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If your alarm goes off in a dark room
You're not bad at mornings. You're waking up in the dark.
Easylight lights up your room before it makes a sound. By the time you hear the alarm, the room is already bright.
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The actual problem
The alarm goes off. The room is still black.
Maybe you have blackout curtains. Maybe it's winter. Maybe your window faces the wrong way. Either way, your room is pitch dark when the alarm goes off.
So the noise is all you get. You lie there in the dark. You lose twenty minutes. You feel like you already lost, and you haven't even stood up.
Do that enough mornings and you stop blaming the room. You start blaming yourself. You decide you're just not a morning person.
It's not you. It's the dark.
Why nothing worked
Why the things you tried didn’t work
You’ve probably tried some of these. A louder alarm. The phone across the room. The hall light on. An earlier bedtime. Just telling yourself to get up.
A louder alarm is still a noise in a black room. It just makes the first minute worse. The phone across the room makes you walk in the dark. The hall light is a light in the hall. Your room stays dark. An earlier bedtime helps with tired. It does nothing about dark. And “just get up” asks you to do in the dark what almost nobody can do in the dark.
Every one of those tries to fix you. None of them fix the room.
Here’s the test. Think about a bright summer morning. Same bed. Same alarm. You got up. Nothing about you changed between July and November. The room did.
Sound familiar?
Which dark morning is yours?
Different schedules. Same problem. An alarm goes off in a black room, and your day starts before the room does.
The shift worker
Your "morning" is 3 p.m. behind blackout curtains.
Night shifts. Odd hours. A 4 p.m. wake-up before a 12-hour shift. Blackout curtains help you sleep in the day. But they make waking up feel like climbing out of a cave.
Easylight doesn't care what the sun is doing. Set the sunrise for any time you want. Your room gets bright before the sound. Even at 3 in the afternoon.
A sunrise at 4 p.m., if that's your morning.
The parent
In winter, the kids' room is black at 6:45.
You wake up. Then you spend twenty minutes waking everyone else. Hall lights. Alarms on repeat. "Five more minutes," three times over. Nobody starts the day happy.
Put a clock in the kids' room that gets bright on its own, then plays a soft sound. It does the first ten minutes of that job for you. That's what the two-pack is for.
One for you, one for the kids’ room.
The winter riser
From October to March, you're up before the sun.
The 6:15 alarm goes off. It's black outside. It's still black when you're on the train, or on your first call. By February you dread the sound before you even fall asleep.
Easylight puts a sunrise on your nightstand, on your schedule. The dark months stop deciding how your mornings feel.
Light in your room at 6:15, even in January.
The one trying to become a morning person
You said this is the year. Your bedroom didn't get the memo.
New habit, same 6 a.m. scene. The room is black. The alarm is the only thing awake. You hit snooze. The streak ends on day four. Willpower isn't the problem. The room is.
Easylight makes the first minute easy. The room is already bright when the sound starts. Getting up is a choice you make in the light, not a fight you lose in the dark.
Day 30 feels like day 1. Except you're up.
One more thing: your phone can charge in the kitchen now. The clock does its old job.
How it works
Light first. Then sound. Then a soft night.
A phone alarm does one thing. Silence, then noise, in the dark. Easylight does three things, in order. The room is already bright before you hear a thing.
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1 — The room gets bright before the alarm
Set your alarm. Then pick how long the sunrise should take. Ten minutes, thirty, whatever you like. Before the alarm, the light rises from a soft glow to warm daylight. The room stops being dark before anything else happens.
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2 — Then the sound, soft and rising
Only after the light does the sound start. Birds, rain, a soft chime. Any of 30 built-in sounds. It starts quiet and gets louder. It comes into a bright room, not a black one.
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3 — At night, it runs backwards
Turn on the sunset mode. The light and sound slowly fade to off while you fall asleep. White noise, rain, or nothing. In the morning it starts again.
Why light-before-sound feels different
Think about waking up on a bright morning. Now think about an alarm going off in a black room. Same bed. Very different first minute. Easylight gives you the bright-morning version, on a schedule, no matter what time it is or what the sky is doing.
See the sequence
One night and one morning, in four pictures.
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Night: a soft night light. Nothing else.
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Before the alarm: the room starts to brighten.
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Full warm light. Still no sound.
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The sound starts soft, into a room that's already bright.
You pick how long the sunrise takes. Set it once with the buttons on the clock. No app.
Why this one
Six things it does that matter at 6 a.m.
All of this is built into the clock. No app. No account. Nothing to add later.
The room is bright before you hear a thing.
The light comes up to full brightness on your nightstand before the alarm sound starts. You wake up in the light, not the dark.
Sunrise timer, built in. You set how long.
No app. No account. Nothing to pair.
Every setting is on the clock itself. Nothing to download. Nothing to sign up for. Nothing that stops working when some company changes its mind. Your phone can charge in another room.
Set with the buttons on the clock
30 sounds built in. Nothing monthly.
Birds, rain, white noise, soft chimes, and more. 30 sounds are stored on the clock. No sound packs to buy. No subscription to keep them.
30 built-in sounds. No subscription.
A night light that changes color.
Pick a soft color for the night light. Dim the clock numbers all the way down so nothing glares at you at 3 a.m. Kids like the colors. You'll like that there's no phone screen on the nightstand.
Color night light + dimmable display
Keeps your alarm through a power cut.
A small backup battery holds your alarm settings if the power blinks overnight. When it comes back, your sunrise is still set.
Backup battery included
It helps at bedtime, too.
Turn on the sunset mode. The light fades out with a sound you pick, then shuts off on its own. The clock helps at both ends of the night.
Sunset mode, built in
Compare
Compare it to what's on your nightstand right now.
The fair comparison isn't another clock. It's the phone that wakes you up in the dark today. The last row is the one the phone wins.
| Feature | Phone alarm | Easylight |
|---|---|---|
| Wakes you with light before sound | No | Yes |
| The first thing you see is a screen | Yes | No |
| Needs an app or an account | Yes | No |
| Sunset mode at bedtime | No | Yes |
| Keeps your alarm in a power cut | Only if it's charged | Yes — backup battery |
| Already in your pocket | Yes | No — it's $99 |
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The offer
One clock, $99. Two clocks, $169.
Everything is in the box. No app. No sound packs. Nothing monthly. The two-pack is for a house where more than one room goes dark.
After you order: we process it within 24 hours and email you a tracking number. Your 30 days start the day it arrives. Not the day you order.
In the box
- Easylight sunrise alarm clockSunrise, sunset mode, 30 sounds, color night light Included
- Power adapter + backup batteryPlug it in to use it. The battery keeps your alarm set in a power cut. Included
- Free US shippingProcessed within 24 hours Included
- 30-day returnsEvery dollar back. No fees. Included
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The two-pack saving compares $169 for two with $198 for two singles.
Try it for 30 days. If it's not for you, send it back.
Use it for 30 days from the day it arrives. If it's not for you, email us. We'll walk you through the return and give you every dollar back. No fees. That's the whole policy. It's the same one on our returns page.
Before you buy
Questions people ask before they buy
Do I need an app to set it up?
No. You set everything with the buttons on the clock. Alarm time, how long the sunrise takes, the sound, the volume, the night light color. There's no app and no account. Your phone can charge in another room.
Do I have to pay for the sounds?
No. All 30 sounds, including white noise, are on the clock. You pay $99 today and nothing after that.
Is it bright enough for a big room?
Honest answer: it's a nightstand light, not a ceiling light. The sunrise gets to full brightness right next to your pillow. That's where it needs to be. A foot from your face, not across the room. Point it at the bed and it works in any size room.
Will it wake my partner too?
The light is on your side of the bed, and the sound starts soft. If you both get up at the same time, you both get the sunrise. If you don't, the two-pack gives each of you your own clock.
What if the power goes out at night?
A backup battery keeps your alarm settings. When the power comes back, your alarm is still set.
Does it run on batteries?
No. It plugs into the wall. The backup battery only saves your settings in a power cut. It doesn't run the clock. Use the cable and plug that come in the box. Other plugs can cause power problems.
What does the night light do?
It's a soft glow you can leave on all night, in a color you pick. The clock numbers dim too, so nothing lights up the room. Good for kids' rooms, the walk to the bathroom, or anyone who wants no phone screen on the nightstand.
Is it good for kids' rooms?
Yes. That's what the two-pack is for. The room gets bright on its own, then a soft sound plays. It does the first ten minutes of the school-morning wake-up for you. Set it once. Kids never touch the buttons.
How fast do orders go out?
We process your order within 24 hours and email you a tracking number. US shipping is free.
What if I don't like it?
Email us within 30 days of the day it arrives. We'll walk you through the return and give you every dollar back. No fees. No questions.
Something else? Email support@geteasylight.com.
The clocks go back November 1
That's the morning your alarm goes off in the dark again.
On November 1 the clocks go back. Mornings stay dark until March. You know how those months go. The alarm. The black room. The twenty minutes of feeling like you lost before the day even started.
Easylight puts light in the room before any sound. Nothing to download. Nothing to pay after today. 30 days to decide.
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