Alarming Wakeups

New: friends can record voice clips from their browser. Accepted clips download to your phone before they can play as your alarm sound.

Your friends are your alarm clock now.

Alarming is a real alarm app with one twist: the sound that wakes you up was recorded by someone you know. Set an alarm. Send an invite link. Your friends record short voice clips from their browser — no app install, no sign-up — and an accepted clip can play at ring time after it downloads to your phone. You don't know which one. You don't get a preview. Good luck.

Could be your sister yelling about your posture. Could be a coworker doing a goat impression. Could be your roommate gently reminding you that you're loved. The whole point is you find out when the alarm goes off.

WHAT IT DOES

• Real alarms. The boring-but-reliable part stays boring and reliable. Set a time, pick the days, snooze if you must. • Invite links. Share a link in any chat app. Friends drop a clip from the browser in seconds. • Mystery sound. One downloaded submission can be picked for the alarm. No previews. No mercy. • Fallback bell. If nobody comes through with a downloaded clip, the app uses a built-in local tone. • Sound Lab. Record your own wake-up clips on-device, trim them, and save a little library for future alarms. • Local-only mode. Don't want to sign in? The app still works as a regular alarm clock. Friend clips just stay locked behind sign-in.

WHY FRIENDS MATTER

Standard alarm sounds are designed to be ignored. A voice from a person you actually know is much harder to swipe away. Alarming is the alarm clock your friends weaponize against you, and you against them.

Send each other invite links. Build a small chaos circle. Wake up to something you didn't expect.

THE FINE PRINT

• iOS 26 and up gets the full AlarmKit experience — downloaded friend clips can play directly as the alarm sound, even when the phone is locked. • iOS 17–25 falls back to local notifications, where iOS settings such as Silent Mode and Focus can affect delivery. • Sign in with Apple or Google to connect local alarms to invite links and receive friend clips. Signed-out users stay in local-only mode and never touch our backend. • Microphone access is only used in Sound Lab when you explicitly hit record. • Friend clips are short and accepted automatically from invite links. Keep them respectful — alarm owners can remove or report clips, revoke invite links, and block future submissions.

Built by a solo developer. Bug reports, feature requests, and support requests are welcome at jackson@middleout.dev.

Mornings are about to get weird.