Whooba76 – Retro Clock Radio

Imagine you travel through time.

Your clock radio always stays the same. But it always appears in the time you are in right now: mint like on the first day, well-loved with the traces of the years, or today a flea-market find that has seen better days.

It's early morning. On your nightstand, the digits glow. Softly the music starts, a little louder with every beat. You stay in bed a moment longer and feel that warm feeling: you're waking up exactly in your time, with the music that goes with it.

Mornings used to start with music, not headlines. Whooba76 is your ticket back: be woken slowly, start your day with more calm. Have a good trip!

Whooba76 turns your iPhone into the clock radio of back then: wood case, speaker grille, a tuning dial with a rotary knob, and digits as glowing LED or flip numbers. In the evening you fall asleep to music, the sleep timer fades it out gently. At night the dimmed clock shows only the time. In the morning your station wakes you, starting quiet and getting louder minute by minute.

How you want to be woken is up to you: Gentle, Normal or Reliable. And how new should your radio be? You choose the wear: Mint, Well-loved or Flea Market, with more or less patina on wood, glass and keys. The flea-market radio has seen better days even on its display: crooked, with cracked glass.

Set your time.

Your alarm time – and your favorite decade. Pick a display that matches your memory, then tune in a station with the music of your youth. Two simple choices, and your morning feels like it used to.

• Alarm with weekdays • Three wake-up levels: Gentle, Normal, Reliable • Radio on and off with a toggle switch • Shake for the next station • Snooze: once more after 9 minutes, softly faded in, the display switches to night mode right away • Set alarm time and sleep timer with a time wheel, the timer with countdown • Night mode: only the dimmed clock remains, the time always clearly readable • Digits as LED or flip numbers, in red, orange or mustard • Choose the wear: Mint, Well-loved, Flea Market (with cracked glass) • Portrait and landscape, German and English • No ads, no subscription

Worldwide station search with a country filter is free, and one station slot is included. A one-time purchase gives you up to 20 station slots, freely assignable and swappable at any time, and lets you tune between them with the knob, crackle in between included.

Important: The alarm works best when the app stays open. Keep your iPhone on the charger and not on silent. As a backup the app sets one extra alarm that only rings if the app is not already waking you (permission required). If you need to rely on being woken, also set the regular iPhone alarm. The radio needs an internet connection.

Requires iOS 26 or iPadOS 26.