Comparison

Weekly Alarm Clock vs School Chimes

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

Head to head
About

Weekly Alarm Clock

This utility app provides a customizable alarm clock with weekly scheduling options. Users can set their favorite music as a wake-up alarm and use a sleep timer with soothing sounds to fall asleep. It offers features like snooze, vibration, and fade-in alarms.

Highlights
  • Weekly alarm scheduling
  • Custom music alarms
  • Sleep timer with music
  • Snooze functionality
  • Fade-in alarm
  • Vibration alerts
Features
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A simple alarm clock app that supports a weekly schedule of alarms. Set your favorite music as your wake-up alarm, and start your day feeling great! ALARM FUNCTIONS: - Snooze (3 - 30 minutes) - Vibration - Fade in alarm - Weekly scheduling OTHER FEATURES: - Sleep timer (sleep music) - 12 hour and 24 hour time format - Vertical and horizontal modes MORNING: Use music of your choice or select one of the preset alarms to wake up happy and smiling. EVENING: Relax and fall asleep to the sound of your favorite song or one of the preset sleep music. APP FEATURES: It has a feature that allows you to listen to sleeping music when you are ready to retire for the night. Through this feature, users can be smoothly lead off to sleep. WHY WE DEVELOPED THIS APP: The planning for this app started when we happened to hear from a nursery school teacher that, "The children always sleep well on rainy days." Through further investigation, we heard the same thing, not just from other nursery school teachers, but many mothers as well. But, through what mechanism this was happening by remained unclear. There are various theories, such as an atmospheric pressure theory (it was due to low atmospheric pressure), a light intensity theory (it was due to the sky being dark and cloudy), and a sound theory (it was due to the sound of rain being close to an f/1 tremor). We decided to focus on the sound theory and added a feature, to a basic alarm clock app that plays sleeping music, such as the sound of rain.

About

School Chimes

This app functions as a customizable alarm and scheduler, offering a unique school chime sound inspired by the Westminster Quarters. It allows users to set and manage chime schedules, choose different chime types, and control notification display. Advanced users can integrate with the app via URL schemes for automated control.

Highlights
  • Alarm and scheduling
  • School chime sound
  • Westminster Quarters tone
  • Customizable schedules
  • Chime type selection
  • Notification display control
  • URL scheme integration
Features
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This app is a basic alarm with scheduling capabilities. If you wish to use a school chime inspired by the Westminster Quarters, this app can fulfill your request. In Japan, the school chime is commonly used to signal the beginning and end of class periods. Settings: - Schedule Check: This feature allows you to check chime times with a list. - Schedule: You can choose a schedule, create a new schedule, and modify an existing one. - Chime Type: Select the tone or chime type. - Display Notifications: When turned off, notifications will only include sound. - Chime Test: Use this to ring the selected chime. - Information (i button): This section provides information about the app. URL Schemes: 1. ON/OFF (Format) sc://a/b/c - a: on or off. If set to off, the following items (b, c) are invalid. - b (optional): schedule number, with the top of the list (Default) being 0. - c (optional): tone number, with the top of the list (Westminster 1) being 0. Example: - Start with Default and Westminster 2: sc://on/0/1 - Stop: sc://off 2. Add a schedule (Format) sc://add/a/hhmmb/... (repeat, max 64 times) - add: constant - a: schedule name - hhmm: time in 24-hour format - b: description Example: - Add a “Test” schedule: sc://add/Test/0800Start/1200Noon/1700End If your iPhone doesn't read the URL scheme correctly, try converting spaces to %20 and commas to %2c.

Screenshots

Weekly Alarm Clock4 screens
School Chimes3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Weekly Alarm Clock at 4.4 against School Chimes's 3.7. Weekly Alarm Clock also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (370 vs 56). School Chimes's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 9 months). On price, review sentiment, 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. School Chimes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Weekly Alarm Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Weekly Alarm Clock holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Weekly Alarm Clock has 370 ratings behind it against 56, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of Weekly Alarm Clock's written reviews are positive against 58% of School Chimes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Weekly Alarm Clock ships an update every 9 months, School Chimes monthly. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Weekly Alarm Clock versus School Chimes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeekly Alarm ClockSchool Chimes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (370 ratings) — better3.7 (56 ratings)
Positive reviews54.9% of reviews58.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings370 — better56
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.3 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHANBUNCO, INC.Takafumi AMANO

Customer experience

Weekly Alarm Clock

All ratings364 ratings
Positive85.2%
Neutral5.5%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews173 reviews
Positive54.9%
Neutral14.5%
Negative30.6%

School Chimes

All ratings56 ratings
Positive64.3%
Neutral16.1%
Negative19.6%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive58.2%
Neutral17.9%
Negative23.9%

In-app purchases

None

Weekly Alarm Clock

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

School Chimes

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Weekly Alarm Clock free?
Weekly Alarm Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is School Chimes free?
School Chimes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Weekly Alarm Clock or School Chimes?
Weekly Alarm Clock is rated higher. Weekly Alarm Clock averages 4.4 out of 5 from 370 ratings, while School Chimes averages 3.7 from 56 ratings.
Do Weekly Alarm Clock or School Chimes have ads?
Both Weekly Alarm Clock and School Chimes show ads.
Which is updated more often, Weekly Alarm Clock or School Chimes?
Weekly Alarm Clock ships an update every 9 months, and School Chimes monthly. Most recently, Weekly Alarm Clock was updated on October 26, 2026 and School Chimes on October 26, 2026.

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