeep
Founder of SunUp
Edmonton, Canada
Next page: what you get, your 3 doubts answered, then the price. 60 mornings, every cent back.
P.S. Some mornings are heavy.
That is why the System has a backup on your wrist.
This page is an advertisement for the SunUp Wake-Up System.
We are not doctors. The System is not a medicine and does not treat a sleep problem.
Review counts are from 1,692 Amazon reviews. They were read and sorted for us.
The review quotes on this page are real. They are word for word from public reviews on Amazon and other online stores. They are of sunrise clocks, alarm clocks, alarm watches and bed shakers.
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