One Touch Alarm Clock alternative: One Touch vs Alarm Clock Planner
One Touch Alarm Clock is about speed: set the time and you are done. The trade-off is how it rings: it does not use Apple's native alarms, and some reviews describe the alarm only lighting up the screen with no sound, or not sounding on Do Not Disturb.*
Pick One Touch Alarm Clock if you want the quickest possible single alarm with a fade-in, don't mind ads, and it has been reliable for you even though it is not a native alarm.
Pick Alarm Clock Planner if you want alarms that ring through Silent, Focus and Do Not Disturb, plus dates, tags and naps, with 0 ads.
 One Touch Alarm Clock |  Alarm Clock Planner | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Setting an alarm in two taps | Alarms on specific dates, and anyone with a long list of alarms |
| US rating (average) | Yes 4.5★ | Yes 4.8★ |
| Set alarms without paying† | Limited With ads | Yes Up to 3 alarms, 0 ads |
| Pay once, no subscription** | Yes Free: nothing to buy | Yes $9.99 |
| Cost for one year if subscribed** | Free | $2.99 |
| Free of ads | No It asks for ad consent and reviews describe ads | Yes 0 ads |
| Alarm on a specific date | Not described on the listing | Yes |
| Rings as a full alarm with the app closed*** | No It does not use Apple's native alarms, and some reviews describe the screen lighting up with no sound | Yes It uses Apple's native alarms, so it rings through Silent and Focus |
| No ads† | No It asks for ad consent | Yes No ads |
| No tracking (App Store privacy label) | No Declares data used to track you | Yes No data linked to you |
| Languages | No Fewer than 10 | Yes 10 or more |
| Last update | Q4 2025 | Q4 2026 |
| Get it | App Store | Download |
Where One Touch Alarm Clock is stronger
Speed
Setting an alarm takes a couple of taps, and there is little else on the screen.
Nothing to buy
No in-app purchases are listed. It is paid for with ads instead, and it opens by asking for advertising consent.
A fade-in
Your own music starts quietly and gets louder. Since the alarm is not a native alarm, it rings only as reliably as its notifications do.
Where Alarm Clock Planner is stronger
Rings through Do Not Disturb
Alarm Clock Planner uses Apple's native alarms, so it rings full screen through Silent, Focus and Do Not Disturb, the same way Apple does it with their Clock app. Some One Touch reviews describe the screen lighting up with no sound.
Quick, and more than one alarm
Tap + to set an alarm, or start a nap in one tap. Add dates, monthly and yearly repeats and tags when one alarm is not enough.
0 ads, no tracking
Alarm Clock Planner's privacy label lists no data used to track you. One Touch opens by asking for advertising consent, and its label lists data used to track you.
About Alarm Clock Planner
An iPhone alarm clock built around the calendar, for alarms you plan ahead.
- Alarms for any future date, picked on a calendar
- Monthly, yearly, every-other-week and custom repeats, with an end date
- Tags like Work or Travel, and a whole group switched on or off at once
- A month calendar of every alarm
- 19 built-in sounds or your own audio file
- One-tap naps, Home and Lock Screen widgets, 23 themes
- Backed up to your own iCloud
One Touch Alarm Clock and Alarm Clock Planner, side by side
Screens we captured ourselves, One Touch Alarm Clock on the left, ours on the right.†
The main screen
One Touch Alarm Clock's main screen and its single Set Alarm button.
What we saw using One Touch Alarm Clock
From 20 to 23 October 2026, on an iPhone 11 Pro Max with iOS 27.0.1, on an EU App Store account.†
- Its first screen asks for advertising consent. We declined.
- It does not use Apple's native alarms, so its alarm is a notification rather than a real iPhone alarm.
What Alarm Clock Planner does not do
- Ring through notifications. Every alarm is a native iPhone alarm.
- Ask you to accept ad tracking. There is no consent screen, because there are 0 ads to consent to.
What recent reviews of One Touch Alarm Clock mention
From US App Store reviews of One Touch Alarm Clock read on 23 October 2026 (most recent and most helpful). These are individual experiences, not tests we ran, but these themes came up more than once:
- the alarm lighting up the screen with no sound
- no sound on Do Not Disturb
- ads
- battery drain overnight
Pricing
One Touch Alarm Clock is free with ads, and asks for advertising consent on its first screen; no in-app purchases are listed (US). Alarm Clock Planner's free version has 0 ads and holds up to 3 alarms at a time; unlimited alarms are $2.99 a year or $9.99 once.
Questions
Does One Touch Alarm Clock ring on Do Not Disturb?
Its listing does not say, and a review describes it staying silent on Do Not Disturb.
Is Alarm Clock Planner free?
Yes, for up to 3 alarms at a time, with 0 ads. Unlimited alarms are $2.99 a year or $9.99 once.
Try Alarm Clock Planner
Free for up to 3 alarms. Rings on Silent. No account needed.
* We make Alarm Clock Planner, so weigh our view accordingly. Facts about the other apps come from their US App Store listings, privacy policies and public US reviews, checked on 23 October 2026, and from using each app ourselves. Versions compared: One Touch Alarm Clock 1.7.1, Alarm Clock Planner 1.3.4.
** US App Store prices. The US list does not name plan lengths, so a plan's length comes from the app's own upgrade screen, and a US price is used only where it clearly matches that plan. “Cost for one year if subscribed” is the cheapest plan that covers 12 months. A mark on “Pay once” only says whether a one-time unlock exists; “2.5× ours” compares a price with Alarm Clock Planner's $9.99 once or $2.99 a year. Two prices are estimates, marked “about”, because the US list does not show them: Alarmy's lifetime plan (Alarmy charges the same number in dollars and euros, as its yearly plan shows, so we took the figure from its upgrade screen) and Sleep Cycle's yearly plan.
*** From each listing, checked on our own iPhone: iOS Settings shows an Alarms switch for apps that use Apple's native alarms (AlarmKit, iOS 26 and later), and we let an alarm ring with each app closed where the app let us set one. A cross means it does not use them: the app has to stay open, or it alerts through notifications, which are short and, unless they are Critical Alerts, follow the Silent switch.
† What we saw using each app ourselves, 20 to 23 October 2026, on an iPhone 11 Pro Max with iOS 27.0.1, on an EU App Store account. Ads and offers can differ by country and change over time. On “Set alarms without paying”, a tick means free with no ads, amber means free with ads or without the native alarm, and a cross means a payment or a trial comes first.