Show HN: Automatically set real iOS alarms for calendar events

I kept missing appointments and meetings because calendar notifications are too easy to ignore. Alarms, on the other hand, always break through silent mode/DND and force you to acknowledge them — but setting them manually every day was another chore.

With iOS 26’s new AlarmKit, I built Beacon: it automatically syncs with your Apple Calendar and converts important events into real iOS alarms. You can define simple rules (like “only events with ‘Interview’ in the title” or “meetings with 3+ attendees”), and Beacon sets the alarms for you — no extra work required.

Would love feedback!

Show HN: Automatically set real iOS alarms for calendar events
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The 35 EUR/year price tag to get the interesting features is too hefty for me. I’ll be waiting for alternatives.

(I gladly give 5 EUR/year to get the premium version of parcelapp.net – I can’t justify paying 7 times more for a tool that hasn’t yet replaced my manual processes!)

The app looks good and i like the idea of not ignorable fullscreen reminders but a 35€/year subscription is too much for me…

Just to mention it, there is a macOS app called Dato which can do the same (fullscreen notifications) but on mac. https://sindresorhus.com/dato

What I need is to be able to blacklist alarms on a calendar. If I have that day marked as a holiday, I don't want my alarms going off. If I turn them off for the three day weekend, I inevitably forget to turn them back on for Tuesday. I have a calendar that has all these days marked, but no way to do this in a convenient manner. Can your stuff do this?

I have done exactly this through Shortcuts. Basically, if I want to skip the alarm for a specific date, I just create an all-day event on Calendar and the automation takes in every midnights to check for these events and disabled the alarm. And also, do the reverse on the opposite.