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For everyone who wakes up before the sun does
Wake up to a sunrise. Not a phone.
Your room brightens into a full sunrise before the first sound plays — so you wake up already awake, instead of jolted out of the dark.
4.91 · 11 reviews60 nights to change your mind — prepaid return label, every dollar back.
- No app, no account, no subscription
- $99 once — not $170 plus a monthly fee
- 60-night guarantee · free US shipping
The real problem
You're not bad at mornings. You're being jolted awake in the dark by a screen.
Here's how most mornings go: the room is pitch black, the phone goes off at full volume, and your heart is pounding before your eyes are open. The first thing you see is a bright white screen inches from your face.
Then it's in your hand. Notifications. Email. Twenty minutes gone before your feet touch the floor — and you feel worse than when the alarm went off.
Your body already knows how to wake up. It does it with light — the way it did every morning for thousands of years before alarm clocks. A phone alarm skips that entirely and goes straight to noise.
So you get the panic without the light. Every single morning.
Sound familiar?
Which morning is yours?
Different schedules, same problem: a phone alarm goes from silent to blaring in a dark room, and you start every day startled. Whichever one is you, the fix is the same — and it also gets the phone out of your bedroom for good.
The shift worker
Your "morning" is 3 p.m. behind blackout curtains.
Nights, rotating shifts, a 4 p.m. wake-up before a 12-hour run. Blackout curtains make sleep possible — and make waking up feel like surfacing from a cave. The phone alarm is the only thing telling your body it's time.
Easylight doesn't care what the sun is doing. Set the sunrise for any hour, and your room brightens before your alarm — even at 3 in the afternoon.
A sunrise at 4 p.m., if that's your morning.
The parent
School mornings are a three-alarm negotiation.
You wake up, then you spend twenty minutes waking everyone else up. Blaring phone alarms, hallway lights flicked on, "five more minutes" on repeat. Nobody starts the day happy.
A clock in the kids' room that brightens on its own, then plays a gentle sound, does the first ten minutes of that job for you. That's why there's a two-pack.
One for you, one for the kids' room — $169 for two.
The dark-winter commuter
From October to March, you wake up before the sun does.
The 6:15 alarm goes off and it's black outside. It'll still be black when you're on the train, or logging into your first call. By February you dread the sound before you're even asleep.
Easylight puts a sunrise on your nightstand on a schedule — so the dark part of the year stops deciding how your mornings feel.
Daylight in your room at 6:15, even in January.
The one becoming a morning person
You've decided this is the year you wake up early. Your alarm didn't get the memo.
New habit, same 6 a.m. jolt: the phone screams, you slap snooze, and the streak dies on day four. Willpower isn't the problem — being ripped out of deep sleep in a dark room is.
Easylight makes the first minute of the habit easy. The room is already light when the sound starts, so getting up is a choice you make awake, not a fight you lose asleep. Sunset wind-down at night helps you get to bed earlier, too.
Day 30 feels like day 1 did — except you're up.
Want the phone out of the bedroom? This is the alarm clock that finally lets you charge it in the kitchen.
60-night guarantee · Free US shipping · arrives in 8–14 days
How it works
The Light-First Wake Sequence™: light, then sound, then a gentle night.
A phone alarm has one move: silence, then noise. Easylight has three stages, in an order your body already understands. The difference isn't a nicer alarm sound — it's that the light does most of the waking before any sound is needed.
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Stage 1 — The sunrise glow starts before your alarm
Set your alarm and how long the sunrise should run. In the minutes before it, the light rises from a faint ember to a warm daylight glow. Your eyes register the change through closed lids, and your body starts to surface on its own.
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Stage 2 — Sound comes second, low and rising
Only after the light does the sound begin — birds, rain, a soft chime, or any of 30 built-in options. It starts quietly and rises, so it confirms a wake-up already underway instead of triggering one from a dead sleep.
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Stage 3 — At night, it runs in reverse
Turn on the sunset wind-down and the light and sound dim gradually to off while you fall asleep. White noise, rain, or silence — your choice. Tomorrow morning, the sequence starts again.
Why light-before-sound feels different
Think about the last time you woke up naturally on a bright morning versus the last time an alarm went off in the dark. Same you, same bed — a completely different first minute. Easylight simply gives you the bright-morning version on a schedule, whatever time your day starts and whatever the weather is doing outside.
See the sequence
One night and one morning, in four frames.
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Night: a soft night light, everything else off
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Before the alarm: the sunrise glow begins
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Full warm light — still no sound
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Eyes open. The sound starts gently, and you're already awake
Sunrise length is adjustable. Set it once with the buttons on the clock — no app.
Why this one
Built around the things people actually complain about.
Read the one-star reviews of sunrise clocks and the same complaints come up: it needs an app, it wants a subscription, it forgets your alarm, the display glares all night, the light is an afterthought — and it only does anything in the morning. Here's how Easylight handles each one.
Wakes you with light before sound.
The sunrise glow ramps up to full brightness on your nightstand before the alarm sound begins. Most of the waking happens before you hear anything.
Adjustable sunrise timer, built in
No app. No account. No Wi-Fi.
Every setting lives on the clock itself. Nothing to download, nothing to pair, nothing that stops working when a company changes its mind. Your phone can charge in another room.
Set with the buttons on the clock
30 sounds built in. $0 a month.
Birds, rain, white noise, soft chimes and more — 30 sounds stored on the clock. Compare: Hatch charges $4.99/month for its full sound library.
30 built-in sounds, no subscriptionHatch+ pricing: hatch.co
A night light that changes color.
Pick a soft color for the night light and a display brightness that dims down so it doesn't light up the room. Kids like the colors; you'll like that there's no glowing phone on the nightstand.
RGB night light + dimmable display
Remembers your alarms through a power cut.
A memory backup battery holds your alarm settings if the power blips overnight. When it comes back, your sunrise is still set — the thing the cheap clones forget.
Memory backup battery included
It winds the day down, too.
Set the sunset and the light fades out with a sound of your choice, then shuts off on its own — so the clock helps you get to bed, not just out of it.
Sunset wind-down, built in
Compare
Against the phone. Then against the $170 one.
The $35 clone wakes you with light too — we'll say that plainly. What you're paying for here is the sequence, the sounds, and a clock that doesn't forget your alarm or ask for a subscription.
| Feature | Phone alarm | Easylight | Hatch Restore 3 | $35 Amazon clone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wakes you with light first | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| App or account required | — | No | Yes | No |
| Monthly fee for the full sound library | — | No — 30 built in | $4.99/mo (Hatch+) | No |
| Price | — | $99 | $169.99 | ~$35 |
| Guarantee | — | 60 nights + 1-yr warranty | 30 nights | Varies |
| Keeps alarms through a power cut | — | Yes — memory backup battery | Not stated | Varies |
Comparison captured on .Hatch Restore 3 price, Hatch+ fee and 30-night guarantee from hatch.co. Specifications change — tell us if anything here is out of date.
The offer
One clock, $99. Two clocks, $169.
Everything is in the box. No app to install, no sound packs to buy, no monthly anything. The two-pack is for the house where more than one person dreads the alarm.
What happens after you order: we pack it within 1–2 business days, email you tracking the day it ships, and it arrives in 8–14 days. Your 60 nights start the day it lands on your nightstand — not the day you order.
In the box
- Easylight sunrise alarm clockSunrise, sunset wind-down, 30 sounds, color night light Included
- Power adapter + memory backup batteryPlugs in for daily use; battery keeps your alarms through a power cut Included
- Free US shippingTracked · arrives in 8–14 days Included
- 60-night guarantee + 1-year warrantyPrepaid return label, every dollar back Included
60-night guarantee · 1-year warranty · Free US shipping · arrives in 8–14 days
Two-pack savings compare the two-pack price ($169) with buying two singles ($198).
Sleep with it for 60 nights. If your mornings aren't better, send it back on us.
Use it every night for 60 nights — through the honeymoon week and the week you forget it's new. If you're not waking up easier, email us and we'll send a prepaid return label and refund every dollar. Separately, the clock is covered against defects for one year. That's the whole policy, and it's the same one on our returns page.
The full terms
The return label is prepaid. Every dollar is refunded — there is no restocking fee.
1-year warranty against defects, separate from the 60-night guarantee.
Before you buy
Questions people ask before they order
Do I need an app or a Wi-Fi connection?
No. Every setting — alarm time, sunrise length, sound, volume, night light color — is set with the buttons on the clock. There is no app, no account and no Wi-Fi. That's the point: your phone can sleep in another room.
Is there a subscription for the sounds?
No. All 30 sounds, including white noise, are stored on the clock. You pay $99 today and nothing after that.
Is it bright enough for a big bedroom?
Honest answer: it's a nightstand light, not a ceiling light. The sunrise ramps to full brightness right beside your pillow, which is where it needs to be — your closed eyes are a foot away, not across the room. Point it at the bed and it does its job in any size room.
Will it wake my partner too?
The light is on your side of the bed and the sound starts low, so most partners sleep through it. If they share your wake-up time, they'll get the same gentle sunrise. If they don't, the two-pack gives each of you your own clock and schedule.
What happens if the power goes out overnight?
A memory backup battery keeps your alarm settings. When the power comes back, your sunrise and alarm are still set — you won't wake up late because of a storm.
Does it run on batteries?
It plugs into the wall for everyday use — a light that gets this bright needs mains power. The included memory backup battery is only there to protect your settings during a power cut, not to run the clock.
What does the night light do?
It's a soft, color-changing (RGB) glow you can leave on at night, separate from the sunrise. The clock display also dims so it doesn't light up the room. Good for kids' rooms, hallways to the bathroom, and anyone who wants a nightstand with no phone screen on it.
Is it good for kids' rooms?
Yes — that's what the two-pack is for. A room that brightens on its own and then plays a gentle sound does the first ten minutes of the school-morning wake-up for you, and the color night light gets used every night. Set it up once; kids don't need to touch the buttons.
How long does shipping take?
Free US shipping, tracked, and it arrives in 8–14 days. You'll get a tracking number by email when it ships.
What if I don't like it?
Email us within 60 nights and we'll send a prepaid return label and refund every dollar — no restocking fee, no questions. After that, a 1-year warranty covers defects.
Something else? Email support@geteasylight.com.
Dark mornings start in October
Order now and it's on your nightstand before the mornings turn dark.
Shipping takes 8–14 days. Order this week and you'll have a few weeks of easy sunrises under your belt before the clocks change and every morning starts in the dark. Wake up to light, then sound — with nothing to download and nothing to pay after today. 60 nights to decide.
- No app · no subscription
- 60-night guarantee · prepaid return label
- Free US shipping · arrives in 8–14 days
60 nights to decide — prepaid return label, every dollar back.
1-year warranty