How it works
Four things happen. That is all.
Whistlestop is an alarm app. It is not a habit tracker, a productivity system or a journal, and it does not ask you to check in. The whole product is the four steps below, repeated as many times a day as you need them.
- 1
Set a time. That is the whole requirement.
Only the time is mandatory, and that is a rule rather than an accident. Someone with executive dysfunction setting their first alarm should not have to make four decisions before they are finished. Everything else already has a sensible default, including a sound library picked from what you called the alarm.
- 2
A preminder sounds five minutes early.
Two short toots of a train whistle, once. It does not brief you and it needs no answer. Its job is to give you a minute to find a stopping point in whatever you are doing. One button on it means do it now, which cancels the alarm entirely. Change the lead time or switch it off for any alarm.
- 3
The alarm rings with a sound you have not just heard.
Each alarm shuffles its own set and plays through the whole thing before anything comes around again, and a shared memory of the last several sounds across all your alarms stops two of them colliding on the same day.
- 4
One tap ends it.
No puzzle, no photo, no math. If you need longer, the snooze says what time you are moving it to rather than just a number of minutes, and the next ring uses a different sound again.
What you will notice
You will not hear the same thing twice.
Not “probably not”, and not “unlikely”. You will get through everything an alarm has before any of it comes back round, so hearing the same thing two mornings running is not improbable. It cannot happen.
Never the same one twice in a row
Not even when an alarm has worked its way through everything and is starting again. Whatever you heard last will not be the thing you hear next.
Your alarms stop colliding
Your medication alarm and your leave the house alarm will not turn up with the same sound an hour apart. The app keeps track across everything you have set, not just within one alarm.
It always has something to play
Even if you block most of a library, or pick a narrow one, the alarm still rings. It reaches for whatever you have heard least recently rather than going quiet. An alarm that fails to make a noise is the one thing this app will never do to you.
Unless you asked for one sound
Pin a sound to an alarm and none of the above applies to it. You asked for that one every time, so that is what you get, every time, and it does not interfere with the variety in any of your other alarms.
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