Comparison

Alarm vs Wake Boom

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

Head to head
About

Alarm

This offline alarm clock announces each alarm's label aloud using your device's voice. It prioritizes privacy with no ads, account requirements, or data collection. Designed for ease of use, even when groggy, it offers customizable repeat schedules and bypass options for silent modes.

Highlights
  • Talking alarms with custom labels
  • Offline functionality
  • No ads or data collection
  • Customizable repeat schedules
  • Silent mode bypass
  • Snooze and dismiss controls
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Wake up to an alarm that tells you why it is ringing. Noler is a lightweight talking alarm clock for mornings, daily routines and reminders. Give your voice alarm a label such as "Time for work" or "Leave for the airport" and hear it read aloud using on-device speech. Set a one-time alarm or repeat it on selected days of the week. See your next scheduled alarm at a glance and use large snooze and dismiss controls when you are still sleepy. An alarm sound is the fallback if speech cannot be used. Normal alarm use is fully offline: scheduling, labels, speech and alarm records need no Wi-Fi or mobile data. Alarms, settings and attachments stay on your device. No ads, analytics, behavioral tracking, account, cloud sync, subscriptions or in-app purchases. Battery saving starts with less to do. Noler has no weather or horoscope feeds, advertising, analytics, cloud syncing or other background online feeds. Omitting those services avoids their network and processing workload. Actual battery use depends on your device, settings and alarm use; no fixed saving is promised. Built with Rust for a shared application core and interface. Choose from 39 interface locales. There is no sleep tracking, snore recording or news feed behind your morning alarm. Live pages in Settings, such as Terms and Privacy, use an internet connection only when you choose to open them.

About

Wake Boom

This alarm app uses interactive "missions" instead of a snooze button to ensure you wake up. Choose from math problems, memory games, shaking, or photo challenges to turn off your alarm. It offers a premium subscription for advanced features and custom sounds.

Highlights
  • Interactive wake-up missions
  • No snooze button
  • Rings on silent and through Focus
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
  • Multiple mission types (math, memory, photo)
  • Custom alarm sounds (Premium)
  • Wake-up trend insights (Premium)
Features
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You set the alarm. You slept in anyway. Wake Boom is the alarm that refuses to be ignored. It won't turn off until you finish a real wake-up mission — and if you try to bypass it, it keeps ringing back until you're actually out of bed. No more half-asleep swipe-to-snooze. You have to wake your brain (or your body) up to make it stop — so you finally get up on time. WAKE-UP MISSIONS Pick what it takes to silence the alarm: - Solve math problems - Find an object across the room (your phone recognizes it through the camera — no photo is taken, nothing is uploaded) - Shake your phone - Match memory pairs - Tap the words of an affirmation back into order - Scan a QR code you've set up yourself Set a different mission for each alarm, and choose Easy, Medium, or Hard. RELENTLESS BY DESIGN Turn on Relentless and the alarm keeps coming back until the mission is done. Silence it, bypass it, ignore it — it returns. This is the alarm for people who've beaten every other one. BUILD A STREAK Every on-time wake-up grows your streak. Track your mornings in Insights and watch the habit stick. A LEADERBOARD FOR WAKING UP Invite friends and compete on a weekly wake-up leaderboard. Mornings are easier when you're not doing them alone. WAKE TO YOUR OWN MUSIC Start the day with your music — play from your library or import your own audio files. ALARMS FOR ANY TIME ZONE Traveling? Pin an alarm to a city's time, like 8 AM in San Francisco, and Wake Boom shows when it rings in your local time. TIMER & STOPWATCH Need to time something else? Wake Boom includes a timer and stopwatch, too. Start a timer and it keeps running and rings even if you close the app. ON YOUR WRIST See your next alarm and streak, and toggle alarms, from the Apple Watch companion. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Fully localized in 29 languages, with right-to-left support for Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. Wake Boom Premium unlocks every mission and difficulty, custom alarm sounds, and Insights. Try it free for 7 days, then keep it with a monthly or yearly plan. Cancel anytime. Download Wake Boom and make tomorrow the morning you actually get up. Questions or help: https://wakeboom.app Terms of Use (EULA): https://wakeboom.app/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://wakeboom.app/legal/privacy

Screenshots

Alarm4 screens
Wake Boom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Wake Boom at 100% against Alarm's 0%. Wake Boom also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). Alarm's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Wake Boom sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Alarm asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wake Boom holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wake Boom has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Alarm's written reviews are positive against 100% of Wake Boom's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alarm ships an update every 3 days, Wake Boom weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Alarm versus Wake Boom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlarmWake Boom
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFamily Chat Cloud Pte LtdSOLVA LABS LLC

Customer experience

Alarm

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Wake Boom

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Alarm

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Wake Boom

Subscriptions5
  • Weekly7 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Yearly — Best Price7 Days trial$24.991 Year
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  • Yearly14 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Alarm free?
Alarm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wake Boom free?
Wake Boom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Alarm or Wake Boom?
Wake Boom is rated higher. Alarm averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Wake Boom averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Alarm or Wake Boom have ads?
Neither Alarm nor Wake Boom shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Alarm or Wake Boom?
Alarm ships an update every 3 days, and Wake Boom weekly. Most recently, Alarm was updated on October 14, 2026 and Wake Boom on October 28, 2026.

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