Google’s Clock app seems to do most of the things: sliders on main screen, circular time picker (though I’m not exactly a fan), and a toast notification with the time until the alarm fires. The only thing missing are the every day/never options.
One of the best features is that when you save the alarm you get a little toast (not a fully notification) "Alarm set for 9 hours and 22 minutes from now." It seems pretty silly, and can be a bit depressing when the number is less than 8h, but is the most obvious indicator when you set the time wrong.
As someone who's really bad at time, I cannot tell you how often that toast has saved me from missing an important appointment. Easily the best feature any alarm clock can have if you ask me.
The Android clock app is pretty solid and looks something like that.
As a switcher to iPhone earlier this year, so many UI quirks drive me utterly bonkers. Can't stand these slow rotating dials, and for alarms specifically, I miss the confirmation that Android shows you "going off in 12 hours" or whatever, to make sure you didn't get the AM/PM or day of the week wrong.
But mostly, these numeric spinners are just terrible. In the Hilton app I have to put my kids ages all the time and it drives me crazy spinning the stupid little things to set their ages. Sigh.
I don't know how iOS got this reputation as magical and delightful and intuitive. I'm ready to go back to my Pixel, I think.
> I don't know how iOS got this reputation as magical and delightful and intuitive. I'm ready to go back to my Pixel, I think.
Most of that reputation comes from the days when iOS was simpler, more opinionated, and wasn’t shy about how it wasn’t trying to make everybody happy. As more and more functionality has been tacked on in attempt to appeal to a broader audience, it’s been chipped away at. There’s still some ways it’s nicer than Android in my personal opinion, but often it’s just as bad with a different set of papercuts.
There’s probably a hole in the market for a mobile OS that intentionally does less in a very polished way. A lot of people don’t need their phones to do even half the things they’ve become capable of.
I found switching to iPhone weird given there's different UX for setting alarm through health app, which is different from the alarm in the clock app, which is functionally different but nearly visually identical to the timer in the clock app.
While that's true, the numbers are still clearly readable and their position alongside a circle still makes a lot of sense. The alarm itself is also listed in digital time.
really? I admit I don't deal with many youngsters, but I never met anyone who can't read clocks with hands, I think they may teach it in primary school here. This is deeply surprising to me.
My kids are teens. We have an analog clock on the wall in the dining room.
It's shocking to me how many of their friends over for dinner (who are all on the "definitely not dumb" part of the distribution) either cannot read it at all or can read it only with obvious/significant difficulty.
Oof … we are going to end up with nut jobs making videos about the alien technology of the circular disks, some with pointers, some with lines going around in circles pointing at an odd sequence of numbers for reasons we may never understand until the aliens come back to explain it to us.
Teach yourself and children how to read clocks, people!!!
Discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19597253