HardWake: Alarm Clock

Don't just wake up. Prove you're awake.

HardWake is an alarm clock for people who sleep through alarms, turn them off half-asleep, or snooze until it's too late. It keeps ringing until you complete a wake-up challenge — solve a few sums, shake the phone, repeat a color sequence — so switching it off takes more than a reflex.

FIRST, IT HAS TO RING

Most alarm apps fail before the challenge ever matters. HardWake takes ringing seriously:

• Exact scheduling, exempt from Doze, so it rings at the minute you set
• Alarms restored after a reboot — even before you unlock the phone for the first time
• Survives a crash or a low-memory kill mid-alarm and picks the alarm back up
• Handles time-zone changes, clock changes and date changes
• A "Will my alarm ring?" panel that checks the permissions and battery settings that decide the answer, and tells you exactly what to fix
• An auto-stop safety timeout, so an alarm can never ring until the battery is flat

THE CHALLENGES

Free, forever:
• Math — solve sums before it stops
• Shake — shake the phone until you're properly awake
• Memory — repeat a color sequence

With HardWake Pro:
• Typing — type a phrase exactly
• Pattern — trace a pattern from memory
• Walking — take real steps, counted by the step sensor
• QR code and Barcode — scan a code you registered, so the alarm only stops in the bathroom or the kitchen
• Challenge Chain — up to five challenges in a row
• Hard and Brutal difficulty
• Adaptive difficulty — gets harder only as fast as you get faster
• Smart rotation — a different challenge each day, so none becomes muscle memory

EVERYTHING ELSE

• Unlimited alarms, one-shot or repeating on any set of days
• Snooze your way: off, limited to 1-3, or "clear a challenge first"
• Your own alarm sound, gradual fade-in, four vibration patterns
• Wake history, streaks and averages, computed on your phone
• Tahajjud and Fajr alarms, derived from locally computed prayer times — free, because waking for prayer is not something to sell back to anybody
• Dark, light and system themes, TalkBack support and a reduce-motion setting

NO ADS. NO ACCOUNT. YOUR ALARM DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE.

There is no advertising SDK, no analytics SDK and no tracking library in this app. There is no account to create and no cloud to sync to. Your alarms, your wake history and your settings stay in this phone's private storage.

If you buy Pro, HardWake sends the Google Play purchase token and product ID to a secure verification service. No alarm, challenge, location or wake-history data is sent with it.

Scanning challenges decode the code on the device and keep only a salted fingerprint of it — never the code's contents, and never a photo. Tahajjud mode reads a coarse location once, stores it locally, and works without the permission at all if you would rather type your coordinates.

The free version is a complete alarm clock, not a trial. Pro is a one-time purchase or a subscription, and it adds challenges — never reliability.