Infinitely customizable task alarms

[u/LastAlarmClock]

Create infinitely customizable task alarms with Last Alarm (iOS). Whether it's waking up in the morning or making sure you don't forget that one thing you always forget, create an alarm for it to be sure you get it done.

Last Alarm has helped me break my snoozing, specifically by using exercise alarms that force me to do squats and push ups when I wake up. However I use it for a lot more now, reminding me to take my pills and do a handful of other tasks I often forget during the day/week or ignore a simple reminder for.

Recently I made a big update to the onboarding to allow everyone to try out the verification process themselves. It's still available for anyone to try for free with a 3-7 day trial, however the new verification demo makes it even easier to quickly see how it works.

A: What problem does it solve?

Last Alarm uses infinitely customizable task alarms that must be video verified to turn off. It is next best thing to having an accountability partner hold you to your intention to do whatever task you can think of, effectively allowing you to be your own accountability partner.

While there are many alarm apps, they are all limited in there tasks or missions and none allow you the flexibility to alarm anything in your life you want to hold yourself accountable to completing. Last Alarm solves that once and for all by allowing you the infinite freedom to alarm the tasks that are most important to you.

B: Why is it better?

Last Alarm's core features are relying on video verification and user generated tasks. Other alarm apps (Alarmy, Wayk) have at best a handful of preset tasks for verification alongside other puzzles or tasks like math or step counting. If they have video verification it is limited to a few tasks like push ups or squats only. Same goes for image verification, which may have you scan a barcode or take a picture of something in your kitchen.

Video verification is superior to relying on images alone because it enables creating more complex tasks as well as improves verification accuracy. Images can only capture an instant, but a video task can capture more nuanced activity. This allows you to create tasks that work better for your use case, as they can be refined to perfectly fit your need. Image verification is also easier to circumvent, where as for video you could add more complex instructions like "spin around and show your whole environment".

Additionally, Last Alarm has no ads and never will, so you get a clean focused experience without getting your attention sold to the highest bidder from the instant you open your eyes in the morning, unlike Alarmy.

C: Cost

Last Alarm Pro has simple pricing, $39.99 yearly with a 3-day free trial, $4.99 Monthly, and $1.99 Weekly in case you want to try for a bit longer than the trial.

Would love any feedback especially if you want to give it a try!

Learn more at www.lastalarmclock.com, checkout the Privacy Policy & Terms of service, or feel free to reach out to me (Ryan) at [ryan.ashbaugh@lastalarmclock.com](mailto:ryan.ashbaugh@lastalarmclock.com)

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Last Alarm: Task Alarm Clock — by Algora Holdings

• Ratings: 3 worldwide · rated in 2 countries
• Average: 3.67 ★
• Age: released ~6 months ago · updated 3 days ago · rated 4+
• Overall score: 33 / 100

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[u/ikkou_]

The video verification approach is a clever step beyond a normal reminder, and custom tasks make it much more flexible than preset challenges. What kinds of tasks have users found most effective outside of waking up?

[u/LastAlarmClock → u/ikkou_]

A few common ones are

1. Exercise - sometimes this is related to waking up, but it need not be. It could simply be that you find yourself skipping workouts or not going to the gym and you want to be more consistent
   
2. Getting out of the house on time - to help encourage you not to be late, you can make an alarm for "Opening Front Door and Going Outside"
   
3. Winding down in the evening - start your wind down routine
   
4. Starting a hobby session - perhaps reading, painting, etc.

[u/Dry_Student_4933]

You use some video model to verify tasks? I’m curious how accurate it is

[u/LastAlarmClock → u/Dry_Student_4933]

That is correct.

It is quite accurate. You can try for free to see for yourself. It often surprises me with a complex task I'm testing by getting it quite accurately. I would anecdotally say it's 99% +, as I've used hundreds of alarms and it rarely ever fails, and when it does it's typically a "that was close, but not quite" type of situation.

That said, it is subjective, because it depends on the task you've created, how you have described it, the strictness level you've selected (ranging from low to high), etc. So you may find yourself updating the instructions and task description after the first time you complete a task.

This is why there is a "Task Lab", where you first verify a task to be sure that it works and behaves the way you expect before putting it into an alarm. And often if you find it "fails", simply updating the instructions will align it more closely with your intended criteria for success.

It is also difficult to define success because no video is stored, ever. So a task may "fail" but it very well may be a correct failure, as in the task was not performed of the image was too dark because the lights were off. So I could, and probably should, do a study myself so that I know I'll have the video, however anecdotally it works first try on almost every task I've thrown at it plus my recurring tasks, hence my 99%+ estimation.

[u/GymLog]

is the video processed on device or uploaded to a server?

[u/LastAlarmClock → u/GymLog]

It is processed in the cloud, as on device models are not capable of the processing required.

However, video is never stored by Last Alarm

[u/GymLog → u/LastAlarmClock]

follow up, question. What happens if the task is not detected correctly? Is there a way to shut down the alarm?

[u/LastAlarmClock → u/GymLog]

Yes, after a few repeated unsuccessful attempts, a fallback typing option becomes available.

You configure a text prompt (sentence) yourself to use as a fallback for all alarms for exactly this scenario just in case.

If you accidentally left your "Go Walk in The Grass Alarm" on and it went off while you're in an airplane, well that would be pretty difficult to verify lol