How it differs from a normal alarm clock
A normal alarm clock knows two things: a time, and one phone. A social alarm clock adds the people.
| Normal alarm clock | LFG Alarm | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it rings | Your phone | Every phone that joined the link |
| What sets it off | A time | A time, or a moment: a post, a stream, a price, an event, a webhook |
| Who knows you got up | Nobody | The wake board shows who got up first and who slept in |
| What it sounds like | A tone you picked years ago | A song, a voice or a siren picked for that alarm |
| What it says | Nothing | A title and wallpaper on the ring screen, and a creator's note on the alarm's page |
Three mornings it was made for
The run club that keeps losing people. Six friends agreed to run on Saturdays at 8:00. By week three, two are "running late" and one has stopped replying. Priya makes one repeating alarm for 7:30 on Saturdays, posts the link in the chat, and the four who mean it join. At 7:30 every phone rings with the same song. Afterwards the wake board shows who tapped I'm up in three seconds and who snoozed twice, and the last one up buys the coffee. Nobody had to send a "you up?" text.
The exam morning. Sam has a 9:00 exam and a history of sleeping through his own alarms. His flatmate makes a one-off alarm for 7:00 with a siren and the Drill sergeant voice, and sends Sam the link. Two phones ring in the same flat. If Sam is not on the board by 7:10, his flatmate knows to knock. See the alarm for heavy sleepers.
The friends in three cities. A group in London, Lagos and Toronto want to be up at 6:00 for a shared habit. One alarm set to Everyone's local time zone rings each of them at their own 6:00, and the board stays open for 24 hours, ranking each person by how fast they got up after their own ring.
What people use it for
- Mornings with someone: a run club, a gym partner, a flatmate with an exam. See one alarm for the whole group chat.
- Plans that need everyone there: a party, a dinner, a flight. See getting party guests to show up and getting a group chat to commit.
- Moments with no fixed time: a drop, a stream, a post you are waiting for. See an alarm for when someone posts.
- Couples and co-parents on different schedules. See a shared alarm clock for couples and a heads-up your partner can't miss.
- Families. See the fastest way to get your whole family's attention.
How sharing works
- Make an alarm and pick who it is for: friends you name, or anyone with the link. See Sharing and reach.
- Send the link,
lfg.gm/a/<alarm-code>, anywhere: a group chat, a Discord, a bio. - Everyone who taps it and joins is riding the alarm. Riding someone's alarm is free. See Riding an alarm.
- When it rings, everyone taps I'm up, and the wake board fills in.
A shared time alarm rings everyone at the same moment by default ("Same time zone for everyone"), with each person seeing it in their own time zone. It can also ring each person at their own local time ("Everyone's local time zone"), for a club that wants everyone up at their own 6:00. See Time alarms.
Once a second person joins, the alarm is sealed: its time, title, sound and picture stay as they were, because the people riding it agreed to that alarm. The creator's note can still change, so "we're meeting at the north gate now" can go up the night before. See Editing and deleting.
How loud it is
Time and event alarms are real alarms on both phones. On iPhone they use Apple's own alarm system and ring through silent mode and Focus; on Android they take over the screen even when the phone is locked. Alarms for moments (a post, a price, a wallet, a webhook) ring full screen on Android, 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.
Why it works better than reminding each other
Telling a group "set your alarms" leaves it to everyone to remember, and to set the right time in the right time zone. One shared alarm means one person sets it and nobody has to. And because joining is a choice, the list of riders is a more honest headcount than a row of thumbs up.
There is also some evidence that doing a thing with other people helps you stick with it. In a randomised trial of 166 adults in a weight-loss programme, 95% of those who joined with friends and got social-support training completed treatment, against 76% of those who joined alone with standard treatment. Getting up is simpler than losing weight, but the idea is the same: it is easier to show up when someone will notice you did not.
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 make a friends alarm for 7:30 every Saturday called Run club, with "RUN CLUB, SHOES ON" drawn on the wallpaper, and give me the link to post in our group chat.
Already have the LFG Alarm app and connected it to your AI agent?
Why it works. One sentence covers the time, the repeat, the name, what the ring screen says and who it is for.
Common mistakes
- Making it private and wondering why nobody is on it. Every new alarm starts private. Turn on Make it social before you share.
- Sharing first, styling later. Pick the sound and wallpaper before the first friend joins; after that they are sealed.
- Using "everyone's local time" for a call. A call is one moment for everyone; local time is for routines.
