Comparison

Breaking Dawn Alarm vs TimerCal

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

Head to head
About

Breaking Dawn Alarm

Set custom alarms for dawn, sunrise, sunset, and dusk with adjustable offsets and repetition options. Personalize alarm sounds and notification settings. The app uses location services to accurately calculate and update celestial times.

Highlights
  • Alarms for dawn, sunrise, sunset, dusk
  • Adjustable time offsets
  • Weekly repetition options
  • Customizable alarm sounds
  • Notification length and count settings
  • App icon badge display
  • Background time updates
Features
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You can set alarms for dawn, sunrise, sunset, and dusk. Each alarm can have an offset, repetition, label, and sound. Offset allows you to adjust the time when the alarm sounds. I want to wake up by ringing 5 minutes before dawn. I want to ring it 30 minutes before sunset to get ready to go home. I want to ring it 16 hours after sunrise to signal bedtime. You can create alarms such as. You can repeat the alarm by specifying the day of the week. If you select Monday, the alarm will ring at the specified time every Monday. If you select all days of the week, the alarm will ring at the specified time every day. Labels can be used to name each alarm. The type of dawn, offset time, and repetition will be displayed without any special settings. You can select the sound or song for when the alarm sounds. On the sound selection screen, there are items for notification time and number of notifications. The notification time is the time the sound continues to play for up to 30 seconds. You can also set the length of each sound to be between 3 seconds and 30 seconds. If you select a song, it will be fixed at 30 seconds (maximum number of seconds for notification). The number of notifications is the number of times the alarm will be issued, up to 10 times. It can ring for up to 300 seconds with notification time of 30 seconds x number of notifications 10 times. Display the earliest notification time on the app icon badge. *Please allow location information. Uses location information to calculate time. By allowing “always” It is possible to update the time in the background. *Please allow notifications. While the app is in the background Update dawn, sunrise, sunset, and dusk times. *Please leave the app waiting in the background without forcing it to close. In this state, dawn, sunrise, sunset, and sunset times are updated daily. Or by launching the app, those times will also be updated.

About

TimerCal

Features
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■ Your schedule, turned into focus TimerCal is a calendar that starts timers. Check today's events, tap the timer icon next to any of them, and the clock starts running. No more switching to a separate timer app after looking at your schedule. ■ Made for you if you want to ・Spend your study or work hours the way you planned them ・Run several timers at once while cooking or doing chores ・Keep a clean, simple calendar that shows holidays at a glance ・Look back on how much time you actually spent on what ■ A calendar that knows today ・National holidays shown automatically, computed fully offline ・Start the week on Monday or Sunday; Saturdays in blue, Sundays in red ・Smooth, continuous scrolling from 2000 to 2100 ■ A timer next to every event ・Tap a date and the day's events slide up in a sheet ・Count down the planned length, or measure real time with a stopwatch ・Create events with repeats, alerts, and a target calendar ・Sync with the iOS Calendar (EventKit), or keep events local to the app ■ Rings even when the app is closed ・Built on AlarmKit for iOS 26 — your alarm fires reliably in the background ・Remaining time on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island ・Pause or extend by +1/+5/+10 minutes right from the Lock Screen ■ As many timers as you need ・Run multiple countdowns and stopwatches at the same time ・See everything running in the bar at the bottom; swipe to delete ■ Your time, logged automatically ・When a timer ends, the time spent is saved back to that day's event (optional) ・Review where your hours went just by browsing your calendar ■ Design and details ・Two monochrome skins — Ivory and Mono — each with light and dark mode ・Monospaced digits, subtle haptics, and a calm, refined feel ・A friendly tutorial and in-app tips to get you started ・Fully localized into 34 languages ■ Privacy first Calendar access is optional. Without it, the app works fine with local events and offline holidays. ■ About ads A banner ad is shown at the bottom of the screen. You can remove all ads anytime with a one-time purchase in Settings. Start by timing just one event today. Time you used to just look at becomes time you focus. Requires iOS 26.0 or later. Works on iPhone and iPad. ■ About the In-App Purchase ・"Remove Ads" is a one-time (non-consumable) purchase ・Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase ・You can restore it for free anytime via "Restore Purchases" Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kiyaku.mylastwork.net/pryvacy

Screenshots

Breaking Dawn Alarm4 screens
TimerCal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: TimerCal at every 4 days against Breaking Dawn Alarm's every 2 months. Breaking Dawn Alarm's advantage is iOS requirement (17.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Breaking Dawn Alarm ships an update every 2 months, TimerCal every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Breaking Dawn Alarm versus TimerCal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreaking Dawn AlarmTimerCal
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSKTakashi Hamanaka

In-app purchases

None

Breaking Dawn Alarm

No in-app purchases

None

TimerCal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Breaking Dawn Alarm free?
Breaking Dawn Alarm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TimerCal free?
TimerCal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Breaking Dawn Alarm or TimerCal have ads?
Both Breaking Dawn Alarm and TimerCal show ads.
Which is updated more often, Breaking Dawn Alarm or TimerCal?
Breaking Dawn Alarm ships an update every 2 months, and TimerCal every 4 days. Most recently, Breaking Dawn Alarm was updated on October 11, 2026 and TimerCal on October 6, 2026.

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