KAlarm

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KAlarm configuration window with a testing message alarm

KAlarm is a personal alarm message, command and email scheduler application by KDE

Features:

  • Display alarms using your own text message, the text generated by a command, or a text or image file.
  • Audible alarm using a sound file
  • Recurring alarm on an hours/minutes, daily, weekly, monthly or annual basis, or set it to trigger every time you log in.
  • Display alarms colour and font customisation
  • Support for multiple alarm calendars, which for example enables you to share alarms between a laptop and desktop computer.
Install on
Linux
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Releases RSS

3.11.0 2025-04-17

Release description

  • Implement audio backends as plugins to allow user selection.
  • Clean up time spin box appearance in some styles, e.g. Oxygen.
3.10.3 2025-03-06

Release description

  • Fix KAlarm exiting before executing session restoration.
3.10.2 2025-02-06

Release description

  • Fix system tray showing blank KAlarm icon under XFCE.
3.10.1 2025-01-09

Release description

  • Show normal decorated alarm windows over full screen applications on X11.
  • Fix Akonadi functionality not working.
  • Make fade work each time a repeated sound alarm is played.
  • Fix Edit Alarm dialog error setting time if user's time zone is UTC.
  • Fix build on FreeBSD if using MPV audio.
3.10.0 2024-12-12

Release description

  • Show all Run Mode options in Preferences dialog.
  • Provide build option to use VLC or MPV to play sounds.
  • Convert to Qt 6.5 QDateTime/QTimeZone changes.
3.9.2.1 2024-11-07
3.9.2 2024-10-10

Release description

  • Fix crash if kernel alarm timers are supported.
  • Fix Wake from Suspend not working when using RTC wake.
  • Display any audio error message immediately when using Try button while editing an alarm.
  • Fix failure to play sound files using VLC on some systems.
3.9.1 2024-09-12

Release description

  • Fix repeating audio alarms only playing once.
3.9.0 2024-08-22

Release description

  • Use VLC instead of libcanberra to play sounds.
3.8.2 2024-07-04

Release description

  • Fix crash after editing new alarm if spell checking is enabled.
3.8.1.2 2024-06-13
3.8.1.1 2024-05-23
3.8.1 2024-04-11

Release description

  • Display error message if error occurs trying to play an audio file.
3.8.0 2024-03-21

Release description

  • Use libcanberra instead of Phonon to play sounds, for thread safety.
  • In Edit Alarm dialog, allow save if Set Volume checkbox is toggled.
3.7.0 2024-02-28

Release description

  • Convert to Qt6 / KDE Frameworks 6.
  • Enable wake-from-suspend for multiple alarms if user kernel alarm timers are supported (Linux only).
  • Set units for reminder and late-cancel depending on date-only selection in Edit Alarm Template dialog.
  • Remove migration of pre-Akonadi KResources calendar configuration.
3.6.4 2024-02-15

Nightly installers

KAlarm nightly installers are also available to download from the KDE CDN. These versions are intended for testing purpose. Get involved and help us make them better!

Unstable version.

Generated from the latest version of the development branch.