BellAlert
Send & hear custom bells
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Bells for what matters, each with its own sound — plus live PA announcements you can replay anytime. Create a bell, share the code, and ring it from your Home Screen.
Some notifications matter more than others. Bell Alerts lets you give each one its own sound — so you know what just happened without even looking at your phone.
Create a bell, share its code, and ring it. Everyone you've shared it with gets the alert instantly — each on their own phone, with the sound they picked. Dinner's ready, the dog's at the door, the meeting's starting: make it a bell.
MAKE IT YOURS
• A different sound for every bell — a dozen original tones to choose from
• Per phone: you pick your sound, your family picks theirs
• Vibrate-only or mute any bell, anytime
• 11 app icons to match your style
SEND A BELL IN A TAP
• Create a bell — it gets its own private, unguessable code
• Share the code; anyone who adds it is subscribed
• Ring it from the app — or straight from a Home Screen widget, without opening anything
• Changed your mind? "Oops" un-rings it — the alert crosses itself out everywhere
STAY ON TOP OF IT
• Recent rings at a glance, with timestamps — canceled ones clearly marked
• A Home Screen widget shows the latest bells the moment they ring
• Disappearing alerts tidy themselves up after a time you set
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account, no sign-up, no tracking
• Bells are private codes — only the people you share them with get the rings
• Verified on device with App Check; standard encryption only
FOR POWER USERS
Bell Alerts can also receive alerts from your own internet server — the same bring-your-own-server idea as the open-source app ntfy. Send a notification from any script or service you run and it arrives as a custom bell on every subscribed phone. It's a software integration over the internet; no extra hardware or accessory is involved. Setup guide included.
Make every alert sound like what it is.
Added ability to subscribe to bells using a link.
Bug fixes
The developer, Curtis Waldner, 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
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Curtis Waldner
- Size
- 36.8 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Runabout Digital