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.
The mechanic
The alarm stops when the sensor is satisfied, and not before. Shaking the phone does not count as push-ups. Standing still does not count as walking.
| Task | Proved by | What it actually checks |
|---|---|---|
| Push-ups | Motion or camera | Real repetitions, counted. Deliberate shaking is refused. |
| Squats | Motion or camera | The same counter, and the camera variant checks the phone is upright. |
| A walk | Pedometer | Steps you actually take, read from the phone's own step counter. |
| Sums | Typed answer | Arithmetic at a difficulty you set. Wrong answers do not pass. |
| Room scan | Camera | Get to the kitchen, the bathroom, wherever you chose. Compared on device. |
| Shuffle | — | Picks the task for you, so you cannot pick the easy one. |
Leave the task unfinished and the alarm returns — after a minute, then two, then three. Up to fifteen returns across forty-five minutes. Then it lets you go, because a phone that will not stop is worse than a task walked away from.
The alarm is held by AlarmKit — the same system Apple's own Clock uses — so it rings whether or not iWake is running. Swipe the app away at 3am and it still goes off at six.
Your wake history
Every morning the app watched: when the alarm rang, when you proved you were up, how long it took, which task did it. Nights it has no reading for are left visibly empty rather than filled in.
21 of 28 mornings · median 4 min late
Median minutes from ring to proof
Day one shows almost nothing, and says so. At about a week the usual wake time appears; at ten mornings the medians do. The ranges — 7D, 4W, 3M, 1Y — start to mean different things only once there is enough record to tell them apart. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap.
Privacy
There is no sign-in, no profile and no password. Nothing to create and nothing to delete.
iWake makes no network request of its own — there is no address it could send anything to. Only Apple's own purchase system talks to the network.
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.
Your alarms and your wake record are files on your device. Deleting the app deletes them. The full policy is one page and short.
Price
Your alarm never stops ringing because you did not pay. The trial unlocks everything on first launch, with nothing to buy or redeem.
Languages
The app, the buttons iOS draws on your lock screen at 6am, and the phrases Siri listens for.
Eleven of the thirteen also carry Siri phrases. Bengali and Urdu do not, because Siri does not speak them — the app is fully translated either way.