iWannaSleep - 1.2b

As others have said, the iWannaSleep's user interface isn't exactly intuitive. It might not have looked quite as funky as it does with more standard controls for the options, but I think people would have got the hang of it more quickly. A check-box with some text actually next to it on the screen to explain what it's for is more usable than an unlabelled one where you have to hover over it carefully with your mouse to read the pop-up tool-tip text to find out, for example.

As someone else said, it's also difficult to tell when you first use it whether it's actually counting down or not. While I like the always-counting-down spin-to-set dial, some indication that iWannaSleep _is_ always counting down would be more friendly for new users. The countdown app Minuteur has a similarly cryptic options interface, but has a very obvious and slick countdown display which shows one way this could be done (but it can't stop iTunes when it's finished!)

But, fundamentally, iWannaSleep works very well at the job it does -- for me, lulling me to sleep with an audiobook without playing the whole ten-hour file -- and it's free! I might quibble about the user interface (mostly because I'm a usability consultant...) but it's difficult to argue with the double whammy of "works" and "free", and it's a simple application whose small foibles are easy to get used to.

I think this is brilliant. rarely do you get a simple program that does exactly what it claims to. It is a simple function but this does it brilliantly. I actually just told it to stop itunes while I was in bed about to sleep, but when it did stop, it faded the music out! I was so impressed that I got out of bed to write this comment!