SmarTouch Digital vs Exceptional Alarm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmarTouch Digital
Control your spa's temperature, filtration, and other settings remotely via Bluetooth or WiFi. Schedule operations based on time of day and share access with others.
- Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity
- Temperature settings
- Time-of-day scheduling
- Filtration control
- Share spa connection
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Supports Bluetooth and WiFi connections, temperature settings, time-of-day, Filtration, Share spa connection
Exceptional Alarm
This alarm app helps prevent missed alarms and disruptions. Schedule alarms before calendar events, set recurring alarms with exceptions, or use random sounds for a unique wake-up experience.
- Schedule alarms before calendar events
- Recurring alarms with exceptions
- Alarms silent during meetings
- Random alarm sound selection
- Calendar event integration
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Have you been late to school or work because you forgot to change your alarm? Has your alarm woken you up on your day off because you forgot to disable your alarm? Has your alarm sounded in the middle of an important meeting and disrupted your team? Have you slept through your alarm because you've adapted to the same alarm sound? With Exceptional Alarm, you won't need to answer yes to any of the previous questions again. Schedule an alarm to ring hours and minutes before an event on your calendar, like a class or a shift at work. Schedule an alarm to ring on a regular recurrence, and include exceptions - not ringing - blocked by an event on your calendar. Schedule an alarm to ring on a regular recurrence, but stay silent during events on your meeting calendar and ring minutes afterwards. Schedule your alarm to randomly sound from a selection of sounds on your phone - experience the randomness of a radio alarm, without the need for internet connection. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.rocketsoft.tech/exceptionalAlarm/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Exceptional Alarm at 5.0 against SmarTouch Digital's 2.3. Exceptional Alarm also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 7 months). SmarTouch Digital's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (36 vs 1). On price, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Exceptional Alarm sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. SmarTouch Digital asks for nothing beyond the download.
Exceptional Alarm holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmarTouch Digital has 36 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SmarTouch Digital ships an update every 7 months, Exceptional Alarm every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmarTouch Digital | Exceptional Alarm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (36 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | American Concepts | Jonathan Schoemer |
In-app purchases
SmarTouch Digital
No in-app purchases
Exceptional Alarm
- Exceptional Alarm Pro$1.991 Month
- Yearly Exceptional Alarm Pro$19.991 Year
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