FAQs

No. There is no snooze button, and there is no setting that adds one.

What there is instead: the sound drops away the moment you are actually on your feet, so it stops being loud within a second or two of you getting up. It switches off properly when you finish a short mission.

It keeps ringing and vibrating. Dismissing the notification does not stop it, and nor does locking the phone. The mission is the only off switch.

That is the problem it was built for. A normal alarm is loud until you reach over and silence it, which teaches you to stay in bed. Wakeling goes quiet because you stood up — so the fastest way to stop the noise is the thing you were supposed to do anyway. That is free, and it is not a trial.

Yes. The alarm plays through the hardware silent switch and vibrates at full strength, and it will turn the media volume up when it starts.

If something is holding the volume down and it cannot raise it, it stops suppressing the system alarm alert and lets that through instead — those follow the ringer volume, so they are audible when we are not.

No. Setting an alarm, the alarm firing, the missions, your pet and everything you have earned all work with the phone offline. A connection is only needed to make a purchase or restore one.

Please tell us — this is the one that matters. The usual cause is the app having been swiped out of the app switcher, which stops it running; leave Wakeling open in the background overnight. Also worth checking: notification permission, and whether a Focus is silencing it.

You can check any time without waiting for morning. Settings → Alarm → Test the alarm rings a full alarm in ten seconds.

Three, and you pick one per alarm the night before. The walk asks you to be on your feet and moving — anywhere, on the spot is fine, for a length you set from one to three minutes. It is ninety seconds by default, and the clock only runs while you are stepping. Squats has you prop the phone up while the front camera counts them, and you choose how many. Target Scan sends you to something you cannot keep by the bed and asks you to show it to the phone.

Use the walk. It is the mission that needs no room, no camera and nothing set up in advance, which is exactly why it is the one that is never locked — an alarm you cannot switch off would be a fault, not a paywall.

You choose the thing yourself during setup — a kettle, a bathroom tap, whatever is far enough from your bed — and scan it once. In the morning it has to see that same thing again.

No. Both camera missions run entirely on your phone using Apple's on-device Vision and pose frameworks. Frames are held in memory only long enough to be processed: nothing is recorded, saved to disk, or uploaded. There is no code in the app that uploads an image.

Target Scan keeps a mathematical fingerprint of the thing you scanned so it can recognise it again. A fingerprint is not a picture and cannot be turned back into one, and it never leaves the device.

It is the reason to do it again tomorrow. The pet sleeps while your alarm is set and wakes when you do, brings you something for getting up, and lives in a room that you slowly furnish together.

None of it gates the alarm. It is there because a streak counter is a number and a dog waiting for you is not.

By getting up. Every completed morning pays twenty love, and Pro doubles that. There are also thirteen achievements, which are the only other way to earn — so the difference between any two numbers is always something you did.

Things for the room, at fixed prices: a clock is 20 love, a bowl 40, a mat 80, a piece of furniture 140, a whole new backdrop 320, and a new pet 800.

No. Your love is not taken away, and nothing you have bought or unlocked can be lost. Your pet is not going to be sad at you.

The only thing a missed morning affects is the streak count, which starts again from one.

Four so far, and you choose which one lives in your room — you can switch whenever you like. Carrot the corgi is there from the start, Maple the tabby is bought with love you have earned, and Billie and Mochi come with Pro.

The alarm, always. It is not gated by a trial running out, by a failed payment or by anything else — that is written into the app as a value that cannot be switched off.

With it: the walk, the sound ducking as you get up, Carrot, the room, and love earned every morning to spend on it.

The Squats and Target Scan missions. Dog and cat alarm sounds. Double love for every morning. And two more pets, Billie and Mochi.

Not the ducking. The alarm going quiet as you get up is the whole point of Wakeling, and it is free for everyone — paying gets you more ways to get up and more to spend the love on, not the thing you came for.

Fourteen days, starting when you install. It needs no card and there is nothing to cancel — it simply ends, and the alarm keeps working.

Trial mornings pay the full Pro rate, because a half-rate trial would be demonstrating something nobody is being sold.

It is sold two ways: yearly, or once and never again. The price is shown in the app in your own currency — we do not print it here, because a price that has gone stale on a web page is a promise we did not keep.

The yearly one is an Apple subscription: cancel in the Settings app → your name → Subscriptions, and it runs to the end of the period you have paid for. The one-off purchase has nothing to cancel.

No. There are no accounts and no login anywhere in the app. It does not know who you are, has never asked for your email address, and has no password to forget.

Two things, and one switch turns off both: anonymous crash reports, and anonymous counts of things like alarms set and mornings completed. Neither is tied to you. It is in Settings → Privacy → Analytics.

No advertising and no ad identifiers, no location, no contacts, no photo library, no microphone, and nothing sold or shared. The full detail is in the privacy policy.

After iOS. The parts that make the alarm hard to ignore are written against Apple's own alarm and audio frameworks, and Android needs its own version of that rather than a port.

Leave your email on the home page and tick Android, and you will get one message on the day it is ready.

Email hello@wakeling.app and a human will read it.