- Pause for a vacation: Settings → Pause turns alarms off until the date you pick, then they come back on their own. - Video link warnings: if a meeting's Zoom, Meet or Teams link is removed or changed, you see it in the list and on the countdown, plus a notification when the meeting is less than two hours away. - Back-to-back meetings: an alert that comes while another meeting is still going vibrates first and only plays its sound after 15 seconds. - Ask Siri "When's my next meeting in Befoor", "Join my next Befoor meeting" or "Skip my next meeting in Befoor". - The Home Screen widget now has Join and Skip buttons. - Morning summary: an optional quiet notification with how many meetings you have and when the first one starts. - Test Alert at the bottom of Settings rings a test alarm in 10 seconds. - More ignored keywords out of the box: OOO, Out of office, Focus time, Do not book, Commute and Travel time. - Fixed: notifications that arrived while Befoor was open didn't stay in Notification Center. Questions or feedback? apps@feingold5.com

- Skip a single meeting: swipe left on it (or touch and hold) and tap Skip. It won't ring on any of your devices. - Join video calls: meetings with a Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or Webex link get a Join button in the list and on the countdown. - The list now shows your meetings for the days ahead, not just today. - A warning now appears if alarms are off, or if some meetings can only get notifications, which don't ring on silent. - New Sync Befoor action in Shortcuts: run it from an automation to catch meetings added while Befoor is closed. - Befoor now speaks Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. - Fixed: "lunch" showed up twice in Ignored Keywords. Questions or feedback? apps@feingold5.com

- Fixed: an alert could ring twice and show two cards for the same meeting. - Only one card per meeting: the alarm itself now shows the countdown, with the meeting, its location and your calendar's color. After you stop the first alert it keeps counting down and rings again at the last alert, then goes away when you stop that one. - New app icon, also shown in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen. Questions or feedback? apps@feingold5.com

- People and 1:1 tracking have been removed so Befoor can focus on meeting alarms. 1:1 meetings now get alarms like any other meeting. - Simpler alarms: each meeting rings at your first alert (15 minutes before by default) and again at your last alert (1 minute before). Both always ring, even if you stop the first one. - Meetings that start at the same time now share one alarm and one countdown. - The meeting countdown appears with the first alarm, now uses your calendar's color, and goes away 10 minutes after the meeting starts. - If a meeting moves to a new time, its countdown and any snoozed alarm for the old time go away. - New app icon. - Befoor no longer runs on Mac. Questions or feedback? apps@feingold5.com

- Fixed: if you updated from an earlier version, Befoor may never have asked to use alarms, so meeting reminders came as quiet notifications instead. It now asks when you open the app. - Each alarm now plays its sound once instead of repeating until you stop it. - Sound previews in Settings now play even when your phone is on silent. - Fixed the background check, so new and changed meetings are picked up even when you haven't opened Befoor. - The meeting countdown now pops up on its own in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen as soon as the first alert rings, shows the Befoor icon, and goes away 10 minutes after the meeting starts. - Alarms now ring on every device where you've allowed them, not only on your main device. - Every meeting in your look-ahead window now gets alarms, not just the next few. - Calendars you add after setting up Befoor are now watched automatically, and your existing calendar choices carry over. Questions or feedback? apps@feingold5.com

Befoor 3.0 is a big update. It now requires iOS 26. - Real alarms: meetings now ring with the same system alarms as the Clock app. They sound even when your iPhone is on silent or in a Focus, and Befoor no longer has to keep running in the background, which is much easier on your battery. - Three alerts per meeting: 15, 7 and 1 minute before by default, each one adjustable in Settings. - Snooze or stop right from the alarm. Stop skips that meeting's remaining alerts. - New countdown to your next meeting in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen, with its location, calendar and who it's with. - Tidier notifications: only the newest one stays in Notification Center, and it clears itself after 30 minutes. - Your calendar is checked for changes more often in the background. - Updated onboarding and help to explain how it all works. Questions or feedback? apps@feingold5.com

This update is all about battery life, without giving up the one thing Befoor promises: your alarm sounds on time even when the phone is locked and the ringer is off. - Alarms now wake the phone only at the moment they need to ring, instead of checking the clock every second all day. - The silent background stream that keeps alarms reliable now uses the lightest audio settings iOS allows. - Notification banners for the same event are tidied up so a single meeting never leaves a stack of stale alerts. - The widget refreshes only when the list of upcoming events actually changes. - Calendar changes that arrive in bursts are handled with a single resync, and your other devices are only updated when the alarm list really changed. - The haptic engine now powers down between alarms. - Apple Watch: the People list only refreshes while it is on screen. Questions or feedback? apps@feingold5.com

Allow turning off the people tab (so it can function just as an alarm app).

Fixes for keeping the people list updated

Fixed tricky issue around secondary devices not getting certain updates.

Make sure syncing works across devices. Keep in-progress meetings (1 hour old) at top of People list

Fixed issue where the alarms and people tabs both created notifications. Now if the meeting is a 1:1 only the people tab will create a notification.

Syncing with two secondary devices now works correctly. Debug information is hidden by default. Bug fixes, optimizations.

Added concept of "Main" and "Secondary" to allow for a single source of truth. Reduce lag on inputs, Fixed syncing between iPhone and iPad (Mac) versions of the app through iCloud. Dramatically improved CloudKit sync speed — changes now appear on all devices within seconds. Fixed an issue where the People tab wouldn't refresh on secondary devices until navigating away and back. Alarm list now syncs from your main device to all secondary devices automatically. Added swipe-to-delete for follow-ups (both active and completed)

UI fixes, apple watch tweaks, note editing

Bug fixes, tweaks, apple watch and lock screen widget support

making sure to clear off all older notifications for the same event when displaying a new one

Added functionality to monitor and keep notes on 1:1 meetings. You can take follow up items, create global notes for your team, add notes during a 1:1 and more. Fixed some issues around notifications. Now has iPad support and that app can run on the Mac. Notes are synced through iCloud. Bug fixes

Trying to make sure the app keeps running in the background. It can be affected by low memory, but wanting to keep it running to play audible alerts whenever possible

Updated notification settings including being abel to control audio alerts per notification

With localization for many languages

Dismissing an alert will cancel all other alerts for that event. Only the first and last alert will provide audible feedback.