WakeWin Press Kit

WakeWin is an iOS alarm app built for people who can't trust themselves with the snooze button. Instead of just buzzing until you tap it off, WakeWin asks you to prove you're actually awake — and then rewards you for it.

When your alarm fires, the Lock Screen offers Start Challenge or Dismiss. Only a completed challenge earns tickets; dismissing counts as a missed alarm, and a day without a completed challenge breaks your streak. Start the challenge and first you have to get up. Photo Verify picks a specific household object (toaster, toilet, kitchen sink, bathroom mirror and so on); you find it and photograph it, and an AI check confirms the match. WakeWin never stores the photos, only the verdict. Photo Verify is free for everyone and on by default.

Then you solve at least 5 brain puzzles drawn from 6 categories: mental arithmetic, word scrambles, number sequences, memory challenges, pattern recognition, and Stroop tests. The mix varies each morning so it never feels rote. Switch on Require Movement (always on in Hard Mode) and the challenge won't finish until your iPhone's pedometer registers a few steps — proof you're vertical, not just tapping in bed.

The puzzles you need to finish earn tickets: 2 each for Easy, 4 for Medium, 6 for Hard. Each alarm needs at least 5 puzzles in standard mode and 8 in Hard Mode, and Premium adds bonus tickets for extra puzzles solved within the minimum puzzle time. Streak multipliers compound on top: 1× under 7 days, 1.25× from day 7, 1.5× from day 14, 1.75× from day 30, 2× from day 60 onwards. Tickets are earned once a day, for the first challenge completed within 5 minutes of the alarm. On the 1st of each month, several winners are drawn for Amazon gift cards — not in-app coins, not digital confetti. The draw is open to Premium subscribers who switch on Sweepstakes Entry in Settings, plus anyone 18+ who enters free by postcard (see the Sweepstakes Terms in the app). Amazon is not a sponsor of this promotion.

The marquee Premium reward is "Perfect Month": complete your alarms at the highest standard for a full calendar month (Hard Mode on, zero snoozes, movement verified, at least 8 puzzles, every scheduled day completed) and your next month of Premium is on us. It's designed to be hard — most users won't hit it on their first attempt.

Reliability matters more for an alarm than any other type of app, so WakeWin is built on Apple's AlarmKit, which gives it the same alarm privileges as the built-in Clock app. It fires through Silent Mode, Focus, Do Not Disturb, and even when the app is force-quit. Lock Screen UI, Dynamic Island countdown, and Apple Watch alarm mirroring are all built in. WakeWin is an iPhone app and requires iOS 26 or later; it also runs on iPad in "Designed for iPhone" mode. Android is on the way.

WakeWin is available in 14 languages including English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Arabic with full right-to-left support.