Where the sound lives
Every alarm in LFG Alarm has its own sound, set in the studio: tap Pick the vibe after making an alarm, or open any alarm you made. The sound has two layers, and you can use either or both.
| Layer | What it is | Your options |
|---|---|---|
| Music | The song or tone that rings | LFG picks, your own sounds (mine), the genre shelves, or Upload a sound |
| Voiceover | A line spoken on top of the music | Pick a voice, upload one, or Record one |
Tap Preview to hear it ring before you save.
The library
If you do not have a sound in mind, start with the shelves:
- Songs across hundreds of tracks, from Afrobeats and hip-hop to metal, Broadway and video game themes.
- Voices with attitude: Drill sergeant, Hype man, Toxic coach, The butler, Your bestie, Breaking news.
- Loud tones for heavy sleepers: sirens, horns and drums. If you are the person who sleeps through five alarms, see the alarm for heavy sleepers.
The whole library is included in the free app.
Use your own song or voice
- Open the alarm in the studio and tap Music.
- Tap Upload a sound and pick the file from your phone. It joins your own sounds under mine, ready for other alarms too.
- For a spoken line, open Voiceover and tap Record one, or upload a voice memo.
- Tap Preview to check how it starts. The first seconds are what wake you, so trim a long intro before you upload.
A voiceover plays over the music, so you can keep a song you like and add a voice on top: the song for the energy, the voice to say what the alarm is for.
Three alarms worth making
Your partner's voice for the early shift. Mia works nights; Sam starts at 5:40. Mia records "Coffee's in the pot, go get them" as a voiceover on Sam's weekday alarm, over a slow song. It is the first thing Sam hears, even on the mornings they do not see each other.
The team's song on match day. Jordan makes a one-off alarm for 2:00pm Saturday, kick-off at 3, with the club's anthem uploaded as the sound and a photo of the team scarf as the wallpaper. Six friends ride it from one link. At 2:00 every phone in the group plays the anthem at once, wherever they are.
A friend's ridiculous voice memo for the 6am run. Priya sends the run club a voice note of herself doing a terrible sports commentator: "And they're OFF the mattress." Leo uploads it as the voiceover on the club's Monday, Wednesday and Friday alarm. Nobody snoozes the commentator twice.
Shared alarms ring with the same sound
When you share an alarm, everyone who joins it rings with the same sound and the same picture. That is the fun part: the whole group hears the anthem, the commentator or the song Rocco cooked about them, together.
It also means the sound is part of what people signed up for. Once someone is riding the alarm, its sound and look are sealed and the rows show a lock. Pick the sound before you send the link. To change it after, make a new alarm and share the new link.
Snooze and chaos
- Snooze: Snooze for 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes, How many times 3, 10 or forever, and Silent snooze if you do not want Rocco roasting you out loud. Snooze is personal: it applies to your phone, even on an alarm you ride.
- Chaos level: mild, medium or feral. It sets how hard Rocco roasts a snooze. Medium is the default.
Most people snooze at least some of the time. In a 2023 survey of 1,732 adults, 69% said they use snooze or several alarms at least sometimes. A fun sound does not stop that, but a voice you know, plus a friend who can see on the wake board that you snoozed, makes getting up easier.
Cook a song
In the app, Rocco can cook a song or a voiceover just for an alarm: about a person, a crew or a moment, in the genre and mood you pick. The details do the work: a name, one true thing about them, and the moment it is for. See Cooking with Rocco.
How loud it rings, by phone
- Time alarms ring as real alarms on both phones. On iPhone they use Apple's own alarm system, which rings through silent mode and Focus. On Android they take over the screen, even when the phone is locked.
- Post, price and webhook alarms need a connection, because the server notices the moment and tells your phone. On Android they ring full screen, even on Do Not Disturb. On iPhone they arrive as a time-sensitive alert with the alarm's own sound, which respects the silent switch, so keep the ringer on.
Ask your AI agent to set it up
If you use an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT with the LFG Alarm connector, it can make the alarm and hand you a one-time lfg.gm/upload link for your own song or voice. AI apps cannot pass a file from the chat to a connector, so you add the file on that page.
Have your AI agent make it.
Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or any AI agent that can add a connector, not into the LFG Alarm app. The setup steps come with it: get the LFG Alarm app, connect it to your agent once, and your agent makes the alarm in your account.
Use LFG Alarm to set a repeating alarm for 6:00 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday called Run club, then give me an upload link so I can add my own song to it, and the alarm link to share.
Already have the LFG Alarm app and connected it to your AI agent?
Why it works. It sets the alarm first, then asks for the upload link for the song, which is how an AI agent gets your own file onto an alarm.
See Using LFG Alarm from your AI agent.
Common mistakes
- A song with a long, quiet intro. You wake to the first seconds. Start the file where the song kicks in.
- Sharing before choosing the sound. The sound seals once someone joins.
- The same sound for months. You stop hearing it. Change it every few weeks.
- Expecting a price or post alarm to break the iPhone silent switch. Only time and event alarms ring through it.
