The Daily App: Alarm Clock Extreme for Android

Travel time is no time to lose time. Whether borne by an aversion to trusting a hotel alarm clock or being woken up by harsh tones or a phone, the market for a smartphone-based alarm clock is strong indeed. A particularly strong example is today's daily app, Alarm Clock Extreme, which in addition to being a great alarm clock, is also somewhat of a Swiss Army knife that won't be confiscated by airport screeners.

Aside from being reliable and easy to program, Alarm Clock Extreme gradually raises the volume of your alarm sound to ease you out of your sleep. Wake-crastinators will appreciate its gigantic snooze button, and programmable snooze functions for a maximum number of snoozes, each with a diminishing duration. There's even a calculator that can be set to pop up and force you to perform math to shake off the cobwebs of slumber.

A free and fully functional app for Android 2.1 and higher, Alarm Clock Extreme by Angle Labs also stores multiple alarm times for daily and weekend use, or for creating reminders during the day. Alarm sounds can tap into the device's ringtones or music, the latter with a random function, plus shake-to-snooze, auto-snooze and auto-dismiss capabilities. There's even a built-in timer to prevent overcooking your soft-boiled eggs in the morning.