Coming soon to Google Play

Wake up to your podcast.

An alarm clock that wakes you with your podcast instead of a ringtone. It downloads the newest episode just before your alarm, so it starts playing the instant it fires — no streaming, no waiting.

Fires every time: even after a restart or in battery saver — and if the episode can't download, a chime wakes you instead.

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

How it works

From podcast to alarm in three steps

1

Find your show

Search in Discover, play an episode to try it, and subscribe. Everything you follow lives in your Library.

2

Set your alarm

Pick the time and days, attach a show, and choose its mode: newest episode or next in order. Volume, snooze and Gentle Wake are set per alarm.

3

Wake up to it

The episode downloads shortly before the alarm and plays from storage the instant it fires. If the download couldn't finish, a built-in chime rings instead.

See it in action

Minimal by design

Three tabs — Alarms, Library, Discover — and every screen does one job. Setting tomorrow's wake-up takes seconds.

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: Continue
GLOBAL NEWS
Global News Podcast
BBC World Service
Next: Latest episode
HARD FORK
Hard Fork
The New York Times
Next: Continue
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 with its own show, days, and wake style.

Built around podcasts

The podcast is the point

You choose the show and how it should wake you. Alarmcast handles the rest — finding it, downloading it ahead of time, and playing it on the dot.

Ready before you wake

Point an alarm at a show and Alarmcast downloads the episode in the half hour before it fires — Wi-Fi first, mobile data as backup. When the alarm goes off, audio starts instantly from your phone's storage. No streaming, no buffering.

Find any show

Search a full podcast index by name, browse by category, or add a feed by its RSS URL. If it exists as a podcast, you can wake up to it.

A Library built for alarms

Subscribe to the shows you love and point any alarm at one. The Library shows exactly which episode each alarm will play next — no surprises at 6 am.

Newest episode, or in order

Each show has its own mode: always wake to the latest episode, or work through the feed one episode at a time. Set it once per show and forget it.

Chain a second show

Queue a follow-up that starts the moment the first episode ends — a five-minute news brief, then straight into the show you actually lie in bed for.

Never silent

Feed offline, episode pulled, download failed? A built-in chime rings at full volume instead. Whatever breaks upstream, the alarm still wakes you.

Wren perched calmly on a branch

One more thing

Gentle Wake eases you in

Not a morning person? With Gentle Wake, bird calls fade up from silence in the minutes before your alarm, so the podcast lands on ears that are already half awake. A softer start, layered on an alarm that still fires exactly on time.

Reliability first

The alarm fires every time

An alarm that streams at fire time is a bet on your morning network. Alarmcast doesn't gamble: the episode is already on your phone when the alarm fires, and the app is built around one rule — it wakes you up, no matter what Android does overnight.

Survives reboots
Fires in deep Doze
Beats battery optimization
Rings on the lock screen
No streaming at wake-up
Chime backup, always

Pricing

Free to start, with more when you want it

Every plan wakes you exactly the same way — reliability is never behind a paywall. Paying removes ads and adds listening controls.

Free

Starter

Free, with ads
  • Up to 2 alarms
  • Newest episode or in order, per show
  • Gentle Wake & volume fade-in
  • Skip-back 15s & built-in chime fallback
  • No ads on alarm screens, ever
One-off

Unlimited

$4.99 once · no subscription
  • Everything in Starter
  • No ads, anywhere
  • Unlimited alarms
  • Yours forever
Most popular Subscription

Pro listener

$11.99/yr (about $1/mo) or $1.99/mo · 14-day free trial
  • Everything in Unlimited
  • Resume mid-episode, even days later
  • Skip forward & jump between episodes while the alarm plays
  • Roll on into the next episode automatically
  • Chain a second show after the first
  • Skip intros, per show

Not a subscription person? A one-time $29.99 Lifetime purchase unlocks everything in Pro listener, forever.

Why there's a Pro listener plan

The alarm came first: the scheduling, the pre-alarm download, the fallback chain. That part is done, it's free, and it works identically on every plan.

Pro is the listening layer we built for ourselves on top — picking a long episode back up days later, skipping around or jumping to another episode while the alarm is still ringing, rolling a news brief into a second show. Live playback controls on top of an alarm that must never fail was the hardest thing in the app to build, and it's what the subscription pays for.

The Alarmcast team

Wren, the Alarmcast mascot

Meet Wren. She'll get you up.

Alarmcast is in the final stretch before Google Play. Leave your email and we'll send exactly one message — on launch day.

Or say hello at hello@alarmcast.app