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A Free Alarm Clock App With No Subscription
How alarm clocks became a monthly bill
The popular alarm apps followed the same road as every utility: free download, then the features that make the app worth having move behind a subscription that costs more per year than a physical alarm clock. Mission variety, sound packs, even snooze controls end up metered.
An alarm is the definition of a utility. Charging rent on it forever felt wrong to us, so we did not.
What free means here, precisely
Everything functional is included: the alarm, the wake up mini game that makes the app work, the full library of 80+ alarm sounds and music, the gamified weather dashboard, and the daily quote from game worlds. There are no ads between you and waking up, no trial that converts, and no nag screens.
The store contains exactly one item: an anime visual theme for 99 cents. It changes how the app looks, never what it does. That is the honest free to play model: the game is free, the cosmetics are optional, and skipping them costs you nothing.
Try the whole app in one morning
- Install tonightFree on the App Store. Setup takes under a minute.
- Set tomorrow's alarmPick a sound from the full library, everything is unlocked from the first launch.
- Wake up by playingThe mini game does the thing no free alarm ever did: it actually wakes you.
- Keep it or do notNo subscription means no sunk cost and no cancellation flow. The app earns tomorrow morning on the merits of this one.
Why we build it this way
A morning app only works if you trust it enough to keep it by your bed every night. Trust is easier when the app is not scheming to bill you. If you love it and want to toss a dollar at a theme, thank you. If not, wake up well anyway.
Free means free
The alarm clock you play to turn off. Free, no subscriptions.