Aida Wake vs References
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aida Wake
This alarm clock app offers customizable wake-up experiences with music from your library or built-in sounds. It features an auto-snooze function and a sleep timer to help you drift off to sleep peacefully. Critical Alerts ensure alarms sound even when muted.
- Auto-Snooze with customizable intervals
- Wake up to music from your library
- Sleep timer with fade-out
- Critical Alerts for guaranteed sound
- Recurrent and one-time alarms
- Backup and restore alarms
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Aida Wake-Up Alarm has an Auto-Snooze feature to ensure you get up on time. You can choose a song from your music library to wake up gently every morning. It also has a sleep timer, allowing you to fall asleep pleasantly while listening to your favorite songs. Never miss an alarm with Critical Alerts. Critical Alerts always play a sound and appear on the lock screen even if your device is muted or Do Not Disturb is on. They are optional and can be enabled or disabled in settings. You don't have to leave the app open for the alarm to work. WAKE-UP ALARM • Auto-Snooze: Automatically repeat the alarm up to 5 times at regular intervals (e.g. 1 min, 5 mins, 10 mins) until you take action • Snooze alarms directly from the notification banner or from the lock screen • Snooze time is customizable • You can pick a song from your music library to wake up gently every morning • Easily skip the next occurrence of an alarm • Recurrent alarms (weekdays, weekends) or one-time alarms • Set as many alarms as you need • Backup and restore alarms on the same device or multiple devices • 10 built-in alarm sounds SLEEP TIMER • Fall asleep easily while listening to your favorite songs • Create your own playlist • Option to shuffle and play all songs • Music gently fades out when time is up • Supports Audiobooks, Podcasts, and iTunes U GENERAL • Critical Alerts support • VoiceOver accessibility support • Dark Mode • Automatically adjusts to the font size selected on the device • Notifications are local. No internet connection required • App doesn't need to be open to receive notifications • Universal App, full native support for iPhone and iPad
References
Browse and interact with your BibTeX libraries on your mobile device. View references, follow links, and access file attachments like PDFs. Supports both classic BibTeX and BibLaTeX formats.
- Browse BibTeX libraries
- Search references
- Follow links (DOIs, URLs)
- View file attachments (PDFs)
- Supports BibLaTeX
- Group by keywords
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Carry your BibTeX libraries with you on your iPad and iPhone! A BibTeX library is a collection of bibliographic references (papers, books, reports, etc.), designed to work with the LaTeX typesetting system. Each library is stored in a specially-formatted text file (typically ending in .bib), which you can create with your favourite text editor. The References app gives you an easy way to browse through and interact with your BibTeX libraries. You can scroll, search, follow links, and view file attachments. In particular: - The app creates links from DOIs, MathSciNet references, ACM IDs, and of course URLs. - The app understands elementary LaTeX, so if your titles and/or abstracts contain markup or mathematics (and if your LaTeX is simple enough) then the app can display them nicely. - If you used BibDesk or JabRef to create your library, the app can view your file attachments (e.g., PDFs that you have attached to your references). - You can view references grouped by keywords, if you use the Keywords field in your BibTeX libraries. You can also view all of your smart/static groups from BibDesk, and your dynamic/static groups from JabRef. - The app supports BibLaTeX libraries as well as classic BibTeX. The References app can open BibTeX libraries from anywhere on your device. In particular, you can use iCloud Drive to keep them synchronised between your devices. This app is read-only, not an editor. It takes great care in helping you view and explore BibTeX libraries and their links and file attachments; however, it does not provide a way to modify your libraries. References is lovingly created by human hands. FILE ATTACHMENTS: To view file attachments (e.g., PDFs), the path to each file should be included in the corresponding entry in your BibTeX library. You can do this using the specially encoded Bdsk-File-* fields (as used by BibDesk), or the plain text File field (as used by JabRef). If you are writing your BibTeX files by hand, just add a File field giving the location of the attachment, such as File = {../PDFs/foo.pdf}. You can tell References where to find these attachments by linking folders in your app settings. The app will look for your attachments within these folders – for example, if you link your Documents folder then the app will be able to match the BibTeX field {../PDFs/foo.pdf} to a real location such as Documents/PDFs/foo.pdf or Documents/foo.pdf. The app is able to read attachments stored on your device, or on iCloud Drive, or on third-party providers including Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Nextcloud or OneDrive. If you are having trouble viewing attachments from a third-party provider, please mail the References developer with the details. FURTHER INFORMATION: To learn more about BibTeX, see http://www.bibtex.org/ .
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: References at 89% against Aida Wake's 48%. References also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4). Aida Wake's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $4.99) and chart position (#197 vs unranked). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Aida Wake costs $0.99 and References $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
References holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 63 and 25 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Aida Wake's written reviews are positive against 89% of References's.
Aida Wake ships an update every 4 weeks, References monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Aida Wake | References |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (63 ratings) | 4.9 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.0% of reviews | 88.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #197 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergio Licea | Benjamin Burton |
Customer experience
Aida Wake
References
In-app purchases
Aida Wake
No in-app purchases
References
No in-app purchases









