# Talking Alarm Clock Beyond

> Wake up quickly with spoken time and message! Great motivation to wake up!

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.sentryapplications.alarmclock](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.sentryapplications.alarmclock)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.sentryapplications.alarmclock`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Sentry Apps
- **Category:** TOOLS
- **Downloads:** 11,574,258
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (126,018 ratings)
- **Version:** 8.5.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-24
- **First published:** 2017-12-10
- **Publisher country:** CA
- **Size:** 23 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sentryapplications.alarmclock)
- **Website:** [http://www.sentryapplications.com](http://www.sentryapplications.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.sentryapplications.com/privacy.php](http://www.sentryapplications.com/privacy.php)

## Description

**Talking Alarm Clock Beyond** is a highly customizable alarm clock extension designed to help you wake up quickly and stay motivated. It speaks the time aloud along with optional daily messages, ensuring you start your day informed and energized.

Key features include a variety of alarm types (one-time, weekly repeats, or future specific dates), multiple ways to stop alarms such as math problems and captcha, and a wide selection of alarm sounds including free built-in tones, your personal music, or online radio. The unique Mayday Mode guarantees you wake up on time with a loud alarm that cannot be dismissed easily.

Offering extensive alarm customization — from volume control and snooze settings to weather updates on alarm dismiss — this extension also supports voice commands via "Ok Google". Beyond alarms, it includes utilities such as stopwatch, countdown timers, world clocks, and screensavers. Available in 22 languages and trusted by nearly 10 million users, Talking Alarm Clock Beyond is your versatile wake-up and reminder companion.

## Rankings

- #12,395 — Overall
- #7 — alarm
- #9 — clock

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION`
- `android.permission.DISABLE_KEYGUARD`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.READ_MEDIA_AUDIO`
- `android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE`
- `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`
- `android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO`
- `android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW`
- `android.permission.USE_EXACT_ALARM`
- `android.permission.USE_FULL_SCREEN_INTENT`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`
- `com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES`
- `com.sentryapplications.alarmclock.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`

## Review summary

Users praise the app for reliable waking and strong customization (including adjustable snooze and gradual volume) plus a helpful voice that announces the time. The main downsides are intrusive ads, snooze inconsistency, and some scheduling limitations (no quick today setting, weekday repeats) plus a weather-prompt bug. Overall, it's a feature-rich alarm clock that struggles mainly with ads and some reliability quirks in snooze and scheduling.

### Pros

- Wakes up reliably and consistently, including for ADHD users, with helpful options to tailor the alarm.
- Strong customization: choose how the alarm goes off, turn off the snooze, and enable gradual volume.
- Voice feature that announces the time; useful when you can't see the screen.
- Not too easy to dismiss, helping ensure you actually wake up.

### Cons

- Snooze timer can be inconsistent and quit randomly, varying day to day.
- Ads are intrusive and diminish the experience.
- Scheduling options are limited (no easy 'today' date setting and weekday repeats).
- Weather prompt after dismiss doesn't function reliably.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.sentryapplications.alarmclock)