Lumie Bodyclock Luxe 700FM

The Luxe 700FM shares the Shine 300’s best trait: sunrise and sunset you can set anywhere from 15 to 90 minutes. What the extra money buys is mostly light quality and audio.

On light, Lumie lists four LED types: low-blue white, blue-enriched white, orange and red. That split is useful in principle. Expert guidance favors light with more short-wavelength content by day and less in the evening, and this is the only clock here that names both kinds of white. Lumie does not publish a lux rating, quoting about 350 lumens for its Bodyclock range instead. WIRED’s reviewer, who named it her favorite sunrise alarm, said it was bright enough to fill her bedroom like a normal lamp and has a one-button lamp mode.

On audio, you get 27 sleep and wake sounds, FM radio with five saved stations and Bluetooth speakers for your own music. There is no app, no Wi-Fi and no subscription, and it carries the same 3-year warranty and 45-day trial as the Shine 300.

The downsides are practical. WIRED notes it only shows a 24-hour clock and has to be set by hand, including twice a year for daylight saving. Tom’s Guide found it bulky, with controls that are not intuitive. At $259 it costs $90 more than the Shine 300, which has the same sunrise range.

Buy it if you want one device to be your reading lamp, speaker and sunrise. If you only care about the dawn, the Shine 300 or the Philips HF3650 gets you there for less.