Offline AI Clock for iPhone and iPad. If the answer is not here, email is at the bottom and it is read by a person.
If you leave something out, it asks: say “set an alarm” and it replies “What time?”, and the next thing you type finishes the job.
Almost always notification permission. Open Settings in the app: if the Reminders section says notifications are off, tap Allow, or Open to fix it in iOS Settings.
If permission is on and it still did not ring, check these three, in this order:
1. The alarm's own switch. A one-off alarm switches itself off after it rings, by design.
2. Scheduled Summary. In iOS Settings → Notifications → Scheduled Summary, if Offline AI Clock is in the list, its alarms are being held back and delivered in a batch. Remove it from the summary.
3. The ring/silent switch. Notification sounds follow it. See the next answer.
Yes. Alarms are real system alarms: they ring persistently, through a Focus — including Sleep Focus, which is exactly when an alarm matters — and through Silent mode, with the app closed. You do not have to add the app to any allow-list.
The first time, open Alarms and tap Allow on the banner at the top. Until you do, alarms fall back to a notification, which arrives but will not wake you.
If you would rather it did not, iOS Settings → Notifications → Offline AI Clock → Time Sensitive Notifications turns that off for this app.
The heads-up reminder and the wind-down nudge are deliberately not marked Time Sensitive. They are conveniences, and an app that marks everything urgent has marked nothing urgent.
A real alarm ignores the ring/silent switch, the same way Apple's Clock does — that is the whole point of it being an alarm rather than a notification. The heads-up reminder before it is an ordinary notification and does follow the silent switch.
If you tapped Don't Allow on the alarm permission, the app is back to notifications and the silent switch does apply. You can turn it on later from the banner on the Alarms screen. Either way, test one alarm overnight before you depend on it. We would rather say this plainly than have you find out on the morning of a flight.
A notification a set number of minutes before an alarm rings — fifteen by default. It is there so a 6:30 alarm is never a shock. Change it for all alarms in Settings → Reminders, or for one alarm in its own editor.
Set it to Off if you only want the alarm itself.
Alarms set for a single occasion retire after they ring, so the list does not fill up. Repeating alarms stay on.
The app keeps a second copy of your alarm list beside the first. If the main file is ever unreadable — after a device restore, usually — it restores from that copy and tells you, rather than quietly showing an empty list.
Check the times are what you expect. If it says your alarms could not be read at all, the damaged file has been kept rather than deleted, so nothing is lost for good; please get in touch before you delete the app.
No. The model is inside the app and runs on your device. The app has no network code at all — try it in Airplane Mode, everything works the same.
Nothing you type is written to disk, used to train anything, or kept after you clear the conversation.
The model is loaded the first time you open the Ask tab, which takes a few seconds. Alarms, timers and everything you ask it to do happen immediately regardless — the app understands those itself and never waits for the model.
On an older device, replies are slower to write out. The alarm is already set before the first word appears.
If it was not sure, it shows you what it thinks you meant and waits for you to tap Set it — nothing is created until you do. If it was sure and still got it wrong, every answer that changed something has an Undo under it.
Phrases it is reliable with are listed at the top of this page. If one of yours does not work and you think it should, please send it in.
The times, dates and durations you see are worked out by the app, not by the model — the same code that runs the clock. The model only adds a sentence of its own alongside, and if that sentence contains a figure it is thrown away before it reaches you. It is the one thing in the app that is never allowed to state a number.
Settings → Assistant → Written notes. With it off the assistant still understands everything it did before and still sets your alarms and timers; it simply stops adding a sentence of its own.
The same app, with its own interface rather than the phone one enlarged: a sidebar that is always on screen, a clock face sized to be read from across a room, your alarm list beside the alarm you are reading, and the timer you are setting beside the ones already running.
Both orientations are supported, and the layout changes between them rather than just rotating.
In a narrow Split View or Slide Over slot there is not much room left after the sidebar. Use the app full screen, or as the wider side of a Split View, until this is improved.
Search by the nearest large city or by the country — “india”, “uk”, “nyc” all work. The list is the device's own time-zone database, so if iOS knows the zone, it is there.
Yes, and a timer that ends while the app is closed rings like an alarm — persistently, through Silent mode and through a Focus — rather than chiming once and giving up. It is the same mechanism the alarms use, so the same one-time Allow covers both.
Timers and the stopwatch work from a fixed end time rather than counting ticks, so they are exactly right when you come back to them, however long the app was away.
Yes — say “add five minutes to my timer”, or use the timer's own controls. It keeps the one timer running and moves its end, rather than starting a second one beside it.
Yes — the app follows your iOS Text Size setting (Settings → Display & Brightness → Text Size, or Accessibility → Display & Text Size for the larger range). Labels, headings and answers all grow with it.
The clock's own digits stay the size they are on purpose: they are already the largest thing on the screen and they are sized against the dial.
Every control is labelled, alarm rows announce their time and their switch separately, and the tabs report which one is selected. If you hit something VoiceOver reads badly, please tell us what it said — that is the kind of report that gets fixed quickly.
Because a real alarm needs it. Ringing persistently, through Silent mode and through a Focus, with the app closed, is something iOS only opened to apps other than Apple's own Clock in iOS 26.
On anything older the app could only send a notification — one short sound, silenced by the ring switch, gone in seconds — while still calling itself an alarm clock. We would rather not be installable on a device we cannot keep that promise on.
iOS 26 runs on iPhone 11 and later, which includes both generations of iPhone SE from 2020 onwards. It does not run on iPhone XR, XS, X, 8 or older. On iPad it needs an iPad (8th generation or later), iPad Air (3rd generation or later), iPad mini (5th generation or later), or any iPad Pro 11-inch or 12.9-inch from 2018 onwards.
The language model ships inside the app — about 800 MB — so that it works with no download, no account and no connection. That size is the price of it being genuinely offline, and it is paid once.
Delete the app. Everything it stores is inside it; nothing is kept anywhere else, and there is no account to close.
Email sivavimelrajhen@gmail.com. If something went wrong, the device, the iOS version and what you typed are usually enough to find it.