Comparison

Alarm Clock Planner vs Rota

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

Head to head
About

Alarm Clock Planner

Plan alarms months or even years in advance with this advanced utility. Organize them by category, customize snooze durations, and choose from a variety of sounds. It rings reliably, even through silent mode and focus modes.

Highlights
  • Set alarms for any future date
  • Group alarms by custom categories
  • Bulk edit and toggle alarms
  • Calendar view of all alarms
  • Customizable snooze duration (1-30 mins)
  • Customizable alarm sounds
  • Rings through Silent and Focus modes
Features
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Set alarms for any date. Months out, weeks ahead, or tomorrow morning. Regular alarm apps don't see past weekly confines. Plan your entire year with Alarm Planner. For shift workers, travellers, parents, and anyone whose week doesn't repeat in a 7-day loop. WHAT IT DOES • Pick any date on the calendar. Set an alarm for next week, six months from now, or two years out • Group your alarms by Work, Travel, Family, Health or create your own • Bulk edit multiple alarms at once or just toggle them on or off when life shifts • See every alarm laid out across the month or the year on the calendar tab • Custom snooze duration: 1 to 30 minutes, not the locked 9 minutes elsewhere • Customise your alarm sound. Use one of 19 built-in sounds or add your own • Rings through Silent and Focus. No need to keep the phone unlocked and rings even if the app has been closed for weeks • Need a powernap? Long-press the + button for quick nap alarms: 10, 15, 20, or 30 minutes • Recurring patterns: daily, weekdays, weekends and custom • Native iOS 26 design built with Liquid Glass • Skip any future alarm without turning off the repeat • 23 colour themes, light and dark, plus extra home screen app icons • Adjustable text size, right in the app THE THINGS PEOPLE SET ALARMS FOR The 6:30 wake-up. The park meter at 11. The school run. Taking your meds. Catching the 8:12 train. Mum's birthday. Renewing the parking permit. The early alarm before a morning workout. The reminder you set three months ago for something you'd otherwise forget about. Some are tomorrow. Some are months from now. Alarm Planner handles both kinds. BUILT NATIVE Built on Apple's iOS 26 AlarmKit framework. Rings through Silent. Rings through Focus. Rings through Do-Not-Disturb. Reliable like a native alarm. With the features other alarm apps don't ship. MADE BY ONE PERSON I built Alarm Planner for two reasons. Regular alarm apps don't let me set alarms for things further out than this week. And managing more than a handful of alarms at once is more clicks than it needs to be. So I built an app that does both. FREE TO USE Free for up to 3 alarms and 3 themes, with every core alarm feature included. Need more? Unlock unlimited alarms, all 23 themes, extra app icons, and alarm skipping with a yearly plan or a one-time Lifetime purchase. PRIVACY No account required. Your alarms stay on your device. Anonymous usage data helps me improve the app. No personal info, no alarm content. Opt out in Settings. Terms of Use: https://alarmclockplanner.com/terms/

About

Rota

Organize your alarms into distinct groups for different routines. Effortlessly switch between entire sets of alarms with a single tap, ensuring only one set is active at a time. Ideal for managing varied schedules like shift work or study timetables.

Highlights
  • Mutually exclusive alarm groups
  • One-tap group switching
  • Real system alarms
  • Live snooze countdown
  • Clean, dark interface
  • Customizable alarm sounds
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Rota is an alarm clock built around one idea: your mornings run on routines, and the right routine should be on for the right days. Create a routine for each pattern in your life — "Weekdays", "Early Shift", "Gym Days" — and fill it with as many alarms as you need. Switching a routine on switches off any routine that shares a day with it, automatically — and routines on different days can be on together. No more scrolling a long list toggling alarms one by one, and no more being woken at 5am by last week's shift. WHY ROTA • Routines that are exclusive per day — one tap changes your whole day, and routines on different days run side by side • Week plans for rotating schedules: switch on "Set days for each alarm" and give every alarm its own day — one routine per week, swapped with a single tap • Wake Proof: alarms you can't sleep through — stopping one means solving a math, typing, or memory task, and dismissing without solving re-rings in minutes • Real system alarms that ring full-screen over the Lock Screen, even in silent mode • A live snooze countdown on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, so you can see exactly how long you have left • Thirty original alarm sounds in two moods, Gentle and Energetic — pick a favorite, or let Shuffle wake you with a different one each time • A clean, dark, no-nonsense interface BUILT FOR SHIFT WORK AND CHANGING ROUTINES If your week isn't the same every day — shift work, rotating schedules, study timetables, childcare handovers — Rota keeps each routine ready to go and lets you swap between them instantly. Rota collects no data. There is no account, no tracking, and no analytics. Requires iOS 26 or later.

Screenshots

Alarm Clock Planner4 screens
Rota4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Rota at free against Alarm Clock Planner's paid. Rota also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Alarm Clock Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.90 per year and Rota sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alarm Clock Planner ships an update every 3 weeks, Rota weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Alarm Clock Planner versus Rota: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlarm Clock PlannerRota
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.226.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB87 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEmils OzolsLIMPY LEO DIGITAL LAB PTY LTD

Customer experience

Alarm Clock Planner

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Rota

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Alarm Clock Planner

Subscriptions1
  • Full Access (Yearly)3 Days trial$2.901 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$8.69
1 purchases

Rota

One-time1
  • Rota Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Alarm Clock Planner free?
Alarm Clock Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rota free?
Rota is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Alarm Clock Planner or Rota have ads?
Neither Alarm Clock Planner nor Rota shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Alarm Clock Planner or Rota?
Alarm Clock Planner ships an update every 3 weeks, and Rota weekly. Most recently, Alarm Clock Planner was updated on October 25, 2026 and Rota on October 14, 2026.

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