Alarm Tunes Lite

An alarm clock which allows you to wake up to music. [get it]
My rating 3.5/5, iTunes Store rating 2.5/5

As the name suggests, this is a restricted version of a fuller product, but as a restricted version it is still the best app of its kind that I have found for free in the iTunes store.

With Alarm Tunes Lite you can select any song from your iPod to use as an alarm at a time of your choosing. When the tune plays you can acknowledge the alarm by turning it off or by tapping a snooze button to get a little more sleep, or you can just lie there and listen to your selected track looping continuously.

To work, the app must be left open, you may choose to have it stay on as a bedside clock, or you can let the iPhone go into standby mode, it will work either way, but the app must be open when you fall asleep. To be sure the the battery does not run out it is wise to leave your iPhone or iPod Touch on charge when using this app.

You can only set up one alarm time within this app and it doesn't integrate directly with the default iPhones alarm, but the alarm that comes with the iPhone will continue to work over the top of Alarm Tunes Lite, so you can still have multiple alarms but only one of them will be a piece of music from your iPod.

As a bedside clock the app is quite good looking, it has a day mode and a night mode in which the display has a relevant brightness. The controls for setting the alarm are not the most intuitive, but it doesn't take long to work out.

I have kept Alarm Tunes Lite on my iPhone and use it quite often.