I would argue the light based alarm clocks to be better than your phone. I very much found it nice to wake up to. It’s also useful when you have a phone that likes to randomly shut off (yes, I have a different phone now, but there was a time it was a problem).

While we just got the Anova, the Joule lost on the endless delays they’ve had with the device. To their credit, they were very quick to refund.