Shake Alarm Clock

Wrichik Basu

About this app

Tired of pressing the power button/swiping the screen every time an alarm rings? No worries! With this app, you can simply shake your phone and dismiss the alarm.

Salient features:
1. Works offline.
2. No advertisements.
3. Completely open-source app.
4. Alarms are unique by alarm time. This means that you cannot have two alarms at the same time, even if they are on different dates.
5. Each alarm is independent of other alarms. This means that the alarm volume, ringtone, etc. will not be carried over to another alarm unless you do so manually.
6. Inbuilt dark theme, even in phones that do not support it.
7. Snooze your alarm as many times as you want with custom snooze options.
8. When updates are released, you will be notified within the app itself.
9. The alarm is handled by a service which has almost no dependency on the UI. So, even if your UI freezes, the alarm will ring and can be dismissed.
10. Uses latest Android Room database for storing alarms.
11. Actively maintained app. Bug reports will be worked upon with high priority.

Check out the GitHub repository:
https://github.com/WrichikBasu/ShakeAlarmClock

Ratings and reviews

Ad free, bloat free, subscription free — what's not to like? I tried a few other apps but this is the only one in which shaking worked. There are two features I would have liked but I have decent work arounds. Gradually increasing alarm volume is available in the stock Android alarm but not here. I hacked together my own custom ringtone for that using Audacity. The other missing feature is a widget to show the next alarm. For that I am using My Next Alarm which has an uncluttered 1x1 widget but no alarm of its own, clicking it brings up Shake Alarm Clock.

Everything is fine with the app. Smooth user interface. The only reason why I gave this 4 stars is because though you shake once to turn off the alarm, it's not good for heavy sleepers. I thought it would consist of more vigorous shaking to help wake me (I am a extremely deep sleeper). Other than that the app is great!

Finally! A simple alarm clock app that does what I need it to. Highly recommend!

What’s new

v4.2.1
• Removed encrypted DEPENDENCY_INFO_BLOCK
• Removed unnecessary permission ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE (which was being requested by androidx.work library).
• Explicitly set package name for implicit broadcasts, thus fixing a major bug introduced in Android 14.

See github.com/WrichikBasu/ShakeAlarmClock/releases/tag/v4.2.1 for details.