An iPhone alarm app that rings through Silent mode, Do Not Disturb, and Focus — with recurrence patterns the built-in Clock app can't handle, and helpful suggestions drawn from your calendar.
Alarms that actually wake you up — even on silent.
Apple's Clock app is fine until you sleep with your phone on silent, work across time zones, need a monthly reminder, or rely on alarms to keep your day stitched together. Peal fills the gap.
Alarms ring at speaker volume even when the phone is on Silent, in Do Not Disturb, or in any Focus mode. The same delivery semantics as Apple's built-in Clock app — implemented on Apple's AlarmKit framework, not a workaround.
Daily, weekdays, weekends, every-other-Tuesday, the 15th of every month, the third Thursday, every three months, yearly birthday reminders. Patterns the stock Clock app doesn't support, picked from a single editor with a plain-English summary line ("Fires on the 15th of every month at 9:00 AM") so you can sanity-check before saving.
Connect your calendar and Peal proposes useful alarms — a wake-up before tomorrow's early meeting, a leave-by reminder before a flight, a check-in for a medication you take daily. Every suggestion waits for your confirmation. The app never schedules alarms on its own.
Every alarm can carry an optional travel-time reminder ("time to leave for the airport") and a get-ready reminder ("time to get ready for your meeting"). Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty minutes, or anything you'd like. They fire as separate alarms before the main one, with the same Silent-cutting reliability.
No accounts. No sign-in. No servers — we don't run any. Your alarms live on your iPhone, encrypted by Apple, and optionally sync across your devices through your own iCloud account. We never see them. Privacy nutrition labels will read "Data Not Collected" across the board.
No in-app purchases. No advertising. No paid tier coming later. Peal is a gift to the people in our lives who need alarms that don't fail them.
The stock alarm assumes you'll hear it. That assumption excludes a lot of people: someone in Sleep Focus, a parent who silences their phone overnight, anyone working a shift schedule, anyone with ADHD relying on alarms to externalize executive function.
Peal is small in scope — one app, one delivery mode, no settings to misconfigure — but it follows the same pattern as the rest of this site. Build the thing that includes the people the default was designed to exclude, and watch it turn out to help everyone.
Peal is being built for iOS 26 and above. It is not yet on the App Store. We're heads-down on the build now; TestFlight and App Store submission will follow.
Want to be notified when TestFlight or the App Store launch open? Email benjaminarcher@gmail.com. No mailing list, no analytics — just an email when there's news.
Peal collects nothing. Here is the full inventory of where data goes.
Support, feedback, and feature requests — benjaminarcher@gmail.com. A human reads every message.