BeReal for mornings: you can only post if you woke up
A feed of how people woke up: push-up videos, sky photos, result cards, streaks. You can only post on a day you actually woke up with the alarm.
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Better mornings, together.
How to actually get out of bed: wake-up buddies, missions that beat the snooze button, and alarms you can trust.
Wake up together
How to wake up a friend from far away
Invite a friend to wake up at the same time, and if they're still asleep when yours rings, ring them once, loudly. How it works and what you need.
Group alarms: wake up together as a study group or team
Start a group, set the time, days and missions. Everyone's alarm rings at once, each person finishes their own mission, and the chat opens 15 min.
What happens at 7:00 when a stranger wakes up with you
Both alarms ring. You land in a lobby, wait for your buddy or start now, watch them live, race the same mission, then chat. The whole morning.
Let your followers vote on how you wake up
Post one link, let your audience vote on your wake-up mission and difficulty, then film the reveal when the alarm rings. The format, step by step.
Let a friend pick your alarm (they'll choose 100 push-ups)
Share a link and a friend picks your wake-up mission and how hard: Normal, Hard or Brutal. They don't need the app. You find out when it rings.
Like Tinder, but for your alarm (not for dating)
Set an alarm and get matched 1-on-1 with someone whose alarm rings the same minute. It borrows the match screen from dating apps, and nothing else.
Body doubling for mornings: how it works for waking up
Body doubling means doing a task while someone is present. It helps with getting out of bed too. What the research says, and how to set one up.
What is a social alarm? Why we built the first one
A social alarm wakes you up with other people: a buddy at the same minute, friends who pick your mission, groups that ring together. How it works.
Missions that work
Push-ups at 7 am: what exercise does to morning grogginess
Two lab studies tested exercise right after waking. One made people feel less sleepy; one also sharpened reactions. What that means for push-up alarms.
Alarm missions explained: 14 ways to prove you're awake
What alarm missions are, why the same one stops working after a week, and how 14 free missions get picked at random each morning on Alarm Mate.
Why you turn off your alarm and don't remember it
You probably did wake up. A 1997 sleep study shows how the memory can vanish when you fall back asleep, and which alarm tasks keep you up long enough.
Comparisons
Best alarm apps for every kind of sleeper, compared
Picks by sleeper type, from the free built-in Clock app to mission alarms and a wake-up buddy. We make Alarm Mate, and we don't rank it first.
Accountability partner apps for mornings, compared
We make Alarm Mate, so read this with that in mind. Four ways to get a real person into your morning, what each app does, and where each one falls short.