Alarm Clock ◎ vs Disappearing Bedside Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
Disappearing Bedside Clock
This bedside clock fades the display after an adjustable time, allowing for a peaceful rest. Touch, wave, or even a footstep can reveal the time. It offers optional dimming and voice activation for convenience.
- Disappearing clock display
- Touch, wave, or vibration activation
- Adjustable time fadeout
- Optional brightness dimming
- Voice activation with Siri
- Digital or analog display
- Customizable time color
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A bedside clock that keeps you in the dark—except when you want to know the time. The clock display disappears after an adjustable time interval, letting you (and the device) rest peacefully. Touch the screen to check the time, which will again disappear after the adjustable interval. On iPhones in portrait orientation, you don't have to touch the screen to see the time. Simply wave your hand in front of the screen to activate the iPhone's proximity detector and the time display! Or, on all devices, enable adaptive vibration sensing to activate the display with a touch to your nightstand or even a footstep on your floor. Optional brightness dimming is also provided, which lowers the screen's backlight brightness on LCD devices once the clock has disappeared to produce an even darker display and lower power consumption. (The backlight is dimmed as low as possible automatically, but it is not turned off. On iPhones in portrait orientation, holding your hand in front of phone's proximity sensor for a full second will turn off the backlight. ) If you have enabled "Hey Siri!" you can activate the time display with your voice. Simply say "Hey Siri! Goodbye." to see the time! Use Siri to enable Do Not Disturb mode and manage alarms. Embrace the darkness! Features: * Digital or analog, 12 or 24-hour time display options (2 & 3-finger long press toggles) * Swipe right or tap to display the time * Adjustable, automatic time-display fadeout * Swipe left to immediately darken the display * Double tap to toggle between automatic disappearance mode and always-on time display * Pan vertically with two fingers to adjust undimmed display brightness * Optional automatic backlight dimming * Select normal or thin display fonts (one-finger long press to toggle) * Customize the time-display color * Hide date option * No-touch activation > proximity detection on iPhones in portrait orientation > adaptive vibration sensing > voice activation using Siri The default vibration sensitivity setting is quite high, so you may want to decrease it slightly if ambient vibrations are triggering the display unintentionally. No ads, no in-app purchases, no nonsense.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Alarm Clock ◎ at Free against Disappearing Bedside Clock's $2.99. Alarm Clock ◎ also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (3.5K vs 92). Disappearing Bedside Clock's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 12) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
Alarm Clock ◎ is free to download; Disappearing Bedside Clock costs $2.99 up front. Alarm Clock ◎ sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Disappearing Bedside Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.
Alarm Clock ◎ holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alarm Clock ◎ has 3.5K ratings behind it against 92, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Alarm Clock ◎'s written reviews are positive against 80% of Disappearing Bedside Clock's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Alarm Clock ◎ ships an update fortnightly, Disappearing Bedside Clock every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alarm Clock ◎ | Disappearing Bedside Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (3.5K ratings) — better | 4.3 (92 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 80.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.5K — better | 92 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #192 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 239 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RV AppStudios LLC | Midnight Oil Enterprises LLC |
Customer experience
Alarm Clock ◎
Disappearing Bedside Clock
User reviews
Alarm Clock ◎
From 3.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Alarm wakes up instantly
- 👍 Unique features like tasks and power naps
- 👍 Customizable sounds and backgrounds
- 👍 Reliable and consistent
- 👍 Helps deep sleepers wake up
Room to improve
- 🐛 Alarm not always going off as set
- 🔋 Drains battery when left on
- 💰 Expensive subscription required for full features
- 📢 Too many ads in free version
- 🔍 Difficult to find settings and customization options
Disappearing Bedside Clock
From 92 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🌑 Dark and dim display
- 👆 Tap to wake functionality
- ✨ Simple and elegant design
- 💡 Customizable colors
- 🚫 No subscriptions needed
Room to improve
- 🔋 Battery drain concerns
- 💡 Screen stays backlit
- 🐛 Settings change on own
- 🐛 Crash on update
- 🚫 No alarm function
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
Disappearing Bedside Clock
Reported bugs
10 issues- Settings change on their own
- App crashes on open after 14.2 update
- Long-proximity gesture doesn't work
- Backlight trick doesn't work in iOS 13
- Screen doesn't go off
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- Screen stuck at full brightness
- Screen doesn't go completely dark
- Backlight always on faintly
- Wave feature works intermittently
- Crash on open
Requested features
6 requests- Add outside temperature
- Add alarm function
- Add snooze/off button for iOS alarm
- Option for specific hours for always-on vs. vibrate
- Add weather information
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- Change background color
In-app purchases
Alarm Clock ◎
- 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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- Advanced Subscription1 Month trial$7.991 Month
- Diamond Monthly Pro3 Days trial$8.991 Month
- 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
Disappearing Bedside Clock
No in-app purchases
Questions
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