# LFG Alarm vs Whale Alert

Comparisons · https://lfg.gm/lfg-alarm-vs-whale-alert · Updated 2026-10-16

Whale Alert and LFG Alarm both tell you when big money moves in crypto, but they watch different things. Whale Alert tracks large crypto transactions across the market, with free public feeds and paid custom alerts by browser and web push. LFG Alarm is a social alarm clock for iPhone and Android that watches the wallets and traders you pick and rings like an alarm when one makes a trade over your floor, or when a token hits your price, and it can ring your friends at the same time. We make LFG Alarm; this is a fair comparison as of October 2026.

A quick note if you searched the App Store: the iOS app called "Whale Alert" is a marine app about real whales, made by Conserve.IO. The crypto Whale Alert says in its FAQ that it has "no standalone app in the app stores yet".

![Whale Alert's website, 16 October 2026](https://lfg.gm/compare/shots/whale-alert.jpg)

## At a glance

| | Whale Alert | LFG Alarm |
|---|---|---|
| What it watches | Large transactions across the market | Wallets and traders you choose, and token prices |
| Filters | Coin, USD size, transaction type, dormant wallets | Buys, sells or both over a floor; a price, percent move or multiple |
| Follow one specific wallet | We could not confirm it | Yes, paste the address |
| Follow a trader by handle | No mention found | A FOMO trader or a GMGN KOL |
| How it reaches you | Browser and web push; email, Slack and Telegram through the API with IFTTT | An alarm with its own sound on your phone |
| Apps | Web, and a web app on mobile | iPhone and Android |
| Price | Alerts $14.95 a month; Alerts, Analytics & News $29.95; API from $29.95; 7-day trial | Free to download; riding someone else's alarm is free |
| Share with friends | Public feeds anyone can follow | Friends alarms ring everyone at once; trader and token alarms can be public |

## Where Whale Alert is stronger

- **The whole market at a glance.** Whale Alert is the best-known name in crypto whale tracking. It watches for large transactions everywhere, so you hear about big moves from wallets you never knew existed.
- **Free public feeds.** You can follow big transactions without paying anything.
- **Dormant wallets.** It can alert you when long-quiet wallets wake up.
- **An API.** Builders can pull its data into their own tools, and route alerts to email, Slack or Telegram through IFTTT.
- **Analytics and news** on the higher plan.

## Where LFG Alarm is different

- **You pick who to watch.** Paste a wallet on Solana, Ethereum, Base, BNB, Arbitrum or Robinhood Chain and choose a floor: $1k, $2k, $5k or $10k (default $5k). Or follow a FOMO trader by handle (buys over $5k, $10k or $25k, and every sell) or a GMGN KOL (over $100, $500 or $1k).
- **It rings.** On Android it rings as a full-screen alarm, even on Do Not Disturb. On iPhone it arrives as a time-sensitive alert with the alarm's own sound, which can come through Focus but respects the silent switch; keep the ringer on. In Whale Alert's pages we found no mention of alerts that ring through silent mode or keep ringing until answered.
- **A phone app.** LFG Alarm is a native app on both stores.
- **Calm after a ring.** A trades alarm stays quiet for 15 minutes after it rings.
- **Friends on the same alarm.** Share it and everyone is rung at once.
- **Price alarms.** Ring when a token reaches a price, moves by a percent or hits a multiple.
- **No wallet connection, nothing to sign, no trading in the app.**

## Reading the tide or watching one boat

Whale Alert is about the tide: the large transactions moving across crypto that might shift the whole market, from wallets you have never heard of. You read it the way you read the news, often with a coffee, sometimes with a custom alert for a coin you care about.

LFG Alarm is about one boat. Ines holds a token where one early wallet still owns a large share. A market-wide feed will not single that wallet out for her, because by market standards its trades are small. A $15k sell from it, though, could move her token a lot. She pastes the address into LFG Alarm on Ethereum, sets **Sells over $10k**, and goes to sleep. The night it sells, her phone rings at 01:30. She checks the token's chart, then Whale Alert to see whether anything bigger is going on across the market, and decides.

Big picture from one, the specific wallet from the other.

## Which one should you get?

- **Whale Alert** if you want a stream of the biggest transactions across crypto, dormant wallet alerts, or an API.
- **LFG Alarm** if you already know the whale, wallet or trader you care about, and you want a real alarm, for you and your friends, when they make a big move.

Plenty of people follow Whale Alert's feeds for the big picture and set an LFG Alarm on the few wallets they never want to miss. See [Best crypto whale alert apps](https://lfg.gm/best-crypto-whale-alert-apps) for more options.

## Make it in the app

1. On **Alarms**, tap **📈 Onchain**. On lfg.gm, tap **Create**, then **Onchain**.
2. Paste the whale's address (Solana, Ethereum, Base, BNB, Arbitrum or Robinhood Chain).
3. Pick **Buys**, **Sells** or both, and a floor of $1k, $2k, $5k or $10k.
4. Keep it private or share it with friends, then tap **That's it**.

Wallet alarms from an AI agent are coming; for now, make them in the app or on lfg.gm.

## Questions

### Is there a Whale Alert crypto app on the App Store?
Not as of October 2026. Whale Alert's FAQ says it has no standalone app in the app stores yet. The App Store app named Whale Alert is a marine app about real whales.

### Can LFG Alarm alert me to every large transaction?
No. LFG Alarm watches wallets and traders you choose, and token prices. For market-wide whale moves, Whale Alert is the better fit.

### How much is Whale Alert?
Alerts cost $14.95 a month; Alerts, Analytics & News costs $29.95; the API starts at $29.95. Each has a 7-day trial.

### Is LFG Alarm free?
It is free to download, and riding someone else's alarm is free. See [Solana wallet alarms](https://lfg.gm/solana-wallet-alarm) and [how trades alarms work](https://lfg.gm/wiki/trades-alarms).

## Sources and further reading

- [Whale Alert](https://whale-alert.io/)
- [Whale Alert FAQ](https://whale-alert.io/faq.html)
- [The marine Whale Alert app on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/id911035973)

LFG Alarm is not affiliated with Whale Alert.

## Keep exploring

- [Best social alarm clock apps in 2026: which ones let friends share an alarm](https://lfg.gm/best-social-alarm-clock.md): A fair comparison of the apps that really let friends share, set or watch an alarm, including what LFG Alarm does not do.
- [The 10 best alarm clock apps in 2026](https://lfg.gm/best-alarm-clock-apps.md): From Loud Alarm Clock to Alarmy and Galarm: who each of the best alarm apps is for, and why LFG Alarm is first.
- [LFG Alarm vs Alarmy](https://lfg.gm/lfg-alarm-vs-alarmy.md): Alarmy makes sure you get out of bed; LFG Alarm decides when and why your phone rings, and wakes your friends too.
- [LFG Alarm vs Galarm](https://lfg.gm/lfg-alarm-vs-galarm.md): Both ring a whole group at once; LFG Alarm also rings for posts, prices, trades, events and webhooks.
- [Crypto alert apps compared: Cielo, Nansen, GMGN, FOMO and more](https://lfg.gm/crypto-alert-apps-compared.md): Most wallet trackers need the raw address and send a Telegram ping; LFG Alarm follows traders by handle and rings.
- [Alert apps compared: the fastest way to alert a person or a group](https://lfg.gm/alert-apps-compared.md): Group chats, Pushover, ntfy, IFTTT, PagerDuty and LFG Alarm: what arrives, what breaks through, and who each is for.

## 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