Coming soon to Google Play

Wake up to your podcast.

Alarmcast plays the latest episode of a show you actually want to hear, and it fires every single time.

Fires through anything: reboot, Doze, battery saver, a slow 6:30am network.

Podcast microphone
Alarmcast alarm screen showing the time, days, podcast and gentle wake

See it in action

Minimal by design

No clutter. Every screen does one job, the way a good alarm app should, just with a podcast behind it. Tap a card to bring it to the front, or let it cycle.

Alarm+ ⋮
Alarm will go off in 20 hours 5 minutes
Friday, Jun 19, 2026
06:05
  • Week days
  • Global News Podcast
  • Latest
08:00
  • Gentle
  • Weekends
  • The Diary Of A CEO …
  • Continue
Categories
News & Current Affairs
Comedy
Business & Money
Investing & Finance
Sports
True Crime
Tech
Library
CRIME JUNKIE
Crime Junkie
Audiochuck
Next: Latest episode
DARKNET
Darknet Diaries
Jack Rhysider
Next: Latest episode
GLOBAL NEWS
Global News Podcast
BBC World Service
Next: Latest episode
HARD FORK
Hard Fork
The New York Times
Next: Latest episode
HOW I BUILT THIS
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz | Wondery
Next: Latest episode
Sound screen: choose a podcast, latest or continue, with a backup chime
Gentle Wake screen with the Wren mascot

Your alarms, each tied to a podcast and the days it runs.

Built around podcasts

The podcast is the point

Set it once and wake to the latest episode of a show you actually want to hear. Everything around it is built to make that effortless.

Wake to the latest episode

Pick a show once. Every morning Alarmcast plays its newest episode, downloaded overnight so it starts the instant the alarm fires, even with no signal.

A curated catalogue

Browse hand-picked categories, News, Comedy, Business, True Crime, Tech and more, or search the full index. Finding the right show takes seconds.

Your Library, one tap to assign

Subscribe to the shows you love and point any alarm at one. Each shows "Next: Latest episode" so you always know what is queued.

Latest, or carry on

Wake to the very latest episode, or continue the one you were part-way through. The choice is per show, set once and then forgotten.

Line up a follow-up

Add a second podcast that plays after the first episode ends, so a quick news brief can roll straight into the show you really want.

Never silent

Lapsed subscription, deleted show, no network? A warm birdsong chime always takes over. You never oversleep to silence.

Wren, the Alarmcast mascot

A gentle bonus

Gentle Wake eases you in

Not a morning person? Switch on Gentle Wake and soft birdsong fades in before the alarm, then hands over to your podcast at the set time. A calmer start, layered on an alarm that still always fires.

Reliability first

The alarm fires every time

Other podcast alarms feel clever until the morning one quietly fails to go off. Alarmcast is built around one rule: it wakes you up, no matter what Android does.

Survives a reboot
Pierces Doze mode
Beats battery optimisation
Rings before unlock
Works offline
Episode cached overnight

How it works

From podcast to alarm in three steps

1

Find your show

Search the Discover tab, preview episodes, and subscribe to the podcasts you want in your Library.

2

Set your alarm

Choose a time and the days, then attach a channel. Tune volume, snooze, fade-in and a reminder lead time per alarm.

3

Wake up informed

When the alarm goes off, it plays the latest episode straight from local storage, so it starts instantly. You wake up already caught up.

Pricing

Free to start, with more when you want it

Every plan fires exactly as reliably; the wake-up never changes between tiers. You pay only to remove ads or unlock the listening extras.

Free

Starter

Free, with ads
  • Up to 2 alarms
  • Latest-episode wake-up
  • Bundled chime fallback
  • Skip-back 15s & volume fade-in
  • Light / dark / system themes
Most popular One-off

Unlimited

Single purchase · no subscription
  • Everything in Starter
  • No ads, anywhere
  • Unlimited alarms
  • Per-channel source & auto-advance
  • Yours forever, one payment
Subscription

Pro listener

Monthly or yearly
  • Everything in Unlimited
  • Timestamp resume across days
  • Skip-forward & jump between episodes
  • Chain a second channel after the first
  • Skip-intro per podcast

Why there's a Pro listener plan

We got the core working first: the part that has to fire every morning. Then we wanted more for ourselves. We fall behind on long episodes and want to pick them back up days later. We want to skip around, or jump to another episode while the alarm is still ringing, and line up a second show after the first.

That was the hardest part of the app to build. Doing live episode controls on top of an alarm that is already going off, without ever risking the wake-up, took months of work and a lot of rewrites. The Pro listener plan is where that work lives. If you spend as much time in your feed as we do, it is for you.

The Alarmcast team

Wren, the Alarmcast mascot

Meet Wren. She'll get you up.

Alarmcast is almost ready. Leave your email and we'll tell you the day it lands on Google Play.

Or say hello at hello@alarmcast.app