Sun Alarm Clock vs Arrebol
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sun Alarm Clock
Wake up to natural celestial events. This app sets alarms for sunrise, sunset, moon phases, and twilight periods, adapting to your location and daylight saving changes. Customize offsets and manage multiple alarms easily.
- Alarms for sunrise and sunset
- Moonrise and moonset alarms
- Twilight and golden hour alerts
- Customizable offsets
- Location-aware timing
- Supports multiple alarms
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Wake up with the sun. Never miss golden hour. Sun Alarm turns sunrise, sunset, and other sun and moon events into reliable daily alarms — at any place on Earth. **Set alarms for natural events** • Sunrise and sunset • Solar noon • Golden hour and blue hour (morning and evening) • Civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight • Moonrise, moonset, and moon transit • Moon phases: full moon, new moon, first quarter, third quarter, crescents, gibbous • Custom sun altitude (e.g. “sun 5° above horizon”) • Next equinox and solstice **Flexible timing** • At the exact event time, or any number of hours and minutes before or after • Alarms follow the event every day (or next occurrence for moon phases and equinox/solstice) **Any location** • Choose a place on the map or search for a city • Correct time zone for the chosen location, so alarm times stay accurate when you travel or when daylight saving changes **Designed for daily use** • Multiple alarms, each with its own type, place, and offset • Optional names • Snooze and clear from Lock Screen and notifications SunAlarm uses your chosen location’s coordinates and time zone to compute event times, so you get one less thing to think about—and one more reason to look up at the sky. By using SunAlarm, you agree to Apple's standard Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Arrebol
This app provides accurate sunrise and sunset times for your current location. It offers beautiful widgets and lock screen displays, working entirely offline with no data collection. Ideal for those who enjoy nature's daily cycles and value privacy.
- Automatic location-based calculations
- Home screen widgets
- Lock screen time display
- Manual location search
- Offline functionality
- Privacy-focused
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Drag through the day and watch the light change: sunrise, sunset, golden hour, blue hour and the chance of a burning sky, at a glance. • Sunrise, sunset, golden and blue hour, with a countdown • Earth’s Light: turn the globe to see day, twilight and city lights everywhere right now • Shadow: a 3D tree in this moment’s sunlight, showing how long its shadow falls and which way • Chance of a burning sky, and a sky drawn from the forecast • Constellations in AR: hold up your phone to find all 88 • Sun & moon map and AR sky path • Sunrise, sunset and golden hour alerts • Multiple saved places, each in its local time • 24-hour cloud and 10-day outlook • Eclipses, meteor showers, aurora • Widgets and Dynamic Island countdown Weather: Apple Weather. Space weather: NOAA SWPC. Eclipse predictions: Fred Espenak, NASA GSFC. Earth imagery: NASA.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Arrebol at none against Sun Alarm Clock's 3. Arrebol also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.1). Sun Alarm Clock's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 5). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Sun Alarm Clock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Arrebol asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Sun Alarm Clock against 4.6 for Arrebol. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sun Alarm Clock has 27 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 67% and 67% positive.
Sun Alarm Clock ships an update every 3 months, Arrebol every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sun Alarm Clock | Arrebol |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (27 ratings) | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Volker Voecking Software Engineering | Jiawen Sun |
Customer experience
Sun Alarm Clock
Arrebol
In-app purchases
Sun Alarm Clock
- Premium (Monthly)$0.991 Month
- Premium (Yearly)$9.991 Year
- Premium (One-Time Purchase)$29.99
Arrebol
No in-app purchases









