Alarm Clock vs Sunplot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Alarm Clock
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You set the alarm. You hit snooze anyway. This alarm clock does not let that happen ā it keeps ringing until you finish a real wake-up mission, so the part of your brain that swipes at 6 AM without waking up never gets the chance. Most alarm apps end at a bigger snooze button. This one is built around eight missions you can assign per alarm: solve math, match a photo you registered, shake the phone, repeat a memory pattern, type a phrase, do counted squats, scan a barcode across the room, or hit a moving bullseye. Then it stays with you at night ā a 4-track sleep sound mixer to fall asleep to, and a sleep session tracker that listens for snoring and scores the night. One app for the whole bedtime-to-morning loop, and none of it leaves your iPhone. WHAT YOU GET - Wake up on the first alarm because the sound will not stop until a mission is done - Eight mission types, chosen per alarm, so you can match the difficulty to the day - A bedtime you actually keep, with reminders before lights out and a follow-up check after the alarm - Fall asleep faster by layering up to 4 ambient sounds and setting a fade-out timer - See whether you snored and how the night scored, on weekly and monthly charts - Take your sleep history anywhere with a one-tap CSV export PERFECT FOR - Heavy sleepers who sleep straight through a normal alarm - Shift workers and students who cannot afford one missed morning - Light sleepers who need rain, ocean, or white noise to drop off - Anyone curious whether snoring is behind their tired mornings WHY NOT JUST USE THE BUILT-IN CLOCK APP Because the built-in clock only asks for a tap, and a half-asleep tap is free. A mission costs effort, and effort is what actually wakes you. The stock app also has no sound mixer, no snore detection, and no record of how you slept ā so you never find out why the mornings feel so hard. PRIVACY No account, no sign-up, no cloud sync, no tracking SDK. Alarms, sleep sessions, snore counts, and saved mixes stay in local storage on your iPhone. The microphone is used only during a sleep session you start yourself, and the camera only inside a photo or barcode mission. FULL ACCESS The free version includes up to 3 alarms, the math mission, 5 sleep sounds, and 7 days of sleep history. Full access unlocks all eight mission types, unlimited alarms, the complete 20-sound library with the 4-track mixer, snore detection and sleep scoring, unlimited history with CSV export, plus bedtime reminders and wake-up checks. Available as a weekly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Set tonight's alarm, pick the mission you would hate to fail, and see what tomorrow morning looks like. Terms of Use (EULA): https://web-levi.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://web-levi.web.app/privacy-policy Questions? Reach us anytime through the support link on our App Store page.
Sunplot
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Every seed packet says "full sun" or "part shade". Almost nobody knows which one their own garden is. Sunplot answers it with a number. Stand where the bed is, hold the phone up, and trace the roofs and trees around you with a finger. Then it walks the whole day a minute at a time and counts only the light that actually reaches that spot. WHY THE ANSWER IS DIFFERENT Other sun apps show you where the sun is. That is the easy half. The half that decides the answer is what stands in the way ā the fence, the garage, the lime tree next door. Sunplot measures that skyline with the camera and subtracts it. A bed under open sky and the same bed behind a two-storey terrace are not the same bed, and the number knows it. FREE ⢠Today's hours of direct sun at a spot, and what that means: full sun, part sun, part shade, full shade ⢠What will grow there ā 42 plants sorted into will do well, will manage, and too much sun ⢠The map: where the sun arrives from, where it leaves, and where it is right now, with a slider through the day ⢠The sky view: the sun's path drawn over the camera, and the skyline tracing that makes the answer real ONE PAYMENT UNLOCKS ⢠The whole year at a spot ā when full sun starts and ends, and the weeks it gets none at all ⢠As many spots as you like ā the bed by the fence and the bed by the garage answer differently ⢠Which is better? Every spot side by side, ranked ⢠A word before the sun arrives, so a short winter afternoon is not missed ⢠The home screen widget One payment. No subscription, nothing renews, nothing to cancel. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT KNOWS The compass in a phone can be badly wrong, and most sun apps draw a confident line anyway. Sunplot says so on screen when it does not trust its own reading. Before you have traced anything it labels the figure as open sky ā the most the spot could get ā instead of pretending to know. It is a gardening and planning tool, not a survey instrument. Check anything expensive against a professional measurement. NOTHING LEAVES THE PHONE No account, no server, no analytics, no third-party code, and nothing to sign up for. Everything is worked out on the device and stays there. It works with no signal at all. GOOD FOR Vegetable beds, borders and allotments. Balconies and window boxes. Greenhouses and cold frames. Roof pitches for solar panels. Working out which corner will take a shade planting, and which window a houseplant will survive.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sunplot at every 10 days against Alarm Clock's every 4 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Alarm Clock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Sunplot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Alarm Clock ships an update every 4 weeks, Sunplot every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alarm Clock | Sunplot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 10 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Phuc Pham | Olexandr Zhovnir |
In-app purchases
Alarm Clock
- Weekly Premium$4.997 Days
- Annual Premium$24.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$49.99
Sunplot
- Sunplot Full$5.99









