Frequently asked questions

It's in final development for Android and iOS — neither store listing is live yet. Join the waitlist for one email at launch; early-access invites come from the same list.

Android is the flagship and lands first — it's where a third-party app can set true system alarms. iOS follows, with its platform limits disclosed honestly rather than papered over.

No. One email when the app launches, plus early-access invites if you're picked. That's the entire mailing plan. Unsubscribe anytime.

Yes. The $19.99 Lifetime Unlock is the only purchase in the app — $19.99, once. No subscription tiers, no consumables, no ads, no upsells. Updates included. (Planned launch price. One payment, yours for life.)

The free tier is a full, reliable alarm with three missions — math, shake, and photo match — never a crippled trial. The Lifetime Unlock adds every mission, unlimited alarms, and your full streak history.

Alarmy's most-promoted plan annualizes to roughly ≈$60/year (Alarmy's most-promoted plan is billed weekly and annualizes to roughly $60/year; as shown in-app as of 2026, varies by region and plan); Erly is $24/year. Over five years that's about ≈$300 or ≈$120, versus $19.99 once.

Your phone does all the checking itself — the math answer, the typed phrase, the scanned code, even the camera missions. No photo or video ever leaves your phone, there's no account, and nothing needs the internet. The alarm works exactly the same in airplane mode.

There's a deliberately slow emergency escape — hold a button for ten full seconds, then confirm — so a broken sensor can never hold you hostage. It's annoying enough that you'll never use it half-asleep, and using it breaks your streak.

After repeated verification failures, the mission automatically swaps to math problems. The alarm is ringing; the AI is optional. You'll never be trapped by a foggy lens or bad lighting.

No. Pose detection and photo matching run on the phone, frame by frame, and nothing is stored or transmitted. And the microphone is never used passively — it's touched only if you choose to record a custom wake-up message, which stays on your phone.

On Android, yes. RiseProof sets alarms the same way your phone's built-in clock does, so they ring on time after restarts, app updates, and time changes, and battery savers don't silence them. If your phone brand has an unusually aggressive battery setting, setup shows you exactly which switch to flip.

On iOS 26 and newer, RiseProof uses Apple's AlarmKit — real system alarms that ring through the silent switch and Focus modes. One honest catch: iOS always shows a system Stop button we can't hide; pressing it without doing your mission breaks your streak. On older iPhones, third-party apps can't set true system alarms, so RiseProof works best kept open overnight on the charger — there's a dimmed nightstand clock mode for exactly that.

On Android, yes — alarms use the alarm audio channel, which ignores the ringer switch and Do Not Disturb. On iPhone it depends on iOS version and setup; see the iPhone answer above for the honest picture.

Purchase state (processed by Apple or Google, not us) and standard crash logs. That's the entire list. No account, no analytics on your sleep, no server that ever sees your alarms or streaks.

Because it's checkable. An automated test in our codebase fails the build if the wake-up path makes a network call, the microphone is never used passively (only if you record a custom wake-up message, kept on-device), and no account system exists to leak. Our privacy policy fits on one screen — there's nothing to disclose.