Answers about Wakr’s anti-snooze alarm app.

Wakr pairs your alarm with a short wake-up mission. Instead of relying on a one-tap dismissal, you move through a concrete action chosen before bed. No alarm can guarantee that you will wake up, but a mission adds structure to the moment when snoozing is easiest.

Wakr Free runs one mission — the one you pick during setup. Any mission in the catalog can be that mission, and Walk 100 Steps is the default. Wakr Pro removes the limit so a routine can chain up to five missions in order.

Wakr includes 13 missions: walk 100 steps, brush your teeth, drink water, wash your face, do 20 jumping jacks, shake your phone for 30 seconds, find bright light, write your top priority, make your bed, take five deep breaths, leave your bedroom, spot the sky, and spot a plant. How many you can chain depends on your plan, and verification depends on your device capabilities.

Wakr matches the check to the action rather than using one generic test. Walk 100 Steps reads the phone's hardware step counter, starting from zero when the mission begins. The shake mission reads the raw accelerometer. Brushing, washing, jumping jacks, making the bed, breathing, and leaving the room use camera-based pose analysis. Find Bright Light and Spot the Sky measure scene brightness, Spot a Plant looks for a dominant green channel, and Write Your Top Priority checks that legible writing is present. Every check requires sustained evidence or a complete movement cycle, so a single held-up frame can never finish a mission, and the alarm only stops once the action is confirmed.

No. For camera-based missions a frame is captured, examined in memory for the one signal that mission needs, and then discarded. Nothing is written to storage for later analysis, and no image, pose coordinate, or recognised word is transmitted to Wakr or to any third party. Because the check runs entirely on the phone, camera-based missions keep working in airplane mode. The app does use the network for purchases, plan management, and support, but none of that involves what the camera saw.

Wakr is free to download and the free plan is not time-limited: it includes one alarm, one routine, one mission of your choosing, streaks, and core progress. Wakr Pro is a subscription that adds unlimited alarms and routines and chains up to five missions into one ordered wake-up. In the United States, Pro is $3.99 per month or $17.99 per year, with a $12.99 introductory price on the annual plan. Prices are set per region by the App Store, so the amount shown in your own store listing is the one that applies and is always confirmed before you buy.

Core alarm and mission behavior is designed to work on your device. A connection may be needed for plan management, purchases, or services provided by the app stores.

Wakr is available now on the App Store for iPhone. The Android version is still in development; use the launch-updates link on this site to be notified when it is available.

No software alarm can guarantee delivery in every circumstance. Battery loss, volume settings, disabled permissions, operating-system restrictions, force-quitting, restarts, and device failure can interfere. Test Wakr on your device and keep a backup alarm for safety-critical commitments.

No. Wakr has no snooze button and no stop action in the alarm notification. The alarm keeps ringing until every mission in its routine is verified, which is the whole point of a mission alarm.

The alarm keeps going. Wakr only stops it once every mission in the routine has been verified, so the mission screen continues to guide you until verification succeeds or a platform-level interruption occurs.

Yes. Wakr schedules a native alarm rather than relying on the app being open. On iOS 26 and later it uses AlarmKit, so the alarm takes over the Lock Screen and rings through Silent Mode and Focus. On earlier iOS versions it falls back to a background alarm process, which is less robust because a force-quit or a restart can interrupt it. Alarm and notification permissions must stay enabled either way, and exact behaviour varies by operating-system version.

It depends entirely on the mission you choose. Alarm and notification access is needed in all cases so the alarm can be delivered. Camera access is requested only if you pick a camera-verified mission such as brushing your teeth, washing your face, jumping jacks, making your bed, breathing, leaving the room, or writing your priority. Motion or physical-activity access supports Walk 100 Steps where the platform requires it. The shake mission needs no permission at all, because the raw accelerometer is not a gated sensor. You can deny or revoke any permission in system settings, though the mission that depends on it will stop working.

Optionally. Five minutes after a completed alarm, Wakr can post a “Still awake?” check. Confirming it does not change your completion or streak, and it can launch one short recovery mission. You can turn the check off in Settings.

Yes, on Wakr Pro. A routine can chain up to five missions that run in order, and the alarm stops only after the last one is verified. Setup builds your first routine with up to three.

On-device mission checks require Android 7.0 or newer, or iOS 15.5 or newer. On iOS 26 and later, Wakr schedules a real system alarm through AlarmKit, so it alerts on the Lock Screen and through Silent Mode and Focus. Older iOS versions fall back to a background alarm process, which a force-quit or restart can interrupt.

Manage or cancel the subscription from the App Store or Google Play account used for the purchase. You keep Pro access through the end of the paid period unless the store states otherwise.

Yes. Open Wakr Settings and use the restore or customer-center option while signed into the store account that originally purchased Pro.