Not-An-Alarm asks for as little as it can. Most of it is optional: your alarm always works, and each source you add makes your morning more about your day. Here’s what each one is for.
Weather: your city
Optional. Pick your city by name, or tap “Use my location” to let the app find it from your phone’s approximate location, once. No precise location, and no tracking. You can change or remove your city at any time in Customize.
Time zone
Automatic. The app reads your phone’s time zone whenever you open it, so your alarm follows you when you travel. No location needed.
Google Calendar and Google Tasks
Optional. With read-only access, Not-An-Alarm reads the day’s events from the calendars you choose, and the tasks that are due or still open. It can’t change anything in your calendar or tasks.
To write your morning, your events and tasks are sent to Google Gemini, with other people’s email addresses left out. Connecting Google in the app is also your consent to that. You can disconnect at any time in Settings, or at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
Sleep and activity: Health Connect
Optional, with Premium. With read-only access, Not-An-Alarm reads your steps, workouts, resting heart rate and sleep from Health Connect, and sends a summary for each day so your morning can mention them. It reads them shortly before your alarm, so it also asks to read while you aren’t using the app. It can’t change anything in Health Connect. Switch it off in Customize, or take back the access in Health Connect, at any time.
News
Optional. Headlines from your country or the places you choose, on the topics you choose. Nothing else about you is sent.
Notifications
Required. Your fresh morning reaches your phone every morning as a notification message. Without notifications, it can’t be delivered. Not-An-Alarm never sends you marketing notifications.
Full-screen alarm
Recommended. This lets the wake screen come up over the lock screen when your alarm rings, like any alarm clock. Recent versions of Android ask you to allow “full-screen notifications”; the app’s Settings tell you if it’s off.
Background activity
Recommended. Letting Not-An-Alarm run without battery restrictions makes sure your morning is downloaded and plays on time, even if you haven’t opened the app for days. It only works in the background when your morning arrives and while your alarm plays.
Alarm volume
Your morning plays at your phone’s alarm volume, like your other alarms.
More about how your data is handled is in the Privacy Policy.