Citrus Alarm Clock for Windows

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Key Details of Citrus Alarm Clock

Set your alarm clock to a different time each day.
Last updated on August 1, 2012
There have been 6 updates
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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffAugust 1, 2012

Waking up to the jarring buzz that most alarm clocks are equipped with is an unpleasant experience. Citrus Alarm Clock wakes you up with songs that you choose from your computer's music library. You can set different alarms for each day of the week. The program runs unobtrusively from your computer's task tray and is easy to turn on or off.

Citrus Alarm Clock plays songs you choose from your music library as an alarm. When triggered, the song plays quietly at first, gradually increasing in volume. The design of Citrus Alarm Clock's interface is clean and attractive, and the program is easy to use and customize, with a Help file if you need it. We tested Citrus Alarm Clock on our laptop, which has small, tinny speakers. If you're running this program on a similar computer, be sure that the sound level is high enough so that you'll hear the alarm when it goes off. Though this program is designed to wake you up in the morning, it could serve other needs, too. If you're at work and have a meeting later in the day, you can set Citrus Alarm Clock to remind you when it's time to leave. You can program certain songs for particular reminders, too.

This is a 30-day trial version of the software. We really like this application. If you want to say goodbye to the irritating buzz of your clock radio and wake up to sounds that are more soothing, Citrus Alarm Clock fits the bill.

Citrus Alarm Clock for Windows

By ornj.net
Trial version
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GENERAL

Release: August 1, 2012

Latest update: August 1, 2012

Version: 2.4

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 2000
Windows 10
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7

Additional Requirements: Microsoft .NET Framework 2

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Total Downloads: 11,878

Downloads Last Week: 0

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4.2/5

9 User Votes

Minimalist software with all the important features
abbeyredApril 23, 2011
Pros
Set the alarm to music of your choice, including a 'shuffling' playlist - set multiple alarms - set volume and fade-in options as you wish - inexpensive - good customer support
Cons
Fade-in duration does not apply to snooze - yet!
Summary
I despise alarm clocks and have had a hate-hate relationship with them since I started using one. Loud and obnoxious, prone to not going off, easy to forget to set when one is particularly tired and simply falls into bed at the end of the day... Citrus fixes all these problems and more. Lately, I've had an alarm clock that allows me to wake up to a CD. A small improvement over radio - I could at least ensure that I would not wake to obnoxious talk radio, static, or worst, bad music (if it makes me a bad person because waking up to Beyonce's snivelling "If I Were A Boy" starts me off in a foul mood, I can live with that). It did not, however, go far enough - even my own music was unpleasant when suddenly blared into a still, silent, peaceful room - and I am not someone who can wake up to a quiet alarm if played long enough. So when that alarm broke, I went looking for better. I'd heard of fade-in alarms but was irritated by the lack of that option in all the store-bought clocks I looked at - not to mention the price they wanted when it was included. I also couldn't find anything that included both fade-in and the option to use your own music. One day it occurred to me that I was being very dense. If I was going to end up with something I didn't particularly want in the first place, I ought to be finding it for free - and where better than online? Yes! A free alarm clock, that's exactly what I should have done in the first place. And then I discovered that alarm clocks were not popular amongst the freeware crowd. I went through quite a few. They were frustratingly unreliable in their performance. One would work one day and fail the next three, another would have an alarm with the volume of an air raid siren that required six clicks to get it to SHUT UP already - I gave up, bought myself a cheap alarm clock, and resigned myself to a headache every morning. I discovered Citrus purely by chance. It was shareware, not freeware, but ... well, it was only $13, and that was about half what I had spent on an alarm clock I hated - why not try it? I admit I went in prejudiced. I am not a fan of shareware - features are often limited to the point where you cannot tell without actually paying whether it's worth the price or not - and that is hardly the point. But Citrus does not follow that trend, offering a fully working copy to try for 30 days. Well within that 30 days I was already eyeing 'purchase'. The fade-in feature not only exists, but you can set the time to fade in. The option to choose your own music not only exists, but you can set it to work off of a 'shuffling' playlist and have your own music wake you up with a different tune every day! On top of that comes the ability to set multiple alarms by multiple criteria - so I can tell it to wake me every Monday, Thursday and Friday at 9am, Tuesday and Wednesday at 8:30am, and to bugger off and let me sleep Saturday and Sunday. Bliss! What's better, it has only failed to wake me up once - and that was because I had forgotten to set my new laptop to *not* automatically install Windows updates and shut down/restart. That is clearly the fault of Microsoft's godawful decision-making process - the designers of Citrus have gone as far as they can on their side by giving you the option, on install, of letting the program wake the computer from sleep mode so that you can keep your power-saver settings and still have peace of mind re: waking up on time in the morning. Once I'd told Windows what was what, I had no more problems with alarms not going off. When the 30 day mark came, I willingly took out my credit card and paid the price - I also made a quick comment on the discussion board about what I liked about the program, why I'd bought it, and what I thought might be improvements. I was answered the same day about my suggestions, told that one feature I suggested was already planned for the next release which ought to be coming out 'soon', and actually pointed to where a feature was that I hadn't found yet. Browsing through the forums, I see plenty of other people having had the same experience, and lots of satisfied customers chiming in to give their thanks. So - good customer service, inexpensive software with no limitations on the trial version, a fully featured alarm clock that makes my mornings more peaceful and tranquil - hell yes, this was worth the $13. As for this being a 'scam' - I see no posts on the board about uninstallation problems (at least not more than one or two over several years!), no indication that one must pay for an 'uninstall' in order to get rid of it, and the only search results for "citrus alarm" + uninstall in Google's results are posts from Citrus's forums itself answering a request for help, and some extremely shady looking 'download our uninstall software now, we swear to god it's not full of spyware and other terrible things' websites. So... well, I'll remain a skeptic on that point for now.
This is a scam
bigbob1903February 28, 2011
Pros
Works okay if you keep it
Cons
Another scam to sell a uninstal program. The only way to get rid of the application is to hack the registry or guess what they will sell you a uninstaller.
Summary
Scam.
The best of the best
DuzAweOctober 17, 2010
Pros
Greatest of them all it works, simple clean, playes your music, Set up multiple alarms, small footprint
Cons
None that I can find
Summary
Out of all the alram clocks and timers I hae tried this is the only one that actually works
Problem with playing MP3 music.
jrcooperMay 30, 2010
Pros
Nice looking application, and easy to use.
Cons
I tried seting alarms using several different MP3 songs. Each time the alarm was triggered a message popped-up stating "media error" cannot play MP3. Too many NAG screens.
Summary
Fix the MP3 player issue, and the program would probably be worth recommending, and remove the NAG screens.
reliable alarm program
isisfnord2242September 6, 2008
Pros
It's always worked since I started using it, reliably waking my laptop from sleep mode every morning. I like that it fades my alarm in and I don't have to suddenly wake up to blaring sirens.
Cons
It works with mp4 files but doesn't automatically find them, you have to tell it to look for "all" files when selecting an alarm.
Summary
I was looking for a basic program that would wake my computer up from sleep mode and play mp3s as my alarm and I found it. It's been very reliable and is much more pleasant than a traditional alarm. Until Microsoft wakes up and adds something as simple as an alarm to Vista, this is a great choice.
Good program
Vpl100June 2, 2008
Pros
The program looks really good and also works very good.
Cons
I miss the option to select preinstalled alarm sounds and to change the colors of the alarm clock.
Summary
It's true, this is THE BEST
sephkaneMarch 24, 2008
Pros
They aren't lying when they say Citrus Alarm Clock is the BEST PC freeware alarm clock there is.
Cons
Summary
Honestly, this is THE BEST
Phoenix5600June 18, 2007
Pros
Honestly, this is THE BEST free desktop alarm clock out there... I've tried them all, I know, I have no life... but where would you be without me?
Cons
It's not very pretty, but it's still the best!
Summary
Just what I was looking for.
xstaceySeptember 6, 2006
Pros
I wanted a simple alarm that only goes off on certain specified days of the week, that will also automatically increase the volume of my chosen alarm song. This one allows you to fade the song in over "x" number of minutes and it works with my favorite mp3 playing software (iTunes)rather than using it's own redundant internal player. No big stupid clock, it just sits unobtrusively in your system tray. Plus, it's my favorite price, free. Way to go Mark, good job.
Cons
no snooze button
Summary

Developer’s Description

Set your alarm clock to a different time each day.

Citrus is a software alarm clock that gently wakes you using your own music collection. Citrus lets you set as many alarms as you like, so you can wake up at different times on different days. Your own music can be used as an alarm, and it will fade in gently so you will not be startled awake. If you need to snooze a little longer, hit the space bar or keep your wireless mouse by your bedside and hold down the middle button.