Alaaam vs Voice Message Alarm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alaaam
This smart alarm app integrates with your calendar to ensure wake-up routines remain reliable through complex schedules, holidays, and shift changes. It offers flexible repeat options and voice command support for easy management.
- Calendar event skipping
- Holiday-friendly scheduling
- Flexible repeat options
- Reliable scheduling strategy
- Fast alarm management
- Siri and Shortcuts support
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This is a smart alarm app built for people with complex schedules. It combines system alarms with calendar-based rules so your wake-up routine stays reliable even across holidays, shift changes, and temporary events. Key features - Smart skip rules: Automatically skip alarms that conflict with selected calendar events. - Holiday-friendly scheduling: Designed for holiday-sensitive routines, including regions with adjusted workdays. - Flexible repeat options: Daily, weekdays, weekends, custom cycles, and biweekly patterns. - Reliable scheduling strategy: Uses repeating alarms for simple cases and fixed-date alarms when exclusion rules are enabled. - Fast management: Create, edit, enable, disable, and delete alarms with automatic rescheduling after changes. - Siri and Shortcuts support: Create and manage alarms with voice commands and App Shortcuts. Who it is for - People switching between workdays and holidays - Users with rotating shifts or biweekly work patterns - Anyone who needs alarm behavior aligned with calendar events Reliability note Final alarm delivery depends on system scheduling policies. The app automatically syncs and rebuilds schedules after rule changes to keep behavior predictable. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Voice Message Alarm
Record your own voice message to use as an alarm. Instead of a generic sound, hear a personal reminder in your own voice to get you out of bed. This makes waking up more effective and harder to ignore.
- Record custom voice messages
- Use personal recordings as alarms
- No generic ringtones or beeps
- Effective wake-up reminders
- Simple and clear interface
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Wake Up to Your Own Voice Voice Alarm plays a short message you record — in your own voice — instead of a generic alarm sound. No beeps. No ringtones. Just a clear reminder telling you exactly why you need to wake up. “Wake up for your flight.” “Early meeting — don’t be late.” “Time to take your medication.” It’s harder to ignore. And it works.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Voice Message Alarm at 80% against Alaaam's 0%. Voice Message Alarm also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Alaaam's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price 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
Both are free to download. Alaaam sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Voice Message Alarm asks for nothing beyond the download.
Voice Message Alarm holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Voice Message Alarm has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Alaaam's written reviews are positive against 80% of Voice Message Alarm's.
Alaaam ships an update every 2 days, Voice Message Alarm weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Alaaam | Voice Message Alarm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.5 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kang Liu | Daniel Eid |
Customer experience
Alaaam
Voice Message Alarm
In-app purchases
Alaaam
- Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro$1.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
Voice Message Alarm
No in-app purchases
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