Comparison

Chime vs Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up

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

Head to head
About

Chime

Features
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Set chimes every 15, 30 or 60 minutes.

About

Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up

This alarm clock provides a spoken briefing upon waking, including local weather, top headlines, and a daily quote. It aims to deliver essential morning information via voice, eliminating the need to check multiple apps.

Highlights
  • Spoken morning briefing
  • Local weather updates
  • Customizable news headlines
  • Choice of speaking voices
  • Preview briefing content
  • Repeat days and snooze
Features
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A talking alarm clock that actually tells you something. When it goes off, a real voice greets you and reads your morning out loud: the local weather, today's top headlines, and a line worth thinking about — before your feet hit the floor. Most alarms just make noise. You silence the buzz, grab your phone, and lose ten minutes scrolling weather and news apps in bed. This one flips that around: the information you were going to look up anyway arrives as speech, while you're still stretching. No screen. No scrolling. Just a voice telling you what kind of day you woke up into. WHAT YOU GET - Wake to a spoken briefing instead of a beep — greeting, weather, headlines, and a daily quote read aloud the moment the alarm fires - Know the weather before you get dressed, with the current condition, temperature, feels-like, and humidity for where you are right now - Hear today's headlines while your eyes are still closed, in the news category you care about: general, tech, sports, business, science, health, or entertainment - Pick the voice that gets you moving — seven speaking styles including calm, energetic, deep, warm, British, and Australian, with speed and pitch you can dial in - Hear exactly what your alarm will say before you trust it, by previewing the full briefing any time from the Today screen - Keep your mornings on rails with repeat days, labels, snooze, and a history of every briefing you woke up to PERFECT FOR - Early risers who check weather and news within five minutes of waking anyway - Commuters who need to know if it's raining before they pick a jacket - Anyone who hits snooze on a plain buzzer but sits up when someone talks - People who want their phone to inform them in the morning, not swallow them WHY NOT JUST USE THE BUILT-IN CLOCK The built-in clock wakes you. It doesn't tell you it's 39 degrees and drizzling, or what happened overnight. That still costs you a phone-in-bed detour every single morning. This app hands you the same information as speech, in a voice you chose, in the seconds you'd otherwise spend squinting at a screen. PRIVACY No account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking. Your alarms, settings, and briefing history stay on your device. Location is used only to look up your local weather, and speech is generated on-device by iOS text-to-speech — your briefing is never sent anywhere to be read. FULL ACCESS Free includes one alarm, the default voice, and a briefing with one headline. Full Access unlocks unlimited alarms, all seven voices with speed and pitch control, up to five headlines per briefing, and your full alarm history. Available as a weekly subscription, a yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock — your choice, restore any time. Set tomorrow's alarm tonight, turn the briefing on, and hear how different a morning sounds. Terms of Use (EULA): https://web-levi.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://web-levi.web.app/privacy-policy Questions? tphuc.work@gmail.com

Screenshots

Chime1 screens
Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up at Free against Chime's $0.99. Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). Chime's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up is free to download; Chime costs $0.99 up front. Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chime asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chime ships an update every 2 months, Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up monthly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Chime versus Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChimeTalking Alarm Clock Wake Up
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—1.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVasyl BaranPhuc Pham

In-app purchases

None

Chime

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up

One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$29.99

Questions

Is Chime free?
Chime costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up free?
Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chime or Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up have ads?
Neither Chime nor Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chime or Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up?
Chime ships an update every 2 months, and Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up monthly. Most recently, Chime was updated on October 31, 2026 and Talking Alarm Clock Wake Up on October 31, 2026.

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