At a glance
| Alarmy | LFG Alarm | |
|---|---|---|
| Main idea | You cannot turn it off until you finish a mission | Alarms for times and moments, shared with friends |
| Getting you up | Missions: math, memory, shake, typing, squats, steps, photo, QR or barcode; Wake Up Check | Sirens, horns, shouting voices, Rocco roasting each snooze (mild to feral), and friends who can see if you got up |
| Turning it off | Finish the mission | Tap I'm up; snoozing is allowed and counted |
| Wakes your friends too | We found no shared or group alarms on its site or store listings | Share one link; every phone that joined rings together |
| Rings for a moment, not a time | Not found in its listings | Posts on X, Twitch and YouTube going live, token prices, wallet and trader trades, Luma and Partiful events, webhooks |
| Sleep tracking | Yes: sleep score, sleep report, snore detection, sleep sounds | No |
| Wake board | No | Yes: who got up first, who snoozed, who slept in |
| Sounds | Over 100 alarm sounds | Hundreds of songs, voices, sirens, and songs Rocco cooks for one alarm |
Where Alarmy is better
- Forcing you out of bed. Missions mean you have to be awake to stop it. A photo mission sends you to the bathroom sink; a barcode mission to the toothpaste in the kitchen.
- Catching you going back to sleep. Wake Up Check rings again if you do not confirm you are up after the alarm.
- Sleep tools. Alarmy has sleep tracking, a morning sleep report, snore recording and sleep sounds; LFG Alarm has none of these.
- Scale and track record. Alarmy has 50M+ downloads on Android and ratings from millions of people.
Where LFG Alarm is better
- Waking more than one person. One alarm, one link, every phone that joined rings in the same second. Flatmates on the same 7:00, a run club at 5:45 on Saturdays, a couple catching a 6:00am flight.
- Accountability from people, not puzzles. A friend riding your alarm sees on the wake board whether you got up, how many times you snoozed, and who has to buy the coffee.
- Moments without a set time. Ring when someone posts, when a stream goes live, when a token hits your number, or when your own script calls the alarm's link.
- Time zones. A shared alarm can ring everyone at the same moment, or each person at their own 6:00 wherever they live.
Which one should you get?
- Choose Alarmy if your problem is turning off the alarm half asleep and falling back asleep, and you want to track your sleep.
- Choose LFG Alarm if you want to wake up with other people, or for things that happen at no fixed time.
- Some heavy sleepers use both: Alarmy for the solo 6am with a mission, LFG Alarm for the group alarm and the moments.
A setup for the snooze-prone, in LFG Alarm
- Make a repeating time alarm for 6:00 on weekdays, with a siren and the Drill sergeant voice.
- Set Snooze to 5 minutes, 3 times, and the Chaos level in Settings to feral, so every snooze is roasted.
- Turn on Make it social and share it with one friend who gets up early. They see on the board if you slept in.
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 an alarm for 6:00 on weekdays called "No excuses", make it a friends alarm, and add my friend [their LFG Alarm username] so they can see whether I got up.
Already have the LFG Alarm app and connected it to your AI agent?
Why it works. The witness is the part Alarmy does not have: someone who knows if you slept in. Pick the siren and voice in the app afterwards.
Sources and further reading
LFG Alarm is not affiliated with Alarmy.
