Comparison

EO Guide vs iWake Alarm

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

Head to head
About

EO Guide

Discover how to integrate essential oils into your daily routine with this user-friendly guide. It offers hundreds of personal application guidelines to support your body's natural functions and learn about essential oil benefits.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of personal application guidelines
  • Support natural body functions
  • Learn essential oil benefits
  • Simple and compliant sharing
  • No prior knowledge required
Features
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EO Guide is your personal companion for essential oils, blends, and supplements — completely rebuilt from the ground up, with hundreds of compliant usage guidelines at your fingertips. Learn how to use essential oils in your daily life, the simple way. No prior knowledge required. Whether you're just starting out or have lived with oils for years, EO Guide meets you where you are. NEW IN THIS VERSION • Personal notes on every oil, topic, and tip • Custom aliases — rename products the way you know them • Smart search with filters for oils, blends, and supplements • Sync across all your devices • iPad support with landscape mode • Fresh, modern design WHAT'S INSIDE • Hundreds of detailed usage guidelines • Topics with recommended oils, applications, and AromaTouch instructions • Curated tips and background knowledge • Favorites, notes, and personal labels • Available in English, German, and French SUBSCRIPTION & FREE TRIAL Try EO Guide for free. Then unlock the full experience with a flexible subscription — cancel anytime. IMPORTANT NOTICE EO Guide is for educational and informational purposes only. The app is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any symptom or illness, and it does not replace a visit to your doctor. See the disclaimer and terms of use for details. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

iWake Alarm

This alarm requires you to complete a physical or mental challenge before it stops ringing. It uses phone sensors and the camera to verify your actions, ensuring you're truly awake. Track your wake history without any data leaving your device.

Highlights
  • Motion-controlled push-ups and squats
  • Step-based walking challenges
  • Math problems for mental stimulation
  • Room scan verification
  • Randomized task selection
  • Wake history tracking
  • Siri integration
Features
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Ordinary alarms stay free forever. The tasks are iWake Pro: yearly with 3 days free for new subscribers, monthly, or pay once and keep it for good. An alarm you cannot turn off until your phone has watched you do something. Every other alarm ends with a button. A button is easy to press half asleep, and that is the whole problem. iWake ends with proof: push-ups counted by the motion sensor, squats, a walk measured in real steps, maths you have to get right, or standing in your kitchen with the camera pointed at it. The alarm stops when the sensor is satisfied, and not before. It rings through Silent mode and through Focus, because it is built on AlarmKit — the same system Apple's own Clock app uses. Works with Siri: "Set up an iWake challenge alarm." WHAT IT ASKS OF YOU • Push-ups with the phone on your back or in an armband — or counted by the camera • Squats with the phone upright in your front pocket or held behind your neck — or by the camera • A walk, measured in steps you actually take • Maths, at a difficulty you choose • A room scan — get to the kitchen or the bathroom and show the camera • Shuffle, which picks three or four tasks so you cannot pick the easy one IT DOES NOT TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT The sensors are there to be honest, not decorative. Shaking the phone does not count as push-ups. Bowing does not count as a squat. Standing still does not count as walking. Put it down mid-task and the alarm comes back. TIPS THAT SHOW YOU HOW A short tour on first launch, then Tips any time: short videos show exactly where to hold the phone for every task, and step-by-step guides cover Shuffle, Siri, backup, the counting voice and every plan. YOUR WAKE HISTORY Every morning the app watched, kept as a record: when the alarm rang, when you proved you were up, how long that took, which task did it, and how all of it moved over weeks and months. Not a streak and not a score — a record, with the nights it has no reading for left visibly empty rather than filled in. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account. No server. No analytics. iWake sends nothing about you anywhere — there is no address of ours it could send anything to. The only requests go to Apple: purchases, and a daily check for a newer iWake. Your alarms and your wake record are files on your device, and deleting the app deletes them. The camera and motion sensors are read only while a task is running, and what they see becomes a yes or a no on the phone. No image is taken, saved or sent. WE KEEP WORKING FOR YOU iWake is updated regularly with fixes and new tasks, and every update is included in iWake Pro. Found a problem? Write to us at iwake.app/support — a real person reads every message, and we fix it in the next update. FREE, AND PAID Ordinary alarms stay free forever, with no limit on how many. The tasks, the wake history and backup need iWake Pro: • Yearly — new subscribers start with 3 days free. • Monthly — cancel any time. • Lifetime — pay once. Every update, for good. Your alarm never stops ringing because you did not pay. The yearly and monthly plans renew automatically until you cancel them in your Apple Account subscription settings, at least 24 hours before the end of the period. If you start the free trial, the yearly price is charged when the 3 days end unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://iwake.app/privacy Available in 78 languages, from Armenian to Zulu — including the alarm's own lock-screen buttons.

Screenshots

EO Guide4 screens
iWake Alarm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: iWake Alarm at 100% against EO Guide's 54%. iWake Alarm also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). EO Guide's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. EO Guide sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and iWake Alarm sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iWake Alarm holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of EO Guide's written reviews are positive against 100% of iWake Alarm's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EO Guide ships an update weekly, iWake Alarm every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
EO Guide versus iWake Alarm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEO GuideiWake Alarm
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings35 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB133 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperEO Guide GmbHQuantum Leap Mind LLC

Customer experience

EO Guide

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral66.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive53.6%
Neutral10.7%
Negative35.7%

iWake Alarm

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

EO Guide

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Monthly14 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
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  • Yearly6 Months trial$9.991 Year
3 purchases

iWake Alarm

Subscriptions2
  • iWake Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • iWake Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • iWake Pro$99.99

Questions

Is EO Guide free?
EO Guide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is iWake Alarm free?
iWake Alarm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, EO Guide or iWake Alarm?
iWake Alarm is rated higher. EO Guide averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while iWake Alarm averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do EO Guide or iWake Alarm have ads?
Neither EO Guide nor iWake Alarm shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EO Guide or iWake Alarm?
EO Guide ships an update weekly, and iWake Alarm every 3 days. Most recently, EO Guide was updated on October 21, 2026 and iWake Alarm on October 25, 2026.

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