CARROT Alarm - Talking Alarm Clock App Reviews

There is a bug wherein to change from a current alarm to a new alarm, I have to set it twice. Else, the old alarm remains. Annoying!

It didnt go off. Luckily, I set the iPhones default alarm, or I would have missed my dental appointment. Im going to try using it again tonight (I spent $3 on it, I should keep trying). I do like that it makes you do certain things in order to turn the alarm off.

I thought its a funny talking alarm that would say funny stuff to wake me up

Been using this. Somewhat amusing. Reminds me of a Euchre game I used to play where you could set the personality of you computer opponents. So I make that suggestion to the developers. How about one of the rewards being able to set personality? Setting to sickly sweet or ultra religious (like SNLs Church Lady), or even like the Terminator - like Waz did recently - as movie tie-in - could be fun. Variety is the spice of life! Update - still using.

Loved it until it stopped working. No response from customer support, either.

If your alarm doesnt go off, it is a terrible alarm. Ive had the app a while now and have kept the app open when sleeping, although my iPad is locked, and it simply doesnt go off! therefore I have not woken up in time. Please fix!

Had it for a day, 2nd day it didnt wake me up, but I had a million notifications. Needless to say, I was annoyed. Far from a good alarm app. I regret buying it.

Carrot is a sadistic task mistress who will make you wake up in a hurry, especially if you value your sanity. Make sure you experiment with her BEFORE your first use or you may find yourself with a long list of chores to finish - should you decide (in your innocent ignorance) to snooze instead of wake.

Precisely what I needed to wake up in the morning. Its obnoxious and sporadic. The controls are nice and clean. The only thing I absolutely hate is having to earn reminders or schedules. I just paid you for a darn alarm clock, I shouldnt have to earn reminding myself to set it tomorrow. That is not cute.

I am in love with this app.

Crashes and I cant use it.

It did work... a few mornings. But now I set the alarm, I leave it in the foreground before locking, I make sure my volume is maxed in the app and on my iPod, and STILL... all that happens is the screens turns on and fills with notifications without making any sounds. I cant give anything other than 1 star to an alarm that doesnt make any sound.

I really love this app overall. I am hard to wake up and constantly abuse the snooze button. The daily chores to shut off the alarm are great for waking me up and of course I want to get up on time lest I offend the robot. Only problem is there are some usability issues. Opening the app at all causes the robot to speak loudly, making it awkward to set an alarm when others in the house have already gone to bed. Despite her loud voice the alarm itself is a little too quiet by default and often by accident I sleep right through it thus upsetting the robot. But the menu to adjust the volume is unlockable meaning you have to level up by waking up on time to make it louder, thus being a bit of a catch 22.

Same thing as the previous review. The app randomly stopped working when the lock screen is on. It just gives me banners now. My phone is turned up, the app is left open, etc., so what else can I do? Update soon, please!!

I love this app.Carrot helps me wake up every morning for a run.Its the best thing in the app store

I love the idea of carrot but it has such a negative undertone that I am way to positive for. Will be deleting it ASAP. I really dont like to start my mornings off being called meatbag...but for those who like that type of stuff its perfect. Just not how I would like to start my day.

Although I dont currently use this as my daily wake up alarm clock I do use it as a reminder alarm clock. It serves this purpose well. Where I may miss the calendar notification or a medication reminder Carrot does the trick in a funny and annoying way.

The app is great but the only incovinience is that you have to leave your phone on.

I love this app.

I used to love Carrot Alarm, but over the last year or so its become too unreliable to use as an alarm. Ive been using it in tandem with the default alarm, because of how frequently it does not go off. That was annoying enough, then it started having issue in which it would go off on time but it would immediately go into hard mode as though Id slept through it and was shutting it off late. The last straw for me was the word scramble chore. Ive never like having to unscramble a word with no hints first thing in the morning but over the last two days I got letters that could make more than 1 word (salve, slave, vales, etc.) I think slave was probably the correct answer but not what i saw first so I got it wrong. Additionally I got 8-9 letter words the last two days. I dont know about you but I can not unscramble that amount of letters with no context as soon as I wake up (if at all)... In summation, it used to work very well, but now its unreliable and annoying certainly not worth paying money for an alarm that may or may not go off!