SyncUp vs DoomIt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SyncUp
This alarm clock helps heavy sleepers wake up on time by syncing with a partner, requiring challenge completion to dismiss, or implementing a paid snooze feature. Track your progress with streaks and stats, and customize sounds and challenges to fit your routine.
- Partner alarm synchronization
- Wake-up challenges (math, physical)
- Optional paid snooze feature
- Wake-up streaks and statistics
- Customizable alarm sounds and challenges
- Real-time wake-up status sharing
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Wake up together — even from miles apart. SyncUp is the alarm clock that actually gets heavy sleepers out of bed: sync your alarm with a wake-up buddy, solve a challenge to shut it off, or charge yourself for every snooze. Three ways to finally wake up on time. PARTNER MODE Pair your alarm with a friend, roommate, or partner and see each other's wake-up status in real time. Still snoozing? Get a nudge. It's shared accountability that works whether you're in the same house or different time zones. WAKE-UP CHALLENGES Tapping "dismiss" half-asleep isn't an option. Before your alarm stops, you'll solve a challenge — a math problem, or physically getting up to touch grass — to prove you're actually awake. Pick the challenge type and difficulty that fit your routine. PAID SNOOZE (OPTIONAL) For anyone who needs real stakes: every snooze charges you $0.99, straight from your account. Get up and you keep it. Sleep in and you pay for it. Available to everyone, free or Pro. ALSO INCLUDES - Wake-up streaks and stats to track your progress - Customizable alarm sounds, challenge types, and snooze pricing - Activity feed with your full wake-up history PLANS - SyncUp Pro — Unlimited alarms, all challenge types including partner challenges, and more. - Paid Snooze (optional) — Add extra motivation with a charge per snooze. Available to all users, free or Pro. Terms of Use: https://syncupalarm.com/terms Privacy: https://syncupalarm.com/privacy Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions can be managed, and auto-renewal turned off, in Account Settings after purchase. Lifetime Purchases are a one-time purchase for lifetime access.
DoomIt
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Other apps block your phone. This one does too — but it lets you earn the time first. You start with a small daily budget. Everything beyond that, you earn. Two ways to do it. THE NIGHT Set a night window, say 10 PM to 7 AM. Inside it, the apps you picked are closed. Every hour the phone stays down is worth a few minutes the next morning. Not all-or-nothing: reach for it at 3 AM and you only lose the hours after that — not the whole night. THE BODY Push-ups, squats, plank, steps. Every exercise credits minutes right away. Want to scroll now? Do the push-ups now. The camera counts along — entirely on your device. No image is stored, none is ever sent. THE STREAK Clear both daily challenges in a day and the streak lives on. It's the only thing that carries past midnight — after five days held, you collect the minutes. A joker saves it across exactly one missed day. THE RATE IS FIXED What a night hour pays and what an exercise is worth is built in. An exchange rate you can adjust yourself isn't one. YOUR HISTORY For every day it shows what you earned and what you spent. Every minute has an origin. WHAT STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Which apps you block never leaves the device — iOS only hands the app anonymous tokens; it can't see what you picked. No sign-up, no tracking, no ads. THE WIDGET IS THE APP Remaining minutes right on your home screen. Our idea of success is unusual: we want you to open the app less, not more. Doomit uses Apple Screen Time (Family Controls) to lock the apps you choose during your night window. https://doomit.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: DoomIt at 17.0 against SyncUp's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads 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. SyncUp sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and DoomIt sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SyncUp ships an update every 3 weeks, DoomIt fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SyncUp | DoomIt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Phillip Boscarino | Moritz Maximilian Fricke |
In-app purchases
SyncUp
- SyncUp Pro Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- SyncUp Pro Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Bypass Alarm$0.99
- SyncUp Pro Lifetime$44.99
DoomIt
- DoomIt Monthly$2.991 Month
- DoomIt Yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
- 20 min$0.99
- 20 min$1.99
- 20 min$2.99
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- DoomIt Lifetime$24.99









