Awake Mindfulness Clock - an Actual, Physical Meditation Timer + Alarm Clock (with a Gentle Chime Sound) for Double Biennial, Detox, Addiction, Pomodoro

Okay, I don't usually write reviews, but thought that I'd leave one since I've really found this little clock to be super helpful. I bought it because I'm working on using my phone less, especially right in the morning when I wake up. I'm still a novice, but I've been working on my meditation practice as well and wanted a meditation timer that wasn't connected to my phone so I didn't immediately go back to my phone as soon as my meditation was done. This clock/timer is perfect and has been really helpful! It's small and portable so I can easily move it from my night stand to where I meditate, the clock has a warm up counter so I can get settled before my meditation starts, and the count down timer has a really peaceful bell sound that's perfect for putting me in the right head space when I'm practicing. I read some of the reviews that the chime is too loud, but I don't agree - I think it's perfect. It also has an interval setting so I can get a few chimes throughout my meditation which helps me stay focused. Other reviews also mention that it's hard to program the timer and whatnot, but honestly, there are only a few buttons and once you've played with it once or twice it's really pretty simple. Overall, great purchase for anyone looking to work on their meditation practice, put their phone down, and be more present. Great way to start the morning!

I bought this alarm clock primarily for meditating (Transcendental Meditation) Pros: - The size and shape is great for both my nightstand and for travel - Having the seconds display on a digital alarm clock is nice - The count-up feature after a meditation session is great so you can track your “cool-down”period - It’s nice to have a digital clock with ZERO bells and whistles, which is much harder to find these days. - It’s a great way to meditate while leaving your phone in another room. Cons: - Even on the lowest setting, the chime is still extremely loud. Especially if you’re deep in mediation, it’s quite jarring. There’s also three loud chimes instead of one simple chime. - I don’t like that you can set a “warm-up” time but cannot set a “cool-down” time. After the warm-up period ends, there’s a one chime indication that the meditation has started. In TM, you meditate for 20mins then cool-down for 3mins afterwards. I’ve considered setting the “warm-up” cycle for 20-mins the then setting the meditation time for 3-mins to avoid the dreaded loud three gongs when the medtation period is over. - The light should have its own button instead of being shared with the pause button. While meditating somewhere with low-light, I took a brief moment to check on my time and pressed the light button, which is also the pause button. This then stopped my timer and I didn’t realize it was stopped. - $50 is steep for a timer. Yes, meditation timers are more expensive on average, but the super loud jarring chime even on the lowest setting is disappointing. My whole purpose for purchasing this timer was to avoid using my phone timer for meditating, but I’m able to find much softer and quieter alert sounds on my iPhone than on this timer.

This clock has a sweet sounding chime. This is where the "sweetness" ends for me. It's impossible to see in low light. The buttons are confusing and don't function properly. When trying to reset a time for the timer, I press and click without a response- over and over. It is not intuitive at all. The booklet directions are also confusing. Using it as an alarm is equally frustrating. Good luck trying to turn it off in the dark when just waking from sleep. I have thrown up my hands and gone back to using the Meditation Timer App on my phone. Very dissatisfied. And upset with myself for missing the return window. Very expensive mistake on my part. Poorly designed product on the makers part.

This is a very sleek, lovely product with a nice big display and an absolutely soulful chime. But the instruction book was not written by a user. It seems to me there are some assumptions made about users already knowing how to do things, so necessary steps are simply not mentioned. It seems to me that customers are expected to figure it out. One star off for wasting a couple of hours of my time struggling to set this thing up. It did not work for 99 attempts, and then it suddenly started working on the 100th attempt. Here’s my little troubleshooting guide: 1. Use fresh batteries. The ones that come with the product didn’t work well for me. 2. When you are setting this device up, pay careful attention to directions to “press and hold” or “press once”. 3. Use a fingernail to get the buttons to work - they did not work when I used my fingertips. 4. If the buttons don’t respond, try using your fingernail on another part of the same button. This often worked for me. 5. If you want to use your Awake timer Duration by itself, you have to go through Warm Up to get to Duration. You will have to go through through Warm Up and Duration if you want to use Intervals by itself. 6. When you are done with your Awake timer, you have to press Stop and then press Set to get back to the clock. 7. If it just will not do what it supposed to do, try taking out the batteries and then putting them in again and/or waiting a few minutes in clock mode. That might help to get a response. Great product, but I found setting up surprisingly difficult.

I originally purchased this clock because whenever I was meditating, I used my phone as a timer and it was always on my mind. That made concentrating rather difficult. This has been the perfect solution. It was simple to set up and use as a timer and also an alarm clock! Great dual functionality! Instructions told me everything I needed to know. Took a minute or two to get all the settings done with and I was ready to go. I can also travel with it as it takes up minimal room. There is something peaceful in its simplicity that I really like. The orange glow is pleasant to look at and doesn't stay on the screen which is perfect for night use and the gong sound is peaceful, but effective at alerting me. Would recommend to any and all.

I love this clock/timer. It is smaller than my phone and a bit wider due to needing it to sit stable. I have to admit, it took a little time to get used to using all the features. I'm not mechanically inclined so maybe you should not judge by me. But even I did get it after asking questions. I want to thank everyone who takes their time to help the mechanically challenged, we really appreciate you! It's now simple to use, so convenient, light, the chime is perfect, the back light helps, low or high volume choice, set up if choose a warm-up to give you time to sit and settle in, interval times you can choose when the single chime will sound for as many times you want, and on high or low, and I can go on. I really like the tree chimes at the end of the meditation. The manufacturer should be pleased that he put a great item on the market! If I can just suggest one thing it would be to have a video showing how to use the features. It would help all consumers looking for a quality clock/timer to feel comfortable ordering this treasure. Thanks L.R. @ Offgrid mindfulness. I hope this helps someone.

I purchased this over two years ago. It has the one thing I want which is JUST an interval timer. However, as some reviewers have mentioned, it is a bit complicated. However if you sit down and read the instructions (save them!) it will do what you want. I left it at a friends house - OMG, I spent over 30 minutes trying to find an app on my phone that would just do an interval - so many of the "meditation" apps either did not have an interval, or I just couldn't fine it - or if I change the settings, I wasn't "allowed" to just have the interval - you had to have a reset or so other setting - now that became complicated. I was disappointed that it was no longer available on amazon - so I went to the site and made the big purchase - yes it was not cheap, however I use this thing on a daily basis. And the timer on my iPhone doesn't do intervals that restart! And looking at the available "mediation timers" on Amazon - what a joke - most were cooking timers. And when you did a search on the internet - you got apps. So YES, I would recommend this despite its price and despite some of the challenges I have had with changing the interval setting.

I'm trying to find a meditation timer for my husband so that he won't need to use a phone app. These are the only requirements: (1) It needs to be easy to set, and (2) it needs to have a pleasant sound (not like the usual alarm clock or kitchen timer and not a sound that keeps going until you turn it off). I spent at least an hour searching on Amazon, and apparently there is no such thing. This was the closest thing I could find, but it may end up at the bottom of a drawer. [P.S. Within a month, it ended up in the bottom of a drawer.] The chime sound is fine, but this timer is much too complicated to set. I told my husband he'd only be able to use it if we permanently set if for, say, 35-minute meditation sessions. He was okay with that. But even then, starting it is slightly complicated and unintuitive. I wrote the numbers 1, 2, and 3 on the timer with a Sharpie to indicate that he needs to press the Start/Stop button (to stop the timer in case it's still counting up after the end of the last session), then press Timer, and then press Start/Stop again. I'm still not quite confident, though, that that will work in every situation. Why can't someone just make something like an old-fashioned mechanical-dial kitchen timer but with a pleasant and not-too-loud sound? If the folks at Offgrid Mindfulness would make one of those, I'd buy it! If you want to evict your phone from your bedroom and get an alarm clock with a pleasant sound, I've been happy with the "Seiko Analog Alarm Clock Chirping Bird," which has bird sounds and adjustable volume and is completely straightforward to set.