UE268S
UE268S Sound Machine Clock, Putty
Putty21 sleep soundsWireless charging10W stereo
Putty, and the one we would put on our own nightstand: sound machine, Bluetooth speaker, wireless charger and alarm clock in a single footprint.
$52.994.3(835)
Bedside clocks, made by Odokee
The hours nobody sees are the ones we build for.
Odokee makes five things and nothing else: a big-digit clock you can read without glasses, a dual-alarm clock whose dimmer goes all the way to black, a sunrise light that starts before any sound does, a Qi certified charging clock radio, and a sound machine that charges a phone while it runs. Twenty-six of them, in thirteen colours.
03:25Light off, dome on
4.3Average across the range
15,698Ratings counted once per family, not once per colour
26Clocks and accessories in the current range
18 monthsWarranty on every Odokee clock
$14.99Where the range starts
20:00The range
Five lines, one job each
Nothing here is a variant of something else. Each line answers a different question about the hour you are in, and the colours inside a line are the same machine. Odokee clocks start at $14.99.
U2
Big-Digit Bedside Clocks
from $15.99 · 7 colours
UE218
Dual-Alarm Dimmable Clocks
from $14.99 · 6 colours
H03
Sunrise Wake-Up Lights
from $53.99 · 5 colours
UE268
Wireless-Charging Clock Radios
from $44.99 · 4 colours
UE268S
Sound Machine Clocks
from $52.99 · 3 colours
Spares
Power Cords & Spares
from $19.99 · 1 item
22:10Wind down
The hour before you mean to sleep
The UE268S is the one machine on this list that does its work before you close your eyes: twenty-one sounds, a real speaker, and a charging pad so the phone can be put down instead of held.
Three colours, all the same machine inside.
UE268S
UE268S Sound Machine Clock, Black
Black21 sleep soundsWireless charging10W stereo
Black, for rooms where the nightstand is dark wood and nothing should catch the eye at 3 a.m.
$53.994.3(835)
UE268S
UE268S Sound Machine Clock, Light Gray
Light Gray21 sleep soundsWireless charging10W stereo
Light grey, and the quietest-looking of the three: twenty-one sleep sounds, a 10W speaker and a charging pad in one block.
$54.094.3(835)
All 3 in this line
Sound machine, Bluetooth speaker, wireless charger and alarm clock in one footprint.
23:30Lights out
The dial that goes all the way to black
The UE218 is our oldest clock and still the most reviewed. Its dimmer is not a switch with two positions: it is a continuous dial, and the bottom of the dial is a display that is genuinely off.
Two independent alarms, a weekday, weekend or every-day pattern for each, and a USB port on the back.
Under $20UE218
UE218 Dual-Alarm Clock, Black with Blue LED
Black · Blue display1.6-inch digitsDimmer to blackTwo alarms
The clock we have been building the longest, at the lowest price we make: blue LED, two independent alarms and a dimmer dial that turns the display right off.
$14.994.2(6,958)
Under $20UE218
UE218 Dual-Alarm Clock, Black with Red LED
Black · Red display1.6-inch digitsDimmer to blackTwo alarms
Red LED reads warmer at night than blue or white. This is the UE218 people ask for by name when they replace an old clock radio.
$18.994.2(6,958)
Under $20UE218
UE218 Dual-Alarm Clock, Black with White LED
Black · White display1.6-inch digitsDimmer to blackTwo alarms
White LED on black is the highest-contrast display in the range, and the easiest to read at arm’s length in the dark.
$18.994.2(6,958)
Under $20UE218
UE218 Dual-Alarm Clock, Wood Grain
Wood Grain · White display1.6-inch digitsDimmer to blackTwo alarms
A wood-grain shell for a nightstand that already has enough black plastic on it. Same dial, same two alarms, same USB port.
$19.994.2(6,958)
Under $20UE218
UE218 Dual-Alarm Clock, Black with RGB Digits
Black · RGB display1.6-inch digitsDimmer to blackTwo alarms
The same body with an RGB display: choose the digit colour to suit the room, then take the dimmer down until it stops mattering.
$19.994.2(6,958)
Under $20UE218
UE218 Dual-Alarm Clock, White with Colour LED
White · Colour display1.6-inch digitsDimmer to blackTwo alarms
White shell with colour-changing digits: the UE218 that reads as furniture by day and as a nightlight after midnight.
$19.994.2(6,958)
All 6 in this line
Six colourways, from $14.99. The whole line is the same body.
00:00Gallery
Twelve frames from one night
Every frame below comes from the films we shoot of our own clocks. If a clock is lit in one of them, that is the light it actually gives off: no glow has been added and no colour has been pushed.
03:12The middle of the night
Two-inch digits, read without reaching for glasses
The U2 exists because 1.6 inches is not enough for everybody. Two-inch numerals, a five-step dimmer, every button on the front face so nothing has to be found by feel, and an eight-colour glow along the base.
Seven colourways; six of them are here and the seventh is on the line page.
Under $20U2
U2 Big-Digit Clock, Silver with White Digits
Silver · White display2-inch digits5-step dimmerBattery backup
Brushed silver shell, white numerals: the U2 that vanishes into a pale room in daylight and still reads from the doorway at night.
$15.994.5(4,416)
U2
U2 Big-Digit Clock, Sakura Pink
Sakura Pink · Pink display2-inch digits5-step dimmerBattery backup
Pale pink shell with matching digits, and the gentlest glow we make. This is the U2 that ends up in a child’s room.
$21.994.5(4,416)
U2
U2 Big-Digit Clock, Black with Red Digits
Black · Red display2-inch digits5-step dimmerBattery backup
The original U2: red numerals two inches tall on a matte black shell, readable across a dark room without reaching for glasses.
$21.994.5(4,416)
U2
U2 Big-Digit Clock, Black with Blue Digits
Black · Blue display2-inch digits5-step dimmerBattery backup
Blue numerals are the coolest reading in the line, the ones people pick when even a dim red glow feels like a signal.
$21.994.5(4,416)
U2
U2 Big-Digit Clock, Putty
Putty · White display2-inch digits5-step dimmerBattery backup
Warm putty shell with white numerals: the U2 for a bedroom that has no black plastic anywhere else in it.
$21.994.5(4,416)
U2
U2 Big-Digit Clock, Sage Green
Sage Green · Green display2-inch digits5-step dimmerBattery backup
Muted sage with green digits: the colour we added for people who wanted a clock, not a gadget.
$21.994.5(4,416)
All 7 in this line
Battery backup keeps the time and the alarm through a power cut.
05:00How we build
A short line, run slowly, changed only when there is a reason
The UE218 is the oldest clock we make and it is still on sale in six colours. That is the whole philosophy: work out what a bedside clock has to get right, get it right, and then leave it alone except when a customer tells us something we did not know.
Where the range came from
Odokee started with one complaint we heard over and over: the clock on the nightstand is either too bright to sleep next to or too dim to read. Everything else, from the two alarms to the USB port to the battery backup, came later. The first thing we solved was the dimmer, and it is still the part we argue about most.
The UE218 was the answer: a continuous dial rather than a two-step switch, running from full brightness to a display that is genuinely off. It is the clock in this range with the most reviews behind it, and every change to it since has been small: a white LED option because people asked, a wood-grain shell because a black box does not suit every room, an RGB display because two people in one bed do not always agree about colour.
How a new line gets started
Four lines have joined it since. The U2 came from people who told us they could not read 1.6-inch digits any more and did not want to put their glasses on to find out whether it was 4 a.m. or 6 a.m.; we went to two inches and put every button on the front face so nothing has to be found by feel. The H03 came from the opposite end of the night, where the request was not for a louder alarm but for a quieter one, so we built a light that starts up to an hour early and made the sound optional. The UE268 and UE268S came from the cable problem: four devices on one nightstand, three of them plugged in.
A line only ships when it does something the others cannot. That is why there are five and not fifteen, and why the spare cord for the H03 exists as a product at all: a clock that outlives its power adapter should not become rubbish over a two-metre cable.
05:30Compared
What a dedicated clock still does better
We are not going to pretend a phone cannot tell the time. The honest comparison is narrower than that, and it is the one below: what happens in the specific minutes when you are half awake and the room is dark.
| What you are choosing | Odokee U2 / UE218 | A phone on the nightstand | A projection or “atomic” clock | A basic beeping clock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading the time at 3 a.m. | Two-inch or 1.6-inch digits, dimmable to nothing | Screen wakes the room, and you | Ceiling numbers, often out of focus | Small digits at one fixed brightness |
| Brightness control | Five steps (U2) or a full 0–100% dial (UE218) | Auto-brightness, rarely low enough | Usually two steps | Usually none |
| Alarm volume | Adjustable 30–110 dB, and it ramps up | Whatever the phone can manage | Fixed, often shrill | Fixed |
| Two people, two schedules | Two independent alarms, weekday/weekend patterns | Two phones | One alarm, sometimes two | One alarm |
| If the power goes out | Battery backup keeps time and the alarm | Runs on its own battery | Usually keeps time | Often resets |
| What it does to your sleep | No notifications, no feed, no screen | The reason most people picked up their phone at 3 a.m. | Nothing | Nothing |
| Charging a phone | USB port on the back (U2, UE218); Qi pad on UE268 and UE268S | It is the phone | Rare | Rare |
A phone will do most of this. What it will not do is stay a clock. The rest of the table is why we still build the small machines.
The full bedside setup guide
Prices in this comparison are ours; everything else is a description of a category, not of a named competitor.
06:15First light
Light arrives first. Sound is optional.
The H03 starts glowing between five and sixty minutes before the alarm and climbs the whole way there. You can have light and sound, sound alone, or light with nothing audible at all.
Twenty-five sleep sounds, Bluetooth, twelve night-light colours and a sunset setting on the way down.
H03 · Sunrise Wake-Up Lights
H03 Sunrise Wake-Up Light, Sakura Pink
- The light starts between five and sixty minutes before the alarm and climbs the whole way, and you choose how long.
- Three wake modes: light and sound together, sound alone, or light alone with nothing audible at all.
- Twenty-five sleep sounds and a sleep timer, plus Bluetooth for anything the list does not cover.
- Twelve night-light colours, a sunset setting, and a display dimmer that runs from 100% to off.
$59.994.4(1,955)
H03
H03 Sunrise Wake-Up Light, Putty
PuttySunrise 5–60 min25 sleep soundsBluetooth
Putty is the colour we sell most of: warm enough to sit beside a lamp, quiet enough to disappear when the light is off.
$53.994.4(1,955)
H03
H03 Sunrise Wake-Up Light, Cocoa
CocoaSunrise 5–60 min25 sleep soundsBluetooth
Cocoa is the darkest shell in the line. In an unlit room the base disappears and only the dome is visible.
$59.994.4(1,955)
H03
H03 Sunrise Wake-Up Light, Frost White
Frost WhiteSunrise 5–60 min25 sleep soundsBluetooth
Frost white takes the sunrise glow cleanly, so the dome reads as light rather than as a lit object.
$59.994.4(1,955)
H03
H03 Sunrise Wake-Up Light, Sage Green
Sage GreenSunrise 5–60 min25 sleep soundsBluetooth
Sage green: the H03 for bedrooms built out of greens and linens rather than greys.
$59.994.4(1,955)
All 5 in this line
Five colourways at $53.99 and up. The spare cord is on the line page.
06:00Quality and materials
Seven parts, and why each one is what it is
There is no exotic material in a bedside clock, and we are not going to invent one. What there is instead is a short list of decisions, each of which changes how the thing behaves at two in the morning. Here is the list, in full.
0%
The bottom of the dial
On the UE218, UE268 and UE268S the display dimmer reaches nothing at all. Not “low”. Off.
30–110
Decibels, adjustable
The alarm ramps from quiet to the level you set, so nobody is jolted awake by the first second of it.
2 in
Digit height on the U2
Chosen so the time reads at three to four metres without correction.
18 mo
Warranty
On every clock we make, with returns handled by the retail partner you buy from.
| Part | What it is | Why it is that |
|---|---|---|
| Shell | Injection-moulded ABS with a matte finish, in seven colourways across the range | Matte does not throw the display back at you off a lamp; gloss does |
| Display | Seven-segment LED behind a smoked filter | A filter that dark keeps the unlit segments invisible, so the digits read as digits and not as a grid |
| Dimming | Five discrete steps on the U2, a continuous 0–100% dial on the UE218, UE268 and UE268S | A dial is the honest answer for anyone whose lowest usable brightness sits between two steps |
| Speaker | 5W full-range on the H03, 10W stereo on the UE268 and UE268S | Rain and brown noise need low-end reach; a buzzer does not |
| Charging pad | Qi certified coil rated at 10W, under a fabric top | Fabric conducts no heat into the phone and hides the coil |
| Fabric | Speaker-grade knit over the UE268 and UE268S bodies | It absorbs a little of the room instead of ringing |
| Backup | A 2×AAA or 3×AAA compartment, batteries not supplied | The alarm still fires through a cut; the display stays dark to make the cells last |
| Cord | Captive 5V or 9V adapter, 4.9 ft on the UE218 | Long enough to reach a floor socket behind a bed frame |
Battery backup keeps time and the alarm during an outage. It is a backup, not a power source: the display stays off and the cells are not meant for daily running.
The part we test hardest
Every one of these clocks is a light source that lives four feet from a sleeping face, so the thing we check most is the bottom of the brightness range, not the top. A display that is bright enough is easy. A display whose lowest setting is still too bright is the single most common reason a bedside clock ends up in a drawer, and it is the criticism we take most seriously, including in our own reviews, where one owner tells us the gap between the U2’s lowest two steps is bigger than it should be. That is a fair note, and it is the reason the newer lines use a continuous dial instead of steps.
The second thing we check is the alarm ramp. An alarm that arrives at full volume in its first second is not a louder alarm, it is a worse one. Every Odokee alarm starts below the level you set and climbs to it.
06:30Certification
One badge we name, and the ones we will not
Certification marks are easy to imply and hard to earn, so here is exactly what we claim and what we do not.
Qi certified, and what that actually means
The charging pad on the UE268 and UE268S is Qi certified. That certification is run by the Wireless Power Consortium, an industry body, through independent test laboratories; only a product that passes may carry the logo, and the Consortium keeps a public database so anyone can check a specific model rather than take a seller’s word for it. What it certifies is safety and interoperability: that the pad behaves correctly with any Qi phone, not that it is fast.
We rate those pads at 10W. Baseline Qi delivers 5W and the extended profile goes to 15W, so 10W sits in the middle: quicker than a basic pad, slower than a good cable. One owner in our reviews below says exactly that, and they are right. If you need a phone to go from empty to full in an hour, use the cable; the pad is for a phone that sits there for eight hours anyway.
What we do not claim
Qi is the only certification mark we name, and the paragraph above is the whole of what it means. Our clocks are consumer electronics. They are not medical devices, therapy lamps or treatments for any condition. A sunrise light is a lamp on a timer: a pleasant way to wake up, and for some people a considerably better one, but not a clinical intervention, and we will not sell it as one.
Not medical advice. Nothing on this site is medical advice. Sunrise lights, sound machines and alarm clocks are consumer products, not treatments. If you are dealing with insomnia, a sleep disorder, chronic fatigue or a change in sleep you cannot explain, talk to a clinician. The sources we read below are a starting point, not a substitute for one.
07:05Out the door
A charged phone and a radio, on the footprint of a paperback
The UE268 is what happens when you count the cables on a nightstand. A Qi certified pad on the lid, a USB port on the back, FM radio, a 10W stereo speaker, an eight-colour night light and a dimmer that reaches zero.
Four colourways, all $44.99.
UE268
UE268 Charging Clock Radio, Black
Black · Blue displayQi certified padFM radio10W stereo
Black shell, blue digits: the charging clock radio at its most anonymous, which on a nightstand is usually the point.
$44.994.2(1,532)
UE268
UE268 Charging Clock Radio, Cloud Blue
Cloud Blue · White displayQi certified padFM radio10W stereo
Cloud blue fabric with white digits: the version that looks least like an appliance while doing four jobs at once.
$44.994.2(1,532)
UE268
UE268 Charging Clock Radio, Pink
Pink · White displayQi certified padFM radio10W stereo
Pink fabric with white digits, and the same Qi certified pad. The friendliest face on a piece of charging hardware.
$44.994.2(1,532)
UE268
UE268 Charging Clock Radio, Gray
Gray · White displayQi certified padFM radio10W stereo
Grey fabric, white digits: the neutral. It reads as a small speaker until you put a phone on top of it.
$44.994.2(1,532)
All 4 in this line
Sleep timer on the radio, so it stops on its own.
07:30About the brand
The company behind the clocks
Five lines, twenty-six items, one job each. What that narrowness means for the person choosing between them.
A narrow catalogue on purpose
Odokee makes bedside clocks. Not smart home hubs, not speakers that happen to show the time, not a range that stretches into kitchen scales because the factory had capacity. Five lines, twenty-six items including one spare power cord, and every one of them exists to solve something that happens in a bedroom between eleven at night and seven in the morning.
That narrowness is the most useful thing about us. A company with four hundred products cannot tell you why the dimmer on its clock has five steps rather than a dial, because nobody there made that decision on purpose. We can, because we only make five things, and because the Odokee range have been in front of the same set of customers long enough to hear what goes wrong.
What the numbers say
Across the current range, 15,698 ratings sit behind our five lines, averaging 4.3 out of five. We count those the honest way: a rating pool belongs to a product family, not to a colour, so seven shades of the U2 contribute one pool of 4,416 and not seven copies of it. Sites that add colours together produce impressive totals that mean nothing.
| Line | Model | Colours | Price | Ratings behind it | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big-Digit Bedside Clocks | U2 | 7 | $15.99 to $21.99 | 4,416 | 4.5 / 5 |
| Dual-Alarm Dimmable Clocks | UE218 | 6 | $14.99 to $19.99 | 6,958 | 4.2 / 5 |
| Sunrise Wake-Up Lights | H03 | 5 | $53.99 to $59.99 | 1,955 | 4.4 / 5 |
| Wireless-Charging Clock Radios | UE268 | 4 | $44.99 | 1,532 | 4.2 / 5 |
| Sound Machine Clocks | UE268S | 3 | $52.99 to $54.09 | 835 | 4.3 / 5 |
Rating pools are counted once per family, so seven shades of one clock contribute one pool rather than seven.
How a decision gets made here
Almost everything in this range came from a complaint rather than from a specification. The dial on the dual-alarm clock exists because a two-step dimmer left too many people between settings. Two inches of numeral on the big-digit line exists because 1.6 inches turned out not to be enough for readers who take their glasses off before bed. The silent wake mode on the sunrise light exists because somebody wrote to say their partner got up ninety minutes later and hated them for it.
The pattern is always the same: a small, specific irritation, described by somebody who owns the thing, that a redesign can remove. That is why we have never launched a line to fill a gap in a catalogue. A gap in a catalogue is a commercial idea. A dimmer whose lowest setting is still too bright is a real problem with a real answer, and one of the two makes a better clock.
What we do not do
We do not make the sale here. This site is where the range is described, photographed and explained; the transaction, the payment, the delivery and the returns all happen at checkout with our retail partner, and the eighteen-month warranty is honoured through them. We say so in the footer of every page and again in the disclosure, because a brand site that hides how it earns is a brand site you should not trust.
We also do not invent a heritage. There is no founding year carved into a beam here, no photograph of a workshop we do not own, no claim to a patent we do not hold. What we have is a short catalogue, a long rating history, and a set of decisions we are willing to explain: the dimmer, the ramp, the two alarms, the battery that keeps time but not the display.
Where to start
If you cannot read your current clock, start with the U2. If your current clock is too bright, start with the UE218 and its dial. If mornings are the problem rather than nights, start with the H03 sunrise light. If your nightstand has four cables on it, start with the UE268 or the UE268S. And if you already own an H03 and only the cord has failed, that is a nineteen-dollar part, not a new clock.
08:00Owners
What owners tell us
Nine owners, in their own words, including two who are not flattering about us. A page of nothing but five stars tells you nothing at all, and the two critical ones are about the settings we argue over most: the bottom of the dimmer, and how fast a wireless pad really charges.
Nice size, not too bright and easy to program. Glasses shown for size comparison…
Wow! What a nice alarm clock. Slender design, large numbers. So easy to read without being too bright. Very easy to program and particularly like the adjustable choice of alarm and sound volume. Comes well packaged with 18 month warranty.
Great readability.
Love, love, love this clock. The numbers are big so it is so easy to read without my glasses. I love that it is dimmable so it isn't abrasively bright at night. The size is perfect and it is so easy to set. Highly recommend! I bought a second; not sure where I'll put it yet.
LOUD!
The clock is slim and doesn't take up much of my night stand. I like the rainbow colors you can set the under lighting to. The numbers are large and can probably be seen from space!
A great alarm clock that dims
A great little alarm clock. We prefer not to have phones in the bedroom so this is a good alternative. The feature that sold us was the ability to completely turn off the light of the clock. It helps keep the room dark for sleeping.
Really great alarm clock
I wanted an alarm clock with red numbers and the option to wake up to music. The problem with FM radio stations is that they can be staticky and don't always come in clearly. What I liked about this clock is that it offers soft music as a preset alarm sound.
Cost efficient sunrise alarm
We love this alarm clock. It fits our space perfectly with not taking up too much room but big enough and bright enough that it will light up our room in the morning enough to get us waking up.
Great clock, worth the price!
Absolutely perfect. Great sound quality. Only thing is I wish you could use the sleep sounds as alarm sounds, the alarm sound choices are very bird chirp forward, like, almost all of them.
Nice Alarm Clock & Speaker, but Wireless Charging Is Too Slow
I bought this wireless charging alarm clock mainly to avoid my son charging his phone in bed with a cable. I liked the idea of having a wireless charger on his nightstand so the phone could charge safely overnight without cords in the bed.
Buy it
Only have had a couple weeks but so far LOVE! I used to have a phone charger, baby monitor, sound machine, and alarm clock on my night stand. WAYYY too much. When I got rid of the baby monitor I realized it was time to clean it up and this was truly the solution.
Ratings and review counts on this site are pooled by product family and counted once. See how we update.
09:00Journal
Three long reads about the hours we build for
Guides rather than announcements: how light actually moves a body clock, what the different sleep sounds are for, and how to lay out a nightstand so it stops working against you. Each one carries the sources we read and the date we read them.
Why light wakes you better than sound does
A sunrise alarm is a lamp on a long timer. Here is what that lamp is doing to the clock inside your head, what it cannot do, and how to set one up so that it works on a Tuesday and not only in a photograph.
Read the guide
White, pink, brown: what a sound machine is actually doing
Twenty one sounds is a menu, not a feature list. Here is what the noise colours really are, which of them suits which problem, why the speaker matters more than the count, and the volume advice we would rather you heard from us than from a footnote.
Read the guide
A nightstand that works at three in the morning
Most bedside problems are layout problems. Four cables, a lamp switch you cannot find, and a display that is either invisible or blinding. This is how we would lay the surface out, and which of our five lines answers which complaint.
Read the guidePick the hour you are trying to fix.
Every Odokee clock is one click from here, and the range starts at $14.99. If you are not sure which line, the guides in the journal are written to answer exactly that.
