Our pick · Best without an app
LittleHippo MELLA: Everything is set on its own buttons, and your child sees a sleepy face at bedtime, an optional yellow “almost time” light and green at wake-up.
The catch: In a power cut it keeps its settings, but the light and sounds stop.
8 clocks match your choices
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Wake-up light at a set time · Silent wake-up light · Set on the clock, no app · Sold in the US
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LittleHippo MELLA
Version 2 · US
An all-in-one clock with no app: a sleepy face at bedtime, an optional yellow “almost time” light, green at wake-up, plus a nap timer and sleep sounds.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Stops, but keeps its settings
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer, one wake-up time every day
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A clock set on its buttons: the screen glows blue with a moon from the sleep time and turns orange with a sun at the wake-up time, with an optional alarm, a key lock and a built-in rechargeable battery.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
A bedtime and wake-up schedule set on the clock that keeps running on its rechargeable battery, with a parent lock and a Bluetooth speaker.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
Dreamegg Nite 1
Classic, model DGS-D40-WH · US
An app-run sound machine and night light with 34 sounds, lights and music at bedtime and wake-up, alarms and a child lock.
- Set it
- In the Dreamegg app
- In a power cut
- Stops until the power is back
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer and weekend times: Dreamegg does not say
A digital clock and a real analog clock under one soft silicone cover, George the elephant or Luna the moon: it glows orange before bedtime, goes dark at bedtime, turns orange again 30 minutes before the wake-up time and green when your child may get up, with an alarm sound only if you switch it on.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Stops, but keeps its settings
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
Hatch Baby
2026 model · US, CA
Hatch's newest plug-in sound machine and night light, with Time-for-Bed and Time-to-Rise light schedules in the Hatch Sleep app that keep working after the three included months of Hatch+.
- Set it
- In the Hatch Sleep app
- In a power cut
- Stops until the power is back
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer and weekend times: not in the manual
For families happy to run bedtime from an app: routines with your own colors and sounds, several steps a night, and a time-to-rise light.
- Set it
- In the Hatch Sleep app
- In a power cut
- Stops until the power is back
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, separate weekend times
Hatch's app routines with a battery that keeps the light and sound going in a power cut or in another room.
- Set it
- In the Hatch Sleep app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, separate weekend times
The plainest stay-in-bed signal: a red light you switch on at bedtime, a green light at the wake-up time for an hour, a digital clock and a yellow night light.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- The manual does not say
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
LittleHippo NESSI
Model KHNS-01 · US
A no-app clock that grows into a real alarm clock: an optional red bedtime light, a green wake-up light with a sun, two alarms with snooze and a nap timer.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Stops, but keeps its settings
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer, one wake-up time every day
A soft silicone bear that makes no sound at all: it glows a warm yellow from 30 minutes before the wake-up time and turns green when your child may get up. It runs on its built-in battery and has a night light you switch on with a tap.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
A soft silicone penguin that makes no sound at all: it glows a warm yellow from 30 minutes before the wake-up time and turns green when your child may get up. It runs on its built-in battery and has a night light you switch on with a tap.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
A white digital clock with a soft silicone sheep that makes no sound at all: if you want, the sheep glows orange 15 or 30 minutes before the wake-up time, and it turns green when your child may get up. It runs on its built-in battery, and its warm night light switches itself off after 15, 30 or 60 minutes.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
A soft silicone sheep that makes no sound at all: it glows a warm yellow from 30 minutes before the wake-up time and turns green when your child may get up. It runs on its built-in battery and has a night light in more than one color.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
A turtle that glows red all night from the bedtime you set, can turn orange with a rising sun before wake-up, and turns green at the wake-up time, with 14 sleep sounds, a ring night light and a built-in battery.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
Day-by-day sound and light routines from your phone; most useful if you already have a Nanit camera.
- Set it
- In the Nanit Sound + Light app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, separate weekend times
Novo123 Ooly
app version (Bluetooth) · US, CA, EU
A small silicone owl with no clock face and no buttons a child can change: in its Bluetooth app you choose the colors for bedtime, naps and wake-up on each day of the week, and it then follows them by itself on its battery, without a sound.
- Set it
- In the Ooly app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- Nap wake-up time, separate weekend times
Oricom Sleep Trainer Clock
Model 08BUN · AU
A bunny clock set on its buttons: the screen glows red with a sleeping moon at bedtime and turns orange with a sun at wake-up time, and it runs on its own rechargeable battery.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
A first alarm clock for a child of 5 or more who is learning to tell the time: an analog face beside a digital screen, a moon that turns to a sun at the wake-up time, and an alarm (birdsong, a train or a cuckoo) you can leave off.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
Pabobo Kid’Sleep Essential
2025–26 version · EU, UK
A no-app wake-up light that can stay silent or sound an alarm, with a nap timer, a display you can switch off and AA batteries as a backup.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Partly, for a few days on batteries; Pabobo says keep it plugged in
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer, one wake-up time every day
A small battery clock for trips and holidays: a lit sheep shows asleep until the wake-up time, then switches to awake, silently or with an alarm, and the lid opens out into a stand.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
A rabbit that sleeps until the wake-up time you set and then wakes up, silently or with one of four alarm sounds, with a moon that sets 10 minutes before, its own wake-up times for naps and weekends, and AA batteries as a backup.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- Nap wake-up time, separate weekend times
A koala that sleeps until the wake-up time and then turns its face awake, silently or with birdsong, with a night light at two strengths and an analog and digital clock for learning the time later.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Batteries (not included) keep it going; Pabobo does not say which features
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer and weekend times: Pabobo does not say
Purflo Snoozee Sleep Trainer Clock
2025 version · UK
A rechargeable UK clock that changes color by itself at bedtime and wake-up, set on its own buttons, with seven display brightness levels.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
Set the alarms and the bedtime, wake-up and nap colors from your phone in the Tommee Tippee app; the night itself starts with the Sleep button on the clock.
- Set it
- In the Tommee Tippee Smart app
- In a power cut
- Stops, but keeps its settings
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer, separate weekend times
Tommee Tippee Groclock
USB-powered version · EU
A simple clock set on its own buttons, with stars at night, a sun in the morning and a separate nap wake-up time. No app, no account.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Stops, but keeps its settings
- Naps and weekends
- Nap wake-up time, one wake-up time every day
UrbanHello REMI
Wi-Fi app version · EU
A French app-controlled clock whose face sleeps at bedtime and wakes up in the morning, with a baby monitor, night light and lullabies built in.
- Set it
- In the REMI app
- In a power cut
- Stops until the power is back
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer, separate weekend times
Bedtime and wake-up times set on the clock itself, no app, with a time display and built-in sounds.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Stops, but keeps its settings
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer and weekend times: not in the manual
ZAZU Sam the Sheep
2024 version · US, UK, EU
Bedtime and wake-up times set on the clock, an orange “almost time” glow, a 30 to 180 minute nap timer and an alarm. It also runs on AA batteries.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer, one wake-up time every day
ZAZU Sarah the Rabbit
V3 (2025) · EU
A small rabbit set on its buttons: its eyes close at bedtime with a red light, an orange light comes on 15 minutes before the wake-up time, and the eyes open, with green and a wake-up sound if you want them. It runs on a rechargeable battery.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer and weekend times: not in the manual
If you already own one: no longer in the maker’s shop, kept here for the setup steps
Red, yellow and green on the clock’s buttons: a red stay-in-bed light, an optional yellow “soon” light 20 minutes before, green at wake-up, and a nap timer up to 3 hours.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Stops, but keeps its settings
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer, one wake-up time every day
For owners of the US Mirari OK to Wake! 8091: how to set its green wake-up light and nap timer with the buttons behind the back door.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- The manual does not say
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer, weekend times not in the manual
Skip Hop Dream & Shine Sleep Trainer
Model 185250 · US
Sleep, wake-up and 30 to 120 minute nap modes set on the clock's buttons, and it keeps running on AA batteries.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer, weekend times not in the manual
Skip Hop Smart Snail
Model 9O259910 · US, CA
Multi-step bedtime routines set over Bluetooth, no Wi-Fi network needed, and a second iPhone can sign in to the same account, one phone at a time.
- Set it
- In the Skip Hop app
- In a power cut
- Stops until the power is back
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer, weekend times not in the manual
ZAZU Bobby the Bear
2022 version · UK, EU
A small bear clock with eyes that close when you press its button at bedtime and open at the wake-up time; it runs on AAA batteries, with no plug at all.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
ZAZU Brody the Bear
2024 version · UK, EU
A soft bear whose belly shows red at night, orange in the last 30 minutes and green at the wake-up time, with lullabies, white noise and a cry sensor; it runs on AA batteries.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
ZAZU Davy the Dog
2024 version · UK, EU
A dog that closes its eyes at bedtime with a red light, glows orange in the last 30 minutes while 12 stars count down, and opens its eyes on green; it runs on AA batteries too.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- Nap timer, one wake-up time every day
ZAZU Pam the Penguin
2022 version · UK, EU
The simplest automatic wake-up light: orange 30 minutes before, green at wake-up time, on a rechargeable battery with an optional Bluetooth speaker.
- Set it
- On the clock’s buttons, no app
- In a power cut
- Keeps running on its battery
- Naps and weekends
- No nap timer, one wake-up time every day
Does another grown-up need the app? See who can be invited and what they can change. If a maker does not say a clock has a feature, we leave that clock out when you ask for that feature. When your must-haves match one of our six situations, that pick comes first with the reason; the rest are A to Z, with clocks no longer sold at the end. How matching works.