Hatch Restore 3 Sunrise Alarm Clock and Alarm Clock with Sound Machine & Smart Light – White Noise, Screen-Free Sleep Routine

Amazing product

Minus five star review. This product arrived with a US plug and requires a wifi password and availability of a smartphone app for functionality. Why???

Though it's clear there can be a subscription element to owning one of these, the moment you open the app to create an account, it screams "pay me"! Indeed, the whole thing just feels like a cash cow. Non-subscription features are limited, and this is made more obvious as, while this contains a speaker and connects at first to your phone via Bluetooth, you can't use it as a Bluetooth speaker. Well, they don't want you playing one of those nasty meditations you got free off the Internet (or paid for on Spotify etc), when you should be paying them for theirs. And for £275 it doesn't even have automatic clock dimming. Even the most basic £15 digital clock offers that!! Maybe they should charge extra for it? It's VERY expensive and is only going to get more so, if you want all the fancy bits.

Beware! You have to use an adapter to plug in and power up in the UK. Really annoying! Given the cost of the item I’m amazed it didn’t come with the right plug or an adaptor. Sloppy.

Not able to use in the UK as it doesn't have a local power cable

I own two Hatch Restore 3s, which I bought on a Black Friday sale for £150 each. One for me, and one for my sister. I’m not saying that to flex, but to make it very clear that I have donated £300 to a company that has since revealed itself to be one of the most cynical subscription traps I have ever encountered. I am writing this review as my penance for not doing my research before buying it, and I would like this to be your warning before you fall for the marketing too. Don’t be sucked in by the TikTok influencers unboxing these with their perfectly arranged nightstands. Don’t be fooled by the sleek and minimalist design that looks gorgeous on a bedside table, and the well-designed physical controls that make the thing feel premium. It is all a carefully constructed facade for the Hatch+ subscription plan. Underneath the aesthetic and stylish body is a product that has been deliberately and systematically hollowed out to make it nearly unusable without the £5 monthly subscription. £5 may not seem like much, but when you’ve spent £150+ on a product, you expect some value for money. I am going to give you the real flavour of what you’ll be subjected to when you buy from this greedy company. Without Hatch+, you cannot play the vast majority of the wind-down routines available in the evening. You cannot play any sleep sounds at all. You cannot play your own music or podcasts on the speaker to fall asleep to. The handful of free routines that do exist are locked at whatever volume, brightness and colour Hatch has decided for you. So your expensive, beautiful, minimalist sleep device will blast you with a weird orange or green glow at full brightness when you are trying to rest, because Hatch would like £5 a month before you’re allowed to customise it. You can technically change the brightness and colour manually through the app, except you’ll have to go through this process every night as there is no way to save it to the schedule. Moreover, the entire point of a dedicated sleep device is to remove your phone from the bedroom. To do the one thing the app lets you do for free, you need your phone. In your bedroom. Beside you. The phone is the very thing this alarm clock is supposed to eliminate. This is my main kicker which nearly made me laugh out loud when I found out: you cannot re-enable a disabled alarm. The moment you turn one off in the app, it vanishes behind the paywall. To set a new alarm time, you have to create a brand new alarm from scratch, every single time. This is a product that is, at its most basic, an alarm clock. You cannot re-enable your own alarms on your own alarm clock. This is not an oversight or a bug; this is a choice that someone at Hatch made in a meeting, and everyone just nodded along. What you actually get for £150 is a sunrise alarm clock with a nice enclosure. You can find those on Amazon for £25 to £30. The rest of the hardware exists purely to justify the subscription that Hatch forces you to buy. Customer support, to their credit, did respond promptly when I complained initially. They gave me three months of Hatch+ for free. While this was a nice gesture, it solved absolutely none of my underlying complaints. After those three months, I was back to the choice of paying up, or going back to a £150 ornament. To top it all off, the app is unbelievably slow and clunky. Whenever you press anything, it can take anywhere up to 5 minutes to load, or it comes up with an error and you have to try again. For a product with this price tag and this level of subscription dependency, the interface behaves like it’s a drunk sloth. And then to really rub salt into the wound: some of the audio content locked behind Hatch+ is available entirely free on Spotify. My example of this is the podcast ‘Notes from England’, which I can listen to at no cost whatsoever. To make this podcast situation even more farcical, the content on the Restore 3 does not seem to automatically move on to the next episode. Every single night, it plays the same track on repeat. So not only are you paying £5 a month for content freely available on Spotify, you are paying to hear the same episode of it over and over again. The core promise of this product is a phone-free bedroom. Hatch has made that functionally impossible, charged you £150 for the privilege, and is now asking £5 a month for content you already have access to on your phone, which you still need to keep in the room anyway. Please take my advice: buy a cheaper sunrise alarm clock. Keep the £120 difference. Then you can sleep well, free of charge.

I have never been a morning person and I did not think an alarm clock could make me one. It has been almost a year since I began using the Hatch Restore 3. This has completely transformed both my bedtime routine and the way I wake up in the morning. My favorite feature is its color changing abilities. I use a red light to turn on for 30-minutes as I wind down for bed at night, and wake up to a cool blue that subtly lights up my room in the morning. Instead of being abruptly awoken by loud noise, the sunrise alarm takes away at least some of the stress that comes with mornings. Also, having that unwind red light time before going to sleep has made me more aware of the time I spend on my phone doomscrolling. With that timer, I prevent scrolling on my phone for far too long and go to bed sooner rather than later getting distracted. The sound quality is also surprisingly good as it comes with many different choices for white noise and sounds to wake up to. The design and set up instructions are very intuitive accompanied by the Hatch App. I never ran into any issues or confusion while setting it up or connecting via Bluetooth regularly. The controls itself on the hatch are very intuitive and user friendly. I keep mine plugged in and don't have to worry about changing batteries or anything. Overall, it is an investment, but I think one that is absolutely worth it if you're looking to incorporate a tool to help your days go by easier and add a bit of calmness in your busy life. I highly recommend this as an investment for your personal health and well-being.

Couldn’t box it back up fast enough. Way too complicated. Apart from having to subscribe…

We’ve been using the Hatch Restore 3 for a few months now, and I can confidently say it’s made a huge difference in how I wake up each morning. There’s a bit of a learning curve at first, just because there are so many lighting and sound options to explore! It’s really customizable and easy to tailor to your own routines and preferences. Where it’s really been a lifesaver is during the winter months here in Canada. Waking up in the pitch black is brutal, but the gentle sunrise feature has made those mornings so much more bearable. It feels way more natural and less jarring than a regular alarm. Bonus: even our dog loves it! As soon as the wind-down music and soft “northern lights” colours come on at night, he trots over and settles in. Highly recommend this clock for anyone looking to improve their sleep routine—especially if you live in a place with long, dark winters.

Very disappointing. The hardware is good but the app is unusable. There is a lot of potential in this product but they will only realise it when they throw out the current app and rebuild it with ease of use and flexibility in mind. Honestly this industry is begging for a competitor to come in and show us how this can be done well. Unfortunately Hatch is not that (yet? 🤞). I'd love to return my Hatch 3 and wait for that competitor, maybe they never come but this $200 disappointment is not bringing me any joy.

Echt een hele fijne wekker, super geavanceerd omtrent licht en geluidopties. Heel mooi design en fijne app. Hele overzichtelijke knoppenfuncties.