Alarm Clock Plus

Alarm Clock Plus / Binary Tactics, LLC.

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About this app

Since 2010 Alarm Clock Plus has been the simple yet powerful alarm clock that you could depend on. Recently updated (went 5 years without an update) it's back and better than ever!


All options and features are configurable, spend time with Alarm Clock Plus and set it up exactly how you want it.

Features include:
-Unlimited alarms
-alarm clock volume independent of system, can even be set to sound while the phone is muted
-auto snooze and auto dismiss for each alarm
-VOLUME FADE-IN. This feature will slowly increase the volume of the alarm.
-NAP ALARM allows you to quickly and easily create a new alarm for a given amount of time (like a timer).
-MATH ALARM will require a math problem to be solved to dismiss or snooze alarm clock. There are multiple math difficulty levels, and the number of math problems required to be solved can be configured for both snooze and dismiss independently.
-MUSIC ALARM clock lets you wake up to your favorite track or a random song from any artist, album, or playlist on your phone.
-FLASHLIGHT feature to brightly flash when alarm sounds.
-Repeating alarms

-One time skip for repeating alarms!!! Easily skip those alarms on a day off and sleep in without worrying about having to turn them back on again.

-Shake your device to snooze or dismiss the alarm clock
-Variable snooze time allows you to change the duration of the snooze after snooze button is pushed.
-Define new alarm and nap alarm defaults.
-Speaks time before alarm sounds.
-most settings are independent for each individual alarm
-transparent clock widgets, multiple clock sizes, and nap alarm widgets


-fully configurable desk clock display, or disable desk clock portion entirely, leaving a simple alarm clock.
-Night display for desk clock.

Ratings and reviews

I've been using this for years and highly recommend it. The sheer amount of options mean you can make it as hard or easy to dismiss alarms as you like. For a long time there was an issue where if the app was in the background, some alarms might not sound. I believe this to be fixed but I still leave the app open just before I lock my phone and go to bed, just in case. Just make sure to exclude the app from power saving modes.

I wanted an app that would sound an alarm for a second or two, then speak the time, then automatically snooze for a user-defined period. I chanced upon this feature a few years ago in a different app, but it was not there by design and seemed to depend upon a combination of the right hardware and the right version of Android (and a postcard covering the phone's front camera). Suffice to say that it did not work with my current phone. Alarm Clock Plus is the only app I've subsequently been able to find that does almost exactly what I want. It meets my requirements closely enough to make me very happy. There are a few changes that could be made to enhance my experience. The alarm sounds after speaking the time, rather than before. That being the case, I'd like to disable the alarm sound, but have not been able to find a way to do so. I tried using an MP3 of silence as the alarm tone, but the app reverted to its default tone. The alarm volume can be set within the app (although not to zero), but the speech volume cannot and instead uses the phone's media volume. This is the biggest issue for me, and is growing more annoying the longer I use the app. If I forget to adjust the volume before going to sleep, I get violently woken by a bawling voice rather than being gently woken by being quietly told the time. I'd also quite like to be able to choose my own speech synthesizer and to specify the exact words spoken before speaking the time (both options were available in the app that I previously used).

This app has all the features I want and is perfect - except that the majority of the time it misses alarms or plays them late. Surely this is the primary and most important function of an alarm, if this doesn't work there's no point in the rest of it. If it could be fixed to be reliable then it would be perfect. And no, I don't have any battery optimisers or task killers running.

What's new

Misc bug fixes