Gold price alarm app for Android: track PAXG and XAUT
Crypto Alerts & Alarms can ring a full-screen alarm, through silent mode, when PAX Gold (PAXG) or Tether Gold (XAUT) reaches your price on an exchange such as Binance, Kraken or KuCoin. Each token is backed by one troy ounce of gold, according to its issuer, but the alarm follows the token’s price on that exchange, not the spot gold price. In the 90 days to 27 October 2026, their typical daily moves were 0.57% and 0.55%, against 0.80% for Bitcoin, and both traded at weekends.
Past figures, not a forecast. The numbers below describe the last 90 days. Gold and both tokens can move very differently in the next 90.
Android only for now. An iPhone version is in development.
PAXG vs XAUT, in their issuers’ words
| PAX Gold (PAXG) | Tether Gold (XAUT) | |
|---|---|---|
| Who is behind it | Paxos; the gold is “held in custody by Paxos Trust Company” | “Launched in 2020 by TG Commodities, S.A. de C.V.” |
| One token | “backed by one fine troy ounce of gold, stored in LBMA vaults in London” | “ownership of one fine troy ounce of gold on a gold bar that meets the LBMA’s Good Delivery standard” |
| The gold | “custodied in LBMA vaults and audited monthly”; Paxos is “regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)” | “securely stored in a dedicated vault within world-class facilities in Switzerland”; quarterly reserves reports “independently reviewed by BDO Italia” |
| Redemption | For “LBMA-accredited Good Delivery gold bullion bars”, or “for USD at current gold market prices at any time” | “You can redeem your XAU₮ for actual gold”, “in increments of one full gold bar”, delivered “to any address in Switzerland”, or TG Commodities can try to find a buyer for it in the Swiss gold market |
| Your own gold | “Look up the serial number, weight and vault information of your gold using your wallet address”, “for PAXG held in on-chain Ethereum and Solana wallets, not custodial exchanges or wallets” | “The allocated gold is identifiable with a unique serial number, purity and weight”, for “the gold bars associated with their address” |
| Exchanges in the app | Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, KuCoin | Binance, Bybit, Kraken, KuCoin |
The table repeats each issuer’s own words. It does not rate either token or compare their costs.
Where PAXG and XAUT trade in the app
| Exchange | PAXG | XAUT |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | USDT, USDC, BTC, TRY, USD1 | USDT, USDC, BTC, TRY, USD1 |
| Coinbase | USD, USDC | Not listed |
| Kraken | USD, EUR, BTC, ETH | USD, USDT |
| Bybit | Not listed | USDT |
| KuCoin | USDT, BTC | USDT |
In the app, a search for PAXG or XAUT matches the token, not the currency it is priced in, so it lists each token’s own pairs. A pair such as PAXG/EUR or XAUT/TRY prices the token in that currency.
How much gold tokens move, next to Bitcoin
| Token | Typical day | Days 1% or more | Days 2% or more | Largest day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAX Gold (PAXG) | 0.57% | 25 | 8 | 5.00% rise on 5 Aug |
| Tether Gold (XAUT) | 0.55% | 28 | 7 | 4.90% rise on 5 Aug |
| Bitcoin (BTC) | 0.80% | 35 | 16 | 7.28% rise on 21 Aug |
In the 90 days to 27 October 2026, PAXG’s typical day was a move of 0.57% and XAUT’s 0.55%, against Bitcoin’s 0.80%. Bitcoin moved 2% or more on 16 days, PAXG on 8 and XAUT on 7. To size a percentage alarm on either token, compare these counts with the same counts for 13 coins in how big a percentage alert should be.
How closely PAXG and XAUT tracked each other
Hour by hour on Binance, PAXG traded a median 0.15% above XAUT, and higher than XAUT in 88% of the 2,160 hours. The gap ranged from 0.24% below XAUT (16:00 UTC on Sunday 20 Sep) to 0.47% above XAUT (19:00 UTC on Sunday 2 Aug), and the two prices were within 0.5% of each other in all 2,160 hours. From one daily close to the next, they moved the same way on 85 of 90 days, and their daily moves differed by a median 0.04 percentage points, at most 0.23 percentage points.
Because of that gap, a price level can be reached on one token and not the other, so set the alarm on the token and exchange you watch.
Weekends: the tokens trade while London’s gold price is not set
The LBMA Gold Price, London’s benchmark, comes from auctions at 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. London time on UK business days, which exclude Saturdays and Sundays, according to the benchmark statement of its administrator, ICE Benchmark Administration. Tether says its token “can be traded 24/7, 365 days a year” on exchanges that list it. On Binance, PAXG traded on 26 of 26 weekend days in the 90 days, and XAUT on 26 of 26. Not every gold market stops at weekends: CME Group amended its 1-Ounce Gold futures contract to 24/7 trading hours, effective 24 July 2026, according to an exchange notice (archived 25 July 2026).
| Token | Weekdays | Saturdays and Sundays | Weekdays with a 1% move | Weekend days with a 1% move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAX Gold (PAXG) | 0.84% | 0.10% | 25 of 64 | 0 of 26 |
| Tether Gold (XAUT) | 0.89% | 0.11% | 28 of 64 | 0 of 26 |
| Bitcoin (BTC) | 1.01% | 0.41% | 32 of 64 | 3 of 26 |
On Saturdays and Sundays, PAXG’s median move from a day’s open to its close was 0.10% and XAUT’s 0.11%, against 0.84% and 0.89% on weekdays. Over a whole weekend, from Saturday’s open to Sunday’s close, PAXG moved a median 0.26%; its biggest was a 0.60% rise over the weekend of 1 Aug.
From Saturday 00:00 UTC until Sunday’s busiest hour, the one starting at 22:00 UTC, a typical hour of PAXG moved 0.02%; that hour itself moved a median 0.22%. An alarm on a gold token keeps watching through the weekend like any alert in the app, because prices are checked on our servers around the clock. Weekends for 13 other coins.
Setting a gold price alarm
- Install Crypto Alerts & Alarms from Google Play, search for PAXG or XAUT, and pick the pair, such as PAXG/USD on Kraken or XAUT/USDT on Bybit.
- Set the level: an exact price in the Target price box, or a percentage in the Change box, rising above, falling below or both.
- Choose the full-screen alarm as the way it reaches you, and set its volume and tone.
- Choose Once, then switch off, or Every time, with a pause of 5 minutes to 24 hours between firings.
The alarm rings through silent mode on Android and takes over the lock screen where the phone’s settings allow it. Do Not Disturb, the full-screen permission and battery settings are covered in the crypto price alarm guide.
What a gold token alarm does not follow
- Spot gold. The alarm follows PAXG or XAUT on the exchange you pick, not the XAU/USD spot price, gold futures or a gold fund. For an alert on spot gold itself, a gold or currency app that quotes XAU/USD is the better tool.
- Local gold prices. It has no gold price per gram or in local units; PAXG/TRY on Binance is the token priced in lira.
- Other channels. It sends push notifications, which can ring as a full-screen alarm, and Telegram messages; not SMS, email or WhatsApp.
- iPhone. It is Android only for now; an iPhone version is in development.
How we measured
Binance’s public candles for PAXG/USDT, XAUT/USDT and BTC/USDT: daily candles for the 90 complete UTC days from 30 July 2026 to 27 October 2026, and the 2,160 hourly candles of the same days. Typical day is the median move from one close to the next, ignoring direction. Weekend means Saturday and Sunday in UTC. The gap is PAXG’s hourly close divided by XAUT’s, minus one. The date at the top shows when the figures were last calculated.
Android only for now. An iPhone version is in development.
Common questions
Is there an Android app that rings an alarm at a gold price?
Crypto Alerts & Alarms can ring a full-screen alarm, through silent mode, when the gold token PAXG or XAUT reaches your level on Binance, Kraken or KuCoin, and PAXG also on Coinbase and XAUT on Bybit. It follows the token’s price on that exchange, not the spot gold price.
What is the difference between PAXG and XAUT?
Paxos, which offers PAXG, says each token is backed by one fine troy ounce of gold stored in LBMA vaults in London. Tether says each XAUT is backed by one troy ounce of gold stored in a vault in Switzerland. In the 90 days to 27 October 2026, PAXG traded a median 0.15% above XAUT on Binance.
Do PAXG and XAUT trade on weekends?
Yes. On Binance, PAXG traded on 26 of 26 weekend days and XAUT on 26 of 26 in the 90 days to 27 October 2026, while the London gold price is set only on UK business days. Their median weekend-day moves were 0.10% and 0.11%, against 0.84% and 0.89% on weekdays.
Does a gold token alarm follow the spot gold price?
No. It follows PAXG or XAUT on the exchange pair you choose, which can differ from spot gold, from other exchanges and from the other token: in the 90 days to 27 October 2026, PAXG and XAUT were up to 0.47% apart on Binance.
How much does PAXG move in a day compared with Bitcoin?
In the 90 days to 27 October 2026, PAXG’s typical daily move was 0.57% and Bitcoin’s 0.80%; PAXG moved 2% or more on 8 days and Bitcoin on 16. Past figures, not a forecast.
Last updated: 28 October 2026. Spot a mistake? Email support@appsfromzero.com and we will correct it.