Wakira: smart alarm clock and sleep tracker for Android
Wake up when you're already halfway there
Built on your own nights, not on other people's averages.
It's for people who would rather wake at a good moment in a window they choose than at one fixed minute. And for anyone who wants to know what really went on overnight, or to plan the day without guessing.
Every figure shows 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.
Night mode quiets the phone. Notifications hush and the screen dims. If your watch or strap is measuring the night, your background sound fades out as you drift off, not when a timer runs out.
You only choose what night mode does once. In the morning everything goes back the way it was, and the alarm still rings through the quiet.
If you like, tracking the night starts by itself once the phone is lying still, in the dark, on charge.
Night modeExample data
The night
Your watch or chest strap sends your heart rate to the phone over Bluetooth, and the phone keeps it all night.
With night sounds switched on, the phone keeps only what rises above the room's usual hum. In the morning it sorts those sounds for you: snoring, talking or other noise.
Recording is off until you turn it on. Nothing is kept before you fall asleep, and the clips stay on your phone unless you choose to back them up to your account.
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 right as you woke.
When Wakira can't tell, it says so. And it never compares who slept better.
Each of you chooses what to share, and no recording ever reaches the other phone.
At 06:15, three quarters of an hour before the alarm, the water heater comes on, so the water's hot when you get up. Stop the alarm and the living room shutter opens.
And it can't be left running by mistake: it switches itself off within the hour.
With your permission, Wakira switches the smart devices you already have at home.
A moment after you stop the alarm, you can hear a short summary read aloud: how last night compared with your usual, how well your body has recovered, and how late you can still have a coffee.
Then comes the night's report, a few short screens that compare it with your own usual nights and nobody else's.
No pressure: no streak to break, no target to hit. A bad night is just a bad night.
Last nightExample data
Lunch
Snap a photo of your plate and the calories are logged for you, as an estimate you can correct. A packet label, a typed line or a spoken sentence works too.
A logged meal moves your energy curve as well: the afternoon dip follows your actual lunch, not a guessed one.
To work out what's on the plate, the photo goes to Google's Gemini service, and the figures come back to your phone.
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The day
Your energy curve, worked out from your recent nights, shows when you'll peak and when the afternoon dip arrives. It's an estimate, not a measurement.
It also gives you a time for today's last coffee, worked back from your bedtime. Take it as a guide, not a rule.
Try a coffee or a short nap on the curve first and see what it would do. It's only a preview: nothing is logged.
In the Wakira tab, ask the way you'd ask a friend, typed or out loud: "Why am I so tired today?" or "When should I go to bed tonight?"
Answers are built on your own figures, and every sentence shows where it came from. If an answer contains a figure that isn't in your data, it isn't shown at all.
Before your first question, you see exactly what leaves the phone to get an answer.
The calculations behind your nights, your energy curve and the patterns in your sleep all happen on the phone itself.
Sign in with your Google account or an email address and your data is backed up to your own account; only that account can restore it. If you sign in with Google, Wakira gets your name, email address and profile picture, and uses them only to tell which account is yours.
You can delete everything from inside the app, on the phone and in the account.
Right now everything is free, for everyone. If a paid version, Wakira Plus, ever goes on sale, it will be through Google Play, and the privacy policy will be updated first. The alarm and its wake window, measuring the night and its basic report, 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. That includes 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 walks you through each maker's setup; if your device doesn't show up, heart rate broadcasting usually needs turning on. Nights with sleep stages can also come in from Health Connect, if your device's own app saves them there.
And with no device at all?
The alarm still rings, at the end of its window: the time you set, or a little after it if your window runs past the set time. The night just isn't measured, and the app tells you so.
Which phone do I need?
Any phone on Android 12 or later. There's no iPhone version.
Which languages?
English, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese. Arabic, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese are still waiting to be checked by native speakers. From Android 13 you can pick the app's language in your phone's settings without changing the whole phone.
What leaves my phone?
Your nights are measured and worked out on the phone. Only what you choose leaves it. Mostly that's a backup to your own account if you sign in, with night recordings in it only if you switch that on. A meal photo or description goes to Google's Gemini service to work out what's on the plate. A question to Wakira or a monthly summary goes only when you ask. And in Sleeping together, only what each of you switched on is shared. No ads, no tracking of how you use the app, and nothing is sold. The privacy policy lists every case.
How do I know if I snore?
Turn on night sounds. In the morning you'll see whether there was snoring, when and for how long, and you can play the clips. It's a recording, not a diagnosis.
Do I need internet or an account?
No. The alarm, the night's measurement and all the calculations work without internet or an account. You need a connection only for what leaves the phone, such as backup, the smart home, working out a meal from a photo, asking Wakira and Sleeping together.
When will it be on Google Play?
Soon. Until then you can join the first testers: just email 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.
