pyAlarm

pyAlarm is a simple-to-use application that gives you the possibility to schedule multiple alarms with different settings, as well as to open files and play music. It comes packed with several practical options that can be easily tackled.

The installation procedure is a speedy job that shouldn't give you any trouble, since there are no special options, prerequisite software products, or third-party offers involved.

As far as the interface is concerned, pyAlarm has a normal-looking window with a neatly structured layout. It's split into three separate tabs for creating the alarm list, playlist and mixer.

New alarms can be put together by specifying the name of the alarm, days of the week to trigger it on, along with the time. It's possible to put together as many alarms as you want, as well as to edit their properties or remove their entries from the list. There are no options implemented for alarm deactivation.

Moreover, you can indicate files to open or songs to play when the time's up, use an audio mixer, as well as check out the current time and remaining time until the next alarm in the status bar.

When it comes to general preferences, you can pick the preferred mixer, media player and global media file manager, set a snooze time, as well as allow the app to create a log file with details about its activity. The loaded dependencies for the media playlist and others are displayed too.

It didn't put a strain on the computer's performance in our tests, thanks to the fact that it needed a low amount of CPU and RAM to work properly. It remained stable throughout its runtime, without causing the operating system to hang, crash or prompt errors.

On the other hand, the options are not very intuitive for less experienced users. The interface needs some improvements in the graphical department too. We are also keeping in mind that pyAlarm hasn't received updates for a long time.