SoundTheAlarm
Never miss an important email again.
SoundTheAlarm is a native macOS application that monitors your email inbox in real time and triggers a loud, persistent alarm when an email arrives from one of your monitored contacts.
Features
- Real-time Inbox Monitoring — Connect your IMAP email account. SoundTheAlarm stays in your menu bar, watching for emails from your monitored contacts.
- Loud & Persistent Alarms — When an email arrives from a monitored contact, the app comes to the foreground and plays a looping alarm with a flashing screen border. Dismiss, snooze, or mute it.
- Monitor Who Matters — Add the contacts that matter most. Toggle monitoring on or off per contact and review every alarm in your history.
Supported Email Providers
Gmail, iCloud Mail, and any other standard IMAP provider.
Platform
Built natively for macOS 14+. An iOS version is coming soon.
FAQ
- What does SoundTheAlarm do?
- Monitors your email inbox in real time and triggers a loud, persistent alarm when an email arrives from one of your monitored contacts.
- How does it work?
- Connects to your email account via IMAP and watches for new messages securely on your local machine.
- Which email providers are supported?
- Gmail, iCloud Mail, and any other standard IMAP provider.
- What platforms are supported?
- SoundTheAlarm is built natively for macOS 14+. An iOS version is coming soon.
Coming soon to the Mac App Store.