Alarmy vs Erly vs RiseProof: an honest comparison
The two best mission-alarm apps you can install today, compared honestly with the one you can't yet: pricing over five years, verification architecture, and what each genuinely does best.
The RiseProof blog
How alarms actually work, what the sleep research does and doesn't say, and why we won't charge you monthly for any of it.
Don't trust us: why RiseProof's privacy is checkable
Privacy policies are promises. Ours is a test suite: if the wake-up path makes a network call, the build fails. What that means, what it covers, and the two network touchpoints we do have.
Building a streak you'll actually keep
Streaks fail when they're designed as guilt machines. How to set mission difficulty, wake times, and recovery rules so your wake-up streak survives real life.
iOS alarm limitations, honestly explained
Third-party iOS apps can't schedule true system alarms. What the 64-notification limit means, why we suggest keeping RiseProof open overnight, and what we won't pretend.
Why your alarm app shouldn't need the cloud
Every server in your wake-up path is a new way to oversleep. The reliability and privacy case for a fully on-device alarm clock.
The science of mission-based waking
What sleep research actually says about sleep inertia (Tassi & Muzet, 2000) and cognitive tasks at wake time — and what an alarm app can honestly claim about it.
How Android alarms actually work (AlarmManager, Doze, and OEM task killers)
A technical tour of Android's alarm stack: setAlarmClock vs setExactAndAllowWhileIdle, Doze buckets, reboot recovery, and why some vendors' battery savers kill alarms.
Why subscriptions ruined alarm apps
An alarm clock is finished software. How weekly-anchor paywalls and cloud features turned a $15-once product into a $60-a-year habit — and why we opted out.