After years of doomscrolling until almost morning, a TikTok-viral Hatch Restore 3 Alarm Clock helped replace late-night phone time with a custom unwind routine—and made waking up feel easier, thanks to its sunrise-style light and built-in sound and podcast pla
For more than a year, my evenings had a familiar pattern: I’d get into bed by 10 p.m., then lose hours mindlessly scrolling on my phone—until, somehow, it was almost morning.
That routine didn’t just steal sleep. It made bedtime feel like the start of another fight, not the end of the day. So I bought the TikTok-viral Hatch Restore 3 Alarm Clock—an alarm clock that’s positioned as a “bedtime-routine enhancer”—and spent the last stretch of nights testing whether it could actually change my habits.
It wasn’t cheap. Looking back, though, I consider the purchase—$170—the best money I’ve spent in a long time. There are plenty of products I’m hesitant to fully endorse, but this one is different. Using the Hatch Restore has turned going to sleep into something I look forward to. and waking up in the morning doesn’t come with the same dread it used to.
The biggest surprise came when I traveled. My Hatch is the thing I miss most when I’m away (sorry, mom and dad).
Hatch Restore 3 alarm clock unwind routine Hatch+ sunrise alarm sleep sounds bedtime routine
So it’s basically a sunrise alarm clock? lol
I don’t get how an alarm clock fixes phone addiction. Like just… put the phone down? $170 is insane for light and noise.
Wait the article says “pods” or “podcast pla” or whatever, but is it like it plays your bedtime stuff from TikTok? Bc I feel like anything tied to TikTok is gonna make people scroll more not less. Also sunrise lighting already exists in cheap lamps…
Honestly if it helps you stop doomscrolling then cool, but I’m side-eyeing the whole “best money spent” thing. It’s an alarm clock, not therapy. My cousin bought one and swears by it, but he still wakes up tired so idk. Also I saw a similar thing on Facebook that “syncs” and then it just died after a month, so hopefully this isn’t that.