Alarum: Gentle Alarm Clock
Squirrel FX LLC Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Alarum: Gentle Alarm Clock is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by Squirrel FX LLC. Rated 5.0/5 from 2 ratings. Requires iOS 17.5.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 2 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 100 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 21
- 2026 · v20261020.02
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About Alarum: Gentle Alarm Clock
Alarum is a gentle, easy-to-read alarm clock: the screen and flashlight brighten like a sunrise while your sound fades up. It's ad-free and tracking-free, with a card-like interface where a swipe is all it takes to undo. Free to use, with a one-time unlock (or yearly subscription) for the extras. If you bought Alarum when it was a paid app, everything is already unlocked. Swipe left to queue up the next alarm, or swipe right to return to the previous one. As long as an alarm’s time hasn’t passed, you can turn it on or off with a swipe. Snoozes are just more alarms you can swipe on or off. Swipe to ignore a snooze and queue up the next alarm. Want to go back to snoozing? Just swipe it back on. I’ve focused on an alarm clock’s core purpose and tried to limit extra features. So it has… …Alarms: • One-time alarms, or repeating on the days of the week you choose • Repeating alarms can skip holidays you choose (US-centric) • Tap anywhere to snooze for as many minutes as you set • Sounds fade up over however many seconds you’d like • 16 environment sound loops, or a random one from your preferred sounds • Or the built-in iPhone ringtones (including the Classics), five colors of noise, or songs, albums and playlists from Apple Music • Favorite songs, albums and playlists so they float to the top • The screen and flashlight can brighten before the sound, poorly imitating a sunrise • Alarms hold their wall-clock time: 8:00am is 8:00am wherever you are, and through Daylight Saving Time • On iOS 26 and later, alarms sound through Apple’s AlarmKit even when the app is closed or the phone is locked (the gentle fade and sunrise need the app open) …Sleep Timers: • Quickly set one using the previous settings • The same sounds as Alarms, including Apple Music • Optionally fade out from the halfway point to the end • Swipe it away to stop it, or swipe it back to continue …Clock: • Show as little as the hour and minute, or add Seconds, AM/PM or 24-hour time, Weekday, Month and Date, Year, or the current Temperature colored for what you consider hot or cold • Rotate to landscape for a full-screen bedside clock that defaults to light on dark and dims with a swipe • The display brightens a little at dawn so it’s readable once light gets into the room • Double tap the clock to brighten it for a quick check in the dark …Other: • A midnight flashlight that turns off when you rotate to landscape • A unique, simple and easy-to-read font • 7 color themes with matching app icons • Layouts for iPhone, iPhone Duo, and iPad • A daily hint (you can turn them off) …Unlocking Features: Alarum is free to download and use with time only, one alarm or sleep timer at a time, with environment sounds, ringtones and noise. A one-time In-App Purchase or a yearly subscription unlocks all the other features. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Apple Music songs need an Apple Music subscription and, if they're streamed, a connection when the alarm goes off. • No fancy pictures, traffic or news • No sleep tracking or sleep reminders • No calendar integration • No games or puzzles to solve to turn it off • No ads • No pestering, just Apple’s standard rating request now and then • No personal information collected • No metrics collected* • No information sent to the developer or any third party* *(Alarum only talks to Apple: Apple Weather for Temperature (using your location, and only if you turn it on), Apple Music for music, and the App Store for purchases. Apple may collect information under its own privacy policy, outside my control.) Alarum is just a nice alarm clock designed to wake you up gently. Having trouble or have an idea? Email me from Settings > About > Feedback. I’d love the chance to fix it. Site and Privacy Policy: https://squirrelfx.llc/alarum.html By using this app, you agree to Apple’s Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 20261020.02 · Updated October 21, 2026
Major Updates: • iOS 27 compatibility. • Support for iPhone Duo: completely redesigned for both closed and open in both orientations as well as half folded. • iPad use now uses the Duo layouts for more square windows. Windowing is supported with the layout switching to iPhone style when tall and narrow. • Reliable Background Alarms: On iOS 26 and later, Alarum now schedules a backstop through Apple's new AlarmKit so your alarm reliably sounds even when the app is closed or your phone is locked — with your chosen sound. - Snooze and Stop work right from the lock screen. - Snoozing creates a fresh alarm just like it does in the app, so Alarum stays the single source of truth for your alarms. - Because this uses the system alarm, Alarum will now ask for alarm permission (see Permission Cards below). • Rebuilt Music Favorites: You can now favorite what you love and have it float to the top when choosing a sound. - Favorite individual songs across both your Library and Apple Music. - Favorite whole albums from the new Albums tab. - Favorite playlists (tap the heart below Shuffle). - The picker now shows your current selection. - If Apple Music is unavailable or a song won't stream, the alarm gracefully falls back to a Nature sound so you're never left without an alarm. • Permission Cards: Alarum no longer asks for everything at launch. Permissions are now requested one at a time on cards in the deck, with a short intro card and clearer explanations of what each one is for and why. When the last card clears, you're handed straight to a Hint. Other updates: • Changed: Alarms now hold their wall-clock time. An alarm set for 8:00am goes off at 8:00am wherever you are and through Daylight Saving Time changes. Repeating alarms and snoozes now advance by calendar day rather than a fixed number of seconds. • Added: Turning an alarm OFF now takes a confirming tap so you can't disable it by accident. • Added: A Feedback section in About to email me with issues or suggestions, or to rate Alarum on the App Store. • Fixed: Repeating alarms now correctly generate their next occurrence the moment they're created. • Fixed: Sound picker taps are reliable again on the new OS, with cleaner selection and icons. • Fixed: Screen staying dark, and hardware brightness not being restored, when quickly exiting right after launch or rotating. • Changed: The keyboard "Done" control is now a low-profile key that sits in the keyboard instead of a floating button. • Changed: Smoother, snappier card-swipe landing. • Fixed: Weather divide-by-zero and a handful of other stability and crash guards. • A large under-the-hood cleanup for the new OS: removed old Combine and dead code, moved audio activation off the main thread, hardened alarm fire timing, and added tests around the alarm engine.
App privacy
The developer, Squirrel FX LLC, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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