Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings, and users report 1 more thing. Checked: 400 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 24 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 9.7.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-24 .
The store currently lists version 9.7.1, updated 2026-08-24.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
🤗 #1 Alarm Clock App for FREE.
🎶 Wake up gently to your favorite music and avoid accidentally disabling your alarm.
Simple, Reliable, Precise:
⏰The Clock features a reliable alarm clock with extreme functions. It combines all of the functionality you need into one simple, beautiful package. It is designed to create, edit and remove multiple alarms in the easiest way. It can be used to wake up in the morning or setup reminders or TODOs for your daily tasks.
😀 Clock Alarm Widget: The Clock is a reliable daily helper perfect for every timing situation. Use alarm clock widget to set alarm with just one touch.
📅Set future date: Never forget an important task or event again by setting alarms on a specific date in future.
⌚ Timely and easy-to-use: The Clock is a simple alarm clock with an easy-to-use interface! You can set date on calendar, set alarm time or sleeping goal.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 9 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Fyber / Digital Turbine Exchange and 5 more
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:f2a021081051aef16f43345830a6af5bae3be567eeb1bc0608797fb0764377cfAggressive ad load: raised by 44 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 9 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Purchase screen steers the choice: "Best offer!"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The purchase screen arrives with one plan already framed as the recommended or most popular choice, so the default is the app's preference rather than the user's. We do not compare the plans' prices, and only the app's own text evidences this, so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
Package artefact
sha256:f2a021081051aef16f43345830a6af5bae3be567eeb1bc0608797fb0764377cfDeadline pressure in the app's own copy: "Limited Time Offer"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.
Package artefact
sha256:f2a021081051aef16f43345830a6af5bae3be567eeb1bc0608797fb0764377cfThe app's own text says: "Continue with ads"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Package artefact
sha256:f2a021081051aef16f43345830a6af5bae3be567eeb1bc0608797fb0764377cfThe app's own text says: "Removing downloads"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:f2a021081051aef16f43345830a6af5bae3be567eeb1bc0608797fb0764377cfConstant upsell pressure: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 40 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
The app's own text says: "Enjoy full license for a lifetime with no ads."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Package artefact
sha256:f2a021081051aef16f43345830a6af5bae3be567eeb1bc0608797fb0764377cfThe app's own text says: "Premium unlocked for 24 hours!"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Package artefact
sha256:f2a021081051aef16f43345830a6af5bae3be567eeb1bc0608797fb0764377cf400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
I've used this app for close to a decade, and loved it, until now. so many ads, you touch the screen anywhere, you get an ad, every single time, every single touch, an ad. this app is unusable, time to find a new Alarm clock app.
I like the app but hate all the pop up ads. This app gives you a white screen all the others including the one that came with the phone only offers a black screen. It also has easy operating options. You can reset, dismiss or do other…
Too many full screen, unskippable video ads with audio on by default. I was setting up my very first alarm to test it out and had a blaring video ad that I couldn't back out of then went into the settings to change some things and had…
Uodated 4/30/26: Instead of getting better after all the recent 1-star ratings, it actually has gotten worse! Now I also get notifications from them all the time to upgrade. As if I would give them a cent 🤬 Ads, ads, ads!!! I like the…
Do not pay for the premium version. The free version worked perfectly albeit with annoying ads. Once I upgraded it became very buggy with timers failing to start, unable to shut off alarms, unresponsive ect. The only reason I use the app…
the app itself works decent but god forbid you open it its literally just ads and its harassing you with a premium subscription popup that tries to auto sell you into it for I think 20€ a damnn month just horrible and annoying
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 9.7.1, scanned 24 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 9.7.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-24 .
The store currently lists version 9.7.1, updated 2026-08-24.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
the-clockAssessed 2026-10-24 from 400 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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