# AutoWake. Smart Sleep Alarm — Haptic Alarm for Watch

> Haptic smart alarm for Apple Watch that wakes you during light sleep. (iPhone/iPad app by Tantsissa.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/autowake-smart-sleep-alarm/id1279650551 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Tantsissa](https://appshunter.io/developer/861650887)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Utilities
- Price: $2.99
- Rating: 2.58/5 from 980 App Store ratings · 51 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 11.0 · 9 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2017-12-20
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/autowake-smart-sleep-alarm/id1279650551/reviews.md

## What is AutoWake. Smart Sleep Alarm?

AutoWake is the first haptic smart alarm for your Watch. 

It can wake you up by tapping you on your wrist using your Watch's haptic engine. You can set it to wake you if you are in light or medium sleep either 15 or 30 minutes before your set alarm time. This helps you feel more refreshed. 

There's an optional sleep cycle buster that you can turn on to give you a light tap at 5 minute intervals in a 15 or 30 minute window before your alarm to take you gently out of deeper sleep. 

Not only that but it will even automatically measure your waking pulse just before the alarm sounds, which is a valuable measurement of recovery.

If you ignore the alarm on the Watch, you can also set a safety alarm that will play on your phone. This will speak and/or play a chosen song from your music library. 

There's also auto scheduled alarms in case you forget to set your alarm before bed. 

If you use AutoSleep our auto sleep tracker, you can use the new ultra smart alarm features. You can now be woken up after a desired amount of sleep, quality sleep or when your sleep bank is back in credit. You can use this in conjunction with a latest wake time if required. You can even set a bedtime reminder that looks at your required sleep, sleep efficiency and latest wake time to give you a reminder for the optimal time to go to bed. 

When you turn on your alarm, it can automatically tell AutoSleep that you have gone to bed so that time to fall asleep can be tracked.

If you use Apple HomeKit then you can run scenes for key events in AutoWake like turning off your bedside lamp and setting your room temperature for sleep. 

AutoWake requires an Apple Watch running WatchOS 4 or higher. Advanced features requires WatchOS 5.

AutoWake works fine with Do Not Disturb and Theatre/Cinema mode. 

AutoWake requires at least a bluetooth connection between your iPhone and your Apple Watch during the time that you are asleep. You can use Flight Mode on your iPhone, but make sure that you turn on bluetooth.
If you user Screen Time, make sure that AutoWake is in your exclude list.

As with all of our apps, there is no tracking, no analytics, no snooping. Your privacy is very important.

## Key features

- Haptic wrist alarms
- Smart sleep cycle detection
- Optional sleep cycle buster
- Automatic pulse measurement
- Phone safety alarm
- Auto scheduled alarms
- Integration with sleep trackers

## What do users think of AutoWake. Smart Sleep Alarm?

Overall sentiment: neutral

**Pros**

- 🚀 Reliable alarm functionality
- 👍 Customizable wake up options
- 📊 Integrates well with other health apps
- 💤 Helps improve sleep quality

**Cons**

- 🐛 Inconsistent alarm performance
- 🔋 High battery drain
- 🤔 Complicated setup and UI
- 🕰️ Fails to detect wake up times accurately

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Alarms not going off as scheduled
- Alarm settings resetting unexpectedly
- Compatibility issues with iOS updates
- Syncing problems between watch and phone

**Most requested features**

- Ability to set multiple alarms
- Easier alarm management on phone
- More intuitive user interface
- Improved reliability and consistency

## Recent user reviews (10 of 51)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/autowake-smart-sleep-alarm/id1279650551/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Lacking in features

*2023-04-04*

For a paid app, this should have much more features. My main gripes: 

1. I can only set one alarm. The wake up when you’re in light sleep thing is nice if you’re motivated to get up but when I’m asleep I mostly want to stay asleep. So when this thing vibrates to wake me up, I just press my watch and it shuts off. And that’s it. There’s no snooze function, it doesn’t detect if you went back to sleep or anything AND it only lets you set one alarm. So really it does nothing. Maybe you could set it to go off slightly before your main alarm but that’s not what I wanted it to do.

2. It doesn’t detect when you are awake. I mentioned this in the last comment but sometimes when it does actually wake me up, I just slap my watch until it stops and get up. Later, when I go to set it again for the evening it has this timer for how long past my alarm it has been and it is counting since my alarm went off. It wants me to manually press “I’m awake” for it to know you are awake. Why it needs to know that when it doesn’t even re-vibrate, I have no idea. 

3. Phone app is useless. At least put docs in there. It links to external website for documentation when it could be in phone app. I would also prefer to set alarms in the phone app but it will not let you. 

While I enjoy the other apps from this developer, this one is a huge miss, at least for now. I’m not sure how actively they’re developing this but I hope more features are added.

### 5/5 — Love this app, but have a few suggestions

*2022-08-05, version 3.0*

I love this app. It makes it very easy to set an alarm and gently wakes you up in the morning. I’ve never been a morning person and always hated getting up early, but this app helps make the mornings a little more bearable.  It slowly wakes you up by vibrating once every five minutes starting 30 minutes before your alarm is set to go off. I haven’t found any other alarm app that does that. There are a few suggestions I would like to make to the developers though: 
-The option to edit an alarm after its been set without having to turn that whole alarm off and restarting it. 
And
-The ability to hit snooze in case you just aren’t ready to get up yet. 
I definitely recommend this app if you have trouble walking up in the mornings!

### 1/5 — Doesn't work & dev won't tell you

*2022-04-18, version 3.0*

I relied on this app to wake me up for years and previously gave it a great review. Now, it doesn't working on iOS 15.4 and the dev didn't tell anyone! 

Apple made a change to iOS that caused this problem and the developer knew about it since the first iOS betas. They didn't have the foresight to notify their users in advance that IT WOULD STOP WORKING!   

They waited until the iOS update went out and just put a small text on their website about it. That's too little, too late. I'm never buying anything from this company again and I recommend you don't, either.

### 1/5 — Was great until it wasn’t

*2022-04-17, version 3.0*

I used this for like a year with very few issues. But all of the sudden, no matter what I do, it doesn’t work. The alarm either doesn’t go off, say it can’t connect, or wakes me up hours earlier than I need to be woken up. Which those first two I can understand, but why on earth does it go off in the middle of the night and wake me up??????? I’ve tried deleting the app and reinstalling, I’ve tried changing the settings. It’s like the app one day just decided to be a piece of garbage 

Don’t bother downloading. At worst it won’t work, at best it will work for a while then randomly stop and you’ll be disappointed. 

Part of the problem is it hasn’t updated in forever, and it seems that the company has no intention of updating the app given how long it’s been

### 1/5 — Drains iPhone Battery; Can’t Handle wOS Ypdates

*2022-03-16, version 3.0*

Rinse and repeat. 15.4 updates on iOS and wOS and once again…alarm won’t set (because, remember kids, the “smart” alarm is dumb and needs set each and every night!).

Can I rate an app with 0 stars?

Developer:  FIX THIS ISSUE AND THE BATTERY DRAIN ON THE iOS host!

First and foremost…THIS APP DRAINS YOUR iPhone’s BATTERY. Period. Proven through updates of it. Proven through the developers suggestions for restarting everything. IT DRAINS THE BATTERY. Second, it cannot handle watchOS updates, and barely tolerated iOS updates. Proven through recent updates. ….Workaround for this….uninstall the app from the watch BEFORE a watchOS update, reinstall, and your alarms and complications come right back and work that night. Prior to this, alarms would not set, which brings me to my next point… Third, this is NOT A SMART ALARM. I have to turn it on each night even though I setup the alarm to be all weekdays, etc. I need to turn it on each day. I used to do that on my Sony bedside radio alarm clock in the 80’s and 90’s…I think tech has advanced since then. The good: the other two apps from this developer are awesome!!

### 1/5 — Don’t do it..

*2022-02-11, version 3.0*

This app is garbage. It undermines your phone’s utility alarm settings. None of what you do/set on the app syncs with your normal alarm settings. (There is no option) There is no ergonomic feel to this app, the graphs and charts don’t make any sense and never will. The (auto) alarm has made me late for work since it (literally) decides to not play any sound when it goes off. Randomly, like you can have all your phones sound settings up all the way and the with it not on silence, and still, no sound playing because like I said, settings you have on your phone with the sleep focus verses the settings on the auto sleep app itself that works with auto wake, none of it will ever have conjunction between each other. And I’ve tried so hard to get everything set up appropriately and still, no remorse. It’s bad, collects neat fake sleep info that isn’t accurate at all. Good luck with this app, not worth losing my job over it when I can just use my standard apple alarm app and now that it’s going to actually (sound) when the alarm goes off.

### 1/5 — Don’t buy this app (maybe just yet)

*2022-01-24, version 3.0*

I have both AutoSleep and AutoWake. The AutoSleep app is working fine. However AutoWake is super buggy. If you follow the instructions step by step and set the complication on apple watch and then select one if those advanced timer (that’s really the whole point of this app) it just stuck at “wait” and you are not sure if it worked or not. It might wake you up in the morning or not. Everything is possible with this app. I would say avoid buying this app for now and wait for a proper update from developers. The last update seems to be from 2 years ago so the might have abandoned this app.

### 3/5 — A good start but definitely not there yet

*2022-01-12, version 3.0*

Relying on the phone and the watch is probably an inevitability but the way it is set up is really buggy. Not only do you need to make sure the app is open and the complication is on, but sometimes you have to try a bunch of times to even set an alarm. 

The alarm display is a bit strange. You can’t really see all the details about an alarm and the UI is a bit unintuitive. I really like all the apps by these developers so I’m hoping they will work out the kinks in time, but right now it’s not quite production ready.

### 4/5 — This is a good app

*2021-12-08, version 3.0*

This app has not given me any problems in my month or so of usage. It does exactly what I would want it to do and doesn’t really do any more. That’s not a bad thing though. I just got it because it was the only way to make my Homekit light turn on when I woke up and turn off when I set my alarm each night. It does that perfectly. I don’t know why people have given it an average of like 2.5 stars or something. From my experience, it doesn’t deserve that. It can be complicated but that’s just because of the nature of the app. It provides details on exactly what to do though to make sure your alarm goes off and everything works. I think that a lot of the reviewers didn’t quite understand the directions and that could be the reason they had a negative experience. The only reason I’m giving it 4 stars is because I really think that Homekit should have just been integrated into the original app. It seems like a relatively easy thing to do, and I don’t really see the point of creating a whole new app that’s only real extra functionality is that Homekit integration.

### 1/5 — Where is AutoWake 4???

*2021-09-22, version 3.0*

I love both of your other apps! They are so insightful and keep up with a plethora of health data. But what’s up with AutoWake??? It hasn’t been updated in years, which I find extremely frustrating!! Even the oldest of apps still have regular updates containing bug fixes, minor improvements, new features, or modernized UI/UX. Why have you abandoned this app and left its development so stagnant?? I just don’t get your intentions here… If I were to stumble upon this app today, I would NOT buy it! Part of my process in assessing the quality of apps before buying or downloading them is checking how recently it was last updated. Consistent developer engagement in their products is so important to consumers! Who wants an app that is left to fade out and die? 

I say you should either put out an update ASAP or just remove it from the App Store. Again, what’s the use of an app that is stuck in stagnation??

Like I said, I love your other apps, which is why I simply can’t comprehend why you don’t give this one any attention. Maybe you should use AutoWake to wake yourselves up and roll out an update!

## Frequently asked questions about AutoWake. Smart Sleep Alarm

### What does AutoWake do?

AutoWake is a smart alarm designed for Apple Watch that uses haptic feedback to wake you up gently. It can detect your sleep cycles and wake you during lighter sleep phases, either 15 or 30 minutes before your set alarm time, to help you feel more refreshed.

### How does the smart alarm feature work?

The app analyzes your sleep patterns to identify periods of light or medium sleep. It then triggers the haptic alarm on your Apple Watch during these times, aiming for a less jarring wake-up experience compared to traditional alarms.

### Does AutoWake cost money?

Based on the provided information, AutoWake is a paid application. There are no mentions of in-app purchases or advertisements, suggesting a one-time purchase model.

### What are the compatibility requirements for AutoWake?

AutoWake requires an Apple Watch running WatchOS 4 or higher. Advanced features necessitate WatchOS 5. A Bluetooth connection between your iPhone and Apple Watch is also required during sleep.

### Can AutoWake help me track my sleep?

While AutoWake itself is an alarm, it integrates with sleep tracking apps like AutoSleep. It can automatically tell AutoSleep when you've gone to bed and offers advanced alarm features based on your sleep quality, duration, and sleep bank status.

## Version history (last 1 release)

### 3.0 — 2019-08-15

Here's AutoWake 3. It's a big update!
- All alarms are now set directly on the Apple Watch in a rather tasty new way.
- If you use AutoSleep & have WatchOS 5 you can now set advanced ultra smart alarms. These allow you to set a sleep goal, quality goal or sleep bank goal. AutoWake can then do things like set an alarm every Friday after you achieve 8 hours sleep but no later than 7:30AM with an intelligent reminder 60 minutes before the best time to go to bed. Ultra smart alarms can help you hit your sleep goal as well as to prevent oversleeping. 
- Scheduled backup alarms are now both more flexible and more straightforward. 
- iPhone app is greatly simplified. 
- Support for every Infograph complication format on the Series 4 Watch. 
- Smartwake options now include "bump" only. This will tap you every 5 minutes before your final alarm time to take you out of deeper sleep. 
- You can now change the voice to use for confirmations and safety alarms. 
Hope you like it! Pleasant dreams.

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