Akaru is an iOS alarm app that shows each day’s alarm time directly on a monthly calendar. Set rules for weekdays, holidays, and special dates, add extra alarms, and tap a date to customize exceptions. Built for people with changing routines, shift work, school events, remote work days, and irregular mornings.
Hi Product Hunt
I’m the maker of Akaru, a calendar-based alarm app for iOS.
The main idea behind Akaru is simple: your alarm time should be visible on the calendar, without tapping each date.
Many alarm apps let you create repeating alarms, and some calendar-style apps let you set alarms by date. But in many cases, you still have to open each day to check what time the alarm is set for.
Akaru shows the alarm time for each day directly on a monthly calendar. This makes it easy to see your upcoming wake-up schedule at a glance.
It’s useful when your mornings change because of weekdays, weekends, holidays, school events, early meetings, shift work, or remote work days.
You can set rules for weekdays, holidays, and special dates, add extra alarms, and tap a date to customize exceptions when needed.
This is my first step toward bringing Akaru to users outside Japan, so I’d love to hear your feedback.
Would seeing your alarm times directly on a monthly calendar be useful for your routine?
As someone whose schedule changes daily, 'calendar-based alarms' is the feature I didn't know I was missing. It solves the 'forgetting to reset the alarm for an early meeting' anxiety perfectly. Does it sync with multiple calendar providers (e.g., Outlook and Google) simultaneously?
the calendar-as-alarm-surface is genuinely the right metaphor — toggling between weekday/weekend rules in stock alarms feels like editing crontab. for the irregular crowd: any plan to import from google calendar so my actual events drive the wake-time?
About Akaru on Product Hunt
“Calendar-based alarms for irregular mornings”
Akaru launched on Product Hunt on May 13th, 2026 and earned 71 upvotes and 7 comments, placing #38 on the daily leaderboard. Akaru is an iOS alarm app that shows each day’s alarm time directly on a monthly calendar. Set rules for weekdays, holidays, and special dates, add extra alarms, and tap a date to customize exceptions. Built for people with changing routines, shift work, school events, remote work days, and irregular mornings.
Akaru was featured in Productivity (652.3k followers), Alarms (2.3k followers) and Calendar (32k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 139.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Akaru?
Akaru was hunted by Saku Kuri. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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