Endeavoring to make waking up a more pleasant experience, the Rise Alarm Clock by Simple Bots could just be the simplest user experience and most intelligent alarm app available on the iPhone. Utilising stylish full screen color swashes that represent the time of day and a slick gestural interface for the alarm’s main controls, the app has been built for the ease of use during your hazy waking hour, abandoning dial wheels and snooze buttons in favour of intuitive finger sliding actions.

And what about that dreaded alarm tone you wake up to every morning? Rise provides it’s own array of sounds from Gentle Chimes to carefully bring you out of your slumber and, if required, a Constant Nudge tone that presumably annoys you out of bed. Rise is packed full of thoughtful design elements, such as a gradient background that changes colour as you adjust the clock and the app even allows you to compile your own bedtime or morning playlists.

Reminiscent of the Solar Weather App we featured last year, Rise exhibits a growing interest in the pairing of minimalist design with intuitive gestural function for the more pragmatic tools and apps we use in our everyday lives.