Math
Arithmetic against a countdown, in easy, medium and hard. Set it high enough that a half-asleep brain still has to do the work.
Version 1.0.0 live on Google Play
The alarm you cannot dismiss until you are actually awake.
Most alarms lose to a reflex. Awake keeps ringing until you solve the puzzle, scan the code in the next room, or finish the reps. Then it stops.
Free. No ads, no in-app purchases, no account. Android 8.0 and newer.
- Seven wake challenges
- Nothing leaves your phone
- No account, no ads
Inside the app
Every screen, as it ships
Real captures from version 1.0.0 on an Android phone, in the order you meet them.
Home
The next alarm, what it will ask of you, and how long you have. Your streak sits at the top where you cannot miss it.
Alarms
Every alarm carries its own challenge and difficulty, so a weekday 6am and a weekend lie-in do not have to ask the same thing.
Add an alarm
Time, repeat days, challenge and difficulty in one sheet. It tells you how long until it rings before you save.
Challenges
All seven types, at three difficulties. Run any of them as practice so 6am is not the first time you have seen one.
Profile
Streak, score and history, all stored on the device. Clear all data wipes it in one tap, and nothing survives elsewhere.
Settings
Time format, haptics, alarm sound, and a reliability section that checks the Android permissions an alarm actually needs.
Theme
Material You. Pick a seed colour and the whole app retunes around it. Light, dark, or whatever the system is doing.
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Wake challenges
Seven ways to prove you are up
Pick the one you cannot fake at 6am. Swap it the week it stops working on you.
Coding
Read a short Python snippet and choose what it prints. Much harder to guess your way through than a number pad.
Chess
A real position with a forced win. A puzzle is a line, not a move: play it out and the board answers back until the mate lands.
QR scan
Scan a code you taped to the kettle or the bathroom mirror the night before. The alarm does not stop until the phone has travelled.
Push-ups
Reps counted from the front camera by a pose model that runs locally. Frames are never recorded, written to disk or uploaded.
Jumps
The same local pipeline, a different movement. Jump until the ring closes. Nothing about the feed leaves the camera thread.
Walk
Steps are read from the accelerometer and the phone's hardware step counter at the same time, so the count survives the screen switching off. A hysteretic detector gated on real walking cadence means shaking the phone under the duvet counts nothing.
How it works
Three steps, then silence
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Set the alarm
Pick a time, a sound, the days it repeats, and which challenge has to be beaten before it will stop.
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It rings, properly
Full screen over the lock screen, through Doze, and again after a restart. There is no swipe and there is no snooze.
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Earn the silence
Finish the challenge and the alarm stops and your streak goes up. Fail it and the ringing carries on.
Built in
The rest of the app
Small things, done properly, because you meet them every single morning.
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Material You theming
Choose a seed color and the whole app retunes around it. Light and dark follow your system unless you say otherwise.
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Streaks and stats
Every completed wake is recorded. The streak only counts mornings you actually finished the challenge, so it means something.
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Practice mode
Run any challenge at any difficulty outside alarm time, so 6am is not the first time you have seen a chess puzzle.
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Reboot-proof scheduling
Alarms are re-registered after a restart and use exact alarm scheduling, so they fire on the minute you set rather than whenever Android gets round to it.
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Emergency dismiss
Hold the dismiss control for five seconds and the alarm stops. It gives no streak credit, on purpose, so it stays the exception.
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Works with no connection
There is no server to be down and no login to expire. Every challenge, sound and setting is already on the device.
Privacy
Nothing about your mornings leaves this phone
Awake has no accounts, no servers and no analytics. There is nowhere for your data to go, because there is nothing on the other end.
- Camera frames stay on the devicePush-up and jump reps are inferred frame by frame on the camera thread by a model bundled inside the app. Only a rep count reaches the rest of the app. No image is stored or sent.
- Alarms and stats are localSchedules, streaks, settings and your optional profile photo are written to this device's storage and nowhere else.
- No trackers, no adsNo advertising SDK and no analytics SDK is bundled. Nothing is sold and nothing is shared, because nothing is collected.
- Deleting takes one tapClear all data on the Profile screen wipes every local store. Uninstalling removes whatever is left.
Questions
Before you install it
Can I not just uninstall the app to stop the alarm?
Yes, and you can force-stop it too. Awake is a tool, not a trap. What it removes is the reflex swipe that lets you dismiss an alarm without ever waking up. If you genuinely want out, the door is unlocked.
What if I need the alarm off right now?
Press and hold the dismiss control for five seconds. The alarm stops immediately, no challenge required.
It gives no streak credit. That is deliberate: the escape hatch has to stay slightly uncomfortable, or it quietly becomes the habit.
Is there a snooze button?
No. Snooze is the thing Awake exists to remove.
Do the push-up and jump challenges send video anywhere?
No. The camera feed is processed on the device, frame by frame, by a pose model bundled inside the app. Only a rep count comes out of that pipeline. Nothing is written to disk, and the app makes no network request with it.
Will it still ring after the phone restarts?
Yes. Alarms are re-registered when the device finishes booting.
You should still exempt Awake from battery optimization, because aggressive power management is the most common reason an Android alarm goes quiet. Support explains how.
Is there an iPhone version?
No. Awake is Android only, and there is no date to give you for anything else.
What does it cost?
Nothing. Awake is free, with no ads, no in-app purchases and no subscription.
Which Android versions does it run on?
Android 8.0 and newer. Play will tell you before you install if your device is not supported.
Tomorrow morning, earn it.
Awake 1.0.0 is out now on Google Play. Free, offline, and yours in about a minute.