Dark-morning people

It's 6:10 and still pitch-black outside.

5 reasons I traded my phone alarm for a sunrise clock this winter.

VAKNA by LINTEL · 3 min read

VAKNA sunrise alarm clock glowing on a bedside table before dawn

Every winter it's the same. The alarm screams in the dark, I'm sitting up before my eyes are open, and I hit snooze until I'm late.

I'd wanted one of those sunrise clocks for years. I just couldn't justify $170 to $300 for an alarm clock.

Then I tried VAKNA. Here's what changed.

  1. The Sunrise-First Wake: the glow starts 10-60 minutes early, builds through 20 levels, then your wake sound plays10–60 min sunrise
    1

    The room is light before the alarm plays.

    On a dark winter morning my body had no idea it was morning. The alarm had to do all the work at once.

    VAKNA wakes you with what it calls the Sunrise-First Wake: 10 to 60 minutes before any sound, the linen face starts to glow and slowly gets brighter, through 20 levels, until the room is gold. By the time the sound plays, I'm already half-awake.

  2. 3 alarms · snooze 5–20 min

    2

    There's still a sound, so I don't oversleep.

    I'm a heavy sleeper, and I didn't trust light on its own.

    I don't have to. At my wake time my chosen sound plays, one of 22 wake sounds, and snooze gives me 5 to 20 more minutes. It holds up to 3 alarms.

  3. VAKNA features: 10-60 min sunrise, 20 brightness levels, 26 sleep sounds, 17 light colours, 3 alarms, Bluetooth speakerNo app, no subscription
    3

    My phone sleeps in the kitchen now.

    My phone was my alarm, so it was also the last thing I looked at at night and the first thing I grabbed in the morning.

    VAKNA needs no app and no subscription: everything is set with the buttons on the clock. At night it's a reading lamp, a night light in 17 colours and a sound machine with 26 sleep sounds.

  4. VAKNA sunrise alarm clocks in Natural and GrayUnder $80
    4

    The sunrise clock, without the $300 price.

    The brand-name sunrise clocks I'd looked at for years cost $170 to $300.

    VAKNA is under $80, and less per clock in a bundle, so my partner's side of the bed and the kids' room got one too. Natural or Gray, mixed however you like.

  5. 30-day money-back promise

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    Wake up calm, or your money back.

    Not a miracle. Just the Sunrise-First Wake: light first, sound last. And if it doesn't make your mornings calmer, you don't keep it.

    Use VAKNA for 30 days. If your mornings don't start calmer, email us within 30 days of delivery and we refund you to your original payment method. One email is all it takes.

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  • Sunrise-First Wake: 10–60 min of light before any sound
  • 3 alarms, 22 wake sounds, snooze 5–20 min
  • 26 sleep sounds + a night light in 17 colours
  • No app, no subscription
  • Natural or Gray
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