Rouse vs Sequence

Rouse keeps you on time and on track — alarms that fire through Silent Mode, timed routines with voice coaching, and private on-device sleep insights. Morning routine, HIIT workout, Pomodoro study session, or just making sure you wake up. Your alarms actually work. Built on Apple's AlarmKit for iOS 26, they survive Silent Mode, Do Not Disturb, Focus, restarts, and app updates — the same system-level reliability as the built-in Clock app, with far more features. TIMED ROUTINES WITH VOICE COACHING Build step-by-step routines for any part of your day. Voice coaching announces each step hands-free — for mornings when you're still waking up, workouts when your phone is across the room, or study sessions when you'd rather not look at a screen. - 20+ presets: morning, HIIT, Pomodoro, meditation, study, kids bedtime, shift work - HIIT repeat groups — set 4 exercises, repeat 8 times, voice counts every round - Second-precision steps for Tabata, EMOM, and interval circuits - Voice announces countdowns, step transitions, and time elapsed & remaining - Live Activity shows progress on your Lock Screen - One routine free with full voice coaching; Premium unlocks unlimited routines and repeat groups RELIABLE ALARMS AlarmKit-powered alarms fire through Silent Mode, DND, Focus, and restarts. No notification workarounds. Real system-level alarms. - 10 wake-up missions: Math, Shake, QR Code, Steps, Pattern, Photo Match, Typing, Puzzle, Rotation, Language + chains - Snooze degradation, rescue alarms, cascading escalation - Smart Alarm detects light sleep for gentler wake-ups - Wake-Up Check confirms you're actually awake TIMERS WITH VOICE ANNOUNCEMENTS Set cooking timers, focus blocks, or nap alarms — voice announcements count down the final seconds and confirm when time's up from across the room. Timer Check follows up if you miss it. MILESTONE COUNTDOWNS Count down to the dates that matter — and count up from the ones you'll never forget. Birthdays, retirements, sobriety, due dates, anniversaries, exam dates, deadlines. Each countdown auto-flips when the date arrives. - Recurring countdowns — set "Christmas" once, it rolls forward yearly - 31 one-tap holiday templates: Christmas, Easter, Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, Lunar New Year, and more — locale-aware - Streak tracking on count-ups: best streak + reset count for sobriety, no-spend days, habits - Tap to cycle display formats: years, months, days, hours, colon, full units - Up to 5 alerts per countdown with smart Focus behavior - Timezone-anchored, so a date set anywhere reads the same everywhere - Lock Screen widget for your most important date 2 countdowns free; unlimited with Premium. ON-DEVICE SLEEP INSIGHTS Apple Intelligence analyzes your sleep patterns and writes personal sleep stories, weekly and monthly reports, and morning briefings with weather, calendar, and commute context — without leaving your iPhone. 100% PRIVATE No accounts. No tracking. No analytics. No ads. Your sleep and health data never leaves your device — not even to us. - No account to create, sign in to, or delete — not even an anonymous one - All AI runs on-device; nothing is sent to any AI service - Only network traffic: App Store purchases (RevenueCat), Apple WeatherKit, and a launch settings file EVERYTHING ELSE - Bedside clock, 13 faces, burn-in protected - 30 alarm sounds, escalating volume - 17 sleep sounds + 8 noise types - Back up & restore alarms, timers, routines & countdowns - Stopwatches with laps, HealthKit sleep sync, 8 color themes - Streaks, Morning Score, 22 achievements Unlimited alarms and timers, 2 stopwatches, 2 countdowns, and one routine with voice coaching — all free, no account. Premium unlocks all 10 missions, AI insights, unlimited routines, repeat groups, unlimited countdowns, and 45 premium sounds — monthly, annual, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Rouse uses Apple's Terms of Use (EULA), which may be found here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Sequence is the timer for everything you do in steps. A workout, a pomodoro, a whole dinner on the stove. Build it exactly how you want, then let it run itself. Most timers give you one countdown. Sequence gives you stages that flow into each other, voice cues that tell you the next move, and as many timers running at once as your day needs. BUILD ANY TIMER YOU CAN PICTURE Stages, durations, colors, repeating blocks, and spoken cues. Set a round to count itself down eight times, drop in a halfway alert, name the cue in your own words. Your routine, exact to the second. IT JUST FLOWS HIIT, Tabata, run/walk. Every round counts itself down and rolls straight into the next. Set the intervals once and keep moving, eyes on your workout instead of your phone. Want a checkpoint? Turn on hold-to-confirm so a stage waits for you before it advances. RUN AS MANY AS YOU LIKE Steak searing, potatoes roasting, a sauce reducing. Sequence runs every timer at once and tells you exactly what fires next, so nothing gets missed and nothing burns. CUES ACROSS THE ROOM Every change calls out with a chime, a spoken word, and a full-screen cue you can read from the stove or the far end of the gym. Hands full? You will still know. LIVE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN Every running timer shows up on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Glance, skip a stage, or pause without unlocking. READY THE MOMENT YOU OPEN IT Start with built-in presets for cooking, HIIT, pomodoro, run/walk, breathing, and more. Run them as they are, or use them as a starting point for your own. YOURS FOREVER One payment. No subscription, ever. Buy once to build and customize without limits, and keep everything you make. Cooking, training, focus, breathing, chores. If it happens in steps, Sequence times it.