Best Alarm Apps

250+ iOS apps curated and reviewed

4.4 avg rating
20 free apps
Updated August 2026

Every iPhone needs a few good alarm apps. We benchmark 250+ of them on App Store rating, freshness, and pricing, then surface the standouts so you don't have to scroll the App Store yourself.

Compare top Alarm Apps (August 2026)

#AppPriceRatingAdsIn-App PurchasesUpdated
1Alarmy - Loud alarm clockAlarmy - Loud alarm clockFree4.8★ (243K)YesYesAug 2026
2Wayk: Alarm Clock to Wake UpWayk: Alarm Clock to Wake UpFree4.8★ (18K)NoYesAug 2026
3Alarm Clock HDAlarm Clock HDFree4.5★ (104K)YesYesAug 2026
4Alarm Clock App: myAlarm ClockAlarm Clock App: myAlarm ClockFree4.6★ (15K)YesYesAug 2026
5Loud Alarm Clock – the LOUDESTLoud Alarm Clock – the LOUDESTFree4.8★ (39K)YesYesAug 2026
6Alarm Clock - Wake up MusicAlarm Clock - Wake up MusicFree4.6★ (36K)YesYesAug 2026
7One Touch Alarm ClockOne Touch Alarm ClockFree4.5★ (11K)YesNoAug 2026
8Smart Alarm Clock - Waking UpSmart Alarm Clock - Waking UpFree4.0★ (8.5K)NoYesAug 2026

Top Picks for Alarm

Alarmy - Loud alarm clock#1

Alarmy - Loud alarm clock by Delight Room Co., Ltd.

Heavy sleepers, Sleep tracker
Editor's Choice
🌟 Lifestyle
4.8😊(243K ratings)
FreeAdsIn-App Purchases
#25in Lifestyle
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This app helps you wake up effectively with challenging missions and prevents snoozing. It also tracks your sleep, monitors snoring, and offers calming sounds to improve your sleep cycle and establish healthy morning and night routines.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Effective at waking up users
  • 👍 Variety of alarm customization options
  • 👍 Useful sleep sounds and sleep tracking
  • 👍 Informative daily news, weather, and horoscope

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Occasional issues with alarm not ringing
  • 🔋 High battery drain
  • 🔒 Concerns about privacy and data collection
Wayk: Alarm Clock to Wake Up#2

Wayk: Alarm Clock to Wake Up by Dialed Labs Inc.

Heavy sleepers, Stop snoozing
Strong Contender
💪 Health & Fitness
4.8(18K ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
#18in Health & Fitness
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This alarm clock helps you stop snoozing and get out of bed by requiring you to complete a mission before the alarm turns off. Choose from various tasks like exercises or taking a photo to ensure you wake up with purpose.

Alarm Clock HD#3

Alarm Clock HD by Impala Studios

Loud Alarms, Music & Sounds
Worth Considering
🔧 Utilities
4.5😐(104K ratings)
FreeAdsIn-App Purchases
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Wake up gently with your favorite music or sounds using this advanced alarm clock. It offers customizable nightstand displays, sleep tracking, and a sleep timer to help you unwind. Enjoy features like local weather and an instant flashlight, with an option to go ad-free via subscription.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Reliable alarm clock
  • 🎨 Customizable colors
  • 🔊 Ability to use music as alarm
  • 💤 Gradual volume increase

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Alarm not going off
  • 🔍 Difficulty seeing small buttons/text
  • 💸 Subscription model for ad-free version

More Alarm apps to explore

4
Alarm Clock App: myAlarm Clock
Alarm Clock App: myAlarm Clock
Alarm Clock App: myAlarm Clock
Wake up sleep timer with music
Free

Customize your wake-up experience with a versatile alarm clock. Wake up to music, radio, news, or your own recordings. Features gentle wake-ups, heavy sleeper options, and a sleep timer.

Customizable ringtones and music alarmsRadio and podcast alarmsGentle wake-up with increasing volume
🔧 Utilities
(15K)
free with in-app purchases
5
Loud Alarm Clock – the LOUDEST
Loud Alarm Clock – the LOUDEST
Loud Alarm Clock – the LOUDEST
Max volume for heavy sleepers
Free

This app provides the loudest alarm experience with volume-boosted audio and randomized sounds to ensure you wake up. It offers voice control for setting alarms, checking the time, and activating the flashlight, along with customizable designs and motivational wake-up features.

Loudest alarm volumeRandomized wake-up soundsVoice-controlled alarms
🔧 Utilities
(39K)
free with in-app purchases
6
Alarm Clock - Wake up Music
Alarm Clock - Wake up Music
Alarm Clock - Wake up Music
Time to Plan your 24/7 Routine
Free

Customize your wake-up experience with unlimited alarms, music, and adjustable snooze settings. Personalize your nightstand display and use the sleep timer to drift off to your favorite tunes. Includes local weather and a handy flashlight.

Unlimited alarmsMusic or alarm soundsCustomizable nightstand display
🔧 Utilities
(36K)
freemium
7
One Touch Alarm Clock
One Touch Alarm Clock
One Touch Alarm Clock
Set in two seconds!
Free

This intuitive alarm clock app allows you to set alarms in just two seconds with a unique analog clock interface. Customize your wake-up experience with your favorite music or preset sounds, and enjoy features like snooze, vibration, and fade-in alarms. It also includes a sleep timer for relaxing evenings.

Set alarm in two secondsCustomizable music alarmsSnooze function
🔧 Utilities
(11K)
ad-supported
8
Smart Alarm Clock - Waking Up
Smart Alarm Clock - Waking Up
Smart Alarm Clock - Waking Up
Wake up sleep timer with music
Free

Wake up to your favorite music or solve puzzles to turn off your alarm. This app offers a sleep timer, countdown timer, and a flashlight, ensuring you start your day on time and with ease.

Customizable ringtones and melodiesMath problem alarm deactivationMemory game alarm deactivation
🔧 Utilities
(8.5K)
subscription
9
Memory Alarm Clock
Memory Alarm Clock
Memory Alarm Clock
Loud alarm wakes up your brain
Free

This app uses loud ringtones and a memory game to ensure you wake up on the first try. It also offers a customizable bedside clock, bedtime reminders, and morning routine tracking to help you establish better sleep habits and start your day effectively.

Memory game to stop alarmExtremely loud ringtonesCustomizable bedside clock
🔧 Utilities
(143)
free with in-app purchases
10
Wake UP: Mission Alarm Clock
Wake UP: Mission Alarm Clock
Wake UP: Mission Alarm Clock
Alarm That Makes You Wake Up
Free
🔧 Utilities
(0)
11
AlarmPop: Annoying Alarm Clock
AlarmPop: Annoying Alarm Clock
AlarmPop: Annoying Alarm Clock
Wake-up missions, no escape
Free

This app offers a unique approach to waking up by requiring users to complete engaging missions before the alarm stops. It features a variety of interactive challenges designed to ensure you are fully awake and ready to start your day. The app prioritizes user privacy with no accounts, ads, or analytics.

System-level alarms that ring through Silent modeAlarms survive force-quits and restartsVariety of wake-up missions (e.g., Bubble Pop, Math Gauntlet)
🌟 Lifestyle
(2)
free with in-app purchases
12
Task Alarm Clock: Wake NDo
Task Alarm Clock: Wake NDo
Task Alarm Clock: Wake NDo
No Snooze, Rise Up On Time
Free
💪 Health & Fitness
(0)
13
Alarmfy - Music Alarm
Alarmfy - Music Alarm
Alarmfy - Music Alarm
Wake up better with Alarmfy
Free

Wake up to your favorite music from streaming services or your personal library. This app allows you to set full songs, playlists, or albums as your alarm sound, even without unlocking your device. It also offers sleep aid features and motivational messages.

Wake up to music without unlocking deviceSet Spotify/Apple Music songs/playlists as alarmsWake up to live radio stations
🎵 Music
(806)
free with in-app purchases
14
Motion Alarm Clock
Motion Alarm Clock
Motion Alarm Clock
Shake to stop the alarm
Free

This app ensures you wake up on time with a unique shake-to-stop alarm. It offers customizable alarms, a bedside clock, and features to help establish healthy morning routines and prevent oversleeping.

Shake to stop alarmMultiple and repeating alarmsLockable alarm (cannot be canceled)
🔧 Utilities
(1.3K)
free with in-app purchases
15
SuperAlarm - Loud Alarm Clock
SuperAlarm - Loud Alarm Clock
SuperAlarm - Loud Alarm Clock
Wake Up Heavy Sleepers, Snooze
Free

This app helps you establish healthy daily routines and form habits for a successful life. It offers engaging alarm missions to combat drowsiness and special features for heavy sleepers, ensuring you wake up on time.

Wake-up missions (math, memory, scanning)Wake up check for heavy sleepersCustomizable alarm names and memos
🌟 Lifestyle
(4.7K)
free with in-app purchases
16
Peter's Gentle Alarm
Peter's Gentle Alarm
Peter's Gentle Alarm
by Peter Ngai
Free

Wake up peacefully with gradually increasing alarm sounds. This app offers customizable fade-in durations, sleep mode with ambient noise, and live activity integration for lock screen alerts. It provides various alarm schedules and calming sounds for a gentle start to your day.

Gradual volume riseAdjustable fade-in durationSleep Mode with ambient audio
💪 Health & Fitness
(2)
free
17
Alarmly: Loud Alarm Clock
Alarmly: Loud Alarm Clock
Alarmly: Loud Alarm Clock
The Alarm That Never Fails.
Free

This smart alarm app uses engaging missions to ensure you wake up on time. Choose from various challenges like math problems, typing, or taking photos to disable the alarm. It also offers weather updates, news, and mood tracking.

Engaging wake-up missionsMath, memory, typing challengesPhoto and QR code alarms
💪 Health & Fitness
(6)
free
18
Alarm Clock: Rise Mission
Alarm Clock: Rise Mission
Alarm Clock: Rise Mission
Challenges for Heavy Sleepers
Free
💪 Health & Fitness
(0)
19
Alarm Clock Challenge: Wake Up
Alarm Clock Challenge: Wake Up
Alarm Clock Challenge: Wake Up
Wake Up with Alarm Challenges
Free

Transform your wake-up routine with interactive alarm challenges. Choose from physical workouts, puzzles, or scanning tasks to dismiss your alarm. Customize sounds, wallpapers, and snooze settings for a more engaging start to your day.

Workout challenges (push-ups, squats)Spot the difference puzzlesHousehold item scanning
🔧 Utilities
(1)
ad-supported
20
Alarm Clock: Wake Up & Remind
Alarm Clock: Wake Up & Remind
Alarm Clock: Wake Up & Remind
Mission Tasks & Snooze Timer
Free
🌟 Lifestyle
(0)

FAQ about Alarm

What are the best alarm apps for iPhone?
Alarmy - Loud alarm clock tops our alarm apps ranking as of August 2026, with a 4.8-star average from 243K App Store ratings, and it's free to download.
Yes — 20 of the top alarm apps we rank are free to download, including Alarmy - Loud alarm clock and Wayk: Alarm Clock to Wake Up.
Alarmy - Loud alarm clock shows ads and offers in-app purchases, according to its App Store listing as of August 2026.
We track 250+ alarm apps on the iOS App Store as of August 2026, ranked by rating, recency, and analysis of real user reviews.
Alarmy is a comprehensive wellness app designed to help you wake up effectively and improve your sleep cycle. It features a loud alarm clock with various missions to ensure you get out of bed, alongside tools for sleep tracking, snoring analysis, and calming sounds to help you fall asleep.
Key features include challenging alarm missions like solving math problems or shaking your phone to dismiss the alarm, power-off prevention and anti-snooze to combat oversleeping, a sleep tracker that monitors snoring and sleep cycles, and a variety of calm sleep sounds for easier sleep onset.

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