Review: Hatch Restore sleep-wake aid
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2023
- In our busy world, catching those Z's is more important than ever! If you are struggling with falling asleep, or waking up, or even just feeling well rested throughout the day, you may need a little help. Enter Hatch Restore, an intelligent sleep assistant device that combines a sound machine, sunrise alarm, smart light, meditation aid, and alarm clock to help you fall asleep, stay asleep and wake up feeling great.
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In this hands-on review, I’ll explore Hatch Restore's features, how it works, what you might need to pay on top of the purchase price to get the most from it, who should consider it, I’ll hit its pros and cons, and wrap things up by telling you whether it’s a worthwhile investment.
Set up
Setting up hatch restore doesn’t take very long at all. Plug the device in and download the Hatch Sleep app. Using the app, you will connect Restore to Wi-Fi and this will automatically set the time for you based on your current location. No fiddling with multiple buttons to manually set the hours and minutes; what a relief!
Buttons and on-device controls
There are just a couple of buttons on the device for quick access to common needs, such as silencing, an alarm for turning on your sleep, sounds. The buttons are intuitive and easy to understand, and also include volume and brightness toggles on either side.
What you get with free version
While Hatch doesn’t make it easy, you can opt out of the paid subscription service, and simply use the small amount of free sound effects that are available. I used the free version for about 10 days and found that the small library of sounds did have enough options for me to make it worthwhile, but you don’t get things like sleep stories and meditations.
Hatch Sleep app is clunky
Here I will also point out the Hatch Sleep app isn’t intuitive to navigate. If you don’t set your routines during the set up process when prompted, it takes some looking to figure it out. Similarly, it’s not clear where all the extra sleep sounds, stories and meditations live inside the app (Library, if you’re looking) since if you want to fall asleep to a meditation, you can’t choose that option if you go to create a Sleep Routine… you can only access it from the Library tab, and then you have to choose ‘Add to Unwind’.
With that said, once you find your way around the app, there are many sleep options for paid subscribers.
Light features
Though it doesn’t seem like it at a glance, the built-in light of the hatch restore is extremely customizable. It can dim down to an incredibly low brightness, or get extremely bright. It also posts about two dozen different colours that it can display instead, which is actually one of my favourite features. I prefer warm light in the bedroom, so being able to set a nightlight in pink, orange, or yellow, gives me a little bit of a light when needed without the blazing wake-up.
The light colours can only be set or adjusted using the Hatch Sleep app.
Sounds
Hatch Restore has over 30 different white noise sounds in its library, including natural sounds like birds or crickets as well as a variety of water sounds, plus more human things like a fan or a dishwasher running if you prefer that.
My honest experience with Hatch Restore
I used Hatch Restore for approximately three weeks in my home. I will admit that having tried numerous specialty sleep wake devices I do know already that I enjoy this technology.
I can say getting Hatch Restore set up what is easy and I like the variety of both sleep and wake options. I chose to try out several different sleep routines and a couple of different wake ups. For my sleep routines, I chose white noise and warm light; you can have it run until you choose to shut it off (great if you’re reading) or let the timer stop it if you’re going to drift off with it running. - Věda a technologie
Wow, seriously? A monthly subscription for a freaking alarm clock! I get that it’s optional but every company desperately trying to get you to sign up for a monthly fee is comical. Hard pass.
Yeaaaah. Exactly, right?
Thanks Erin. Cool device.
It really is!
So, you prefer the Philips SmartSleep over this one? Other reviews say the Philips one is sometimes glitchy and has trouble connecting to Wi-Fi. Do you find that to be the case? Thanks for the amazing review as always!!
I didn’t have many problems with the Phillips version. I find it is much more straightforward and easy to operate. In fact, I continue to use the Phillips version to this day. The hatch has already been sent back.
Thank u for honest review. May b I’m the only person who doesn’t like this alarm design. The Phillips sunrise alarm I found even uglier tho. Have u tried Casper Glow Light?
Thanks for watching! I haven't tried the Casper option, no... but I'll see if I can get one. Thanks for the idea.
i feel like this product just combines a bunch of different things: alarm clock, sound machine, night light and dare i say a speaker. For the price, I think you're better off just getting everything separate.
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