MusicAlarm Gold vs Secure Text Message
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MusicAlarm Gold
Wake up to your favorite music or voice recordings with this versatile alarm app. It offers custom alarm tones, sleep timers, and holiday settings to ensure you never miss an important event or oversleep on your days off. Enjoy a more pleasant wake-up experience tailored to your preferences.
- MP3 alarm with personal playlists
- Voice recording alarm
- Music timer for sleeping
- Holiday sleep-in settings
- Background alarm functionality
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MusicAlarm helps you wake up with the music you love and skip alarms on the days you want to rest. Key features - Play alarm music from songs, albums, artists, and playlists in your music library - Skip alarms on public holidays or your own custom holidays - Create notification sounds from your own TTS text - Generate hourly voice sets and custom chime times - Choose different chime sounds by time - Fall asleep with the music timer and stop playback automatically - Configure alarm volume, fade in, snooze, and wake check options You can make sounds such as “Time for lunch” or “It is one o’clock” and use them for alarms or regular chimes. Chimes can run on the hour or at your own custom times. Notification, sound, and media-library permissions are required. For reliable music alarms, follow the in-app setup and battery-saving guidance. Apple Watch companion View iPhone alarms, repeat schedules, holiday rules, skipped dates, and the next alarm on Apple Watch. With a confirmed iPhone connection, turn individual alarms on or off and stop or snooze alarms detected as ringing by the iPhone app. Alarm scheduling and music playback run on iPhone; Apple Watch does not play music or run standalone alarms.
Secure Text Message
This app provides a secure method for sending private messages. It allows users to encrypt and decrypt text using a password, then send it directly via text message or email. Saved messages can also be copied to the clipboard.
- Encrypt and decrypt messages
- Send as text message
- Send as email
- Save to clipboard
- Landscape and portrait modes
- Password protection
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„Secure Text Message“ is an easy and save way to send secret messages. :: Encrypt and decrypt messages Using a self-selected password will scramble your messages. Based on your chosen password, the text can be unscrambled. :: Text-messages Send the encrypted or decrypted message directly from the app as a text-message. You don’t have to close the app in a complicated way. :: E-mail Send the encrypted or decrypted message directly from the app as an e-mail. You don’t have to close the app in a complicated way. :: Clipboard Save your encrypted or decrypted messages in your clipboard. :: Landscape and Portrait-mode To write with the large keyboard you just have to alternate your iPhone into landscape mode. :: And the best of all it’s free! Your data is NOT stored at any time anywhere! Just your opposite is able to decrypt your message with the right password.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MusicAlarm Gold at 90% against Secure Text Message's 0%. MusicAlarm Gold also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 36 months). Secure Text Message's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and iOS requirement (7.1 vs 16.0). On 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
Secure Text Message is free to download; MusicAlarm Gold costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MusicAlarm Gold ships an update every 3 weeks, Secure Text Message every 36 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MusicAlarm Gold | Secure Text Message |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 36 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 7.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | nowApp Inc. | Geekme |
Customer experience
MusicAlarm Gold
Secure Text Message
Bugs and requests
MusicAlarm Gold
Reported bugs
7 issues- Alarm sometimes doesn't go off
- Blank screen when setting time
- App freezes phone
- Alarm not working with earphones
- iTunes Match compatibility issue
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- Default cricket chirp sound is annoying and hard to disable
- Alarm volume issues with morning call
Requested features
10 requests- More sound choices
- UI update for better aesthetics
- Ability to go to homepage after snoozing
- Retina display support for front screen
- Fix iTunes Match compatibility
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- Fix issue with alarm not working with earphones
- Fix blank screen issue when setting time
- Fix app freezing issue
- Option to turn off default cricket chirp sound
- Fix alarm volume issues with morning call
Secure Text Message
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MusicAlarm Gold
No in-app purchases
Secure Text Message
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is MusicAlarm Gold free?
Is Secure Text Message free?
Do MusicAlarm Gold or Secure Text Message have ads?
Which is updated more often, MusicAlarm Gold or Secure Text Message?
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