There are plenty of alarm clock apps on the Android Market available either as free, free and ad-supported or as paid apps. Among the crowd of alarm clock apps, you will find three apps that stand out by virtue of the number of votes received and the number of successful downloads and install. They are Alarm Clock Extreme, Alarm Clock Plus and Alarm Droid. The purpose of this article is to compare these three apps and determine which serves the best for the purpose of waking you up in the morning.
Like all basic alarm clock apps, Alarm Clock Extreme, Alarm Clock Plus and Alarm Droid allows you set multiple alarms configured to ring at different times of the day or days of the week. All 3 apps support snooze feature, multiple choice of ringtones, timers, auto snooze, and even employ sadistic methods like forcing you to solve math problems before you can stop the alarm.
Below is a feature-by-feature comparison of the three alarm clock apps.
| Alarm Clock Extreme | Alarm Clock Plus | Alarm Droid | |
| Alarm Type | - Play built-in ringtones | - Play built-in ringtones | - Play built-in ringtones |
| Alarm Repeat | - Selected days of week | - Selected days of week | - Selected days of week |
| Snooze/Dismiss Method | Snooze using | Snooze using | Snooze using |
| Snooze Protection | - Disable snooze | - Disable snooze | - Disable snooze |
| Hourly alarm | - No | - Yes. Sound ringtone, speak time or weather | - Yes. Speak time every 5 minutes up to 1 hour |
| Others | - Homescreen widgets | - Homescreen widgets | - Homescreen widgets |
Decision Maker
- Need random ringtones everyday? Pick Alarm Clock Extreme or Alarm Droid
- Need speaking alarm clock? Pick Alarm Clock Plus or Alarm Droid
- Hard to getup type? Pick Alarm Clock Plus or Alarm Clock Extreme and set math difficulty to hard or very hard
- Low in phone memory? Pick Alarm Clock Extreme
Screenshots
Alarm Clock Plus
Alarm Clock Extreme
Alarm Droid
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nice
ReplyDeletethank you!
You forgot to mention if the clocks have a countup or countdown feature.
ReplyDeleteAlso, whether for repeating alarms, the week begins with Sunday or Monday.
The clocks have a countdown timer. It's mentioned in the table.
ReplyDeleteFor repeating alarms, does it matter if the week begins with Sunday or Monday, as long as you can configure the alarm for each day?
Perfect breakdown - thank you so much!
ReplyDeletedid this alarm keep working even the phone is power off?
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