Has potential

I see where the few who have reviewed are happy, I am not quite as excited yet. First the Auto Dim feature which is not discussed on their web site has a mind of its own. It seems to dim whenever it feels like it with no control settings for it or help to understand when it is suppose to dim. It is not determined by the iPad and the amount of light in the room as far as I can tell. The Auto Sleep feature does not seem to work. I have tried several different settings and it just does not work. The setting for the Auto sleep are a little confusing. I had to resort to the web to understand the two numbers. I guess this is their sleep timer which most clocks do not care when you go to bed, you just turn on or off the sleep timer for however long you want. I will start one of the radio stations and it will never shut down with Auto Sleep function turned on. Some of the radio stations selected did not play but this could be a function of Shoutcast. I am used to most good alarm clocks having a fade in or fade out of music or the preset alarm, so maybe this could added on the next upgrade. I am sad also to the paid weather when even most free alarm apps provide this for free. This app has great potential and I am excited to use it but there needs to be some bugs fixed first.

Update 10/31/14

I am running the latest iOS 8.1 on my iPad with retina display about 3 years old.

I have deleted then reinstalled the FREE app.

Here are my findings

1. The Auto dim has a mind of its own and only seems to work when ever it feels like it with or without the Auto sleep ON or OFF.

2. The Auto Sleep for the radio has never worked. Once the radio is turned on the radio will play until the iPad battery goes dead.

3. The Auto Sleep setup is vague and apparently has a 4 hour window of what you set. The setup for the two time settings is archaic compared to the nice way you set time in the alarm mode. For just a sleep mode it seems to take a simple idea and make it more complicated than it needs to be.

4. When the auto dim does decide to dim the only way I can recover is to open settings and reset my brightness level. The one time the auto dim did work and I did have the alarm set...the brightness level did return when the alarm came on. When the auto dim would out of nowhere dim my display I could not do like a swipe on the side of the display to brighten, was so dim you could not see the clock.

5. Music fade in on alarm mode does work.

6. Setup of music buttons was fairly straight forward and did work.

7. I did have the radio just quit for no reason a couple of times and this is with the auto sleep in the off mode.

8. Weather requires a yearly subscription, not just a one time in app purchase. Maybe the in app purchase would allow some of the other features work.

9. Looks like several different versions of the Beautiful Clock in the app store at a cost. Each has its own version, so maybe they do work flawlessly as it looks like the reviews are very positive.

10. App developer would never accept that maybe this free version has some issues. The auto dim I was told was a new feature in the free version, do not know if it is part of the other clock versions.

11. My initial rating was a two but because the developer would not even remotely believe that maybe there could be some bugs in this free version and the fact that I even completely deleted then reinstalled the app to eliminate and bad install and still had the same issues only means a bad app or the app would not work on my iPad. Therefore I have dropped my rating to a one, but that is only for this FREE version. The other versions may be bug free, but I will not put out $4 to find out.

12. After several emails with the developer I have decided to delete the app and look for something else. This app on the paid side may be really good and this app did offer features I was looking for, but when a developer refuses to believe that their product could indeed have issues bothers me. There is always room for improvement and if we the customers find something that does not work, then the developer should look into the issues instead of trying to push the issue back on the customer as an idiot who can not operate a simple clock radio.

13. I also tried installing and operating this app on my wifes iPad and discovered that the app had the same issues, and as a bonus would crash often during setup.

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