GOLOZA alarm clocks you can read in the dark

GOLOZA is a clock brand. Its shop page carries alarm clocks for the nightstand and calendar clocks for the living room wall, and nothing else. The US trademark covers alarm clocks and has been on the register since June 2021.

Every model keeps the same manners. The digits are large. The buttons sit on top, where a hand finds them in the dark. The cord comes with its adapter. None of them needs an app, an account or a phone to tell the time.

The range on sale is short: four products in 8 versions. Most of the versions are the same clock with different digit colors. The GOLOZA range works that way: one body, one set of buttons, and a choice of red, blue, green or white numbers. You pick the color you can live with at night, and the price changes by a dollar or two.

The best known GOLOZA clock is the Projection Alarm Clock. 14,753 buyers have rated it, and the average is 4.5 out of 5.

The Projection Alarm Clock is a curved LED clock with a small projector on an arm. The arm swivels through 180°, and the time lands on the wall or the ceiling.

The idea behind it is simple. At night you want the time, and you do not want to sit up for it. A phone has to be picked up and lights your face when you do. A projection clock puts dim numbers where your eyes already are.

Dimming is built into every clock in the GOLOZA line. The projection clock has three levels and off, with the screen and the projection set apart. The curved bedside clock has five levels and off, plus a night mode on a schedule. The day clock has ten levels and dims itself in the evening.

Which one to pick comes down to the question you ask at night. What time is it? Take a clock with digits you can dim. What day is it? Take the calendar clock. Will I hear it? Take the one whose alarm suits how you sleep.

The second line is the Curved Digital Alarm Clock, model TCA-245. It is smaller, about five inches wide, and has no projector. What it adds is choice at wake-up time: three alarm tones and two volume levels, from 75 to 85 dB.

The third is the 7-Inch Talking Day Clock. It is a calendar clock: the screen spells out the day of the week and the part of the day in words, next to the time and the date. It speaks the time at a button press and can chime on the hour. Families buy it for older relatives, and the brand counts reminders as its main job: alarms, three medicine reminders, birthdays and holidays.

All three are corded. A battery inside keeps the time and the alarm settings through a power cut, but the screen stays dark until the power is back. Buyers repeat it in their reviews. If you need an alarm that sounds during an outage, a GOLOZA clock is the wrong pick.

Buyers also name the weak spots. Some find the projection too bright even on its lowest level. Some find the small curved clock too dim by day. One buyer could not get through the day clock’s setup.

The GOLOZA range is sold online. Orders, payment, delivery and returns go through our retail partner. Every clock arrives with its power adapter in the box, so it can go on the nightstand the same evening.