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Yes. Alarm Hero uses Apple's built-in alarm system, so your alarms ring on time even when the app is closed and your phone is locked, and they break through silent mode and Focus.

For this to work, grant the Alarms permission when asked (or later in Settings) and keep your phone charged.

That's what makes Alarm Hero work. A quick challenge wakes your brain up enough that crawling back into bed loses its appeal. You choose the challenge that matches how deep a sleeper you are, from a simple slide to a puzzle you have to solve, and you can set how many times you must complete it before the alarm stops.

Yes, in a few ways. Require the challenge to be completed more than once before the alarm stops, raise its difficulty, cap or switch off snooze, and let the volume keep climbing. For the toughest wake-up, pick a demanding challenge, turn off snooze, and set a high completion count.

Yes, but on your terms. Set a snooze limit so you get a few extra minutes without oversleeping. Once you've used up your snoozes, the only way to stop the alarm is to complete your challenge.

That's intentional. Alarm Hero is built for heavy sleepers, so it starts firm and keeps climbing until you're up. You can fine-tune the sound and how it escalates in the alarm's settings.

Absolutely. Pick from the built-in sound library, or with Premium, import your own audio and trim it to a short, loopable clip so you wake up to exactly what you want. There's also a silent option if you'd rather wake to just vibration.

Marimba is free; the rest of the built-in library and any custom imports are part of Premium.

Five, so you can cover any routine: Repeating for a time that recurs (daily, weekdays, or a custom pattern), Manual for one or more specific dates, Calendar to fire around your calendar events, Timer for a countdown of hours, minutes, and seconds, and Countdown to reach a specific future date and time.

Every type can use the same sounds, challenges, and snooze settings, so they all wake you the same way.

Yes. A repeating alarm can run every day, on the weekdays you choose, or on a custom pattern, including monthly rules like "the 1st" or "the last weekday of the month," and yearly dates. A live preview shows the upcoming dates as you set it up.

Prefer exact dates instead? Use a Manual alarm and add as many individual date-and-time entries as you need.

Yes. A Timer counts down a length you set in hours, minutes, and seconds, great for cooking or a quick nap. A Countdown counts down to a specific date and time, like a deadline or an event, and can even delete itself once it's done or stay put. Both can use the same challenges and sounds as your alarms.

Alarm Hero can set alarms that follow your calendar events, which is handy for shift work, meetings, or travel. Grant Calendar access and choose which events to track, and your alarms adjust as your schedule does. You can fire at the start or end of an event, or a set time before or after, and even skip individual events you don't need.

You don't set a Wake Up Alarm directly. Instead, you can stack up as many alarms as you like, and Alarm Hero automatically treats the earliest enabled alarm for each day as that day's Wake Up Alarm. So if you keep a 6:30 gym alarm and a 7:15 backup, the 6:30 is your wake-up; on a day you disable it, the 7:15 takes over.

Your wake-up alarms all share one set of alarm settings, so the sound, challenge, snooze limit, and climbing volume are the same whichever one comes first that day. The one that happens to be first just gets the wake-up extras built around it: you can skip it when you're already awake, get a reminder the night before, and be warned if no alarm is set at all.

It's an optional feature for your wake-up alarm. When the app thinks you're already up, it sends a notification offering to skip that morning's alarm, so you can turn it off without completing your challenge.

It uses Apple Health to do that, which you grant when you turn the feature on and can revoke anytime in Settings. See our Privacy Policy for details.

It can. Turn on the no-alarm warning and Alarm Hero sends a heads-up when you don't have a wake-up alarm scheduled, so you won't accidentally sleep in on a day you meant to be up. You also get a reminder of when your next alarm is set the night before.

Pause it. Pausing an alarm until the day after lets it sit out tomorrow and then switch back on by itself, with all its settings left exactly as they were, so there's nothing to set up again.

If it's already within the couple of hours before the alarm rings, you can instead skip just that one morning from the app, or by asking Siri, "Skip my Alarm Hero wake up alarm." That skip only works close to ring time, so to skip further ahead, pause the alarm.

Yes. Just ask, hands-free. A few phrases Siri understands:

“Create an alarm in Alarm Hero” · “Snooze my Alarm Hero alarm” · “When is my next Alarm Hero alarm” · “Skip my Alarm Hero wake up alarm” · “Start a timer in Alarm Hero.”

You can also start, pause, and stop timers by voice. Say the app's name so Siri knows to route the request to Alarm Hero.

Alarm Hero adds actions you can drop into any shortcut: create an alarm, enable, disable, toggle, or delete one, stop or snooze the ringing alarm, skip your wake-up alarm, and check when your next alarm is set. You can also start, pause, resume, and stop timers.

Search for "Alarm Hero" when adding an action in the Shortcuts app to see the full list.

Yes. Pair Alarm Hero's actions with the Shortcuts app's automations, for example set an alarm when you arrive home, or run a "good night" shortcut that checks your next alarm. Alarm Hero provides the actions; Shortcuts handles the triggers and timing.

Yes. Deleted alarms move to a Recently Deleted group at the bottom of your list and stay there for 7 days, so you can tap Recover to bring one back exactly as it was. After 7 days they're removed automatically, and you can empty Recently Deleted yourself to clear them sooner.

Yes. Pause a repeating or calendar alarm to take it off duty for a while without losing its setup, then it switches back on by itself. It's the tidy way to sit out a vacation or a day off without rebuilding the alarm later.

Open History for a timeline of your alarm activity, when alarms were created, rang, snoozed, skipped, and stopped, grouped by day. It's a simple way to spot what's actually getting you up and build a morning that sticks.

Yes. Add the Wake Up Alarm widget to your Lock Screen to see your next wake-up time at a glance, or "No Wake Up Alarm" if none is set. When a timer or alarm is counting down, a Live Activity shows it on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you can keep an eye on it without opening the app.

Alarm Hero is free to download and includes everything you need to actually wake up: a simple slide to stop, the Marimba sound, escalating volume, snooze limits, wake-up alarms with skip-if-awake and bedtime reminders, calendar alarms, and up to two active alarms.

Premium unlocks the rest: unlimited alarms, timers, and countdowns, every interactive challenge, the full sound library plus your own imported audio, and syncing with as many calendars as you like. You can preview and practice every challenge for free first. Premium is available monthly, yearly, or as a one-time lifetime purchase.

Manage or cancel a subscription anytime in the App Store under your account's subscriptions.

Open Alarm Hero's Settings and tap Restore Purchases. Make sure you're signed in with the same Apple ID you used originally. If it still doesn't restore, email us and we'll help.

First, confirm the alarm is switched on and not paused, and that you granted Alarm Hero permission to set alarms (Settings shows this). Keep your phone charged overnight.

If it happens again, please email us with your iPhone model and iOS version so we can dig in.

Skip If Already Awake only offers the skip when it's confident you're up. When it isn't, it plays it safe and rings so you don't oversleep.

The offer arrives as a notification, so it needs both notifications and Health access turned on. If you'd rather decide yourself, you can skip from the app near wake-up time.