Comparison

Glarm vs Later

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

Head to head
About

Glarm

Set alarms that trigger based on your location, ensuring you never miss your destination. Ideal for public transport users, this app allows you to relax or focus on other activities without worrying about missing your stop.

Highlights
  • Location-based alarms
  • Customizable alarm notes
  • Favorite alarms
  • Minimal battery consumption
  • Privacy-focused location tracking
Features
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If you often travel by train, bus, or any other means of transportation, you've surely found yourself in a situation where you're not sure if your stop is coming up soon — so you reach for your phone, open Google Maps, and nervously check when to get off. With Glarm, you don't have to worry about that anymore. Easily schedule an alarm that will ring as you approach your chosen location, and take a nap or keep watching the next episode of your favourite series in peace. Glarm lets you create an alarm that activates at a set distance from your destination. You can attach a note to the alarm, assign it to a category, and configure it to trigger every time you cross the boundary of a defined region.

About

Later

This app helps you keep track of important upcoming events with live, second-by-second countdowns. Organize your life by adding trips, birthdays, or deadlines, and visualize them in a colorful grid that automatically sorts by what's next. It offers home-screen widgets for quick glances and prioritizes privacy by keeping all data on your device.

Highlights
  • Live countdowns to the second
  • Colorful event grid
  • Automatic event sorting
  • Customizable event colors
  • Home-screen widgets
  • Private and offline functionality
Features
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Later-ish keeps the moments you're looking forward to right in front of you — counting down to the second. Add the things that matter — a trip, a birthday, a deadline, a concert — pick a color, and watch a live countdown tick toward the big day. Your soonest event is always first, and once it arrives it flips to counting up so you never lose track. FEATURES • Live countdowns — down to the second, not just days • A colorful grid of everything you're waiting for • Automatic sorting - whatever's next stays on top • Pick a color for every event • Home-screen widgets (small & medium) so your next event is a glance away • Simple, fast, and private - everything stays on your device No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Just the days you're counting down to.

Screenshots

Glarm4 screens
Later3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Later at 4.8 against Glarm's 3.9. Later also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5). Glarm's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 4). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Glarm sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Later asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Later holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Glarm has 23 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Glarm versus Later: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlarmLater
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (23 ratings)4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdam WienconekMichael Janes

Customer experience

Glarm

All ratings23 ratings
Positive69.6%
Neutral8.7%
Negative21.7%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral8.8%
Negative26.5%

Later

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Glarm

One-time5
  • Generous Tip$0.99
  • Healthy Tip$2.99
  • Awesome Tip$4.99
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  • Unlimited Alarms$4.99
  • Unlimited Alarms$6.99
None

Later

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Glarm free?
Glarm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Later free?
Later is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Glarm or Later?
Later is rated higher. Glarm averages 3.9 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while Later averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Glarm or Later have ads?
Neither Glarm nor Later shows ads.

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