Overall, for those who want a realistic sunrise and sunset, the Philips SmartSleep is our top choice. You can control the settings with the simple, intuitive LED screen. This alarm excels at what it’s designed to do: simulate sunrise with a high quality light.Īs far as bedtime routines, it offers a realistic, soothing sunset function (basically, the sunrise in reverse) that can work as a reading light before your room fully darkens. The real focus here are the 20 gorgeous brightness settings to personalize the intensity of your sunrise. The features this device lacks aren’t necessarily helpful for sleep, nor even useful in general. The SmartSleep has five fairly-realistic nature sounds and a few small buttons around the top to set the alarm, get ready for bed, or listen to a built-in FM radio.

While you won’t get features like colorful lighting, breathing or meditation exercises, a plethora of soundscapes, or connection with other smart home gadgets from the SmartSleep, you will get basic necessities. The frosted matte plastic produces one of the most realistic wake-up light sunrises (and sunsets), growing from a deep red into a bright, warm white over 30 minutes. Most of the investment clearly goes into the light itself, which is what pushes this clock to the top of our list. The Philips SmartSleep Wake-up Light is one of the pricier sunrise alarm clocks we found.

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