Honest comparison
By Necati Dogrul, developer of Wakora · 4 August 2026
I build Wakora, so treat this page accordingly. I have tried to make it useful rather than flattering, which means saying plainly where Alarmy is the better choice. If you only read one line: Alarmy is the safer pick if you want a mature, feature-dense app with a generous free tier, and Wakora is the better pick if you want a cheaper subscription and an alarm that is stricter by default.
| Wakora | Alarmy | |
|---|---|---|
| App Store ratings (US) | Newly renamed, small rating base | Roughly 241,000 |
| Yearly subscription (US) | $39.99 | $59.99–$69.99 |
| Free trial | 7 days on the yearly plan | Varies by offer |
| Free tier | Narrower — math, shake and steps | Wider — several missions, sleep tracking and sounds |
| Missions | 20, of which 8 require leaving the bed | Comparable range, plus photo and squat modes |
| Snooze model | Escalating penalty with a daily cap | Configurable limits |
| Post-dismiss check | Yes, two minutes after dismissal | No direct equivalent |
| Languages | 10 | More |
Alarmy has been shipping for years and it shows. Its free tier is wider than mine: you get several missions, sleep tracking and sleep sounds without paying. It has a far larger rating base, which matters if you want the reassurance of a product thousands of people have already stress-tested. It supports more languages, and its sleep-tracking side is a real feature rather than an afterthought.
If your problem is "I want a well-known alarm app with lots of options and I do not want to pay", Alarmy is the more sensible download and I would not argue otherwise.
The subscription is roughly a third cheaper per year. The snooze model is stricter by design: each snooze costs more than the last rather than simply being limited, which changes the incentive rather than the count.
The post-dismiss wake-up check is the piece I have not seen elsewhere. Two minutes after you dismiss the alarm, Wakora asks whether you are still up. The common failure mode with mission alarms is doing the mission half-awake and then going straight back to bed — that check exists specifically to catch it.
The honest summary: Alarmy wins on maturity, free-tier breadth and language coverage. Wakora wins on price and on the strictness of the snooze and post-dismiss design. Neither is a medical device and neither can guarantee you wake up.
Neither app can override a phone that is switched off, out of battery, or has notifications fully revoked. Neither is a substitute for going to bed earlier. Both are alarm apps with friction added; the friction helps, but the underlying sleep debt is yours.
Wakora was published as "WakeGuard" until August 2026 and was renamed following a trademark claim from an unrelated developer using the same name. It is the same app, same developer, and existing subscriptions and streaks carried over.