WAKE-UP MISSIONS
Choose a wake-up mission that makes snoozing harder.
Explore 13 alarm challenges that move your body, start a practical routine, or direct your attention toward the day ahead.
Brush teeth
Morning routine. Brush your teeth for 20 seconds. Verification: On-device pose analysis.Drink water
Morning routine. Take several sips of water. Verification: On-device pose analysis.Wash face
Morning routine. Wash your face with cool water. Verification: On-device pose analysis.20 jumping jacks
Movement. Do 20 jumping jacks. Verification: On-device full-body pose counting.Shake your phone for 30 sec
Movement. Keep shaking until the timer ends. Verification: Device motion sensor.Find bright light
Environment. Step into bright morning light. Verification: On-device brightness detection.Write your top priority
Focus. Write down your most important task. Verification: On-device text recognition.Make my bed
Environment. Make your bed before moving on. Verification: On-device pose analysis.Take 5 deep breaths
Mindful. Take five slow, deep breaths. Verification: On-device pose analysis.Leave your bedroom
Movement. Walk out of your bedroom. Verification: On-device pose analysis.Spot the sky
Environment. Find a window or step outside and look at the sky. Verification: On-device brightness and daylight detection.Spot a plant
Environment. Find any plant — indoors or outside. Verification: On-device colour analysis.Wakr Free runs one mission — the one you pick during setup — and any mission in this catalog can be it. Wakr Pro chains up to five in a single ordered routine.
CHOOSING A MISSION
Three questions that narrow thirteen options down to one.
The best mission is the one you can complete every morning in the room you actually wake up in. That is usually a question of constraints rather than ambition.
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Does it need a camera?
Brush teeth, wash face, make my bed, take five deep breaths, write your top priority, and leave your bedroom all use the camera for pose or text checks, so they need enough light to see you. Walk 100 steps and shake your phone use motion sensors instead and work in complete darkness.
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Does it move you out of the room?
Falling back asleep is a location problem more than an alertness problem. Leave your bedroom, brush teeth, wash face, and spot the sky all end somewhere other than your bed. Drink water, shake your phone, and breathing can all be finished lying down.
03
Will it still work in December?
Find bright light and spot the sky depend on real daylight. If you wake before sunrise for part of the year, pick a mission that does not change difficulty with the season, or plan to switch when the clocks do.
ALL THIRTEEN MISSIONS
What each mission asks, and what to watch for.
Every mission is verified on your device. Nothing from the camera, the step counter, or the microphone leaves your phone.
Walk 100 steps
Best for. A first mission, and the default for most people. It needs no camera, works in the dark, and 100 steps is short enough to finish in a small flat but long enough that you are properly upright by the end.
Worth knowing. The count starts at zero when the mission begins, so steps taken earlier in the day never carry over. Leave the phone on the nightstand and nothing registers — you have to take it with you.
Brush teeth
Best for. Anyone who wants the alarm to end at the bathroom rather than back at the bed. It moves you to a different room and starts a routine you were going to do anyway.
Worth knowing. Pose analysis needs the camera and enough light to see you. A dark bathroom at 6am can stall it, so turn the light on first.
Drink water
Best for. Mornings when you want something gentle. It is the least physically demanding mission and works well if you share a room and cannot move around freely.
Worth knowing. Needs a glass within reach, so fill one before bed. It is also the easiest mission to complete while still half-asleep, which makes it a weak choice if you routinely fall back into bed.
Wash face
Best for. Heavy sleepers who need a change in physical state, not just position. Cool water on the face is harder to sleep through than a sound.
Worth knowing. Camera-based, so it needs a lit bathroom. Dry the phone and your hands before handling it.
20 jumping jacks
Best for. The most demanding mission in the catalog, and the hardest to complete while still drowsy. Choose it when gentler missions have stopped working.
Worth knowing. Needs floor space, room for the phone to see your whole body, and consideration for anyone downstairs or asleep nearby. Skip it if jumping is not appropriate for your body or your building.
Shake your phone for 30 sec
Best for. Travel, shared rooms, and total darkness. It is the only mission that needs no permission at all, because the accelerometer is not a gated sensor.
Worth knowing. It does not move you out of bed. Thirty seconds of shaking is easy to do lying down, so treat it as a backup rather than your main mission.
Find bright light
Best for. Getting to a window, which changes both your location and what you are looking at. A good pairing with a later wake time in summer.
Worth knowing. Brightness detection depends on there actually being light. On a dark winter morning a bright indoor lamp works, but this is a weaker mission in months when you wake before dawn.
Write your top priority
Best for. People whose problem is not physical grogginess but drifting into the day without direction. It is the only mission that asks you to think.
Worth knowing. Needs pen and paper ready the night before, and enough light for text recognition to read your handwriting. Write clearly; half-awake scrawl is hard to recognise.
Make my bed
Best for. Removing the temptation to climb back in. A made bed is a meaningfully harder thing to get back into than an open one.
Worth knowing. Camera-based, so the phone needs a view of you and the bed. Awkward in a very small room where you cannot prop the phone far enough back.
Take 5 deep breaths
Best for. A calmer start, and a reasonable option if you wake anxious or want the first minute of the day to be deliberate rather than physical.
Worth knowing. Like Drink water, it can be completed without leaving bed. Pair it with a Pro routine that follows it with a movement mission if returning to sleep is your real problem.
Leave your bedroom
Best for. The single most direct answer to falling back asleep, because it solves location rather than alertness. Once you are out of the room the bed is no longer an option.
Worth knowing. Needs a clear path and a camera view of you moving through the doorway. Think about anyone else asleep in the house before choosing it.
Spot the sky
Best for. Waking up later in the morning, or anyone with a balcony or garden. It combines movement, light, and a change of scene in one action.
Worth knowing. Depends on real daylight, so it is unreliable in winter or if you wake before sunrise. Do not choose it as your only mission if your wake time shifts through the year.
Spot a plant
Best for. A low-effort mission that still requires you to look around and move. Works indoors year-round, unlike the daylight-dependent missions.
Worth knowing. You need a plant. Colour analysis is looking for foliage, so a bare stem or a very dark room can make it hard to register.
WHY MISSIONS WORK
A small action changes the whole wake-up.
A mission gives your morning a clear sequence: hear the alarm, act, become more alert, then continue.
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Physical engagement
Movement helps interrupt the passive snooze-and-sleep loop.
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Less decision-making
Your first action is already chosen before the alarm rings.
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Repeatable consistency
The same cue-and-action pattern can grow into a routine.
READY WHEN YOU ARE
Make your next alarm a first step.
Choose a mission and start building mornings that move forward.
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