# Departd: Calendar Alarm Clock — Sets itself, checks traffic > Sets itself, checks traffic (iPhone/iPad app by Christopher Radtke.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/departd-calendar-alarm-clock/id6759722893 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Christopher Radtke](https://appshunter.io/developer/1880351868) - Category: Productivity, Utilities - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 22 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-06-18 - Data updated: 2026-09-09 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/departd-calendar-alarm-clock/id6759722893/reviews.md ## What is Departd? Never be late again — to anything. Departd wakes you up at the exact right minute, then keeps you on time all day. It reads your calendar, measures the drive, and checks real-time traffic and weather to tell you when to wake, when to get ready, and when to leave — for your first event and every one after it. While you sleep, it checks again: if traffic has worsened, your alarm moves earlier, automatically. No math. No guessing. YOUR WHOLE DAY, ON TIME • Wakes you up — a reliable alarm built on iOS 26's AlarmKit that breaks through silent mode. • Leave on time, all day — a "leave by" for every event, not just the first. • Traffic-adjusted — live ETAs, re-checked overnight before your alarm (all night long with Pro). • Weather-aware — rain, snow, and severe conditions add buffer automatically. Free for everyone. • Flight-smart — TSA and terminal buffers for travel days. • A full-day timeline — every event, with the drive and prep built in. • Explains itself — see exactly why your wake and leave times were chosen, in the app or by asking Siri "Why this time?" • Live Activity + Dynamic Island — your next departure, one glance away. WHY DEPARTD Most alarms ring at the same time every day, and most planners have no idea how long it takes to get anywhere. Departd does both: it wakes you AND gets you out the door on time — for the meeting across town, the school run, the 5 PM appointment, the airport. You set nothing each night. Your calendar is your plan. FOR ANYONE WHO • Wonders "is 15 minutes enough for traffic?" • Is always running a few minutes late to everything. • Travels for work and wants gate-aware airport runs. • Has ever been late to something that mattered. PRIVACY FIRST Your calendar stays on your device. Departd is built end-to-end on Apple frameworks — AlarmKit, EventKit, MapKit, and WeatherKit. Weather data is provided by Apple Weather. SUBSCRIPTION Departd Pro adds the autonomous layer: the Overnight Traffic Watcher (re-checks the drive all night, not once), Adaptive Learning, and on-device AI Prep Tips for tomorrow's first event. The all-day Live Activity on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island is included for everyone, free. Monthly or annual. Cancel anytime in Settings. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Manage in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://chrisradtke0.github.io/smartalarm-legal/terms-of-use.html Privacy Policy: https://chrisradtke0.github.io/smartalarm-legal/privacy-policy.html Requires iOS 26 or later. Calendar and alarm access are required; notifications and location are optional. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Pro Monthly | $4.99 | per month | | Departd Pro (Annual) | $34.99 | per year | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.5.10 — 2026-09-08 A quiet release, with two fixes found by using Departd on a real morning. • Fixed: Departd could treat somewhere you actually have to drive to as though it were at home, and work out your wake-up time as if you needed no travel at all. It was reusing the previous day's answer instead of looking at today's event. Each event is now worked out on its own. • Fixed: waking up exactly on time could immediately show a "Running Behind Schedule" screen. Departd sets your alarm for the last sensible minute, then checked a few seconds later and counted those seconds against you. It now gives you a moment to get up before it says anything — and still speaks up straight away if you genuinely cannot make it. Departd also keeps a closer watch on the moment your alarm is set overnight. Nothing changes about how or when you are woken. This is groundwork: if anything ever does go wrong at that moment, Departd can now show us exactly what happened instead of leaving us to guess. Also fixed: the prompt that asks whether you would rate Departd had been broken since May and never appeared. It now shows up only after Departd has actually woken you a few times — and never while an alarm is ringing. Carried over from 1.5.9, which was available for barely a day: • Fixed: an alarm could ring over and over. If you opened Departd after a wake time had already passed, it could create a fresh alarm seconds away and ring it, repeatedly. It now recognises an alarm that has already gone off. • Fixed: skipping a wake-up shortly after 4am silently suppressed the FOLLOWING morning's alarm — one you had never asked to skip. Skipping is now tied to the alarm you are actually cancelling, and only ever cancels that one wake-up. • Fixed: an alarm you skipped can no longer be quietly put back by the overnight traffic and weather checks. • Fixed: the Lock Screen card could say an event was starting now, hours after it had already begun. • Fixed: the alarm screen could appear in the afternoon for an event that never needed a wake-up. • New: Today shows the free window between your events, so a two-hour gap reads as usable time. • Fixed: your wake-up time is worked out from the home address you saved, not a guess at where your phone is in the middle of the night. ### 1.5.9 — 2026-09-04 Fixed: two ways a morning could go wrong — one where the alarm rang over and over, and one where it never rang at all. If you skipped a wake-up shortly after 4am, Departd recorded the skip against the FOLLOWING morning instead of the one you were cancelling. That silently suppressed the next night's alarm — an alarm you had never asked to skip. Skipping is now tied to the alarm you are actually cancelling, and it only ever cancels that one wake-up, never the rest of your day. Separately, if you opened Departd after a wake-up time had already passed, the app could create a fresh alarm a few seconds out and ring it — repeatedly, on a morning it had already decided needed no alarm. It now recognises an alarm that has already gone off and will not manufacture another. A genuinely missed wake-up still rings, because being woken late is better than not at all. • Fixed: an alarm you skipped can no longer be quietly put back by the overnight traffic and weather checks. • Fixed: the Lock Screen card could say an event was starting now, hours after it had already begun. • Fixed: the alarm screen could appear in the afternoon for an event that never needed a wake-up, greeting you with "Good morning" though nothing had rung. The greeting matches the time of day now. • Fixed: "Overnight change" now only explains changes that actually happened overnight, in plain language instead of internal diagnostics. • Fixed: your day no longer lists tomorrow's first event twice. • Changed: tapping a departure alert takes you to your Today tab instead of a separate full-screen day view that had no way in. • New: Today shows the free window between your events, so a 2-hour gap reads as usable time. Long stretches are left alone. • Fixed: your wake-up time is worked out from the home address you saved, not a guess at where your phone is in the middle of the night. • Fixed: Departd will never suggest a wake-up time that lands after your event has already started. • Fixed: the Today screen makes clear which day each item belongs to, and a one-event day no longer reads "1 events". • Changed: the spoken briefing and its full-screen morning card are gone. Departd no longer talks. • Fixed: switching on "Use Checklist for Prep Time" without Pro used to do nothing. It now says it's a Pro feature instead of pretending to work. • Clearer: the Pro screen lists everything Pro includes — it was showing three of seven. ### 1.5.8 — 2026-09-03 Fixed: the Lock Screen card could say an event was starting now, hours after it had already begun. If an event started while your phone was idle, the card kept reading "Now" indefinitely — one event showed "starting now" for nearly two hours. It now stops claiming that once the event is genuinely under way. • Fixed: the free-time windows on Today could disappear for the rest of the day if you skipped your morning alarm. They now come straight from your schedule, so they are always there. • Fixed: the alarm screen could appear in the afternoon, for an event that never needed a wake-up — greeting you with "Good morning" even though no alarm had been set and none rang. The greeting also matches the time of day now. • Fixed: skipping a morning stops the alarm. If you skipped a wake-up, the alarm could keep firing anyway while the app said "Skipped for tonight", and neither dismissing nor snoozing helped. • Fixed: "Overnight change" now only explains changes that actually happened overnight, and says why in plain language instead of showing internal diagnostics. • Fixed: your day no longer lists tomorrow's first event twice. • Changed: tapping a departure alert takes you to your Today tab instead of opening a separate full-screen day view that had no way in and no way to find it. • New: Today shows the free window between your events, so a 2-hour gap reads as time you can use rather than empty space. Long stretches are left alone, and a window with nothing useful to suggest just shows how long it is. • Fixed: your wake-up time is worked out from the home address you saved, not from a guess at where your phone is in the middle of the night. • Fixed: Departd will never suggest a wake-up time that lands after your event has already started. • Fixed: the Today screen makes clear which day each item belongs to, and a one-event day no longer reads "1 events". • Changed: the spoken briefing and its full-screen morning card are gone. Departd no longer talks. • Fixed: switching on "Use Checklist for Prep Time" without Pro used to do nothing at all. It now tells you it's a Pro feature instead of pretending to work. • Clearer: the Pro screen lists everything Pro includes — it was showing three of seven — and features that need Pro say so at the moment they would have helped. ### 1.5.7 — 2026-09-01 Fixed: skipping a morning now actually stops the alarm. If you skipped a wake-up, the alarm could keep firing anyway — the app said "Skipped for tonight" while it carried on ringing, and neither dismissing it nor snoozing it made any difference. Skip now cancels the alarm itself, the moment you tap it. • Changed: tapping a departure alert now takes you to your Today tab instead of opening a separate full-screen day view. That view had no way in and no way to find it — it simply appeared. Everything worth keeping from it now lives on Today. • New: Today shows the free window between your events, and what to do with it — so a 2-hour gap reads as time you can use, not empty space. • Fixed: your wake-up time is worked out from the home address you saved, not from a guess at where your phone is in the middle of the night. A stale overnight location made short drives look long and long drives look short — the single biggest cause of a wrong wake-up time. • Fixed: Departd will never again suggest a wake-up time that lands after your event has already started. • Fixed: the Today screen now makes clear which day each item belongs to, so tomorrow's first event can't be mistaken for something happening this morning. • Fixed: a one-event day no longer reads "1 events" in your weekly summary. • Changed: the full-screen morning card and the spoken briefing are gone. Departd no longer talks. The briefing says what it needs to say, once, where you're already looking. • Fixed: switching on "Use Checklist for Prep Time" without Pro used to do nothing at all — no message, no explanation, and your alarm quietly ignored the checklist. It now tells you it's a Pro feature instead of pretending to work. • Clearer: the Pro screen lists everything Pro actually includes — it was showing three of seven. And the features that need Pro now say so at the moment they would have helped, instead of simply never appearing. ### 1.5.6 — 2026-08-31 Fixed: skipping a morning now actually stops the alarm. If you skipped a wake-up, the alarm could keep firing anyway — the app said "Skipped for tonight" while it carried on ringing, and neither dismissing it nor snoozing it made any difference. Skip now cancels the alarm itself, the moment you tap it. • Fixed: your wake-up time is worked out from the home address you saved, not from a guess at where your phone is in the middle of the night. A stale overnight location made short drives look long and long drives look short — the single biggest cause of a wrong wake-up time. • Fixed: Departd will never again suggest a wake-up time that lands after your event has already started. • Fixed: the Today screen now makes clear which day each item belongs to, so tomorrow's first event can't be mistaken for something happening this morning. • Fixed: a one-event day no longer reads "1 events" in your weekly summary. • Changed: the full-screen morning card and the spoken briefing are gone. Departd no longer talks. The briefing says what it needs to say, once, where you're already looking. • Fixed: switching on "Use Checklist for Prep Time" without Pro used to do nothing at all — no message, no explanation, and your alarm quietly ignored the checklist. It now tells you it's a Pro feature instead of pretending to work. • Clearer: the Pro screen lists everything Pro actually includes — it was showing three of seven. And the features that need Pro now say so at the moment they would have helped, instead of simply never appearing. --- *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 2026-09-09.*