snoozetaker
Wake to the sea, not a siren
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Because snoozes cannot be given. They must be taken. 46 nature sounds, offline. Rings through silent mode and Focus on iOS 26. No account, subscription or server.
An alarm clock that wakes you with a wave, a rainfall or a fire in the grate, so the first thing you hear in the morning isn't an emergency.
RINGS WHEN IT MATTERS
On iOS 26, snoozetaker schedules a system alarm, so a Focus or the ring/silent switch will not keep it quiet — the same way the built-in clock behaves. On earlier versions it rings through notifications instead, for five minutes rather than one polite beep.
Switch on a backup ring and an alarm nobody answers comes back a few minutes later. A gentle sound is one you can sleep through, so the safety net is there if you want it. It is off unless you ask.
SOUNDS RECORDED OUTDOORS
Rain in pine woods, a dawn chorus, gulls over a harbour, a wood stove, frogs at night, waves drawing back over a pebble beach. Most are field recordings; all are public domain, CC0 or CC-BY, and every loop is seamless, so nothing clicks or restarts.
Some are two sounds at once — rain on a fire, gulls over surf, a stream under a dawn chorus — mixed together properly rather than layered at playback, so they arrive as one sound.
Everything is included and everything works offline. There is nothing to unlock.
A GENTLER MORNING
Choose how long the alarm takes to reach full volume: off, or anything up to two minutes.
Snooze as many times as you like — that is the default. Cap it if you would rather, or have each snooze come back shorter than the last, so a lie-in has a natural end instead of quietly swallowing an hour.
Once you have snoozed, moving the phone snoozes it again, so you need not find the button in the dark.
SEVEN O'CLOCK ON WEEKDAYS, HALF PAST EIGHT ON SATURDAY
That is one alarm, not two. One thing to switch off when you go away, and one to switch back on.
SLEEP SOUNDS TOO
The same catalogue plays you to sleep, for anything from ten minutes to an hour and a half, fading out at the end so the stopping never wakes you.
NOTHING TO SIGN UP FOR
No account, no email, no subscription. There is no snoozetaker server for your alarms to sync to: they live on your device and nowhere else. The app collects nothing and sends nothing anywhere.
Ratings & Reviews
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Snoozing or stopping an alarm now reliably calls off its backup ring, which could sometimes still ring ten minutes later. Backup rings for alarms set just before midnight are handled correctly too.
The developer, Elaine Bevington, 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.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Elaine Bevington
- Size
- 101.6 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. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2026 Iain McLaren