Noxwake: The Alarm Clock That Rings Until You're Actually Up

An alarm clock that won't let you snooze your way out of the morning. Noxwake keeps ringing until you've done something only an awake person can do: solve a few sums, scan a code in the bathroom, or knock out ten push-ups.

Swipe the alarm away and it comes back a minute later, then again, until the mission is done. Heavy sleepers finally get an alarm that doesn't give up first.

1. Wake-Up Missions That Need You Awake

Snoozing is easy because switching an alarm off takes no thought. Noxwake replaces the Stop button with a mission. Pick one or chain several:

• Math: quick sums you can do half asleep, not four-digit multiplication
• Shake the phone, hold a finger down or retype a phrase
• Memory cards and real steps
• Scan a barcode or QR code you left in another room
• Photo: match a shot of the sink or the kettle
• Push-ups and squats, counted by the front camera

2. A Loud Alarm Clock for Heavy Sleepers

Noxwake rings the way the Clock app does: on the Lock Screen, through the silent switch and through Focus. A few minutes after your mission, an optional wake check asks if you're still up, so getting back into bed doesn't count as waking up.

• Rings on the Lock Screen through silent mode and Focus
• Repeats after 1, 2, 3, 5 and 8 minutes until the mission is done
• Optional wake check asks if you're still up a few minutes later

3. Your Own Alarm Sound

Wake up to a song you bought on iTunes, the chorus of a track from your Files, or your own voice. Noxwake cuts the best 30 seconds and evens out the volume. If you're still in bed, the re-rings switch to the system alarm, which is much harder to sleep through.

• Pick a song you bought on iTunes or import an audio file from Files
• Record your own custom voice wake-up messages
• Skip the next scheduled alarm with one tap or with Siri

4. Sleep Tracker with a Snore Recorder

Put the phone on the mattress and get a sleep score in the morning, with light and deep sleep across the night and the parts that made the score. Noxwake recognizes snoring, sleep talk and coughing on the phone itself and keeps short clips you can play back. It also works with Apple Health, so nights recorded by an Apple Watch show up too.

• Sleep score and sleep phase hypnogram (light, deep, awake)
• On-device snore recorder captures snoring, sleep talk and coughing clips
• Apple Health integration to sync sleep stages and time in bed

5. A Smart Alarm That Wakes You in a Light Phase

While tracking, the smart alarm watches for light sleep in the last 10, 20 or 30 minutes before your alarm and wakes you then, instead of pulling you out of deep sleep. A bedtime reminder tells you when to go to bed for the sleep goal you set.

• Dynamic smart alarm wakes you gently during light sleep phases
• Customizable 10, 20 or 30-minute smart wake-up windows
• Bedtime reminder alerts based on your morning alarm and target sleep hours

6. A Better First Five Minutes, Private by Design

Once you're up, a morning briefing shows how you slept, the day's weather and your first calendar event. Streaks, on-time stats and widgets keep the habit going. All sleep data, audio clips, and camera photos stay 100% on your device.

• Morning briefing with sleep recap, weather and first calendar appointment
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for quick alarm overview and streaks
• Sleep data, sound clips and mission photos stay on your phone; no account required

7. Free and Premium

Free: two alarms, the math, shake and hold missions, re-rings, sleep tracking with a sleep score and snore clips, a 10-minute smart alarm and your own sounds. One small banner appears in Settings, never on an alarm.
Premium: unlimited alarms, every mission including camera, steps and exercise missions, the wake check, 20 and 30 minute smart alarm windows and no ads. Choose monthly, yearly with a one-week free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase.

• Sleep stages are an estimate from movement and sound, not a medical measurement
• Camera missions need some light