Clutch Alarm launches for the 2026 World Cup — the alarm clock that only wakes you when the football gets dramatic
A 0–10 "Drama Engine" watches every match all night and fires a loud, silent-mode-bypassing alarm the moment a game is actually worth waking up for.
Beer Sheva, Israel — Football fans living away from the action face the same impossible choice every tournament: stay up all night for matches that might be forgettable, or go to sleep and risk missing the one that makes history. Clutch Alarm, a free iPhone app launching for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, removes the choice entirely — it watches every match for you and only wakes you when it gets good.
At the centre of the app is the Drama Engine: a live 0–10 score that rates how worth-it a match is, second by second. It blends scoreline closeness, momentum, late goals, red cards, penalties, comebacks, underdog upsets and World Cup stakes into a single number. Set a threshold once, and Clutch Alarm fires a loud, time-sensitive, full-screen alert that cuts through silent mode and Do Not Disturb — with the score, the minute and the drama right on your lock screen — the instant a match crosses your line.
"The pitch is simple: set it, sleep, and we'll wake you," said the founders. "A 1–0 with the leader cruising isn't worth your sleep. A 2–2 in the 88th minute with the underdog pushing absolutely is — and the engine knows the difference."
Beyond the headline alarm, Clutch Alarm offers an always-on radar that scans every live match across the World Cup and Europe's top leagues, live match depth (per-minute momentum, expected goals, win probability and a ball-tracker), a subscribable calendar of fixtures, and a fully bilingual English / Hebrew interface with complete right-to-left support.
Clutch Alarm began on the hardwood as a basketball alarm trusted by 1,000+ users in beta, and now expands to football for the World Cup — the first 48-team tournament, played across the United States, Canada and Mexico from June 11 to July 19, 2026. The app was built by Itamar Kenan and Nadav Keshet, Computer Science students at Ben-Gurion University, who got tired of waking up to find they'd slept through the best game of the night.
Clutch Alarm is free on the App Store and runs on iPhone (iOS 17 and later).
About Clutch Alarm. Clutch Alarm is a free sports alarm app for football and basketball fans. Its Drama Engine scores every live match 0–10 and sends a loud, silent-mode-bypassing alert only when a game is worth waking up for. Built by Itamar Kenan and Nadav Keshet, it is bilingual (English / Hebrew) and available free on the App Store.
