Hatch Restore 3 Sunrise Alarm Clock & Sound Machine, Smart Light (Cocoa)

I purchased this during prime day because I wanted to get better about my sleep hygiene. I struggle to stay asleep and thought this might be helpful. First, I love the putty color. It looks nice and doesn’t look like a traditional alarm clock. Second, I am really liking the reminder to turn off devices and get ready for bed. I need that que to put down the electronics and stop. Third, audio books being read are so entertaining yet soothing. I am loving listening to the classics that I would never normally read. I like that you can adjust the volume to what works best for you. Some of the audio books are louder than others. Finally, the Navy White Noise puts me to sleep. It is soothing and peaceful. I still wake up around 3 or 4am, but I am better able to fall back to sleep. For wake up, I am still getting used to the bright light and bird sounds. It is not jarring like an alarm, which I love. What I am struggling with is actually getting out of bed when I wake. I start scrolling and then an hour goes by. I need to be more disciplined. Overall I like the change this is making in my sleep routine.

I've tried a lot of alarm clocks and sleep gadgets over the years, and the Hatch is the first one that's genuinely changed my mornings. Waking up to the gradual sunrise instead of a blaring alarm has made a huge difference—I feel much less groggy and way less tempted to hit snooze. The sound quality is surprisingly good, with plenty of options from white noise to rain and nature sounds. I also love how easy it is to customize routines in the app, so I can wind down at night with calming sounds and dim lighting, then wake up naturally with increasing light and gentle audio. The design is sleek and minimal, so it looks great on a nightstand without feeling like another piece of tech. Setup was quick, and it's been reliable every single day. I honestly didn't expect an alarm clock to have this much of an impact on my sleep and morning routine, but it absolutely has. It's one of those products that you don't realize you needed until you start using it. Worth every penny, and I'd recommend it to anyone looking to improve their sleep quality or make mornings a little easier.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Addition to My Nighttime Routine I’ve been using the Hatch Restore 3 for a few weeks now, and I’m really impressed. The sunrise alarm makes waking up feel much more natural, and the white noise helps me fall asleep faster without reaching for my phone. I also love how simple and elegant it looks on my nightstand—it blends in perfectly with my bedroom. The setup was quick, and the app is easy to use. It’s definitely more expensive than a regular alarm clock, but the quality and features make it worth the investment. If you’re trying to improve your sleep habits or just want a more relaxing bedtime routine, I highly recommend it!

If you've ever laid in bed staring at the ceiling while a smart speaker cut out mid-rainstorm, or fought a $25 Amazon sound machine with mediocre sound quality that you had to manually start and stop every single night, this review is for you. My wife and I both have AuDHD, and sound at night isn't a preference, it's the difference between a night of sleep and a night of our brains refusing to shut up. Over the years we've run the gauntlet: Alexa with scheduled rain routines, a Google Home doing the same thing, and eventually a cheap $20–$30 sound machine off Amazon when we got tired of the smart speakers dropping audio every time the internet hiccuped. Each one had a fatal flaw. The smart speakers couldn't be trusted to actually play through the night. The cheap sound machine was reliable but had to be manually started and stopped every single night, and the sound quality was, being generous, about on par with a Google Home speaker. Then I bought a Hatch Restore 3 in late 2024, and the story changed. I used mine solo for about a year while my wife stuck with the cheap Amazon unit. This was her choice. She didn't think that the Hatch would provide much difference in sleep quality. Then one night she slept on my side of the bed. The next morning, she all but demanded I get her one of her own. The sound quality had put her into a depth of sleep she hadn't hit in years. We now have two Restore 3s on the nightstands, both in Cocoa. What actually makes it work: Sound: We both use Green Noise as our sleep sound, and it does something specific for an AuDHD brain that rain and white noise never quite did. It shuts down the overthinking center and lulls you down. The speaker is genuinely high quality, not a rebadged cheap driver, and because the core sounds are stored on the device itself, a flaky internet connection doesn't cut playback the way it did with our Google Homes. It just plays. The rise routine: This is where the Hatch earns its price tag. My current setup is a ten-minute sunrise on the Portland Lighthouse light preset, with Fisherman's Wharf (seagulls, water) as the wake audio. It ramps gently instead of detonating like an iPhone alarm. I rotate the light and sound combinations based on mood, which keeps it from going stale. Hold-to-dismiss + the light: This is the feature that changed my wife's mornings. Her pattern used to be: hear phone alarm, roll over, slap dismiss, fall back asleep with zero memory of having done it. With the Hatch, she gets two sensory streams at once, ten minutes of building light plus gentle sound, and by the time she reaches to dismiss, she actually has to hold the button. That extra second of required physical engagement means she's cognitively awake when she turns it off, not reflexively swatting at it. Look and feel: The Cocoa finish is genuinely nice, soft-touch plastic, understated, doesn't scream "gadget" on the nightstand. A few honest gripes: The alarm and schedule setup lives entirely in the app. The device has physical buttons for volume, brightness, pause/advance, and a quick alarm disable, but building or editing a routine requires your phone. If you're shopping for a simple, self-contained clock, this is the wrong product. For anyone already comfortable with app-managed devices, it's a non-issue, but it's worth calling out. My bigger wish is device linking. With two units in the same room, each alarm is managed independently. When one of us dismisses ours, the other keeps going. It's manageable, but I'd pay for a "paired bedroom" mode tomorrow. (Possible I'm missing it in settings, but I've looked.) We also had the six-month Hatch+ trial and used it for a while. The sleep stories and guided meditations are well produced, and I'd recommend them to anyone without an established wind-down routine. For us, we already have our own ritual, a separate galaxy light goes on as part of the lead-in, and we do our own meditations, so Hatch+ didn't stick. The good news is you don't need it. The built-in sounds, Green Noise, Portland Lighthouse, Fisherman's Wharf, the basics, are exactly what we use and they're included. That's the review. When a device quietly replaces three previous solutions, when your partner sleeps on it once and demands one of her own, when it becomes the thing you trust to actually run the routine every night without babysitting, you stop thinking about it. That's the highest compliment I can give a product at this price point. Photos/Video description: 1. Size comparing two Restore 3's on a night stand next to a 3 device MagSafe charger, bedside fan, lamp. You can have a clock on the Restore 3 as well as seen in the image. 2-4. The Alarm settings I described in my review 5. Timelapse video of Portland Lighthouse. This video took place over 5 minutes.

I woke at 3:17 a.m. absolutely convinced I’d been teleported into a rainforest. My sheets clung to me like they’d developed attachment issues. As I sat there contemplating whether humans could, in fact, spontaneously become soup, a soft amber glow emerged from my Hatch Restore 3. It didn’t interrogate me. It didn’t blast me with an alarm that sounded like a forklift backing into a dumpster. It simply existed, radiating the calm confidence of something that had seen this exact sweaty nonsense before. It’s gentle sounds slowly pulled my brain away from the feeling of being in an aquarium. I changed into a dry shirt, drank some water, and crawled back into bed. Within minutes I was asleep again. Since getting the Hatch Restore 3, waking up has become strangely civilized. The sunrise alarm feels more like nature filing the proper paperwork instead of my phone launching a surprise attack on my nervous system. The sound quality is fantastic, the routines are easy to customize, and somehow the whole thing makes my bedroom feel less like a charging station and more like a place meant for rest and recoup. I also love its little unique shaped rubber feet! Would it prevent me from waking up looking like I’d just completed a marathon inside a sauna? Apparently not. But it handled the aftermath with such quiet dignity that I almost felt bad for dragging it into my midnight swamp adventure. Five stars. The Hatch Restore 3 may not control the weather inside my pajamas, but it made recovering from it unexpectedly peaceful.

I love my Hatch alarm clock!! It has totally changed the way that I wake up in the morning. I used to really struggle to wake up to multiple alarms on my phone, but this really does the trick. I am also excited to see if this will help me use my phone less before bed. It came in such nice packaging and is such a cute addition to my room. It was very easy to set up, and I am so excited to try out all of the different features that it comes with. I love how customizable it is, the sound is very loud, and the light is very bright as well.

I debated how to rate this. So, for aesthetics and functionality as a sunrise alarm clock 15/10!!!!! It's really a beautiful, soothing, modern looking device that fits perfectly in my space. Occasionally I use a sunset wind down routine while I'm reading. I don't use sounds at night and prefer quiet. So I've never used any of the sleepy time podcasts and all that. Now for the app- it's just overpriced and overdone, not well designed and keeps a lot of really basic functions behind a paywall. I'm not about to pay 12 dollars a month to have a different species of bird than the one that currently does wake me up at 6 am. It would be nice to have the option though. If you are the kind of person that appreciates curated white noise machines at night, wind down podcasts and so on this could be a great device. For the price I paid for this alarm clock though I think at least basic alarm options should be available without a monthly subscription. Also making the device simply cross compatible with other apps to access my own music and podcasts would be nice. The reading light is SO bright which is nice. But it's too bright so I never use it. I wish there were an option to customize that. All that being said the basic functionality and beauty the clock and the ease and personalization I can access for my alarm itself is all really high quality.

I can only describe my hatch experience so far as ethereal. The first wake up with the hatch was amazing, it was like it was slowly lifting me out of my sleep without scarily jolting me awake and leaving me in a bad mood. The sunrise feature is amazing. There’s an alarm sound for everyone, my personal favorite is a mellow beachy song, but if you want you can wake up to a love island inspired sound. The app was super easy to figure out as well. As someone who often wakes up before the sun and has a pretty strict schedule the hatch is amazing. I will say, it works better if you consistently wake up at a certain time as you can set schedules for different days of the week. Not only is the hatch amazing to wake up with, it also helps me fall asleep. The unwind cue is extremely helpful in keeping me on schedule and I love the stories and meditative music that you can listen to before bed. You can also do a lot with the lights, I often use the bedside light feature, and I love the immersive, colorful lights that come with some of the music choices. I could literally wake up to a pink sunrise in my room if I wanted to. Anyways, I didn’t think it was going to be worth it, but it truly is amazing.

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.

Amazing product

Love this clock. It has made my morning wake up so much smoother, no jarring alarm. The ability to customize the length of the sunrise allows me to just look and see if it’s begun to know if I should go back to sleep. It facilitates habits of waking up at the same time. I have no complaints