An alarm clock that finds the moment you're already waking
Worked out from your own nights, not from other people's averages.
For people who'd rather wake at a good moment within half an hour than at one fixed minute, want to know what really happened overnight, and plan the day without guessing.
Every figure says where it came from and how many nights are behind it. And the alarm rings even with no device, with the app closed, or after a restart.
Not on Google Play yet. For phones on Android 12 or later.
In night mode your phone settles down: notifications go quiet, the screen dims, and a background sound fades as you fall asleep, not when a timer runs out.
You choose once what night mode does. In the morning everything goes back as it was, and the alarm rings even with notifications silenced.
If you like, tracking the night starts by itself when the phone lies still, in the dark, charging.
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The night
Your device, a watch on your wrist or a heart rate strap on your chest, sends your heart rate to the phone over Bluetooth, and the phone records it all night.
If you switch on night sounds, only what stands out above the room's usual noise is kept. In the morning the phone itself sorts the clips: snoring, speech or other noise.
Recording stays off until you switch it on, nothing is kept before you fall asleep, and the clips are never uploaded.
Two phones, one on each side of the bed. In the morning you see which side the snoring came from, and whether a sound from the other side came the very minute you woke.
When it can't tell, it says so. And there's no contest over who slept better.
Each of you chooses what to share, and no recording ever crosses to the other side.
At 06:15 the water heater comes on, three quarters of an hour before the alarm, so there's hot water when you get up. And when you stop the alarm, the living room shutter opens.
No water heater left on by mistake: it switches itself off within the hour.
Switcher devices take the command straight over your home network, with no internet and nobody's servers.
The wake window is a range you choose, here 06:30 to 07:00. The alarm rings the moment your heart rate starts to rise, and if it doesn't, at 07:00, not a minute later.
And the screen says why you're getting up: "Calendar: Team meeting at 08:00".
It rings with no device and on silent, and its screen comes up over the lock screen, with no code or fingerprint needed.
A moment after you stop the alarm, you can hear the morning summary read aloud: how long you slept, how well your body recovered, and how late coffee still fits.
Then the night's report, a few short screens, compared only with your own usual nights and nobody else's.
No pressure: no streak to break, no target to hit, and a bad night is just a bad night.
Last nightExample data
Lunch
Take a photo of your plate and the calories are logged by themselves, as an estimate you can correct. A packet label, a typed line or a spoken sentence works too.
A logged meal also moves your energy curve: the afternoon dip follows your real lunch, not an assumed one.
To tell what is on the plate, the photo is sent to Google's Gemini service, and the figures come back to the phone.
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The day
Your energy curve is worked out from your recent nights and shows when you peak and when the afternoon dip comes. It's an estimate, not a measurement.
Last coffee of the day: by 14:27, eight hours and forty eight minutes before bed at 23:15.
You can check in advance what a coffee at 13:30 or a short nap would do to the curve. It's only a preview: nothing gets logged.
In the app's Wakira tab you ask the way you'd talk, typed or spoken: "Why am I so tired today?", "When should I go to bed tonight?"
The answer rests on your own figures, and each sentence says where it came from. If it contains a figure that isn't in your data, it simply isn't shown.
And before your first question you see exactly what leaves the phone to get an answer.
The arithmetic behind your nights, your energy curve and the patterns in your own nights runs on the phone itself.
Sign in and your data is backed up to your own account, and only that account can restore it. Everything can be deleted from inside the app, on the phone and in the account.
Right now everything is free, for everyone. If a paid version, Wakira Plus, is ever sold, it will be through Google Play, and the privacy policy will be updated first. The alarm and its wake window, measuring the night and the basic report on it, backup, restore, export and deletion will stay free.
Which devices does it work with?
Any watch or heart rate strap that can broadcast heart rate over Bluetooth, the way it would to a gym bike or a running app: Garmin, Polar sensors (H10, H9, Verity Sense), WHOOP, Huawei, Xiaomi Smart Band 10, Amazfit, COROS, Fitbit Charge 6 and Pixel Watch 2 or later. The app has setup steps for each maker; if a device doesn't appear, heart rate broadcasting usually needs switching on. Nights with sleep stages can also come from Health Connect, when your device's own app saves them there.
And with no device at all?
The alarm rings exactly at the time you set. The night just isn't measured, and the app says so.
Which phone do I need?
Any phone on Android 12 or later. There is no iPhone version.
Which languages?
English, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese. English and Hebrew are fully reviewed; the other four are being checked now by people whose first language they are. From Android 13 you can pick the app's language in the phone's settings without changing the whole phone's.
What leaves my phone?
Your nights are measured and the arithmetic is done on the phone. Only what you choose leaves it: a backup to your own account, if you sign in; a meal photo or description, sent to Google's Gemini service to tell what is on the plate; a question to Wakira or a monthly summary, only when you ask; and in Sleeping together, only what each of you switched on. Night recordings are never uploaded. No ads, no tracking of how you use the app, and nothing is sold. The full detail is in the privacy policy.
How do I know if I snore?
Switch on night sounds. In the morning you'll see whether there was snoring, when and for how long, and you can play the clips themselves. It's a recording, not a diagnosis.
Do I need internet or an account?
No. The alarm, the night's measurement and all the arithmetic work with no internet and no account, and the smart home runs over your home network, with no internet. You need a connection only for backup, reading a meal from a photo, asking Wakira, and linking two phones.
When will it be on Google Play?
Soon. Until then you can join the first testers: just send an email to support@wakira.app.
Be one of the first
Wakira isn't on Google Play yet. Until it is, we're looking for testers with a phone on Android 12 or later to try it first and tell us honestly what's missing.
