Releases

What changed in every build — in plain language, no commit-speak.

Test releases

before 1.0.0

Before 1.0.0 launched, Ahem was in closed testing on Google Play. These are the builds testers received, and what each one changed.

1.0.0-rc.4

build 6August 28, 2026

Time off, and a quieter way to ring.

Includes the unreleased 1.0.0-rc.2 and 1.0.0-rc.3 builds.

New

Time off: Ahem spots vacations on your calendars, merges overlapping periods, and asks once. "Suppress" opens a menu where you choose what stays quiet — per calendar or per event — with keep-ringing exceptions.
Back-to-work check: on the last night of your time off (6:00 PM by default, adjustable), Ahem resumes event detection so your first day back is armed the evening before.
Ringing while you use your phone: a compact banner pins on top of what you're doing — Snooze, Dismiss, tap to expand — instead of taking over the screen, with 3 quiet seconds before the tone. Music pauses while the alarm rings and resumes after.
The daily agenda can now list tomorrow's alarms — set an evening time and it becomes a night-before briefing.
The pre-alarm screen's edge lights now glide along the screen edges, in sync with the logo's nudge.
When Ahem guesses that a recurring block moved, it asks — "Looks right" or "Wrong" — instead of silently assuming.
"Alarm banner over apps" joined the permission checklist.
Tap the version footer in Settings to copy diagnostics for a bug report.

Improved

Alarm cards now headline the event time; the alarm time and lead sit underneath.
Setting an alarm on an already-armed event clearly updates it — "Update Alarm" — never a duplicate.
Every "Alarm set" confirmation is verified with the system before claiming success.
Arming an alarm whose lead time already passed rings a minute later instead of silently setting nothing.
Renamed events are understood: a title going "Tentative" keeps its alarm and asks; a "Canceled:" rename removes it, with an undo.
Pauses are enforced uniformly everywhere — and an alarm you set during a pause still rings, because you meant it.

Fixed

A muted — or tapped-through — alarm that's then forgotten starts sounding again after 60 seconds.
An alarm firing while a stale alarm screen was open was silently dropped (the "it never rang" report).
Bulk-arming a named recurring series showed "Armed" but armed nothing.
Recurring rules with no occurrence in the current week were wrongly deleted.
Paused alarms no longer come back armed after a reboot.
The daily agenda could arrive 20+ minutes late on some phones; it now fires to the minute.
The ringing screen could appear upside-down, and could freeze when the system re-delivered an alarm.
Arming an event clears its "New event" notification, so the quick-set button can't replace your custom alarm.
Skipped occurrences no longer block a later "Set for all".

1.0.0-rc.1

build 3August 19, 2026

The first closed-testing build.

The full core app: calendar sync across every calendar on your phone, one-tap arming from new-event prompts, the silent pre-alarm screen before any sound, three alarm presets, ignore and time-off keywords, auto-alarm rules, and alarms that survive reboots.

Release notes for production versions, from 1.0.0 on, live in the changelog.

Testing is over. Ahem is out.

Version 1.0.0 is available to everyone on Google Play.