WakeRup

The wake-up program · iPhone

Become a
morning person.

Tell it when you wake now and when you want to. WakeRup builds the plan, a coach keeps it realistic, and the alarm can't be snoozed — stopping it opens a short task (shake the phone, scan the toothpaste) so you're actually up.

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iPhone · iOS 26 · in TestFlight Android · coming soon Free to start Made in Melbourne

How it works

Three things a normal alarm can't do.

01

Get a plan, not just a time.

Your answers become a program: a few challenges, each a little earlier, with dates. Starting one sets your alarm. When life happens, the coach moves the plan — climbed rungs stay climbed.

02

Prove you're up.

Stop doesn't count. It opens WakeRup: scan a barcode you keep in the bathroom, or shake the phone for three seconds — then stay up for the timer. Three missed mornings send the challenge back to day 1.

03

Friends who notice.

Add a few people. Everyone sees who's up and who's still asleep, and the leaderboard is streaks, not speed. It's much harder to snooze on people.

The challenges

A ladder you climb one rung at a time.

Eight challenges, each earlier than the last, and each one ends in its own trophy. Your program picks the ones between where you are and your goal. Rest days come off at Dawn Patrol. Almost nobody finishes the 4AM Club.

  1. Wake by Midday12:00 PM · 5 days
  2. The 10AM Start10:00 AM · 5 days
  3. The 8:30 Shift8:30 AM · 7 days
  4. First Light: 7AM7:00 AM · 7 days
  5. The 6:30 Club6:30 AM · 10 days
  6. Dawn Patrol6:00 AM · 14 days · no rest days
  7. The 5AM Club5:00 AM · 21 days
  8. The 4AM Club4:00 AM · 30 days

At alarm time

Built on Apple's own alarm.

WakeRup uses iOS 26's AlarmKit, so it rings like the Clock app — through silent mode, through Do Not Disturb, on the lock screen. What happens after you stop it is the part we built.

  • 1
    Stop opens WakeRupYou land straight in the wake-up flow, not your feed.
  • 2
    Do the taskScan the barcode you saved, or shake for three seconds.
  • 3
    Stay upA short timer. Confirm at the end and the streak is yours.
  • ✓
    Friends see itYour check-in shows up on their leaderboard within the minute.
The stay-up screen: a countdown framed by yellow curtains on a dark background

Your coach

See when you're really up.

Stopping an alarm isn't the same as getting up. Each morning your coach asks one question — what time did you get up? — prefilled, one tap. Your report puts it against the alarm, so you can see the gap closing week by week.

The Coach tab: the daily check-in asking what time you got up (6:42 AM, Log it), above the report's Alarm vs wake-up chart — 11 minutes after the alarm on average
The Alarms tab: the challenge's 6:30 alarm pinned at the top, then a gym alarm, a power nap and a school-run alarm with on/off switches

Alarms tab

Your other alarms, too.

Naps, the gym, the school run — they live in one list next to your challenge's alarm, like the Clock app. Pick the days or ring once, name it, and choose how to turn it off. Same rules as every WakeRup alarm: no snooze, and stopping it opens the app.

Early access

Be up when it launches.

WakeRup is on iPhone first, in TestFlight now. Leave your email and you'll get the invite first — and if you're on Android, you'll hear the day it lands there. One or two emails, ever; unsubscribe is one tap.

iPhone: iOS 26 or later — the alarm is built on Apple's AlarmKit. Android: in the works; same program, same coach. No spam, ever.