Comparison

Cuckoo vs Weekly Alarm Clock

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

Head to head
About

Cuckoo

This utility app simulates a cuckoo clock, chiming every hour and half-hour. Users can toggle the cuckoo sound on or off and customize alarm modes. Additional sounds and background images are available for purchase, along with an option to remove ads.

Highlights
  • Hourly and half-hourly cuckoo chimes
  • Customizable alarm modes
  • Add-on purchases for sounds and backgrounds
  • Ad removal option
  • Toggleable cuckoo sound
Features
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This is "Cuckoo Clock". When this app running, Cuckoo sing every hour and every 30minutes. When you want hear Cuckoo Singing, press the switch button inside of bottom.Cuckoo Singing about 30 Hour. If you don't need Cuckoo, please switch off again. You can change Alarm mode and Custom. And can buy add-on for additional sounds, background images also remove Ad. App URL scheme is: cuckoo://

About

Weekly Alarm Clock

This utility app provides a customizable alarm clock with weekly scheduling options. Users can set their favorite music as a wake-up alarm and use a sleep timer with soothing sounds to fall asleep. It offers features like snooze, vibration, and fade-in alarms.

Highlights
  • Weekly alarm scheduling
  • Custom music alarms
  • Sleep timer with music
  • Snooze functionality
  • Fade-in alarm
  • Vibration alerts
Features
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A simple alarm clock app that supports a weekly schedule of alarms. Set your favorite music as your wake-up alarm, and start your day feeling great! ALARM FUNCTIONS: - Snooze (3 - 30 minutes) - Vibration - Fade in alarm - Weekly scheduling OTHER FEATURES: - Sleep timer (sleep music) - 12 hour and 24 hour time format - Vertical and horizontal modes MORNING: Use music of your choice or select one of the preset alarms to wake up happy and smiling. EVENING: Relax and fall asleep to the sound of your favorite song or one of the preset sleep music. APP FEATURES: It has a feature that allows you to listen to sleeping music when you are ready to retire for the night. Through this feature, users can be smoothly lead off to sleep. WHY WE DEVELOPED THIS APP: The planning for this app started when we happened to hear from a nursery school teacher that, "The children always sleep well on rainy days." Through further investigation, we heard the same thing, not just from other nursery school teachers, but many mothers as well. But, through what mechanism this was happening by remained unclear. There are various theories, such as an atmospheric pressure theory (it was due to low atmospheric pressure), a light intensity theory (it was due to the sky being dark and cloudy), and a sound theory (it was due to the sound of rain being close to an f/1 tremor). We decided to focus on the sound theory and added a feature, to a basic alarm clock app that plays sleeping music, such as the sound of rain.

Screenshots

Cuckoo4 screens
Weekly Alarm Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Weekly Alarm Clock at 4.4 against Cuckoo's 3.4. Weekly Alarm Clock also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (364 vs 16). Cuckoo's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 9 months) and review sentiment (68% vs 55%). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cuckoo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Weekly Alarm Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Weekly Alarm Clock holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Weekly Alarm Clock has 364 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of Cuckoo's written reviews are positive against 55% of Weekly Alarm Clock's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cuckoo ships an update every 3 months, Weekly Alarm Clock every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Cuckoo versus Weekly Alarm Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCuckooWeekly Alarm Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (16 ratings)4.4 (364 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.0% of reviews — better54.9% of reviews
Number of ratings16364 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 9 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.612.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperToshihiko TamboHANBUNCO, INC.

Customer experience

Cuckoo

All ratings16 ratings
Positive56.3%
Neutral6.3%
Negative37.5%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive68.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative22.0%

Weekly Alarm Clock

All ratings364 ratings
Positive85.2%
Neutral5.5%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews173 reviews
Positive54.9%
Neutral14.5%
Negative30.6%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cuckoo

One-time1
  • Cuckoo Premium Feature$0.99
None

Weekly Alarm Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cuckoo free?
Cuckoo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Weekly Alarm Clock free?
Weekly Alarm Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cuckoo or Weekly Alarm Clock?
Weekly Alarm Clock is rated higher. Cuckoo averages 3.4 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while Weekly Alarm Clock averages 4.4 from 364 ratings.
Do Cuckoo or Weekly Alarm Clock have ads?
Both Cuckoo and Weekly Alarm Clock show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cuckoo or Weekly Alarm Clock?
Cuckoo ships an update every 3 months, and Weekly Alarm Clock every 9 months. Most recently, Cuckoo was updated on September 19, 2026 and Weekly Alarm Clock on September 25, 2026.

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