# The fastest way to make a group alarm with your friends

Friends and groups · https://lfg.gm/group-alarms · Updated 2026-10-17

The fastest way to make a group alarm is to save your people once as a group in LFG Alarm, then tap Create alarm with this group whenever you need everyone at the same moment. LFG Alarm is a social alarm clock for iPhone and Android: one alarm rings every phone that joined it, together, with the same sound and picture. No group chat roll call, no forty reminders, no "did everyone see this?".

## Why a group alarm beats a group chat

A group chat is where plans are made and then forgotten. A message about tomorrow's 6am run is one of hundreds by morning. A group alarm is the plan itself: it rings every phone at the moment, and the wake board shows who got up.

- **Everyone is synced.** One alarm, many phones, one moment.
- **It is loud.** A time or event alarm is a real alarm on both phones: through silent mode and Focus on iPhone, and full screen on Android even when the phone is locked.
- **It carries the details.** The name and wallpaper say what it is on the ring screen; the creator's note says where to meet; the call-to-action link opens the address or the playlist when people answer.
- **You see who is up.** The wake board lists who answered and how fast.

## Set it up once

1. Open **Settings** > **Friends** and add your friends by username, or send **Invite friends** to anyone not on LFG Alarm yet.
2. Switch to **Groups**, tap **Create a group**, name it ("Sunday run", "Golf", "The flat"), pick an emoji and add people.
3. Tap **Save**. Only you see your groups.

## Then, every time

1. Open the group and tap **Create alarm with this group**.
2. Pick the kind of alarm: a time, an event from a Luma or Partiful link, a post on X, a price, or anything.
3. Rocco walks you through it. The alarm is already shared with friends, with everyone in the group on its list.
4. They get it in their notifications and tap to ride. When it rings, it rings for all of them.

![Rocco starting an alarm with the Sunday run group](https://lfg.gm/wiki/shots/alarm-with-group.jpg)

![The alarm starts shared with friends, with the group already on it](https://lfg.gm/wiki/shots/time-arm.jpg)

In a hurry? Hold a friend's row to pick a few people, then tap **Create alarm with** to skip the group altogether.

## Three groups, in real life

**The 6am crew.** Five people from the same gym who keep saying they will train before work. Nadia saves them as a group called "6am" with a flexed-arm emoji. On Sunday night she opens the group, taps Create alarm with this group, and makes a repeating alarm for 5:45 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Each of them gets a notification and taps to ride. On Wednesday the [wake board](https://lfg.gm/wiki/wake-board) shows three people up inside ten seconds and one who snoozed twice, which is the whole conversation in the chat that morning.

**The golf four.** Tee time is 8:10 on Saturday, 40 minutes' drive away. Rob's "Golf" group gets a one-off alarm for 6:30 with the course in the call-to-action link, so it opens a map when they tap I'm up. He did not have to type four usernames.

**The book club across time zones.** Members in Sydney, Singapore and San Francisco meet on a call once a month. One alarm with **Same time zone for everyone** rings them all in the same second, and each person sees the time in their own zone. Nobody has to work out whose evening it is.

## More ideas for groups

- **The 6am run club.** One time alarm, every weekday, with a song that gets people out the door.
- **Golf on Saturday.** Ring two hours before the tee time, with the course address as the link.
- **The family.** An alarm for the school run or for a call with grandparents. See [the fastest way to get your whole family's attention](https://lfg.gm/family-alert).
- **The trading chat.** A price or trader alarm that rings the whole chat when it moves: full screen on Android even on Do Not Disturb, and a time-sensitive alert with its own sound on iPhone, so keep the ringer on. See [crypto alarms on your phone and laptop](https://lfg.gm/crypto-alarms-phone-and-laptop).
- **Roommates.** Bin night, rent day, the landlord's visit. See [one alarm for the whole group chat](https://lfg.gm/group-alarm-for-roommates).

## Across time zones

A shared time alarm rings everyone at the same moment by default, and each person sees the time in their own zone. Pick **Everyone's local time zone** instead when a club wants each person woken at their own 6:00. See [Time alarms](https://lfg.gm/wiki/time-alarms).

**Try this.** Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or another AI agent that has the LFG Alarm connector (https://mcp.lfg.gm), not into the LFG Alarm app. The person needs the LFG Alarm app on their phone.

> Use LFG Alarm to make a friends alarm called "Sunday run" for 7:00 every Sunday, and add my friends [username], [username] and [username] to it. Then tell me who is on it.

Why it works: It names the alarm, the time, the repeat and the people in one go, and asks your AI agent to tell you who is on it, so you know it worked.

## Questions

### Do my friends need the app?
Yes, to be rung. They get the LFG Alarm app free on Google Play or the App Store and sign in.

### Can someone who is not my friend join?
Yes. Add them to the alarm by username or email, or send the alarm's link. A group is only for friends.

### If I add someone to the group later, are they on old alarms?
No. A group fills an alarm's list with the people in it at that moment. Add the new person to an existing alarm yourself, or send them its link.

### What if someone in the group cannot make it?
They can turn it off for themselves or remove it. It keeps ringing for everyone else.

See also [Friends and groups](https://lfg.gm/wiki/friends-and-groups), [What is a social alarm clock?](https://lfg.gm/social-alarm-clock) and [Sharing and reach](https://lfg.gm/wiki/sharing-and-reach).

## Keep exploring

- [How to make one alarm ring the whole group chat](https://lfg.gm/group-alarm-for-roommates.md): Roommates and group chats ride one alarm link, and Rocco shows who slept in.
- [A shared alarm clock for couples: one alarm, two phones](https://lfg.gm/couples-alarm-clock.md): One alarm that rings both phones, with your voice or a song about them.
- [Alarm app for co-parents: one alarm a day you both can't miss](https://lfg.gm/alarm-app-for-co-parents.md): One alarm a day from your co-parent or partner, for the swap, the early pickup or costume day, ringing both phones with the note and link attached.
- [5am club app: one shared alarm for a club, in one city or across time zones](https://lfg.gm/5am-club-app.md): Run a 5am club, a run club or a gym group on one repeating alarm, each person woken at their own 5:00, the plan in the creator’s note and a wake board of who made it.
- [What is a social alarm clock?](https://lfg.gm/social-alarm-clock.md): An alarm you share by link, so every phone that joined rings together, with a wake board of who got up.
- [How to give your partner a heads-up they can't miss](https://lfg.gm/partner-heads-up.md): One alarm for the moment that matters, on both phones, with your note or your voice on it.

## About LFG Alarm

LFG Alarm is a social alarm clock for iPhone, iPad and Android. It rings for times and for moments (a post on X, a stream going live, a token price, a wallet buying, an event starting), and one shared link makes every phone that joined ring together. Rocco, the cat inside the app, does the watching and the waking.

- Get it on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gm.lfg.app
- Download on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6821089085
- Use it from an AI agent: add the MCP server https://mcp.lfg.gm as a connector, then ask in plain words.
- Every page for agents: https://lfg.gm/llms.txt