Is Alarmy free? What you get without Premium, and what it costs

Yes — Alarmy is free to download and its basic alarm works without paying. But "free" comes with ads, and several of the missions and features people download Alarmy for are Premium-only. Here's exactly where the line sits, what Premium costs, and what to do if you want a hard-to-dismiss alarm without a subscription.

Quick answer: free Alarmy gives you alarms, loud sounds and a handful of missions, with ads. Premium removes ads and unlocks walking and squat missions, chaining several missions in a row, Wake Up Check and the extra-loud sound boost. It starts with a 7-day trial that turns into a paid subscription automatically, and the yearly plan is listed at $59.99 on the US App Store.

What's free in Alarmy

Alarmy describes itself as "officially a free alarm clock & sleep app", and the core is genuinely usable without paying:

• Setting as many alarms as you want, with Alarmy's sound library and vibration.
• A set of wake-up missions. Alarmy doesn't publish a single current list of which missions are free, and third-party reviews disagree — but the most recent (September 2026) lists math, QR/barcode scan, shake and photo as the free ones.
• Time Announcement, which used to be paid and was made free in version 25.35.
• Working offline: alarms don't need an internet connection. Only extras like weather and downloadable sounds do.

The free version contains advertising — the App Store listing says so, and removing ads is one of Premium's listed benefits.

What needs Premium

According to Alarmy's own help center, these are Premium features:

• No ads.
• Walking and Squat missions.
• Multiple Mission — chaining up to five missions on one alarm.
• Wake Up Check — a follow-up prompt after you dismiss, to catch you going back to sleep.
• Extra Loud Effect (the Sound Power Pack) and Label Reminder.
• Preventing last-minute edits to an alarm, and removing the exit dialog.

If Premium lapses, Premium missions on existing alarms revert to no mission, and Wake Up Check and the sound boost switch off. Worth knowing before you build your mornings around a squat mission during the trial.

How much Alarmy Premium costs

Prices vary by country and Alarmy runs several plan tiers, so the most reliable place to check is the in-app purchase list on the App Store. On the US store:

The trial is where people get caught: cancel from Settings → your name → Subscriptions at least a day before it ends if you don't want to pay. Deleting the app does not cancel it.

One naming trap: there's a separate, unrelated app called "Alarmy . Smart Alarm Clock" with different, cheaper prices. Some comparison sites quote its prices as if they were Alarmy's.

Is free Alarmy enough to get a heavy sleeper up?

It depends on why you oversleep.

If you sleep through alarms, free Alarmy's loud sounds are a real upgrade over the Clock app — and if the alarm itself is the problem, fix that first: Alarmy alarm not going off covers the iOS settings that silence it, and does Alarmy work on Do Not Disturb covers Focus.

If you turn alarms off without waking, the free missions help less than they look. Math and shake happen on the phone in your hand, in bed — the half-asleep brain gets very good at both. The photo and barcode missions are the ones that force you to move, because the target is somewhere else. The catch is that a barcode or photo target never changes, so it can be photographed or kept by the bed; QR code alarm apps run into the same thing.

And the two features designed to stop you going back to sleep — Wake Up Check and chained missions — are the Premium ones.

Free and cheaper alternatives

• Apple's Clock app, across the room. Free, reliable, rings through Silent and Focus. The weak point is that it stops with one slide once you've walked to it.
• Alarmy's free tier with a photo or barcode mission set to something in another room — the best free setup Alarmy offers, as long as those missions are in the free set when you install.
• WakeUpBroo. Free to download with a 7-day trial, then Pro. It has no missions, no snooze and no dismiss button: the alarm stops only when you type a rotating code from wakeupbroo.com/code on a laptop or other device across the room. The code changes every time, so it can't be photographed in advance, and there's nothing to solve from bed.

The full side-by-side, including the other mission and barcode apps, is in apps like Alarmy, compared, and there's a head-to-head in Alarmy vs WakeUpBroo.

The honest summary

Alarmy's free version is a good alarm with ads. Its Premium version is a good wake-up system — and the gap between the two is exactly the features that stop you going back to sleep. If you're paying for that, pay for whichever design actually stops you: missions if you wake but won't get up, a code on another device if you switch alarms off without ever waking at all.