Alaaam vs Breakthrough 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/
Breakthrough Alarm
This app schedules task alarms that interrupt like a true alarm, ensuring you never miss important commitments. It supports recurring alarms, Siri integration, and calendar syncing. Mark tasks as done only when completed.
- Schedule alarms for specific future dates and times
- Repeat alarms daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly
- Create alarms with Siri or Shortcuts
- Sync with Apple Calendar events
- Snooze alarms from presentation or phone buttons
- Mark tasks as 'Done' only when completed
- Home Screen widgets for upcoming alarms
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Never miss the important thing you promised yourself you would do. Breakthrough Alarm schedules task alarms that interrupt like an alarm, not a quiet reminder. Use it for paperwork, calls, errands, appointments, deadlines, routines, and anything that needs to break through your day. Key features: - Schedule alarms for a specific future date and time - Repeat alarms daily, on weekdays or weekends, weekly, monthly, or yearly - Create alarms with Siri or the Shortcuts app - See the task title directly on the alarm - Snooze from the alarm presentation or with phone buttons - Choose a default snooze duration for each alarm - Mark the task Done inside Breakthrough Alarm only when it is actually handled - Sync tagged Apple Calendar events using #alarm or the alarm clock emoji - Optionally turn every calendar event into an alarm - Temporarily silence all alarms while previewing what is due within 24 hours - Review, duplicate, delete, or clear completed-alarm history - Choose from multiple alarm sounds - See upcoming alarms and open them from Home Screen widgets - Store alarm data locally on your device Use up to five active alarms for free. A one-time in-app purchase unlocks unlimited active alarms. Calendar access is optional and used only for calendar sync. Requires iOS 26 or later and AlarmKit access.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Breakthrough Alarm at 3.0 against Alaaam's 1.0. Breakthrough Alarm also leads on ads (none vs shown). Alaaam's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Alaaam sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Breakthrough Alarm sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Breakthrough Alarm holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
Alaaam ships an update every 2 days, Breakthrough Alarm weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alaaam | Breakthrough Alarm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kang Liu | Dennis Yang |
Customer experience
Alaaam
Breakthrough Alarm
In-app purchases
Alaaam
- Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro$1.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
Breakthrough Alarm
- Unlimited Alarms$1.99









