Never miss an important moment again.
Calendar notifications are easy to swipe away and forget. Beacon turns the events that matter into real iOS alarms: full-screen, loud, and impossible to miss, even on Silent mode or Do Not Disturb.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Connect your calendars. Beacon works instantly with the iOS Calendar app. If it's on your iPhone, Beacon can see it. No new accounts, no login required.
2. Create smart rules. Set conditions like "meetings with my manager" or "events with 3+ attendees". Beacon watches your calendar, matches upcoming events, and creates alarms for them automatically.
3. Alarms set themselves. Built on Apple's AlarmKit, Beacon schedules true system alarms, with a Live Activity countdown on your Lock Screen when you snooze.
4. Stay in control. Add or remove an alarm for any single event with a couple taps, and see every event and alarm together on a clean daily agenda.
WHY BEACON?
Notifications get missed. Alarms don't.
Beacon turns your calendar into real alarms - the kind that break through Silent mode and Do Not Disturb. Your 8 AM client call, your partner's birthday dinner, a rotating night shift, a flight you can't miss.
Built for shift workers, healthcare staff, frequent flyers, and anyone whose schedule doesn't fit a normal day.
KEY FEATURES
• Real alarms, not notifications. They ring on Silent and Do Not Disturb
• Works with every calendar already on your iPhone
• Live Activity countdown when you snooze an alarm
• Today view: your events and alarms on one clear timeline
• Privacy-first: your events never leave your device
• Accessible by design: readable text, light and dark mode, color-blind friendly colors
• Available in English and Japanese
BEACON PREMIUM
Beacon is free to download and includes one active rule, so you can build a real rule with the full condition set, filter by event name, description, calendar, attendees and more, and have it running before you decide to purchase anything.
Beacon Premium lifts the limit. Keep as many rules running at once as your schedule needs: one for work hours, one for your partner's shared calendar, one for flights, all live at the same time.
Every new subscriber gets a 1-week free trial of Premium. After the trial, the subscription is $7.99/month or $12.99/year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the trial ends or at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings.
Privacy Policy: https://www.beaconcalendar.com/privacy
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
This app has been huge for helping me ease out of deep focus work in a way that I don’t miss meetings and have actual time to prepare. Beacon’s special sauce is its rules system that lets you predefine which calendar events automatically set alarms so you can set it up and forget it. The recent update added a Shortcut action to Sync action which is helpful when paired with automations to ensure that beacon has the freshest calendar data from iOS. This is particularly helpful if you have a rapidly changing calendar on the same day and iOS isn’t always up to dateThe developer does good responding to feedback as well and has implemented a few features I’ve asked for (including the one I mentioned above) to make the app better for me.
Developer Response
Thank you for the kind words and for the great feedback! Your suggestion made a great feature that helped a lot of other users.
Calendar reminders finally work
d4athlete
I’m a shift worker and work an irregular schedule and it’s always been a pain to schedule alarms in advance. I used to use shortcuts and galarm, alarmed that would trigger alarms getting scheduled but now this app makes it so much easier
Incredible app
jvanas
This app brings true alarm like reminders to calendar events. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve requested this feature from Apple. Beacon Makes calendar events, reliable again.
Works For Me
JamesBakerrrr
Works well for keeping me on schedule! It’s nice to have automated alarms.
NEW: One active alarm rule is now included for free, no subscription needed
NEW: Get notified when Beacon adds, updates, or removes an alarm in the background, and choose how far ahead changes are reported
NEW: Live Activities now use the color of the event's calendar
NEW: Pick a custom alarm time while setting up your first rule
NEW: Redesigned Live Activity with visual snooze countdown
Various bugfixes and optimizations including:
- Improved alarm persistence for events further than 1 month away
Version 1.1.8
The developer, Jerremy Stroman, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
Jerremy Stroman
Size
109 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 26.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 26.1 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
