WakeSharp is an alarm clock app for heavy sleepers who sleep through, silence, or snooze ordinary alarms. Instead of trusting a swipe that a half-conscious person can perform, each alarm can require a short mission before the morning counts: quick arithmetic, a memory puzzle, a photo of a spot chosen the night before, an object scanned across the room, real steps counted by the phone, or an answer said out loud. Once you are up, the app scores how sharp you actually woke. It ships as two native builds rather than one cross-platform wrapper, SwiftUI on iOS 26 or later and Kotlin with Compose on Android 8.0 or later, with companion apps for watchOS and Wear OS.

What Makes WakeSharp Stand Out

Missions with fallbacks: Pick arithmetic, puzzles, photo proof, object scanning, walking, or voice answers, chain several in the order you choose, and let WakeSharp fall back to a mission that can run if the camera or step counter is unavailable.

Reliability check the night before: The app reads the device conditions that stop alarms, including permissions, alarm volume, notification settings, lock screen takeover, and battery restrictions, then leads with a plain verdict instead of a promise.

Silent mode and Focus support: On iPhone, Apple's AlarmKit presents a system alarm over the lock screen through Silent mode and Focus once alarm access is granted, even if the app was force-quit. On Android, an exact alarm on the alarm stream rings through silent mode and through Do Not Disturb when alarms are allowed.

Calendar alarms and shift rotations: With permission, WakeSharp reads upcoming events on device, re-checks them overnight, and moves the alarm when your first meeting moves. Shift rotations cover patterns that are not weekly, and profiles swap a full set of alarms at once for work, vacation, or on call.

Sharpness Score and warm-up games: Three rotating warm-up games produce a daily score out of 100 measured against your own rolling baseline, with a trend line, streaks, milestones, and freeze tokens for the mornings life gets in the way.

Who Should Use WakeSharp

Heavy sleepers: People who have slept through or reflexively dismissed alarms will find that a mission, not a button, ends the ringing.

Shift workers and irregular schedules: Rotating patterns such as two days on, two nights, four off are handled directly, and profiles let you switch an entire alarm set when your routine changes.

Anyone with early meetings or a long commute: Calendar-based alarms adjust to the first event of the day, and the reliability check flags problems while there is still time to fix them.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does WakeSharp ring in Silent mode or Do Not Disturb?

Behaviour is platform-specific and depends on permission. On iPhone, WakeSharp uses Apple's AlarmKit, which rings through Silent mode and Focus once alarm access has been granted, and declining it means the app cannot schedule anything at all. On Android it plays on the dedicated alarm stream, which sounds through silent mode and through Do Not Disturb when alarms are allowed, with a full-screen alert over the lock screen. Total Silence mutes all sound, and no app can ring on a phone that is switched off or out of battery, so keep a second alarm for anything you cannot miss.

Do I have to solve maths at 6am?

Only if you choose to. Missions cover several kinds: arithmetic and puzzles, a photo of a spot you selected the night before, scanning a real object across the room, walking steps or holding the phone in window light, typing a line with autocorrect off, or answering out loud. You can set more than one mission per alarm, and Surprise Me picks a different one each morning. Missions are configured the night before, so nothing is negotiated half asleep.

What does WakeSharp cost, and do I need an account?

There is one subscription, WakeSharp Unlimited, which includes every wake-up mission, the warm-up games, smart calendar alarms, shift rotations, profiles, your full Sharpness history, and every scene and wallpaper. Eligible new subscribers get a 7-day free trial of the yearly plan, then $34.99 a year, or $4.99 a month with no trial. No WakeSharp account is required and everything works signed out. Optional Apple or Google sign-in exists only to back up alarms, settings, scores, and streaks to a new phone. Camera and calendar processing stay on the device, the app shows no ads, and it does not track your sleep.

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