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About Nenne

An alarm only you can hear

Nenne is a headphone alarm and nap timer that sends alarm sounds only to your headphones. The Nenne team offers it on iOS and Android, helping you rest without waking others in libraries, on trains, at the office, or in a shared room.

Nenne in numbers

Total downloads
14,000+
As of October 16, 2026, across the App Store and Google Play
Taiwan App Store Utilities
#2
As of September 23, 2026
Taiwan App Store rating
4.8
Based on 37 ratings
Korea App Store rating
4.7
Based on 16 ratings
Views on Threads in Taiwan
820,000+
Across two posts introducing Nenne

What Nenne does

An alarm is meant to wake one person. When it plays through a phone speaker, everyone nearby hears it too. Nenne routes that sound to your headphones, so it reaches the person who needs to wake up.

  • Alarms through headphones onlyWorks with both wired and Bluetooth headphones.
  • Unplug to pauseIf your headphones disconnect, the alarm pauses instead of switching to the speaker. Reconnect them and it resumes.
  • Nap timers and wake-up alarmsSet a nap timer from 10 seconds to 180 minutes, down to the second, or schedule a wake-up alarm for a time and days of the week.
  • Eight languagesAvailable in Korean, English, Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, German, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

Learn how it works in the headphone alarm guide.

The name

Why “Nenne”?

Nenne takes its name from the Japanese word ねんね, a gentle word used when putting a child to bed.

The Nenne team wanted a name that says “it’s okay to rest for a moment,” even in an alarm app. Read the story in Where the name Nenne came from.

The beginning

An alarm in a library reading room

Nenne began with an alarm going off in a university library. Someone had fallen asleep at a desk, and their phone rang loudly through its speaker. Only one person needed waking, but the whole reading room had to hear it.

What if the sound could reach only the person who needed it? That question became Nenne. Read more in The library alarm that inspired Nenne.

Our journey

  1. Launched on iOS and Android together
  2. Reached #2 in Taiwan and #8 in Hong Kong in the App Store Utilities category
  3. Reached #11 in Macau in the App Store Utilities category
  6. The 1.3.0 update added Nenne+ subscriptions, a Favorites tab, and gradually increasing alarm volume
  7. Passed 14,000 total downloads
  8. The 1.3.4 update brought layouts for iPhone Duo and wider screens, plus redesigned widgets

Our promises

  • The essentials stay freeHeadphone alarms, nap timers, and wake-up alarms are free to use.
  • No surprise speaker playbackIn headphone mode, alarm sounds play only through headphones.
  • No endless ringingAn unattended alarm stops automatically after 10 minutes of ringing.

Official channels and contact

Nenne

Take a little Nenne break.

Connect your headphones and close your eyes. When it’s time to wake up, Nenne will let you know through your headphones.

Download Nenne