Skip tomorrow's alarm and the rest of your week stays on track. Save each shift as a template, let your calendar set alarms, and stop resetting alarms every week.
Rotating shifts. On-call weeks. A gym class that moves every day. If your alarms can't keep up with your schedule, VariAlarm can.
VariAlarm is an alarm clock and schedule planner for people whose weeks don't repeat. Plan alarms on real dates, reuse your shift patterns, and change one morning without touching the rest.
CHANGE ONE DAY, NOT THE WHOLE WEEK
• Skip tomorrow's alarm – the schedule carries on by itself, nothing to switch back on
• Move or edit a single occurrence without breaking the series
• Pause alarms until tomorrow, the end of the week, or any date
PLAN BY DATE, NOT JUST BY WEEKDAY
• Set alarms for specific future dates
• Repeat every 2–12 weeks and choose an end date
• See alarms and calendar events side by side
SAVE YOUR SHIFTS ONCE, REUSE THEM ANYWHERE
• Alarm Templates: save the alarms for an early, late, or night shift and apply them to the days you work
• Alarm Routines: a sequence of alarms spaced from one start time – move the start and every alarm follows
• Running late? Shift every alarm in a routine or template by the same number of minutes in one step
• Alarm Groups keep work, gym, and weekend alarms apart
LET YOUR CALENDAR SET THE ALARM
Calendar Automation matches events by keyword and creates the alarm for you. Example: every event called “Early shift” at 7:00 AM gets a wake-up alarm 2 hours before. Run rules yourself or through Shortcuts. Get Ready estimates when to start getting ready from the event time, where you're going, and the expected weather.
WAKE UP YOUR WAY
• Crescendo fades the volume in gently
• Use your own songs as alarm sounds
• Challenge Wake helps you stay up
• Sleep Sounds to wind down, Timer Sets for multi-step countdowns
ALWAYS ONE GLANCE AWAY
Lock Screen widgets, Live Activities, Apple Watch, Siri, Shortcuts, and optional iCloud sync across your devices.
SMARTER PLANNING
Turn a photo or screenshot of your roster into events you review first. Create alarms, routines, and templates by voice. Smart Prep looks over tomorrow, and Weather-Aware Wake can suggest an earlier alarm when conditions may slow you down. Nothing is created or changed until you approve it.
VARIALARM PRO
Free to download. VariAlarm Pro is available monthly, yearly, or as a one-time lifetime purchase.
Feature availability depends on your VariAlarm plan, iOS version, device, region, and permissions. Apple Intelligence features require a compatible device.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Absolutely spectacular app!VariAlarm has made a huge difference in my life. It checks all the boxes of allowing for flexible schedules, consistent schedules, etc. It allows for easy deploying of a schedule group or template and allows for movement in increments of a group of alarms (ie add 10 minutes to all alarms in this group - for example if you want to wake up 10 minutes later). Nhat, the creator, is so kind and receptive to ideas. He’s responsive, thoughtful and detailed. This app is remarkable! I went pro immediately and use it every day! Apple alarms doesn’t even have a folder feature, and this app would trump it anyway!
Developer Response
Hello. I’m always delighted to hear how my little tool helped other people managing their chaotic lives in 2026 in a way no other alarm apps on any system can. Thank you so much for the praise and support!
Absolutely spectacular app!
jsssslot
VariAlarm has a made a huge difference in my life. It checks all the boxes of allowing for flexible schedules, consistent schedules, etc. It allows for easy deploying of a schedule group or template and allows for movement in increments of a group of alarms (ie add 10 minutes to all alarms in this group - for example if you want to wake up 10 minutes later). Naht, the creator, is so kind and receptive to ideas. He’s responsive, thoughtful, and detailed. This app is remarkable! I went pro immediately and use it every day! Apple alarms doesn’t even have a folder feature, and this app would trump it anyway!
Best App in this Category on iOS, Responsive Developer!
ryan5512
First thing I have to say is that this is a premium app with a very dedicated developer with a lifetime purchase option. If you’re anything like me, that means a lot to be able to use this app subscription-free. I requested a feature of the developer early on, and he added it to the next release like a week later! This is seriously one of the best experiences I’ve had on that front.As for the app functionality, it really is pretty great, and one of the only reliable ways that I can skip my alarm for the following morning without having to worry about remembering to re-enable it afterwards - the schedule will continue automatically so I can go on with my day with one less thing to think about. This is the way technology should be, making our lives easier, and this app nails it. Get VariAlarm - you won’t regret it.
Developer Response
Hi there. Thank you very much for the glowing review. It means a lot to me that VariAlarm is helping you manage your schedule effectively while staying out of your way as an effective tool for life in 2026.Thank you for contacting me with feature request. If you need anything in the future, just let me know.Cheers,
The Most Customizable Alarm App I’ve Found
krizelhdz
I’ve been loving this app for a few months now so much that I ended up purchasing the yearly subscription.My gym schedule is incredibly inconsistent, which makes regular alarms frustrating. Some mornings I can sleep an extra 30 minutes because my class starts later, other days I need to be up at 4 a.m. on the dot, and sometimes I decide to skip the gym altogether and don’t want scheduled alarms bothering me.VariAlarm has an incredible amount of features that fit my routine perfectly. You can adjust the alarm volume, use your own music, have the music gradually fade in so you’re not waking up in fight-or-flight mode, create your own routines, make templates with multiple alarms, choose exactly which days you want them active, and so much more. It genuinely feels like an alarm app designed around how people actually live.What makes the app even more impressive is that Nhat is a solo developer who originally created it based on his own needs, probably without realizing how many other people he would end up helping.Every time Apple releases a new iOS update, I wait to see if they’ll finally improve their very basic default alarm app. I know I’m not the only person who finds it incredibly limiting, yet somehow it seems to get more aesthetic without becoming much more useful. VariAlarm is the complete opposite. Nhat has built this app by listening to what people actually need and continues to test, improve, and add features based on real feedback. That’s what makes it so useful.Unfortunately, iOS updates sometimes introduce bugs or interfere with how third-party alarm apps work. Nhat has all my respect for continuing to work through those issues instead of dropping the ball. He is extremely supportive, helpful, and quick to respond whenever something goes wrong, and he genuinely makes an effort to get things solved or sorted out.It’s rare to find an app that is this customizable AND a developer who is this involved with the people using it. I’m very happy I found VariAlarm, and my yearly subscription has absolutely been worth it.
Developer Response
Hi krizelhdz. I’m glad to hear that VariAlarm can fit your life in a way that no other alarm apps can. I poured my heart and soul into making it so that it can fit any type of schedules people might have had and it always delight me when I hear feedback from great users like you! I guess solving my own problem creates the drive necessary to bring it closer to real people’s needs and wishes but the community has been a great help to cover my own blind spots. And because we continue to use it, it sees much more growth and many updates than the average apps on market. It takes advantage of so many Apple frameworks to make it useful, consistent yet focused to do one thing effectively: giving you control of your schedule.Thanks again for the glowing review. I cannot express my appreciation enough as the users’ feedback has continued to drive my development for this app even though it is in one of the most crowded category on market.
In this update, we include some fixes for the Reachable layout on iPhone Duo.
Version 2.3.1
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Nhat Le
Size
118.7 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.