You already know the 6:00 is a lie, and so is the 6:05. Every alarm ever made ends with a button, and at six in the morning you are very good at pressing buttons. iWake ends with proof: five push-ups the motion sensor counted, forty steps the pedometer measured, your own kitchen the camera recognised. There is no button. That is the whole product, and it is why one alarm is enough.
Download on the App Store Google Play: coming soonEvery morning, at a glance
The card at the top of iWake's dashboard. One square per morning: green proved, amber snoozed, orange came back, red let go. A square with nothing in it stays empty — the app does not fill in mornings it did not watch. Tap a span.
Example data — not a real recordAny age · any country
A student with a first lecture, a nurse on an early shift, a parent before the school run, a grandfather who wants his walk back. iWake does not care how fit you are or where you live — only that you got up. It speaks your language, and the price is set in your money.
Why it is worth anything
An alarm is the cheapest thing in your life that decides the most expensive ones. This is not a productivity app and it is not a habit tracker; there is nothing to keep up, no streak to protect and no chart that judges you. It has exactly one job, on the mornings that matter, and the price of it failing is never the price of the app.
The flight, the train, the drive to the coast that everybody else got up for. You did not lose an alarm — you lost the day, and it was already bought.
The interview, the shift, the exam, the person who agreed to meet you early. Being late is never really about the clock; it is about what the other person now thinks.
The walk, the gym, the hour before everyone wakes up. Nobody is waiting, nobody notices, and that is exactly why it is the first one to go.
iWake costs less than one of those mornings, once, for ever. That is the entire argument, and the rest of this page is only evidence that it works.
Watch it count
Scroll, and the figure works through what the app asks for at 6am: five push-ups, five squats, a walk. The number beside it is the app's counter — it goes up on a real repetition and on nothing else.
Keep scrolling. Stop halfway down a push-up and it stops halfway down a push-up — you are the motor.
Animation is off because your device asks for reduced motion. The figure is shown at the top of a push-up.
The mechanic
Anybody can put a maths puzzle in front of a snooze button. The hard part is the phone refusing to believe you, and it is where every other alarm gives up. The sensor stops the alarm when it is satisfied and not before: shaking the phone is not push-ups, and standing still is not walking.
| Task | Proved by | What it actually checks |
|---|---|---|
| Push-ups | Motion or camera | Real repetitions, from the phone's tilt and travel. Shaking it, picking it up, or walking with it in your hand is not a rep. |
| Squats | Motion or camera | The phone sits upright on your thigh and follows it down and up. Sitting down and standing up while holding it scores nothing. |
| A walk | Pedometer | Steps you actually take, read from the phone's own step counter. |
| Sums | Typed answer | Arithmetic at a difficulty you set. Wrong answers do not pass. |
| Room scan | Camera | Get to the kitchen or the bathroom and show the camera. Recognised on device, in real homes from Dhaka to Oslo. |
| Shuffle | — | Picks the task for you, so you cannot pick the easy one. |
Leave the task unfinished and the alarm returns — after a minute, then two, then three. Up to fifteen returns across forty-five minutes. Then it lets you go, because a phone that will not stop is worse than a task walked away from.
The alarm is held by AlarmKit — the same system Apple's own Clock uses — so it rings whether or not iWake is running. Swipe the app away at 3am and it still goes off at six.
Small things that make it work
An alarm that will not take no for an answer has to be clear about what it wants. So every rep is counted out loud, the app says how to hold the phone before you need to know, and it checks you mean it before it holds you to it.
"One. Two. Three." — as loud as the alarm itself, so you hear it with the phone on your back. Pick any voice installed on your phone, male or female, in your own language, and hear it before you choose.
Before a task alarm is saved, iWake asks. Once it rings, it stops when the task is done — so it is fair to be sure at night, not at six. Set it, change the time, or turn the question off.
Where the phone goes for push-ups, how to stand for the camera, what the room scan needs to see. Short animated cards in Settings, one for every task, in all twenty-eight languages.
Room scans are checked against real kitchens and bathrooms across South and East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and Australia. Nothing to photograph in advance, and nothing leaves the phone.
Who wakes up with it
The task is chosen to fit the morning it has to survive.
Two to six arithmetic questions before the alarm stops, depending on the tier. A parent sets the difficulty; the child cannot guess their way out. Nothing is uploaded and there is no account to create, which is the point for a phone that belongs to a twelve-year-old.
The alarm stops when the camera recognises a kitchen — the oven, the sink, the fridge. Nothing is enrolled, nothing is photographed and nothing is stored: the recognition happens on the phone, frame by frame, and only a yes or no ever leaves the camera. You have to be standing in one.
Steps, read from the phone's own pedometer. The alarm stops when you have taken them, so the walk you meant to start taking is the thing that switches it off. Large text is one tap away in Settings.
What happens after a week
There is a morning, usually around the seventh, where an ordinary alarm stops looking like an alarm. A button you can press while asleep starts to look like what it always was — a suggestion. That is not a habit and it is not a streak you are protecting. It is that you have now felt the difference between an alarm that asks and an alarm that checks, and the asking one cannot be unseen.
Scan a barcode you left by the bed. Type a number off the screen. Shake the phone. A half-asleep hand does all three perfectly, and people do them every morning without ever waking up — which is why they go back to snoozing within a fortnight. iWake asks for repetitions a sensor counted, steps a pedometer measured, a room a camera recognised. There is no version of those you can do lying down with your eyes shut.
The counter refuses deliberate shaking. A second alarm is armed behind every alarm, in case the first one is dismissed. The whole thing is held by AlarmKit, so it rings through Silent, through Focus, and through the app being force-quit. None of that is a page somebody adds to an alarm — it is what had to be built before the first task could be trusted at all.
And it asks nothing of you that you cannot do. The sums need no body at all, the walk is however fast you walk, the room scan asks only that you are standing in your own kitchen. Twelve or eighty, athletic or not — the single thing it checks is that you are actually up.
Set one up
Roll the wheels. Tap a row. It is the app's own Edit Alarm sheet, working — the click on each detent is the one the real picker makes through the iPhone's Taptic engine.
Pick a task under Challenge and watch what happens to snooze. The rule is the app's, word for word: an alarm that needs proof cannot be put off, so the row goes away rather than being greyed out.
Nothing here is saved anywhere. It is a demonstration on a web page.
Tap an alarm to edit it.
Vibration follows your iPhone's ringer and haptics settings; iOS does not let an app set its own pattern for an alarm banner.
Your wake history
Every morning the app watched: when the alarm rang, when you proved you were up, how long it took, which task did it. Nights it has no reading for are left visibly empty rather than filled in.
21 of 28 mornings · median 4 min late
81 of 91 mornings · median 4 min late
Proved awake is tasks the sensor actually confirmed, over tasks that were owed — never over the days in the range, because a day with no alarm set is not a day you failed. Alarm rang is iOS's own word for whether it went off at all, which is a different question and the one that matters if a morning went missing.
A single average would say 6:14 whether you get up at the same minute every day or anywhere between five and eight. The middle half of your mornings is printed beside it — that spread is the thing that actually changes when the alarm starts working, and it is what you would watch if you wanted to know whether this is doing anything.
Proved, snoozed, came back, let go, and "we could not run it" when a sensor was refused or unavailable. The last one is counted apart and never held against you — it is the app's failure, not yours. A morning it is unsure about is drawn as unsure rather than rounded up to a good one.
The same record at four distances. A week tells you about this week; a year tells you whether the winter is worse than the summer, which it is for most people and is worth knowing before you decide you are the problem.
When you woke and how far that was from the alarm, how many times you snoozed, whether the task was verified and by which sensor, how far you got if it was not, how long it took, and how long it took you to start. Not a score — the rows the app wrote down while it was happening.
The whole record is a set of files in the app's own container. Nothing is uploaded, there is nothing to log in to, and deleting the app deletes the history with it. Nobody else has ever seen a single morning of it.
Day one shows almost nothing, and says so. At about a week the usual wake time appears; at ten mornings the medians do. The ranges — 7D, 4W, 3M, 1Y — start to mean different things only once there is enough record to tell them apart. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap.
Four tiles and two charts, out of a screen that keeps going. The app's own dashboard also holds Your week, morning by morning — How long each weekday takes — Did the alarm ring — Night by night — The nights side by side — Time to start — Times we came back — Why a task ended early — Which task. Those are the real headings, not a list written for a website.
There is a reason to leave the rest in the app rather than fill this page with it: a chart of somebody else's mornings is a picture, and a chart of your own is the first time most people find out that Tuesday is the problem, or that it is twenty minutes worse in December. That only happens once the record is yours.
Say it · iOS 27 Siri
Say it and the alarm exists — the time, the task, the days, all of it. And on iOS 27, Siri knows your iWake alarms as alarms: it can change one, turn one off, tell you which rings next, and Spotlight lists them beside the Clock's own. Below is the real phrase in each of the twenty-five languages Siri speaks, and the alarm each one made, played out the way it happens — then the follow-up.
“Set a 6:30 alarm in iWake called walk, on weekdays, no snooze.” The time, the task, the days and the snooze all land in one alarm, through the same path the editor uses.
“Change my Rice alarm to 7 and call it Soccer.” “Turn off my 6:30 alarm.” “When’s my next iWake alarm?” Siri edits the alarm you already have rather than making a second one.
A sentence cannot delete an alarm. That is on purpose — the whole product is an alarm that cannot be talked out of ringing, and a half-asleep “delete my alarms” would be the easiest button of all.
These are the app's actual Siri phrases, taken from its own localisation files. Siri opens iWake and the app sets the alarm through exactly the path the editor uses — there is no second alarm system living inside Siri. Twenty-five languages carry phrases; Armenian, Bengali and Urdu are fully translated in the app but Siri does not speak them.
Readable at 6am
iWake follows the text size you set in iOS, and then adds its own step above that — Standard, Large, Larger, Largest — for the moment you are reading it without your glasses.
Languages
The app, the buttons iOS draws on your lock screen at 6am, and the phrases Siri listens for.
Twenty-five of the twenty-eight also carry Siri phrases — every language Apple ships Siri phrase support for. Armenian, Bengali and Urdu do not, because Siri does not speak them; the app is fully translated either way.
Privacy
This is the reason the app took as long as it did. The easy way to build a camera task is to send the picture to a server and ask it what it sees; the easy way to count push-ups is to stream the sensor. iWake does neither. Every task is judged on the phone, by the phone, and reduced to a yes or a no before anything is written down — so there is nothing about you to leak, sell or subpoena, because it was never collected. We would rather ship later than ship that.
There is no sign-in, no profile and no password. Nothing to create and nothing to delete.
iWake makes no network request of its own — there is no address it could send anything to. Only Apple's own purchase system talks to the network.
The camera and motion sensors are read only while a task is running, and what they see becomes a yes or a no on the phone.
Your alarms and your wake record are files on your device. Deleting the app deletes them. The App Store label reads Data Not Collected, and it is true. The full policy is one page and short — a product of Quantum Leap Mind LLC, a company with no data to lose.
Price
Every task, the comeback and the whole dashboard are unlocked the moment you open the app — no card, no code, nothing to redeem. On the fourth day the alarm keeps ringing exactly as it did; what stops is the proof, and one payment brings it back for good.
That is the United States price. iWake is sold in all 175 App Store countries and regions — every other storefront has its own price, set by Apple and charged in the currency your Apple Account already uses. There is no country where this becomes a subscription, and nothing to renew anywhere.
Wherever the App Store reaches.
Alarm apps that promise to change your mornings charge about $29.99 a year. That is $29.99 this year, $59.98 by next year, and it keeps going for as long as you keep getting up. iWake is $19.99 and then nothing, for ever — less than one year of theirs, and it is the only year you pay.
A subscription is an alarm that stops working when a card expires. There is no server here doing anything for you each month — the alarm is held by your own phone — so rent would be rent on nothing. It would also make us want you to keep needing us, and this app is trying to make one alarm enough.
One payment buys iWake, not this version of it. Every task we add, every language, every screen, every improvement to the counting — yours, at no further cost, for as long as the app exists. There is no Pro 2, no upgrade price and no year in which the thing you already bought quietly becomes the old one.
Privacy and security fixes, and the work every autumn to keep the alarm ringing correctly through a new version of iOS. That work is most of the work, it never shows up as a feature, and it is not something anybody should be asked to pay again for — an alarm that stopped being maintained is just an alarm that has not failed yet.
Your alarm never stops ringing because you did not pay. The trial unlocks everything on first launch, with nothing to buy or redeem.
Download on the App StoreThe short version
Every other alarm asks you to be disciplined at six in the morning. This one does not ask.
It is not a fitness app wearing an alarm's clothes either. The push-ups are one of six tasks and not the point — the app has no interest in how strong you are, only in whether you are vertical.
Anyone can ship an app now — that is what the last ten years were for. Far fewer are worth paying for once and keeping for years. We are building this one to be the alarm somebody recommends out loud, which is a much harder thing to make and the only thing worth making.
Creators
iWake Pro is bought once, for ever. Your code takes a slice off that price for your audience, and you are paid 30% to 40% of the net on every purchase it brings. The slice and the share are sized to your audience and your work, and agreed in writing before the first post.
An Apple offer code, and a link that opens straight to it, so your audience never types anything. Apple attributes the redemption — the only counting neither of us can argue with. It is also how iWake keeps its promise to have no server: we never see who clicked, only how many.
A story, a video, a bio line. The app sells itself best when someone watches it refuse to switch off — the push-up counter, the walk, the camera looking at a kitchen. You do not have to describe it.
From Apple's own sales report, grouped by your code. You get the same report line we do, so you can check the arithmetic yourself.
There is no single rate, because creators are not the same. Two things decide yours: how many people genuinely see what you post, and how well what you make sells the app. We propose a discount for your audience — most land between 20% and 30% off, the largest up to 40% — and a share for you, and put both in writing before you post anything.
It can go up: a code that outsells its tier is moved to the next one, and the move is on the record and in writing, like everything else here.
A percentage is meaningless without the thing it is a percentage of, so here it is said in order. Three deductions happen before your share is worked out, and none of them is hidden.
What is left is the net, and your share of it is yours. This is stated plainly because the alternative is worse: a page that says "30%" and leaves you to find the basis out later has not told you what you will be paid. Ask what the deductions came to in any month and we will show you.
The whole thing, including why a one-payment app pays a creator better than a subscription does, is on the creators page. Interested? Write to us with where you post and roughly how many people see it. Everyone is welcome to ask; the first codes go to people whose audience actually struggles with mornings, because that is who the app is for.
What comes next
iWake is on the App Store now, and on Google Play soon. Leave an address and you get an email when it lands on Android, and when something worth knowing about ships after that — not often.
One address, kept on this website's own list so it can send you that email. Nothing else, no tracking, and one line in any of them unsubscribes you. The app itself still has no account and makes no network request — this list is the website's, and the two are never joined up.