alarm meaw

A sound from the 🔔 Notifications & System category

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Also as: Discord-ready (≤5 s) · iPhone ringtone (.m4r) · Android ringtone (MP3) · how to add it to Discord · how to set it as a ringtone

📖 What is the “alarm meaw” sound?

This audio clip is a repeating cat meow used as an alarm or notification tone, running about 34 seconds, which is longer than most single-meow clips and suggests a looped pattern meant to mimic a persistent alarm ringing until dismissed. The meow itself sounds like a real or recorded cat vocalization rather than a synthesized tone, giving it a playful, slightly absurd quality when heard in place of a standard beep or chime. Online, it belongs to a broader trend of using cat meows as phone alarms or notification sounds, popularized through TikTok videos showing people waking up to a 'meow alarm' or setting a meow ringtone on their Android or Samsung devices. Zedge lists many similarly named variants such as 'Meow Meow Alarm' and 'Meow Wakeup,' pointing to a crowd-sourced culture of customizing phones with cat sounds rather than a single canonical source. Its origin is not clearly documented, and it appears to be a product of general meme culture and ringtone-sharing communities rather than a specific show, game, or creator. In meme contexts, the sound works because it subverts the mundane annoyance of an alarm clock by replacing it with something cute and slightly chaotic, especially when a video implies a person or character is startled awake by a cat's insistence. The humor often relies on the mismatch between the softness of a meow and the urgency alarms are supposed to convey.

🧭 Where it comes from

Origin: not clearly documented.

The sound circulates widely as a cat-meow alarm tone on TikTok and as user-uploaded ringtones on Zedge, but no single creator or original upload date is documented. Its origin is not clearly documented.

🎬 How to use it in your edits

Use it as a sudden wake-up cue in a skit where a character is jolted awake by an absurdly cute alarm instead of a harsh buzzer. It also works well layered under a clip of a cat behaving demandingly, reinforcing the joke that the cat itself is the alarm.

Download the file above, then import it into CapCut, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve — or straight into TikTok / Instagram. The sound is free for your videos.

💬 Questions about this sound

Is this a real cat or a synthesized sound?

Based on available descriptions, it sounds like a recorded cat meow rather than a synthesized tone, though the exact recording's source isn't documented.

Where did the 'meow alarm' trend come from?

It appears on TikTok and ringtone sites like Zedge as a popular way to customize phone alarms with cat sounds, but no single origin point is confirmed.

Why is the clip 34 seconds long?

Most standalone meow ringtones run 8-26 seconds, so this longer clip likely represents a looped or extended alarm sequence meant to repeat until silenced.