# Alarm Clock for Me — user reviews > 53 indexed App Store user reviews of Alarm Clock for Me by Apalon Apps, rated 4.60/5 from 12,939 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alarm-clock-for-me/id749125114/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alarm-clock-for-me/id749125114.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 9,898 · 4★ 1,711 · 3★ 586 · 2★ 215 · 1★ 529 ## What do users think of Alarm Clock for Me? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great product at a fair price - 👍 Reliable and functional - 👍 Customizable features - 👍 Helpful for waking up - 👍 Clean and easy to use interface **Cons** - 🐛 Weather service unavailable - 🐛 Alarm doesn't work when phone is silenced - 🐛 Occasional freezes/crashes/hangs - 🐛 Requires app to be open/running for alarm to work - 🐛 Ads still show up after paid upgrade **Commonly reported bugs** - Alarm volume issues - Fade-in alarm feature not working - Rotation issues with clock face - Inability to add own music **Most requested features** - Allow alarm to work even when app is closed - Ability to use own music for alarm - Integrate with Apple Music/Spotify - Add weather information display - Improve snooze functionality ## Newest reviews (13 of 53) ### 2/5 — Pure trash. Updated *2023-04-06* Update, the objective of an app should be to improve the stock app on how good it can be, not try to be worse than the garbage stock app. The snooze doesn't even work properly. Now I have to buy a freaking alarm clock because all these apps including this one are so pathetic. Not sure why it's so difficult for someone to make an easy alarm. Support is non existent when emailing... though why I even need to get support is concerning. Phone locks up if you attempt to use your own sound for the alarm. Snoozing doesn't allow volume buttons to mute. You have to either open the app through the notification or through your home screen, shake, or do math... after clicking the notification. This is beyond unacceptable. To top it all off, it can't even override your phones silent mode... no option. This is simply terrible and should be standard. Those saying this is the best they've ever used have to be from the stone age. Granted it's somehow still better than the other garbage in the app store (most of which are just reformatted copies of the same ultra terrible app by the same two companies) and in some ways better than the trash stock alarm. ### 2/5 — Overall great, but has a bug lately with rotation and needs a fix *2022-12-21, version 3.5* I’ve had this alarm for a long time and overall I love it. Lately it doesn’t rotate to the horizontal clock face consistently. Maybe 50% of the time it won’t rotate at all and I have to close and open the app to get it to work. Hopefully the developers will fix this soon. There’s also something that could be improved with a little change. The stop and snooze buttons are easy to see and easy to click. BUT if you snooze, the stop button gets so tiny that it’s hard see and almost impossible to click if you want to turn it off before the snooze alarm goes off. It they made it bigger, it would be amazing! 5 stars if these two issues are fixed. ### 2/5 — Purchased app issue *2022-10-13, version 3.5* One notable concern for me. I purchased needing new alarm. Tried free versions but w ads, couldn’t evaluate as too bright but interface looks good, clean. With purchase however, the menu bar remains “bright white” in areas of text (return arrow and app on left, status menu on right) in addition to the app switcher “bar” in middle bottom. Is there any way to turn those off as still too bright even if I turn screen brightness to “0” on slider in control panel. If this could be fixed, I’d revise my stars but can’t use for the moment and can’t seem to request a refund ### 2/5 — Alarm does not work when phone is silenced *2022-01-06, version 3.5* The built in Apple alarm rings even if phone is silenced. This app does not. You must unsilence your phone if you want the alarm sound to work. Additionally the weather info is so small it is difficult to read. If not for these 2 issues I would have given it 5 stars. I have the fully paid version and iPhone 12 Pro Max. Developer response was irrelevant. If the silence switch is turned off the alarm WILL NOT WORK no matter if in the background or foreground. ### 4/5 — Great clock *2021-12-13, version 3.5* It’s the best clock app I’ve used so far. It was hard to find an alarm clock I had an auto sleep function so that the hours alarm doesn’t ring for ever. It would be five stars for me if the increasing volume worked for me and more so, if the program didn’t have to be running in order to use your own music for the alarm. It would also be nice if you could tell it how long to ring before auto sleep. All in all, I think it’s a great clock program worth having. **Developer response:** Hello! Thank you so much for your kind review and high rating. We're truly happy that you enjoy using our app. Your positive feedback really inspires us to work harder on improving the app! Best regards, Support Team ### 3/5 — Won’t play my music *2021-01-17, version 3.5* After the most apple recent update, this defaults to the built-in tracks. I want listen to the music that I have set up with the alarms. Very disappointed. It happened with iPhone and iPad. I wrote the above review in June after an update, and it happened again! I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app, but it will not play the music I selected for my alarm. Will there be an update soon? I really hope so because I like this app, and paid for it. ### 3/5 — Favorite App but favorite feature no longer works *2021-01-02, version 3.5* The “fade-in” alarm feature no longer works. Alarm stays at only one volume - I really liked the gradually increasing volume. I usually wake at first (lowest) setting, but was always assured that if for some reason I didn’t wake for that then it would gradually get louder until it woke me up... Please fix this feature! Will give 5 stars then! ### 3/5 — Disappointment but I still like the app *2020-12-13, version 3.5* Just reading some of the comments, I was very excited to get the paid version. But as soon as the paid version loaded I was highly disappointed (Only because I was anticipating more from the comments I read) I feel like I paid $4.00 just to remove ads. I still love the app but it needs some more (Clock faces some more colors and a few more features) because literally only thing I see extra in the paid version is the music add on an No ads) But Thanks for the upgrade and keep up the good work!!! **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback. We appreciate your comment and will consider it while working on future versions of the app. If you have any further suggestions or ideas - please let us know at support@apalon.com. Thank you in advance! ### 4/5 — Great but... *2020-11-28, version 3.5* I actually love this clock but I do have a couple wants if the developers could make it so! One: Somehow make it so whether the app is open or not, the alarm will go off with my chosen tune. Two: make it so when I have my phone set to do not disturb, it will still ring through just like my IPhone alarm. I know it might be very difficult to do but a girl can dream? 🤷‍♀️😇 Otherwise, I love this clock and the different color features. I love being able to use my own music. Thank you! I’d give it 5 stars for sure if you could fix those issues and make it the best! ### 3/5 — Quite good, but.. *2020-06-09, version 3.5* Two problems: 1) sometimes it shows a black screen and doesn’t go anywhere. 2) very disappointing that it won’t work unless you set the silence mode to off. This is really a dealbreaker because I always leave my phone on silent mode, just vibrating when I receive messages. Besides, Apple’s Clock app works on silent mode, just as if it weren’t on silent mode. ### 3/5 — Just what I need! *2020-06-08, version 3.5* From turning off alarm unknowingly to snoozing 3,4,5 times to incorporating alarm into my dream and sleeping through it til the alarm “freezes” and sound turns off, I’ve done it all my entire life and continue doing so at 54 years of age. This app has the potential to be life changing! My only fear is there currently aren’t enough different obnoxious sounds for the app to work for me long term. The phone shake and math problem features are great. My only suggestion to the developer is to increase the size of the obnoxious sound library because when a sound becomes too familiar and no longer wakes me, the shake and math features become irrelevant. Thank you! **Developer response:** Hi! Thank you for sharing your feedback with us! We would like to make the app better and more useful for you. We appreciate your comment and will consider it while working on future versions of the app. Kindly note that you can also add your music files to the alarm from the Sound - My Music menu. Please remember that the files have to be saved on your device, not in the cloud or any type of online storage. We hope this helps! Thank you for using our app! ### 3/5 — Good but pop ups are obtrusive even in paid version *2020-06-05, version 3.5* Good app except when I turn off cellular data in settings please respect that. A bright white pop up in the middle of the night forcing me to open settings or turn cellular data back on is rude. If it’s off and you can’t get internet data, then do without until you can. Persistent notifications about leaving it running are annoying too. Tell me and give me the option to turn the notification off. ### 3/5 — I can not add my music *2019-10-24, version 3.5* I just purchased this app, after using the free version for a few days. But my add music will not work. I also would like to see a better choice of alarm sounds. Especially since the add music button does not work. I bit frustrated right now. I do like the fact that I can have multiple alarms that can repeat any time I need them too. Please fix the add music button!!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Worst alarm clock I’ve ever used *2023-10-28* The developer of this alarm clock got confused on what they were doing. They decided it had to be a Weather notification app versus an alarm clock. If you did not turn on notifications for the weather the app will ask you every three seconds when you’re using the app to turn on the Weather notifications. Once you turn on Weather notifications, you have to turn on sound or the alarm clock will not work. Every day at 10:30 at night the alarm clock app sends you the current weather with a loud ding. One night I went to bed early and it woke me up. You cannot get away from using the Weather notifications so I’m deleting this alarm clock and buying another one. ### 1/5 — Violates its own rules *2022-11-18, version 3.5* When you need to get up for work: MUST have sound on (so you can be woken up by texts and phone calls after you’ve gone to bed). MUST have app open (don’t forget, or it won’t go off!), MUST be the last app open before you close your phone (or, again, the alarm won’t go off!). When you want to sleep in: Will go off even if you have the app completely closed out of. This app is poorly designed and I wished it worked because I paid money for it. ### 1/5 — Robbed me *2021-11-26, version 3.5* While the app works well, I paid $4 to have ads removed, only for the app to keep showing me ads and telling me to upgrade— of course when I go hit “upgrade” again, it just takes me here to the App Store and says to open the app where it takes me back to the add riddled app. It’s $4 of course, but it’s the ethics of it. Don’t say you can upgrade for $4 to remove ads and then have the same app with the same number of ads. ### 1/5 — Occasionally freezes/crashes/hangs *2021-10-23, version 3.5* I use this for work, meaning it had to be 100% reliable. Three times it has frozen just before my alarm is supposed to go off, says it’s 6:59:59 when it’s set for 7. I’m on latest iOS, app version, etc. I’ve started using second and third alarm apps as backup because there’s no point to an alarm app that doesn’t work 100% of the time. I like the features, but reliability is the baseline for an alarm, an this doesn’t have it. 3rd times not the charm, I’m switching. ### 1/5 — This is great when ads don’t drive you crazy! *2021-09-09, version 3.5* I’ve tried over and over to upgrade and just takes me to the App Store with the version I already have with the open button…no option to upgrade. Clicking upgrade in the app keeps taking me to this as well as when I go thru settings and click get full version no ads…I even went to the App Store and looked this alarm clock up, to find the ad free version and nothing but the one I have…guess I’m looking for another alarm clock…I’ve done all I can and I’m not doing ads anymore! ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work. Waste of money *2021-08-01, version 3.5* The app doesn’t work. It requires you ti keep the ohone in ringing mode -m if it is in silent mode alarm doesn’t work. So it might ring the alarm and you can wake up if you are not already by the kther notifications or calls. This is super frustrating. Also it doesn’t play the song from Apple music. It requires you to run the app through out the night. Most insane app that doesn’t make sense. Wonder how people rated it so high. ### 1/5 — Face ID turns off the alarm-cannot snooze *2019-10-19, version 3.5* Tech support has been useless. Was happy with app on my iPhone 8. Got the 11 pro and now if you look at the alarm Face ID turns it off. I would not mind if it snoozed the alarm. But it is now useless because snooze is not functional. If the screen is locked you are asked if you want to use Face ID and there is no way to tell it no and when you select ok it turns off the alarm with no snooze option. If the app is open and you look at it, it turns the alarm off and you cannot snooze. If it is running in the background sometimes you get a pop up with a snooze option. Other times it sends you to the app where Face ID turns off the alarm. **Developer response:** We apologize for any inconveniences. We are doing our best to find a solution to this problem. Hope for your understanding. ### 1/5 — Horrible. Unreliable. Complete waste of $3.99. *2019-04-26, version 3.5* Alarm activates but no sound even if you make certain your volume is turned on. To check . . . I set alarm for one minute; alarm went off with no sound. Sound was silent and manually adjusted so I could hear alarm. Although sound was adjusted about mid range on iPad home setting the sound was silent on this app. Trying to make certain sound is adjusted correctly in app cannot be done . . . when manually adjusting sound in app when setting alarm no volume indicator shows. ### 1/5 — Worst Alarm I've ever tried to use! *2017-09-09, version 3.2* The clock\alarm is awful, somehow I have managed to get two installed on my phone. Contacting the App administrator is a joke, that mother$&@?!", doesn't take suggestions, prove helpful feedback, or make modifications to this App? I wish I could dump this App, but it may add another of these on my phone like the last time. This is Alarm Clock from Hell, and I paid for it and it's worst than the free version. If someone could help me with this App and not with empty promises I would just simply 😍. I am angry with reason...and seriously need help with this App, I've consulted the App Store trying to get help to remove this App, and it comes back double, instead of going away! **Developer response:** We appreciate if you could contact our support service (support@apalon.com) with a more detailed description of the issue so that we could try to resolve it for you. Thank you in advance for your cooperation! ### 2/5 — Weather service is unavailable *2024-03-11* As of two days ago when I run this app, I get this error listed in the title and when I click OK, it does not go away. It keeps on flashing and flashing with the error. I’m not able to remove it and henceforth I can’t run the app. I remove the app entirely and then re-downloaded it and reinstalled it, but I still keep keep getting the same error. If you’re fast enough, you’re able to go into the settings and turn off the Weather view on the screen, but that doesn’t work. Can you please update the software to not need the weather service to be running in the background or remove that feature altogether. I’ve had this app for many years and I’ve used it for my alarm notification settings to play music through my alarms and so forth, and I don’t really want to try anything new. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great Product at a fair price *2022-04-08, version 3.5* Been using the free version for many years and always found it to be reliable. Got tired of the ads and decided to shell out $3.99 for the premium version. Works flawlessly and no more annoying obnoxious ads. As many software developers have gone to a subscription service, to which I do not embrace, it’s nice to pay once, and on once, for software. **Developer response:** Hi! Thank you so much for your kind review. Your positive feedback really inspires our entire team to work harder on developing the app! If you have any ideas on possible features that we could add to the app, you can always share them with us at support@apalon.com. Your input will help us improve our app for you and everybody else! ### 5/5 — Pilot5974 *2022-02-05, version 3.5* Works well. I had a need for a louder alarm than what was available on my phone. This one fits the bill and with the programming capabilities I don’t need to think about my alarms all week, it’s already done. ### 5/5 — Working Well but Some Volume Issues *2022-01-14, version 3.5* I’m using this app with an iPad Air 4 and a Bluetooth speaker and it works well except setting the volume can be a bit finicky. Especially when using volume fade in or not between multiple alarms. When I preview the alarms it can be too loud or too soft. So I have to keep adjust the volume slider and previewing the alarm to see how loud or soft it’ll be. It’s strange because fade in will get to be too loud and no fade in will be too soft. And it’s not just the Bluetooth speaker because the same thing happens with the iPad Air’s speakers as well. But it’s really just a minor inconvenience. Once I’m happy with an alarm’s volume, I’ll just leave it alone. **Developer response:** Thank you for your positive comment! Please note that when in the foreground volume settings of the app are used. When in the background - the app uses volume settings of the device. We are sorry for inconvenience. Hope this was helpful! ### 5/5 — A nice step above the basic Alarm that comes with the iPhone *2021-10-22, version 3.5* Well worth the $3.99+tax! I’m the type of sleeper who hits the snooze button multiple times and will usually sleep through multiple alarms, especially when they go into “whisper mode”. I tried to see how to get my iPhone not to do that, but could not. I was also a person who kept my iPhone face down by my pillow. There were two basic features with this app that made my sleeping through them that more difficult. 1. The ability to have the alarm turn off and on my flashlight, and; 2. The “Math” feature is a brilliant way to force you to wake up your brain without fully stressing it out. It requires you to solve a simple addition problem to turn off the alarm. I reccomend not using the Easy mode, but the Hard mode (two 3-digit numbers). **Developer response:** Hello! Thank you so much for your kind review. Your positive feedback really inspires our entire team to work harder on developing the app! Please note that if you have any ideas on possible features that we could add to the app, you can always share them with us at support@apalon.com. Your input will definitely help us improve our app for you and everybody else. Best regards, Support Team ### 5/5 — I still have ads playing after buying the upgrade. *2021-04-13, version 3.5* I still have ads playing after buying the upgrade. That was my only reason for paying for an app. No more ad flashing in the night. Fix this. ### 5/5 — The pay version is one of my favorite apps *2020-11-15, version 3.5* However, I do have one question. When I put my iPhone on “Do not disturb” the alarm does not go off to wake me up. Is there a setting that I can change so that middle-of-the night texts can be silenced. ### 5/5 — Absolutely love it *2020-11-15, version 3.5* So I just went ahead and paid the 3.99 for this clock because I hate being interrupted by adds & it was well worth it! Has a lot of nice features very user friendly and no cutesy BS. If the developers are reading this there are only two things I wish they could add even though it doesn’t effect the rating. When the app is closed on the Home Screen it doesn’t show the correct time just a picture of the app. Also when I have my iPhone silenced when I go to bed so I’m not disturbed by calls or text messages the alarm is also silenced. Those are not deal breakers by any means though I still love the app and great job with it!! **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback! We are really glad that you enjoy our application! If you have any questions or suggestions - feel free to contact us at support@apalon.com, we are always ready to help! ### 5/5 — Love app but since 14.2 upgrade doesn’t work *2020-11-12, version 3.5* Love the app Have had for years. Since the 14.2 update today the app stopped working. It won’t open. Maybe because the app hasn’t been updated in 2 years? Please let me know if this issue will be fixed. Thanks ### 5/5 — Awesome app but paid to remove ads but it still asking me to upgrade *2020-09-22, version 3.5* Love the app but I paid to remove the ads and it still asks me to remove ads. I click on the upgrade button and it takes me back to the App Store and I click open there the ads are gone. It does this ever time I load it up. ### 5/5 — Alarm *2019-04-12, version 3.5* If your phone goes to lock screen, as in overnight, the alarm does not sound. My sound is on and volume up, however, because the app is not technically "opened", the alarm. Good thing I have the standard iPhone clock alarm set on my other phone, otherwise, I wouldn't hear this one. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*