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Never miss an important meeting again because you were too wrapped up in your work

Never miss an important meeting again because you were too wrapped up in your work

Vote: (478 votes)

Program license: Free

Developer: Comfort Software Group

Version: 5.2

Works under: Windows

Vote:

Program license

(478 votes)

Free

Developer

Version

Comfort Software Group

5.2

Works under:

Windows

Pros

  • Provides your Windows PC with an alarm app, like on mobile devices.
  • Can be used to wake you up or as reminders to do tasks.
  • Supports using built-in alarm sounds or your own audio files.
  • Allows setting multiple alarms on specified times or days.
  • Comes with many features, yet is simple to use.

Cons

  • A few small UI glitches persist despite improvements from previous versions.

Free Alarm Clock is a simple software program that gives your PC an alarm clock function.

Simple to Use and Packed With Convenient Features

One function that many Windows PC users wish they had on their computer would be an alarm clock like on mobile phones. Free Alarm Clock can accomplish just that. It's a simple and free program, yet offers a variety of customization functions that makes it very convenient.

You can set an alarm to go off at a specific time of the day and choose from one of the several preset alarm sounds, in addition to having the possibility of using one of your own audio files. Free Alarm Clock lets you set several alarms that go off at times that you specify. You can also set the alarms to only be active on certain days of the week. Each alarm you set can be given its own label and message that will be displayed when it goes off.

There are plenty of other features in Free Alarm Clock that makes it more powerful compare to other free alarm applications for Windows. You can set the alarm to play a random audio file from a directory, wake up the computer from sleep mode, turn on the monitor and even launch an application or access a website URL instead of playing an audio file. There's a slider to set the volume of the alarm sound or song.

The most recent version of Free Alarm Clock gives you several options to further customize how the program works. You can set the chosen alarm sound to play just once when its time comes along or have it loop until you dismiss it. Just like with actual alarm clocks, there is a snooze function that can be used. In the alarm settings, you can set how long the snooze function lasts from, which can be anywhere from 1 to 10 minutes.

A Very Good Alarm Application With Few Drawbacks

The user interface is simple to use, so you shouldn't have too much trouble figuring out how everything works. There's a simple user guide included that explains how each function works and what it does. The updated version of Free Alarm Clock now supports changing the language of the user interface to multiple other languages besides English, such as Spanish, Romanian, Czech, Arabic and Simplified Chinese.

Overall the program works quite well and comes with several bug fixes that corrected issues reported in previous versions. The only small problems that were reported by users include a few user interface glitches, such as the alarm notification box taking a few seconds to appear after the alarm starts playing, but there's nothing wrong that breaks the functionality of the program.

Pros

  • Provides your Windows PC with an alarm app, like on mobile devices.
  • Can be used to wake you up or as reminders to do tasks.
  • Supports using built-in alarm sounds or your own audio files.
  • Allows setting multiple alarms on specified times or days.
  • Comes with many features, yet is simple to use.

Cons

  • A few small UI glitches persist despite improvements from previous versions.