Awaken 1.4 for iPhone and iPod touch is now available in the App Store!

Awaken 1.4 adds French localization of the entire application, 3 new LCD clock colors (green, orange and purple), and the days of the week now shown with the correct first day of the week for your region (Sunday or Monday). All LCD clock styles were updated to be more vibrant as well and some minor bugs were corrected.

Next week we’ll be releasing Awaken 1.5 with Spanish localization with more languages to follow.

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Awaken 1.3 for iPhone and iPod touch is now available in the App Store!

At a high level, here are the changes in this new version:

• New application icon.
• New amber clock style.
• New red light added to flashlight selections.
• Snooze timer countdown displayed.
• Toggle snooze on/off with double tap.
• Toggle between artwork or clock during playback.
• Swipe left/right to go to previous/next song.
• 75 song limit removed for alarms and sleep timer.
• Flip clock is now animated.
• Crash bug corrected on music selection.
• Visual tweaks to all clock styles.

Most of these new additions were done at the request of your feedback – so keep it coming (support@embraceware.com)!

If you’re wondering about Awaken and the newly announced iPad – we’ll be on the platform with a revised UI to take full advantage of the larger screen. You will also not have to purchase a separate version of Awaken for the iPad. More information will be available closer to launch of the iPad since everything is NDA at the moment.

We’re also extending the 99¢ sale of Awaken – so get it now if you haven’t already at this extremely low price.

Update: Beta testing of Awaken 1.3 has concluded and the final version has been sent to Apple for review. Thanks to all of the beta testers!

It’s that time again – a new update for Awaken for iPhone is on the way. Version 1.3 contains over a dozen new enhancements. We would like to conclude testing ASAP so that we can release it for everyone. Anyone who beta tested the last version already has 1.3 – but we’d like to add even more testers.

If you’re interested and are able to test Awaken 1.3 right away please let us know.

As before, here are the steps:

To get started, all you need to do is send your device ID to support@embraceware.com with “Awaken Beta” in the subject line.

You can get your iPhone or iPod touch device ID by doing the following:

1. Connect your iPhone or iPod touch to your Mac or PC.
2. On the “Summary” tab in iTunes, click the “Serial Number” label.
   You’ll notice “Serial Number” changes to “Identifier”. (sans Zelda chime)
3. Click on “Edit” in the menu at the top and select “Copy”.
4. Now you can paste the device ID into an email.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Awaken 1.1 brings over a dozen fixes and enhancements.

After the release of Awaken 1.0 we watched our feedback and support lines for comments, questions and concerns and prepared the next release to package everything important that was brought to our attention. Some of the bug fixes were critical to the operation of the application.

Apple’s App Review team took our request to have the App Review process expedited and got it approved and in the store within 4 days (including the weekend) – much less than the usual 2 week wait.

Complete list of changes:

- Shuffle music setting added.
- Screen dimming slider added.
- Fullscreen snooze button.
- Alarm volume overrides silent switch.
- New clock style added.
- Leading zero removed.
- Sound alarms now louder.
- Fixed Podcast support.
- Fixed snooze button issue.
- Fixed stop alarm button issue.
- Fixed 24 hour clock mode.
- Fixed alarm creation issues.
- Fixed volume and brightness fading.