You won’t be able to read using the light, but it’s bright enough for when you’re fumbling for your glasses or going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. There’s an adjustable night-light hidden at the base that’s easily turned on and off, using the large button on top of the clock (it also works as the snooze button).
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We also liked the clock’s all-black exterior (it comes in a white and black option, too), which is free of distracting lights or branding. But it’s clear, and it automatically sets the time once connected to a Wi-Fi network. Of clocks we’ve tested, this one’s display isn’t the largest or the brightest. And though the clock’s single-speaker output can be a bit tinny for playing music, it can get surprisingly loud and is just fine for alarm tones and answering Google Assistant prompts. Fortunately, the clock’s two microphones (one in the front, the other in the back) are very sensitive and able to discern commands, even when we used a hushed volume at night.
To set the alarm, adjust the volume, or turn on the night-light, it was always much easier to summon help with a “hey, Google …” instead. There’s also a tap at the top to enable the snooze feature, but it sometimes required another touch to register. Unless you’re looking at them from above, the buttons are discernible only by touch, and I often fumbled at night or in the early morning while trying to turn on music or adjust the volume. Even though the clock is outfitted with four evenly distributed buttons-for volume, turning on music, and the alarm settings-they are obscured from view due to the angled wedge design. But for now I am pleasantly satisfied that I got what I wanted.Most everything this alarm clock can do is hidden, accessed using its built-in Google Assistant voice controls or with the Google Home app. If I were to use more features built in to the clock and of course, pay for them if need be, then my rating might be better or worse we may never find out. So this app is doing everything I asked it to do, which wasn’t much, and doing it very well. I honestly don’t remembering paying to remove the ads, but I am not getting them. As soon as you tap any key the clock retreats to its normal position, behind everything.
The caveat * is that when I step away from the computer for just a few minutes, the clock pulls itself forward of all the layers of open apps and what-have-you on the screen and hovers on top of everything else. Using “Style 15” in the upper left corner of my desktop, it’s never intrusive* and always available. I would love that.Īll I needed was an analog clock face to be on my desktop, readily available to glance at. I would love to be able to fully customize the face of the clock, to include the numbers and the tick marks, the background image, the hands, etc. I have some suggestions for improvements in future versions. This bug shoudl be fixed, but it's not a show-stopper for me. The only way to make them work again is to quit the Clock app, and then bring up the Force Quit menu and restart Finder. On the opposite side of the screen from these menu items, where I have the menu bar icons and the date and so forth, all of those work. When this happens, I cannot click on any of the Finder menu options at the top of my screen (The apple logo, the application menu, File, Edit, View, etc). This seems to happen particularly after the clock has been covered up for an extended period of time. What I don't love is the fact that it will, at times, cause my Finder menu to become unresponsive. I love that I can customize it to some extent. I love that I can size the clock face to any size I want. I love that it can be placed on the desktop and be unobtrusive.
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