# TalkingAlarm: Alarm Clock

> Sleep Sounds, Weather, Voice

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id431500634](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id431500634)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id431500634`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Fortuisoft LLC
- **Category:** Utilities
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (2,072 ratings)
- **Version:** 27.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-14
- **First published:** 2011-04-18
- **Size:** 58 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/talkingalarm-alarm-clock/id431500634)
- **Website:** [https://www.fortuisoft.com/TalkingAlarm\_FAQ.html](https://www.fortuisoft.com/TalkingAlarm_FAQ.html)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.fortuisoft.com/PrivacyPolicyTA.html](http://www.fortuisoft.com/PrivacyPolicyTA.html)

## Description

**TalkingAlarm** is a customizable alarm clock that helps you sleep, wake up, and start your day your way. Play relaxing sleep sounds with a timer, then wake to spoken time, weather, calendar appointments, music, trivia, or loud alarm sounds.

Choose gentle music and brightness fade-ins or a more powerful wakeup, display a large digital or analog clock, and dim the screen for a darker bedroom. TalkingAlarm also supports Home app integrations for lights, shades, and scenes, interactive snooze reminders, leave-time countdowns, tap-to-hear time announcements, and CritterCam video clock backgrounds.

## Rankings

- #39,966 — Overall
- #41 — alarm
- #47 — clock

## Review summary

Reviewers praise TalkingAlarm for its feature-rich design (calendar integration, voice announcements, weather, trivia, sleep timer) and large display, plus ad-free options and responsive support. However, frequent reliability problems (alarms not sounding, freezes/crashes), privacy prompts demanding data access, bright ads, and a sometimes clunky setup deter some users. Overall, it's a powerful, customizable alarm clock when it functions properly, but stability, permission handling, and UI simplicity need improvement.

### Pros

- Feature-rich with calendar integration, weather, trivia, sleep timer, and customizable voice announcements.
- Large, readable display with big numbers for easy viewing at bedside.
- Ad-free option and ongoing developer support.
- Calendar integration helps track and announce upcoming events.
- Valued for reliability and breadth of features by many users.

### Cons

- Alarm occasionally fails to sound or wake users; reliability concerns.
- App freezes or crashes reported by several users.
- Privacy/permissions prompts for calendar, location, and music access cause friction.
- Bright ads interfere with the user experience.
- Usability issues: setting a daily alarm can require many steps.

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