14 DAY TRIAL // With two alarm clock bugs already reported in less than half a year’s time, iPhone owners may be reluctant to trust their shiny Apple handsets to wake them up for an important meeting, catching a flight, or simply getting to work on time.
In what is appropriate to call out a familiar slogan - “there’s an app for that” - those who’ve been plagued by the iOS-specific alarm clock bugs may want to have a look at AppBox by AllAboutApps.
In all senses, this app is the swiss army knife of iPhone utilities.
The software includes a wallet, a flashlight mode, currency and unit converters, a date calculator, a built-in battery life app, web games, you name it.
Best of all, it includes a reliable alarm clock application.
Unlike Apple’s solution, the alarm clock designed by AllAboutApps has music play, 9 pleasant themes, vertical and horizontal modes, as well as 12 or 24 hour format, the ability to show/hide seconds, and customizable repeat and snooze options.
Additionally, it has 11 built-in alarm sounds, sound volume control, and even vibration control.
Users can rest assured that the alarm works even when the iPhone’s screen is locked, or when the device is in silent mode, while iOS4 enables sound notification alarms even when the app is not running, according to AllAboutApps.
AppBox Pro costs just one buck. It has been proclaimed the #1 paid app in no less than 76 countries, including the USA, Germany, UK, and Canada.
Developer AllAboutApps tries to entice iTunes App Store customers by saying, “Check out this multi-feature program before wasting money on other utility applications. We have over 7 million users to date because customers simply find this package of useful tools incredibly valuable.”
Version 1.7.1 contains holiday information for 2011, various bug fixes, and reduces the application size to less than 20 MB.
