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.
Key takeaways
- You can scroll Mornings any time, but you can only post on a day you woke up with Alarm Mate.
- Posts are mission videos, sky photos and selfies, result cards and streak milestones, up to 2 posts a day.
- A post holds up to 6 photos or videos and a caption of up to 280 characters; mission videos run up to 180 seconds.
- Every morning ends with a 9:16 share card you can post to the feed, send to your buddy or share anywhere.
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Mornings is a feed where people post how they woke up: push-up videos, sky photos, result cards, streaks. The catch is borrowed from BeReal and flipped: you can only post on a day you actually woke up with the alarm. Alarm Mate is the iPhone alarm app the feed lives in.
Quick refresher on BeReal. Once a day, at a random time, the app pings you and you have two minutes to post. The photo is taken with the back camera and then the front one, so you get the view and your face.
Post late and it’s allowed, but it shows the time (PetaPixel’s guide covers the details). The whole design is about authenticity: whatever your day looks like right now, unplanned.
And the famous rule: you can’t see what your friends posted today until you post your own. The Wikipedia article puts it precisely:
“users cannot see any of the current day’s BeReals until they upload their own.”
We flipped it. In Mornings, you can scroll the feed any time you like, half-asleep, on the bus, at lunch. What you can’t do is post unless you woke up with your alarm that morning.
A feed with a wake-up gate means every post is proof. Nobody is performing a 5 AM routine they didn’t do. The feed is the “after” part of Alarm Mate as a social alarm; here’s what goes in it.
What’s in the feed
Scroll Mornings and you’ll see what people’s alarms made them do today:
- Mission videos. Someone’s push-ups at 6:12 AM, filmed by the mission itself.
- Photos. Sky photos from windows in different cities, and the occasional brave selfie.
- Result cards. How fast someone finished Swipe Arrows, or who won the race against their buddy.
- Streak milestones. Day 30, day 100, day “I can’t believe I’m still doing this”.
You can like and comment on anything. You can follow people and add friends: friends are mutual (both sides agree), following is one-way.
Posts from people you follow show up higher in your feed, so the people you actually care about don’t get buried.
The one rule: you had to wake up
To post on a given day, you have to have woken up with Alarm Mate that morning. Ring, mission, done. Then the post button is yours.
That one rule keeps the feed honest in a way no moderation policy could. There’s no “rise and grind” post from someone who got up at 11, and no reposting last week’s sunrise. If it’s in the feed today, someone set an alarm, heard it ring, and did something about it.
It’s also the part we couldn’t find anywhere else. The closest app we found is a BeReal-style photo app for a small squad: you schedule photo times through the day, a morning one included, and late posts get tagged. Nothing checks whether you actually got up.
BeReal itself asks you to post before you can look. We ask you to wake up before you can post.
What you can post, by mission
Different missions leave different things behind:
| Mission | What you can post |
|---|---|
| Push-Ups, Squats, One-Leg Balance | A video recorded during the mission, up to 180 seconds |
| Sky Photo, Selfie | The photo you took to turn off the alarm |
| The game missions (Math Problems, Swipe Arrows, Tap the Color and the rest) | A result card with how you did |
A post can hold up to 6 photos or videos and a caption of up to 280 characters. If you want the case for doing push-ups before your eyes fully open, we wrote it up in exercise after waking up.
The share card
After any morning, you get a card built for a phone screen, in 9:16. Its headline tells the story in one line, like “Ayşe made me do 30 push-ups” when a friend picked your mission, or “43 people made me solve 3 math problems” when your followers voted.
Three buttons sit under it:
- “Post to Mornings” puts it in the feed.
- “Send to buddy” sends it to the person you woke up with, which is either a high five or a victory lap, depending on who won the race.
- “Share” sends it anywhere else, like your Instagram story.
That last button matters. The card works outside the app, so your friends see what your alarm made you do and start wondering what theirs could make them do.
Sunday: the Weekly Recap
Every Sunday you get your Weekly Recap, the Sunrise Poster: your week of mornings on one page, ready to share or keep.
It’s the one post in the week that isn’t about a single morning. For people who struggle with mornings, seeing seven of them in a row where you actually got up is its own kind of reward. How the streaks and XP behind it work is in our streaks post.
Like Hevy or Strava, for the first ten minutes of your day
The best comparison isn’t BeReal, really. It’s workout apps. On Hevy, people log a workout and share it: you can “Follow and compete with other athletes” and “Like and Comment on Workouts”.
Mornings works the same way for waking up. The post is the log, and the feed is a list of people who did the hard part of their day before 8 AM. It’s hard to scroll through it without wanting to be in it tomorrow.
Get Alarm Mate on the App Store.
Sources
- Wikipedia, BeReal
- PetaPixel, “How to Use BeReal: A Guide to the Hit Photo Sharing App”
- Hevy, hevyapp.com
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Alarm Mate is on the App Store for iPhone. Solo alarms are free, and so is every mission.
