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StudyAlarm · pending Google Play

An alarm you can't dismiss without solving an SAT-style or ACT-style question.

Stop snoozing. Start studying. StudyAlarm replaces the dismiss button with a question — answer it correctly, the alarm stops; get it wrong, it keeps ringing. The first ten minutes of your day, on the test you actually have coming up.

What it is

The alarm clock that holds you to your study schedule.

StudyAlarm is a native Android alarm app for high schoolers and college students preparing for the SAT or ACT. Set a wake-up time, pick subjects you're studying, and the next morning you'll need to answer an SAT-style or ACT-style question to dismiss the alarm.

It's built around a multi-layered lock system that prevents you from killing the alarm by exiting the app, switching tasks, or using a back-gesture. You answer the question or it keeps going.

Features

What's inside.

  • Intelligent alarm

    Wakes you up — and won't shut up until you answer an SAT-style or ACT-style question. Difficulty adapts as you go.

  • Multi-layered lock system

    A foreground service architecture built on native Android APIs blocks back-gestures, task-switching, and system-interrupt escapes. The alarm holds until the question is answered.

  • 6,000+ practice questions

    A custom question bank covering 4 subjects with SAT-style and ACT-style questions written from the ground up. Not affiliated with College Board or ACT.

  • Affordable subscriptions

    Free to try. $1.99/month or $9.99/year via Google Play Billing and RevenueCat, with automated receipt validation.

Under the hood

Built native, billed cleanly.

Native Android, Kotlin, foreground-service architecture, Google Play Billing + RevenueCat for subscriptions. ~50,000 lines of code, authored with an AI-assisted workflow (Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 3) while keeping ownership of architecture, debugging, and deployment decisions in-house.

StudyAlarm is independent and is not affiliated with College Board, ACT, or any test-prep organization. All practice questions are SAT-style and ACT-style, written for the app.