Comparison

GitBot vs Alarmed

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

GitBot

Explore trending open-source projects on GitHub, discover innovative code, and dive deep into repositories. Browse by language and time, view detailed project information, and manage your starred and watched projects.

Highlights
  • Explore trending repositories by language and time
  • View detailed repository information including READMEs
  • Star and watch repositories
  • Browse author profiles and contribution graphs
  • Search for repositories and users
  • Personal dashboard for your projects
  • Browse source code with syntax highlighting
Features
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GitBot — your gateway to the world of open source on GitHub. Effortlessly explore trending repositories across dozens of programming languages, discover innovative projects, and dive deep into the code that powers the developer community. KEY FEATURES • Explore Trending — Browse trending repositories filtered by language and time period (daily, weekly, monthly) • Repository Details — Read README files with rich Markdown rendering, view stars, forks, and license information • Star & Watch — Star your favorite projects and watch repositories to stay updated • Author Profiles — View developer profiles with contribution graphs and repository lists • Search — Find repositories and users across all of GitHub • Personal Dashboard — Access your own repositories, starred projects, and watch list • Source Browsing — Browse source directories and files with syntax highlighting • Multi-language — Full support for English, German, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese Designed with a clean, native interface that feels right at home on your iPhone and iPad. GitBot brings the power of GitHub exploration to your fingertips. Have ideas or suggestions? Reach out at gitbotapp@outlook.com Follow us on X @gitbotapp for the latest updates. Privacy Policy: https://gitbotapp.vercel.app/privacypolicy Terms of Use: https://gitbotapp.vercel.app/termsofuse

About

Alarmed

This app helps you avoid oversleeping by requiring you to complete a challenge before the alarm stops. Choose from various missions like math puzzles or shaking your phone to ensure you get out of bed. It also provides simple statistics to track your wake-up habits.

Highlights
  • Mission-based alarm challenges
  • Math puzzles
  • Phone shaking challenge
  • Memory challenges
  • Wake-up statistics
  • Snooze tracking
Features
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Alarmed is for people who keep hitting the snooze button on normal alarm clocks. Say bye bye to endless snoozing and multiple alarms just to wake up on time. Create alarms, pick a mission, and complete it so the alarm turns off. Choose from math puzzles, shaking phone, or memory challenges to make waking up harder to ignore. Create alarms, pick a mission, and complete it so the alarm turns off. Choose from math puzzles, memory games, exercise challenges and more to make waking up harder to ignore. ALARMED PRO Unlimited alarms and the math, shake and memory missions are free. Alarmed Pro adds mission chains (up to three missions on one alarm), the premium missions — Workout, Scan, Steps and Tiles — and the wake-up checkup, a second alarm a few minutes later that proves you actually stayed up. Alarmed Pro is available as: • Monthly — $4.99 per month • Annual — $19.99 per year • Lifetime — $39.99, one-time purchase Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://alarmed-app.vercel.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

GitBot4 screens
Alarmed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: GitBot at 5.0 against Alarmed's 4.4. GitBot also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). Alarmed's advantage is ratings volume (22 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GitBot holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alarmed has 22 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GitBot ships an update every 8 days, Alarmed every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
GitBot versus Alarmed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGitBotAlarmed
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.4 (22 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings122 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB102 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHengyu ZhouAgrima Pandey

Customer experience

GitBot

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Alarmed

All ratings22 ratings
Positive86.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.6%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

GitBot

No in-app purchases

None

Alarmed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GitBot free?
GitBot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Alarmed free?
Alarmed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GitBot or Alarmed?
GitBot is rated higher. GitBot averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Alarmed averages 4.4 from 22 ratings.
Do GitBot or Alarmed have ads?
Neither GitBot nor Alarmed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GitBot or Alarmed?
GitBot ships an update every 8 days, and Alarmed every 2 months. Most recently, GitBot was updated on September 30, 2026 and Alarmed on October 7, 2026.

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