Comparison

Alarm Clock ◎ vs Safe Notes

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

Head to head
About

Alarm Clock ◎

This app provides a robust alarm clock experience with customizable wake-up challenges, multiple alarm types, and smart features to ensure you get out of bed. It offers a variety of sounds, weather integration, and task-based reminders to help even heavy sleepers start their day.

Highlights
  • Multiple alarm creation
  • Wake-up challenges (math, shake, text)
  • Customizable snooze settings
  • Weather and temperature display
  • Adjustable volume increase/decrease
  • Quick alarm for short tasks
  • Customizable themes and backgrounds
Features
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Get a loud wake up sound with smart alarm settings, weather settings, morning missions, math alarms and more, all from this single full-featured alarm clock app! Alarm Clock is a smart and powerful tool that can help even the heaviest sleepers get up in the morning. Create multiple alarms, each with loud ring tone sounds and alerts, then customize each one with features that help you wake up on time. Need a talking alarm clock with sleep timer? How about a shake-to-wake alarm? A wake-up app with puzzles and math problems that make it harder to hit the snooze button? Alarm Clock has all of these, and much more! If you find it difficult getting up in the morning and need a good puzzle alarm to get you out of bed, Alarm Clock is the app for you. There are six unique wake-up motivational challenges that keep you from turning the alarm off without being fully awake. It's perfect for heavy sleepers! Wake-up missions and alarm types: • Simple - Easy one-tap to dismiss the alarm. • Shake - Shake your device to stop the alarm. • Math - Solve a math problem to turn off the alarm sound. • Text - Unscramble the randomly generated text. • Walk - Get up and take a few steps to switch off the alarm. • Hold - Press & hold the button to terminate the alarm. Alarm Clock has all the features you need from a loud smart alarm app. It includes the wake-up missions and alerts described above, plus the ability to create multiple repeating alarms, quick-set non-recurring alarms, customize tons of settings, and more. The best features in Alarm Clock: • Create multiple alarms for a variety of uses. • Customize the number of times you can hit the snooze button. • Set the snooze time longer or shorter. • Display weather and temperature next to your alarm clock. • Smoothly increase or decrease the volume for a gentle wake-up. • Quick alarm to set a time limit for power naps and other short tasks. • Set a custom theme or photo as your clock background. • Add notes or a to-do list as wakeup reminders. • Lots of free music and loud sounds for an alarm ringtone. • Never oversleep when you use these smart alarm features! A simple but attractive interface makes Alarm Clock pleasing to use, even when you're staring at it through sleepy eyes! Use it to help you or people in your family get up in the morning, even if they're heavy sleepers. Alarm Clock is definitely not your ordinary alarm app. It's better! Alarm Clock offers premium subscription which is available on a yearly tier, auto-renewable. The yearly subscription is priced at 14.99 USD (or local equivalent) per year. Subscribe to the premium program to get access to alarm sounds, wake-up tasks, wallpapers and more... Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews for the same price and duration period as the original package unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. An account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's iTunes Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. You may cancel a subscription during its free trial period via the subscription setting through your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the subscription period to avoid being charged. You may turn off the auto-renewal of your subscription via your iTunes Account Settings. However, you are not able to cancel the current subscription during its active period. Unused portions of free trials, if offered, will be forfeited upon purchase of a subscription. Links to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service: Privacy Policy: http://www.rvappstudios.com/app-privacy-policy.html#privacy/ Terms of Use: http://www.rvappstudios.com/app-privacy-policy.html#terms/

About

Safe Notes

Securely store and organize your thoughts, plans, and sensitive information with a password-protected notepad. Create text notes, checklists, add images and audio, and convert content to PDF for easy sharing. Access your data offline and enjoy automatic backups.

Highlights
  • Password protection
  • Offline access
  • Convert notes to PDF
  • Add photos and audio
  • Organize with tags
  • To-do lists
  • Automatic backup
Features
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Safe Notes is a password-protected notepad that's safe, smart, easy to use and free! Safe Notes gives you a complete and simple notepad to create text notes and checklists. It saves your inspirations, plans, ideas, contacts, passwords, sensitive information, lists or anything you want to organize or remember and keep them private and yet available. You can use Safe Notes as a digital notebook or diary and add pictures, taking them with camera or your gallery. You can keep notes of lectures, business meetings and interviews or if you need quickly transfer URLs, code snippets and email addresses. It is easy to create reminders and to organize data in lists. With the checklist you can plan your day with to do list, make tasks list and tick the completed ones. Safe Notes is intuitive and versatile. You can organise notes using tags to manage your schedules and notes. You can add title to your notes, instead of just the first line of the note and convert text into a checkbox list or vice versa. Safe Notes now allows you to convert your notes and lists to PDF. You can then normally view, store, transfer or share your PDF files. Safe Notes provides safe access using a simple pin number. It stores all your data on the device instead of uploading your personal information on external database. Easy to use with a clean interface, it’s the app that you’re missing on your phone and it is free. Download Safe Notes now. Key features: * Password protection. Protect your notes and checklist with password and lock the whole notepad app with your PIN. * Offline access. Access your notes even without internet connection. * Autosave. The notepad will save your notes automatically while you edit them. * Use your Fingerprint to quickly unlock the app. * Convert your notes and images into PDF * Quickly share your PDF * Automatic Backup (NEW FEATURE) * Backup and Restore (NEW FEATURE) * Tags. Organise your notes and to do list with labels to find them easily. * Search function. Easy search notes and filter tags. * Preferred Notes. Set note importance. * ToDo lists. * Fast memo. Import text data directly from another source. Copy and paste from your phone to your note. * Simple and intuitive user experience. Create. Edit. Delete. * Photo support. Add photos and images to your secure notes. * Audio notes support. Add audio notes to your secure notes. * Text To Speech support * Colours. Use colours to categorise notes by importance, tags or subject or just make your notepad more fun. * Reminders. Set a reminder for your note or for your to do lists and you'll receive a protected local notification: For your privacy, the actual text of the reminder is visible only inside the app! * Tick the completed tasks. * Share. Send and share individual note to yourself or another contact if you need. * Unlimited text size. * Possibility to set a reminder for Notes and ToDo lists and receive a notification to help you remember things! * Multi languages. * Off-line security. You are the only one that knows your password and everything that you write and save it is stored only on your phone instead of app and database. You don't have to trust any other third-party as nobody else have access to it. Nothing is stored online where someone could potentially read it. 100% privacy protection. * Support: HELP will help you to work with notes, checklist and tags. Also you can always contact us if you have some questions. * Free (Safe Notes is a free app and ads supported).

Screenshots

Alarm Clock ◎4 screens
Safe Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Safe Notes at 100% against Alarm Clock ◎'s 63%. Safe Notes also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Alarm Clock ◎'s advantage is ratings volume (3.5K vs 22) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Alarm Clock ◎ sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Safe Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Safe Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alarm Clock ◎ has 3.5K ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Alarm Clock ◎'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Safe Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alarm Clock ◎ ships an update fortnightly, Safe Notes monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Alarm Clock ◎ versus Safe Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlarm Clock ◎Safe Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (3.5K ratings)4.9 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.5K — better22
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size241 MB165 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRV AppStudios LLCMarco Troncone

Customer experience

Alarm Clock ◎

All ratings3,472 ratings
Positive87.2%
Neutral4.5%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews567 reviews
Positive63.0%
Neutral12.7%
Negative24.3%

Safe Notes

All ratings22 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Alarm Clock ◎

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Alarm changing on its own
  • Alarm not working when phone is locked or on silent
  • Inconsistent behavior with alarm sounds and settings

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to import own photos as backgrounds
  • More color options for display
  • Ability to adjust brightness and font size
  • Snooze button placement improvement
  • Weather information updates

Safe Notes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Alarm Clock ◎

Subscriptions10
  • PRO Subscription3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Alarm Clock - Advanced Plus3 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Alarm Clock - Advanced Gold$7.991 Month
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  • Diamond Monthly Subscription$8.991 Month
  • Alarm Clock - Platinum$9.991 Year
  • Premium Subscription3 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Alarm Clock - Ultimate Plus3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Ultimate Subscription3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Diamond Subscription7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Diamond Pro Subscription7 Days trial$29.991 Year
1 purchases

Safe Notes

One-time1
  • Remove ads$2.99

Questions

Is Alarm Clock ◎ free?
Alarm Clock ◎ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Safe Notes free?
Safe Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Alarm Clock ◎ or Safe Notes?
Safe Notes is rated higher. Alarm Clock ◎ averages 4.5 out of 5 from 3.5K ratings, while Safe Notes averages 4.9 from 22 ratings.
Do Alarm Clock ◎ or Safe Notes have ads?
Both Alarm Clock ◎ and Safe Notes show ads.
Which is updated more often, Alarm Clock ◎ or Safe Notes?
Alarm Clock ◎ ships an update fortnightly, and Safe Notes monthly. Most recently, Alarm Clock ◎ was updated on November 11, 2026 and Safe Notes on November 3, 2026.

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