Comparison

Alaaam vs Calendar Alarms

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Calendar event skipping
  • Holiday-friendly scheduling
  • Flexible repeat options
  • Reliable scheduling strategy
  • Fast alarm management
  • Siri and Shortcuts support
Features
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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/

About

Calendar Alarms

This alarm clock intelligently syncs with your calendar to ring only on days you need it. Set your alarm once and link it to specific calendar events, ensuring it activates for workdays or shifts and remains silent otherwise. It uses real system alarms to bypass Silent mode and Focus.

Highlights
  • Calendar event integration
  • Conditional alarm ringing
  • Real system alarms (bypasses Silent/Focus)
  • Siri and Shortcuts support
  • Home/Lock Screen widgets
  • Apple Watch app
Features
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The alarm clock that checks your calendar. Calendar Alarms links your alarm to Apple Calendar. It rings on the days you need to be up – office days, early shifts, gym mornings – and stays silent on the days you don’t. Set an alarm time once and pick the calendar event it should follow, such as “Office” or “Early shift”. Every morning Calendar Alarms checks today’s schedule. If the event is there, it rings. If it isn’t, silence. No more switching alarms off on Friday and back on every Sunday night. No more sleeping through a work day because you forgot. HOW IT WORKS Set your alarm time once Pick a calendar event for it to follow Calendar Alarms checks your calendar every day It rings on matching days and stays silent on the rest See the upcoming ring dates before you save PERFECT FOR Hybrid workers with changing office days Shift workers on a rota Commuters whose week changes from week to week Anyone tired of turning alarms on and off by hand REAL SYSTEM ALARMS Built on Apple’s AlarmKit, so your alarms ring through Silent mode and Focus. HANDS-FREE WITH SIRI Say “Hey Siri, skip my next alarm in Calendar Alarms”, ask what’s set, or switch an alarm on or off – without opening the app. The same actions are in Shortcuts. Skip a day: sit out one morning without switching the alarm off. It rings as normal on the next matching day. Just describe it: type “wake me at half seven on gym days” and the alarm fills itself in, on your iPhone. Needs Apple Intelligence. CALENDAR ALARMS PREMIUM A one-time purchase, never a subscription, that unlocks: 15 alarm sounds, from Morning Birds to Deep Gong – tap play to hear any of them first Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets showing your next alarm An Apple Watch app with watch face complications iCloud sync, so your alarms stay the same on every device signed in to your account Just want the sounds? The Sound Library unlocks all 15 on their own. Available in English, French, German, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Arabic.

Screenshots

Alaaam3 screens
Calendar Alarms4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Calendar Alarms at 100% against Alaaam's 0%. Calendar Alarms also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Alaaam sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Calendar Alarms sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Calendar Alarms holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Alaaam's written reviews are positive against 100% of Calendar Alarms's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alaaam ships an update every 2 days, Calendar Alarms every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Alaaam versus Calendar Alarms: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlaaamCalendar Alarms
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKang LiuTristan Beasley

Customer experience

Alaaam

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Calendar Alarms

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Alaaam

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime Pro$1.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
2 purchases

Calendar Alarms

One-time2
  • Sound Library$1.99
  • CalendarAlarm Premium$4.99

Questions

Is Alaaam free?
Alaaam is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Calendar Alarms free?
Calendar Alarms is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Alaaam or Calendar Alarms?
Calendar Alarms is rated higher. Alaaam averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Calendar Alarms averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Alaaam or Calendar Alarms have ads?
Alaaam shows ads; Calendar Alarms does not.
Which is updated more often, Alaaam or Calendar Alarms?
Alaaam ships an update every 2 days, and Calendar Alarms every 3 days. Most recently, Alaaam was updated on November 5, 2026 and Calendar Alarms on November 7, 2026.

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