An alarm clock that asks for something back.
Every other alarm ends with a tap you can do in your sleep — because you have done it in your sleep. Waky ends with a small task you can't finish unconscious, and a streak you would rather not break.
Why a mission
The snooze button is muscle memory. A task isn't.
Dismissing an alarm takes no thought, which is exactly the problem. Your hand learns where the button is and starts getting there before you're awake enough to have an opinion about it.
A mission breaks that loop. Mental arithmetic, a code you have to read and type, a shake that needs both hands and a standing start — none of them can be done by a sleeping person, which is the entire specification.
Why streaks
Waking up early is a habit, and habits need a scoreboard.
One early morning is willpower. Thirty in a row is a habit, and the difference between them is having something to lose.
The streak is that something. It counts the mornings you actually earned, and it resets when you skip one — not to punish you, but because a number that survives being ignored isn't measuring anything.
What we won't claim
No app can physically stop you from turning off your phone.
Plenty of alarm apps imply otherwise. On iPhone the system's own Stop button can't be removed or restyled by any developer, and on any phone you can always hold the power button. Anyone promising an unbeatable alarm is either mistaken or hoping you won't test it.
So Waky promises the thing it can actually keep: it comes back until the mission is finished, and skipping costs you the streak. That's a commitment device, not a lock — and it works because you want it to.
Where it runs
iPhone and Android, built side by side.
Not one real app and one port. Every feature lands on both platforms, and a difference between them is treated as a bug rather than a roadmap item.
iPhone needs iOS 26 or later, because Waky uses Apple's current alarm system to ring through a locked screen properly. Your account carries your streak between devices; the alarms themselves live on the phone.
What Waky isn't
A short list of things we have decided against on purpose.
Not ad-supported
There's no version of this app with an advert in it. You're barely conscious and slightly annoyed already — selling that moment to a third party would be indefensible.
Not a social network
No followers, no leaderboard, no feed of other people's mornings. Your streak is between you and the alarm.
Not a sleep tracker
We don't want your microphone on all night or a graph of your REM cycles. Waky does one thing, at one moment of the day.
Not hungry for your data
Alarms stay on your device. What reaches our server is what a streak needs to survive a new phone, and no more than that.
Made by
A small team at Workyloop.
Waky is built and run by Workyloop, a small studio that ships the software it wanted to exist. We pay for our own infrastructure and answer our own support email.
Questions, complaints, or a mission you wish existed: support@workyloop.com reaches a person who worked on it.
Waky is coming soon.
iPhone and Android, launching together. One alarm free, no ads on any plan.