OpenAlarm vs AutoSnooze Bedside Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OpenAlarm
This alarm clock offers multiple challenges to ensure you wake up, including math problems, memory games, or physical actions. It allows for a snooze budget and wake-up checks to prevent oversleeping. The app also supports nap timers with lock screen controls.
- Multiple disarm challenges (Math, Memory, Steps, Shake, Scan)
- Customizable snooze budget
- Wake-up check feature
- Repeating weekday/weekend alarms
- Nap countdown timers
- Lock screen and Dynamic Island controls
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OpenAlarm is the alarm clock for mornings when a normal alarm is too easy to silence. Build alarms around the way you actually wake up: • Require one or more disarm challenges: Math, Memory, Steps, Shake, or Scan • Set a snooze budget so snoozing eventually stops being an option • Enable a wake-up check that asks whether you are still awake a few minutes later • Schedule repeating weekday and weekend alarms • Skip or move one occurrence without changing the repeating schedule • Start nap countdowns and pause or extend them • Control active naps from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island OpenAlarm uses Apple’s alarm system so scheduled alarms remain dependable. Your alarms and settings stay on your device. There are no accounts, ads, analytics, or tracking. OpenAlarm is free and open source.
AutoSnooze Bedside Clock
This app transforms your iPhone into a classic bedside clock with large, bright digits on a dark background. It features a screen that stays on, adjustable brightness, and two gentle alarms with customizable sounds. Designed for nightstand use, it operates without ads or network access.
- Always-on display
- Adjustable brightness slider
- Portrait and landscape modes
- 12/24-hour format
- Two gentle alarms
- Customizable alarm sounds
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AutoSnooze turns your iPhone into a classic bedside clock: big red 7-segment LED digits on a pure black background, drawn like a real LED panel — faint ghost segments included. Made for the nightstand: - The screen stays on while the app is open — no sleep, no lock - Tap the display for a brightness slider; dim it to a whisper for dark bedrooms (your level is remembered) - Works in portrait and landscape - Follows your 12/24-hour setting, with a small AM/PM indicator - No ads, no tracking, no network access — nothing but a clock Two gentle alarms: - Each with its own time, on/off switch, and sound (Chime, Gong, Bell, or Beep) - An alarm plays its sound once and stops. No snooze, no repeats, no "dismiss" dance at 7 AM — it respects that you heard it - Alarms sound even if the silent switch is on Note: AutoSnooze is a bedside clock, not a background alarm app. Alarms fire while the app is open on your nightstand — leave it running on the charger overnight, as intended.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AutoSnooze Bedside Clock at 5.0 against OpenAlarm's 2.8. AutoSnooze Bedside Clock also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). OpenAlarm's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
AutoSnooze Bedside Clock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OpenAlarm has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | OpenAlarm | AutoSnooze Bedside Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Gretzke | Dialogs Apps, Inc. |
In-app purchases
OpenAlarm
No in-app purchases
AutoSnooze Bedside Clock
No in-app purchases
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