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How to make IFTTT ring your phone

To make IFTTT ring your phone, create an applet whose action is the Webhooks service's Make a web request, with Method set to POST and the URL set to the private link of an anything alarm in LFG Alarm. When the applet runs, your phone rings like an alarm, and so do the friends you shared the alarm with. LFG Alarm is a social alarm clock for iPhone and Android, plus lfg.gm in a desktop browser, built for the alert you cannot sleep through when something really matters.

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Also called: ifttt phone alarm · ifttt webhooks make a web request · ifttt call my phone alternative · ifttt alert that wakes me up

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Before you start

  • Get the LFG Alarm app on your phone from Google Play or the App Store, and sign in. IFTTT sets it off; the app is what rings.
  • An IFTTT account that can use the Webhooks action. IFTTT marks Make a web request with its Pro icon; see IFTTT's own plans.
  • A trigger you care about, such as a calendar event, a new form entry or a new sale.

Make the alarm

  1. In LFG Alarm, on Alarms, tap 🔮 Anything.
  2. Name it for what it means, for example "Studio booking" or "Doorbell". Nothing IFTTT sends is shown on the ring screen, so the name is the message.
  3. Pick a Cooldown, the alarm's quiet time after a ring: 1 minute to 1 hour. Calls inside it do not ring again.
  4. Keep it private, or share it with the people who should hear it (an anything alarm is private or friends, never public), and tap Arm it.
  5. On the link card, tap Copy. Tap Test fire once to hear it on your own phone.

Build the applet

  1. In IFTTT, create a new applet and choose your If This trigger.
  2. For Then That, choose the Webhooks service and the Make a web request action.
  3. URL: paste the alarm's link. It looks like https://api.lfg.gm/horn/ followed by 32 letters and digits.
  4. Method: POST.
  5. Content Type can be anything, and leave Additional Headers and Body empty. LFG Alarm ignores the body.
  6. Save the applet, then set off the trigger to test it.

Only what matters should ring, so keep the trigger narrow: a calendar trigger for events with a keyword, or a form that only one client uses. Where a trigger has fields to narrow it down, use them.

IFTTT's phone call action, compared honestly

IFTTT has its own Phone Call (US only) service with a Call my phone action, which calls your number and says the message you type. It is a fine choice for some people. The differences:

  • Who it reaches. IFTTT says only US-based numbers can connect to the phone call service. An anything alarm rings everyone who joined it, wherever they are.
  • How many. IFTTT caps the phone call service at 100 calls a month. An anything alarm has no such cap, only its quiet time after each ring.
  • What you hear. A phone call speaks your message, and a call you miss is a missed call. LFG Alarm rings like an alarm: on Android it rings full screen; on iPhone it arrives as a time-sensitive alert with the alarm's sound, so keep the ringer on.
  • Who hears it. A phone call reaches one number. One anything alarm can ring your partner, your co-founder or your whole crew at once.

What does not change is the trigger. IFTTT checks polling triggers every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users and every hour for Free users, according to IFTTT's applet pages. That delay comes before either action runs, so a slow trigger is slow whether the applet calls you or rings an anything alarm. Pick a realtime trigger when timing matters.

Three applets that earn a ring

The studio booking. Omar rents out a recording studio and wants to know the moment a session is booked for the same day. His applet triggers on a new entry in his same-day booking form, and only that form, and rings "Studio booking" on his phone and his engineer's.

The livestream that starts in five minutes. Nina co-hosts a weekly show on YouTube. Her applet starts from a calendar event with "LIVE" in the title and rings an alarm shared with her co-host and editor, so nobody is still making coffee when the stream goes up.

The doorbell nobody hears. Rosa works with headphones on in a garden office. A smart doorbell applet rings "Front door" on her Android phone, full screen like an alarm, so it gets through the music where another notification would not.

If it does not work

  • The applet ran but nothing rang. Check Method is POST; a GET does nothing. Check the link was copied whole.
  • It rang once, then went quiet. The alarm is inside its quiet time. That is the cooldown doing its job.
  • Still nothing. The alarm may be switched off, deleted, or its link replaced with New URL. Copy the link again from the alarm's page.
  • It rang late. Look at the trigger, not the action: polling triggers on IFTTT are checked on a schedule.

Learn more

Sources and further reading

LFG Alarm is not affiliated with IFTTT.

questions people ask
Do I need an LFG Alarm key for IFTTT?

No. The link is all it needs. That also means anyone who has it can ring the alarm, so treat it like a password and tap **New URL** on the alarm's page if it leaks.

Can I use both IFTTT's call and LFG Alarm?

Yes. Make two applets with the same trigger, one that rings the alarm and one that calls you.

Can my AI agent make the alarm for me?

Yes. Through the [LFG Alarm connector](/agents), ask for an anything alarm, private or for friends, and it hands back the link to paste into IFTTT.

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