WakeWave

Set one wake time. WakeWave adds backup alarms automatically, each harder to dismiss than the last — from a color game to scanning a QR code across the room.

WakeWave is an alarm app for people who sleep through their alarm — not once, but reliably, every time.

Instead of setting one alarm and hoping, set a single wake time and WakeWave automatically schedules backup alarms after it. Sleep through the first one? More are coming, each with its own way of making sure you're actually awake before it goes quiet.

HOW IT WORKS

• Set one wake time. Choose how many backup alarms follow it, and how far apart they are — every few minutes, exactly as aggressive as you need.

• Snooze requires shaking your phone. No half-asleep tap-and-roll-over.

• Stopping an alarm means finishing a real challenge — pick your Wake Difficulty:

Barely Awake — a quick color-matching game Normal — the same game, but you have to think in opposites Wide Awake — the color game, then a one-shot timing challenge I Never Wake Up — the color game, then two math problems, then walk over and scan a QR code you've printed out and stuck somewhere across the room

• Your last backup alarm has no Snooze button at all. Eventually, you have to actually get up.

• Repeat any alarm on whichever days of the week you want — weekdays only, weekends, every day, your call.

• Every difficulty is fully customizable, both as an app-wide default and per individual alarm.

WHY WAKEWAVE

Most alarm apps assume one ring is enough. WakeWave is built for the rest of us — the people who've slept through two, three, four alarms in a row and know it. It doesn't judge you for that. It just plans around it.

No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Nothing leaves your phone. WakeWave works entirely offline except for the one moment it needs your camera — and even then, only to check a QR code against a fixed code the app generates for you, nothing more.

Wake up. Actually.