First Light: Sunrise Wake-up

Turn the HomeKit lights you already own into a sunrise alarm. First Light fades your lights in slowly every morning, from deep morning red to bright daylight, so you wake up gently without an alarm sound. WHAT YOU NEED • An Apple TV or HomePod as your home hub. Without a hub the lights will not switch on. • At least one dimmable light in the Home app. Color lights give the best effect. Lights with only color temperature or only brightness work too. • An iPhone with iOS 26.5 or later. WORKS EVEN WHEN YOUR IPHONE IS OFF The sunrise runs on your home hub, not on your iPhone. Your phone can be turned off, on Do Not Disturb or out of battery, and your lights will still come on. PAY ONCE, NO SUBSCRIPTION One purchase. No subscription, no account, no ads and no tracking. And there is no separate wake-up light to buy: you use the lights you already have. WHAT FIRST LIGHT DOES • Wake-up schedules with a time, days (weekdays, weekend or your own choice) and the lights you choose • Decide whether the time is when the light reaches full brightness or when the sunrise begins • Switch a schedule on or off without deleting it • Three ready-made presets: Soft Dawn Red, Quick Wake and Long Dawn • Your own presets: 5 to 60 minutes long, steps of 1 to 5 minutes, a curve of your choice (linear, ease-in, ease-out or S-curve), a start from 1% brightness and four color ramps (Dawn Red, Amber, Daylight and Pink) • Preview your sunrise first: play a sped-up version on your real lights • Choose what happens afterwards: lights stay on, turn off or dim after a time you set • Start a sunrise right away with one tap and stop it whenever you like • Several lights in one schedule, even from different brands SIRI AND SHORTCUTS Say "Start sunrise with First Light" to start a sunrise, switch a schedule on or off, or change your wake-up time. You can use the same actions in the Shortcuts app. WORKS WITH YOUR HOMEKIT LIGHTS Any dimmable light in your Home app can join in, for example Philips Hue (through the Hue Bridge), IKEA (through the DIRIGERA hub), Nanoleaf, LIFX and Eve. You can mix brands in one schedule. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT ADDS TO YOUR HOME The sunrise runs as a HomeKit automation on your hub, so First Light adds scenes and automations to your Home app. They all start with "First Light ·", so you can see exactly what belongs to the app. A schedule with the default preset (30 minutes, 2-minute steps) adds 16 scenes and 16 automations, whichever days you pick. Bigger steps mean fewer. Delete a schedule and First Light cleans them up again. Your own automations are left alone. PRIVACY No account, no analytics, no tracking. Your schedules live on your iPhone. iCloud only keeps a copy in your own iCloud, so you can restore them after reinstalling. GOOD TO KNOW • First Light does not play any sound. If you have an early start, keep your normal alarm as a backup. • The light is meant for a calmer start to your day. First Light is not a medical device or light therapy. • Dark design in the style of iOS 26, easy on the eyes in a dark bedroom. • In English and Dutch: the app follows your iPhone's language. Great for dark fall and winter mornings, early shifts and anyone tired of a jarring alarm. Download First Light and let your lights play sunrise. HomeKit, Apple TV, HomePod, Siri and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc. Philips Hue, IKEA, Nanoleaf, LIFX and Eve are trademarks of their respective owners. First Light is not affiliated with or endorsed by these brands.