iWake Alarm

An alarm you cannot turn off until your phone has watched you do something.

Every other alarm ends with a button. A button is easy to press half asleep, and that is the whole problem. iWake ends with proof: push-ups counted by the motion sensor, squats, a walk measured in real steps, maths you have to get right, or standing in your kitchen with the camera pointed at it. The alarm stops when the sensor is satisfied, and not before.

It rings through Do Not Disturb, and the task opens by itself — iWake uses the alarm channel Android reserves for alarm clocks, not an ordinary notification you can swipe away.

WHAT IT ASKS OF YOU

• Push-ups and squats, counted by motion or by the camera
• A walk, measured in steps you actually take, with the phone in your pocket
• Maths, at a difficulty you choose
• A room scan — get to the kitchen or the bathroom and show the camera
• Shuffle, which picks three or four tasks so you cannot pick the easy one

IT DOES NOT TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT

The sensors are there to be honest, not decorative. Shaking the phone does not count as push-ups. Standing still does not count as walking. Put it down mid-task and the alarm comes back.

TIPS THAT SHOW YOU HOW

A short tour on first launch, then Tips any time: short videos for every task, and step-by-step guides for Shuffle, backup, the counting voice and every plan.

YOUR WAKE HISTORY

Every morning the app watched, kept as a record: when the alarm rang, when you proved you were up, how long that took, which task did it, and how all of it moved over weeks and months. Not a streak and not a score — a record, with the nights it has no reading for left visibly empty rather than filled in.

WHAT LEAVES YOUR PHONE, AND WHAT DOES NOT

No account. No server. No analytics of ours. Your alarms and your wake record are files on your device, and deleting the app deletes them.

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. No image is taken, saved or sent.

What does go out, none of it to us: Google Play checks for a newer iWake and may show its own rating sheet; and the camera tasks use Google's ML Kit, running entirely on the device, which reports its own usage and performance to Google — device model, OS version, the app's package and version, a per-installation identifier, and which ML Kit features ran. iWake cannot switch that off and never sees it.

FREE, AND PAID

Ordinary alarms are free forever, with no limit on how many. The tasks, the wake history and backup are iWake Pro: yearly with 3 days free for new subscribers (a Google Play trial — cancel any time), monthly, or pay once and keep it for good. Your alarm never stops ringing because you did not pay.

Available in 78 languages, from Armenian to Zulu — including the alarm's own lock-screen buttons.