A smart alarm that wakes you when you're already stirring
An ordinary alarm goes off at one fixed minute, whatever state you're in. A smart alarm works to a window instead, say 06:30 to 07:00, and wakes you inside it when you're already starting to stir. In Wakira that's called the wake window. Looking for an alarm that wakes you in light sleep? Wakira's doesn't guess at sleep stages: it goes by your heart rate, which it can actually measure.
How the wake window works
Inside the window, Wakira wakes you at a moment when you're already starting to stir. It can tell from your heart rate, sent over Bluetooth from a watch on your wrist or a strap on your chest. Without one, or if that moment never comes, the alarm rings at the end of the window.
There are two kinds of window. "Not after the set time": the alarm may ring earlier, but never after the time you set. "Around the set time": the window opens a little before your time and closes a little after, for mornings with some give.
Now and then Wakira offers to widen the window a little, to take in the end of a sleep cycle. It only changes if you say yes.
The wake windowHalf an hour, and never after seven.Example data
A wider window, offeredFifteen minutes more, only if you say yes.Example data
The alarm rings, whatever happens
The alarm doesn't need a device, Bluetooth or the app to be open. Android itself holds it, so it rings with the app closed and after the phone restarts.
It rings on silent, on vibrate and with notifications muted, and it comes up over the lock screen without a code or fingerprint. If one sound fails to play, the next one takes over, and vibration runs on its own as a backup.
A new alarm doesn't repeat until you pick the days. You can't set two alarms for the same minute on the same day by mistake. And an alarm deleted by accident can be brought back in the first few seconds.
An alarm that tells you why
When something early is in your calendar, Wakira suggests when to get up and when to go to bed. An alarm set this way says, as it rings, "Calendar: an event at 08:00". You can show the event's name too, like "Calendar: Team meeting at 08:00", but then the name also appears on your lock screen.
A suggestion never moves an alarm you already have, and Wakira only reads your calendar; it never writes to it.
Up already?
Awake before the alarm? Wakira may ask whether to switch it off for today. It only asks: the alarm never turns itself off.
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.
