iPhone · iOS 26.1 and later
It rings through silent mode and Do Not Disturb, at your system alarm volume, using the same alarm system as the Clock app already on your phone. Then it asks you to do something physical before the morning counts. Your first three mornings are free, with every mission open. After that, Pro keeps it ringing.
Scroll — one morning, six screens
Watch a morning
Five scenes, about half a minute. It plays on its own, it has no sound, and you can stop it or jump to any step. Every frame is the real interface, not a mockup of one.
Step 01
Through silent mode and Do Not Disturb, at your system alarm volume. The operating system draws the alert, and its stop control is always there.
Where it runs
It has not shipped yet. There is no App Store listing to send you to, which is why the button on this page joins a waitlist instead of pretending to be a download. This release is for iPhone only.
Built on AlarmKit, Apple's own alarm system and the one the Clock app uses. That is what makes it ring through silent mode and Do Not Disturb at your system alarm volume, and it is also why it needs iOS 26.1: below that version, a custom alarm sound stops after one pass.
A beta comes first, and the App Store listing after it survives that.
The mechanic
Four steps. Snooze is right there on the alert — and all it does is bring the alarm back.
It schedules through AlarmKit, the same alarm system the built-in Clock uses. It rings through silent mode and Do Not Disturb, at your system alarm volume, and the operating system draws the alert: we supply the alarm's name and our name, and the alert's one other button is Snooze. Snoozing settles nothing — the system itself brings the alarm back nine minutes later, even with the app closed, every time, until the mission is done.
However the ringing pauses — a snooze, or the stop control — the morning is still open. Open the app and waiting for you is the time, the mission you picked last night, and one button. Wander off and the alarm comes back within seconds, which the screen tells you before it happens rather than after.
Push-ups counted by the front camera, with a confidence meter so you can see whether it is actually watching you, and plus and minus buttons within reach for the mornings it isn't. Push-ups and the object hunt are checked on your phone. Nothing is uploaded.
On time, late, missed and we couldn't tell are four different colours on the heatmap, because a morning the app did not witness is not a morning you failed. Finish the mission and you get a card worth sharing. Skip it and you don't — a trophy for a skip is not a trophy.
In motion
A counter climbing, a meter settling, a heatmap filling in. These four are recreated from the real interface rather than filmed, so they stay sharp at any size and cost a few kilobytes instead of a few megabytes.
The mission set
Every one is open, free, for your first three mornings, and part of Pro after that; the AI missions get up to three checks inside those mornings. Four work with no signal. Three send a single photo off for an AI check, and only after you have said yes to that once.
The object hunt is the one to try first. It names a fixture at random when the alarm rings, checks the photo on the device, and then deletes it.
The front camera and on-device pose estimation, running natively on the device. A live confidence meter tells you whether it can see you, and manual plus and minus buttons are always on screen for when it can't. No video is recorded and none leaves the phone.
Checked on your phoneThe accelerometer, a threshold and a progress ring. Works in the dark, works with the camera permission denied, and works if you have no intention of doing a push-up this decade.
Checked on your phoneArithmetic on a keypad. The least glamorous mission and the most reliable one, which is exactly why it is the one-tap fallback whenever anything else fails on us.
Checked on your phoneThe app names one household fixture — toilet, sink, shower, stairs — and wants a photograph of it. The object is drawn when the alarm actually rings, so there is nothing to stage the night before. An on-device classifier checks the shot on the device, the photo is deleted straight after, and a frame dominated by your bed is rejected.
Checked on your phonePhotograph the bed you have just left. The check looks for sheets pulled up, pillows at the head and no bunched fabric, and tells you in one sentence what is wrong when it says no.
Checked by AIOutdoors, daylight, actual vegetation in the frame. The mission that makes you open the front door before you open anything else.
Checked by AIFind the animal, photograph the animal. The animal will not be delighted about this at 6:30 in the morning. That part is between the two of you.
Checked by AIAI photo missions send one photo to our AI provider to check it, then it's deleted. You are asked for permission once, before the first one ever runs, and "use a physical mission instead" is a button on that same screen. MissionAlarm keeps no copy; the provider holds API inputs for up to 30 days and does not train on them. The privacy policy names them and says exactly what leaves the phone.
Your three free mornings include up to three AI checks, and only a pass spends one. A check that times out, errors or comes back wrong spends none of them, and swaps to a physical mission that counts as a full completion. Our server having a bad morning is not allowed to end your streak.
The part that matters
The apps in this category tend to hide what the free part is until the wall appears. Here is the whole deal, before you download anything.
Your first three mornings are free, with everything open. Once the third one is finished, your alarms switch off until you choose Pro.
A morning that has started can always be finished. The free mornings run out only after the third one is done, never in the middle of one, and the paywall cannot open while an alarm is ringing or a mission is in flight — that is a hard guard in the code with a CI check standing behind it, not a sentence in a footer. The alarms switch off only while you are in the app, on a screen that says so, and from then Home says plainly that they are off, so nobody goes to sleep thinking one is set.
The limits
Four things a marketing page would rather you did not read. We would rather you read them now than discover them at 6:14 on a Tuesday.
On iPhone, AlarmKit draws the Lock Screen alert and it carries a slide-to-stop that we cannot remove, move, rename or tint. Any alarm app claiming otherwise is describing an operating system that does not exist. The mission is streak-enforced, not physically inescapable, and ours does not pretend to be.
Stop it on the Lock Screen and it rings again within seconds, but nothing bad happens to you. The morning is logged as stopped early, and you get a five-minute window in which finishing the mission still keeps your streak. Every mission also carries a labelled "Can't do this mission?" from its first second, on every plan — and using it keeps your streak too, because that exit mostly exists for the mornings when our detection is the thing that failed.
On iPhone, iOS gives no app an API to read or change the ringer or the alarm volume. An app showing you a volume percentage or a "volume guard" toggle is showing you a number it invented. MissionAlarm rings at your system alarm volume, through silent mode and Do Not Disturb, because that is what the system alarm does. Save an alarm and the app can fire a real one ten seconds later so you can hear it for yourself, then point you at the Settings screen that changes it.
No account means no sync, no cloud backup and no cross-device restore in this version. Your history sits on the device and in your iPhone backup, and Settings has an export. Purchases restore through the App Store, which is why Restore Purchases sits above the fold instead of three levels down.
Pricing
We deleted the weekly option. Priced the way this category prices it, a weekly plan annualises to more than eight times our yearly — the smallest number on the screen being the most expensive thing on it is a trick, not a kindness.
$7.99/ month
7-day free trialMonth to month, at full weight and never greyed out. Change your mind in the App Store whenever you like.
$29.99/ year
7-day free trialExactly half what the biggest app in this category charges for a year.
Works out at about $2.50 a month, billed once. This is the plan we pre-select, and we would rather say why than hide it.
$59.99once
No trialApple does not allow a free trial on a one-time purchase, so there is no badge here promising one. Pay once, nothing renews, and the app tells you there is nothing to cancel if you go looking.
One trial per account. Monthly and Annual share a single subscription group, so the store grants one introductory offer per Apple ID. If your account is not eligible, the trial badge disappears rather than lying to you and billing you on day one.
Cancelling. Settings has a Manage subscription row that opens your App Store subscriptions. Apple's own sheet does the cancelling, with its own confirm step, and we find out about it afterwards. No retention maze and no discount interstitial in the way. Pro stays on until the period you paid for runs out. After that your alarms switch off until Pro is back; your streak and history stay on the phone.
The streak is never monetised. No freeze, no repair, no insurance, no restore behind Pro, and no paywall that opens because a streak is at risk.
Nothing is on sale yet. Neither version has shipped, so nobody has been charged anything. These are the prices we intend to launch with, and if they move before launch this page moves with them.
Prices shown in US dollars. Your local store shows your local price. The iPhone version requires iOS 26.1 or later.
The waitlist
No store listing exists for either phone yet, so there is nothing honest to link to. Leave an address, say which phone you actually wake up next to, and that is the whole arrangement.
One email, when there is a build you can install. Nothing else arrives from us in the meantime.
Nothing else to do, since there is only the one email to send.
Check the address and try again. If it keeps failing, write to us and we will add you by hand.
One email, sent when there is a build you can install. No newsletter, no countdown, no launch-week reminders, and your address goes to nobody else. Ask us and it is deleted.
One email, when there is a build you can install. The iPhone version will want iOS 26.1.
Nothing else arrives from us in the meantime.