# Grubblin: Pet Alarm Clock — Wake-up missions & app blocker > Wake-up missions & app blocker (iPhone/iPad app by Karolis Valatka.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/grubblin-pet-alarm-clock/id6788022540 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Karolis Valatka](https://appshunter.io/developer/1850435087) - Category: Productivity, Health & Fitness - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 22 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-15 - Data updated: 2026-10-25 ## What is Grubblin? Meet Grub. He is small, green, and he will scream you out of bed. Grubblin is a free alarm clock with a pet goblin attached. Grub rings at your wake time, makes you prove you are up with a mission, then guards your doom apps while you start the day. Win the morning and he feasts. Sleep through it and he sulks. HOW A MORNING WORKS 1. Set your wake time and pick the days. The alarm rings through silent mode and Focus, even with the app closed. 2. Tap "mission" on the alarm and do it: solve some math, walk some steps, shake the phone, type a line, or scan a barcode you registered in another room. 3. Stop the alarm without the mission and it comes back every 2 minutes. Grub counts every stop and tells you the number when you get up. 4. Mission done? Grub can lock the apps that eat your mornings for 30 or 60 minutes. Optional, it needs Screen Time. 5. The morning counts as won. Grub eats and the streak grows. 6. Five minutes later Grub rings once more to check you did not crawl back into bed. Stop it and you are done. You try it during setup: Grub rings 10 seconds after you set the alarm, so you know it works before you trust it with a real morning. TYPE IT AWAKE The typing mission comes with Grub's lines or short Bible verses from the World English Bible, a public domain translation. Capitals and punctuation do not count, the words do. UP EARLY? Awake before the alarm? In the last hour before it rings, do the mission from the home screen and Grub skips that ring. The morning still counts. A FAIR STREAK Your streak counts mornings won. Days without an alarm are rest days and never break it. Miss a morning and Grub naps through it, twice a month, free. Past that, a missed morning breaks the streak and Grub goes hungry. Win the very next morning after a break and the old streak comes back in full. Turning the alarm off after sleeping through it still counts as a miss, nice try. FREE, NO ADS The alarm, the math, steps, shake, typing and barcode missions, the still awake check, the morning guard, the bedtime lock, the streak, the share card and the widget are free. No ads, ever. No paywall before your first alarm. BEDTIME Grub tells you when to go to bed, worked out from tomorrow's alarm. Optional: lock the doom apps from bedtime to wake time, so the scroll does not eat your sleep either. THE WIDGET Grub sits on your home screen with your next alarm, thriving or starving in real time. SHARE YOUR MORNING Every won morning makes a story size card with the time you got up, your streak and Grub's verdict on how many times you hit stop. Post it or save it. YOUR WEEK Every week turns into a short vertical clip of your mornings with the time you got up. Share it, or keep the receipts. GRUBBLIN PLUS Won mornings wash eggs up in the swamp. Plus keeps them warm until something strange crawls out. Creatures hatch as babies, grow into adults and elders, stand around your swamp and take betrayal personally. A codex tracks every silhouette you have not met yet. Plus also adds the memory mission, hardcore mode for heavy sleepers (stop the alarm without the mission and Grub rings every 2 minutes for 30 minutes), and HD exports of your week clip. Monthly, yearly, or one lifetime purchase. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account, no ads, no analytics, no cloud. Apple's Screen Time system hands us scrambled tokens, so we cannot even see which apps you picked. Everything lives on your phone, and deleting the app deletes it all. Needs iOS 26. Privacy policy: https://kv-software.com/apps/grubblin/#privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Grubblin Plus | $4.99 | per month | | Grubblin Plus | $24.99 | per year | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Grubblin Plus Lifetime | $49.99 | one-time | ## Is Grubblin safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Grubblin. ## Is Grubblin legit? Grubblin: Pet Alarm Clock appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Grubblin is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 2.0 — 2026-10-24 Grubblin is an alarm now. Grub rings at your wake time, through silent mode and Focus, and only stops for good when you finish a mission: math, steps, shake, typing or a barcode scan. Typing comes with Grub's lines or short Bible verses. Five minutes after the mission Grub rings once more to make sure you stayed up. Win the morning and he feasts, then share a story card of it. Sleep through it and he goes hungry. Up early? Do the mission in the last hour and the ring is skipped. Grub counts your stops, tells you when to go to bed, and can guard your doom apps for 30 or 60 minutes after the mission. Plus adds the memory mission and hardcore mode, which keeps ringing for 30 minutes. The daily vow, hard mode and begged passes are gone. Free, no ads. Needs iOS 26. ### 1.1 — 2026-07-28 The swamp is alive now. Grub potters, guards, feasts, and sleeps in a real place that changes with the time of day. Your creatures stand around the swamp, sleep at night, greet you when you visit, and leave you little gifts when they trust you. A Live Activity counts your lock down right on the lock screen. First-timers get one honest 15-minute promise instead of a lecture. Locks got fairer too: apps now unlock the moment the timer ends, Grub celebrates the second a lock finishes, and ending early keeps every minute you served (the feast is off, though). All-day gates are now an opt-in hard mode. If anything feels off, tell us: karolisvalatka0@gmail.com ### 1.0 — 2026-07-15 No release notes. ## More apps by Karolis Valatka - [Loopla: Family Organizer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/loopla-family-organizer/id6771711428) - [PipeSnap: Pipe Fitter Calc](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pipesnap-pipe-fitter-calc/id6778792345) - [HitchCal: Rotation Calendar](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hitchcal-rotation-calendar/id6780225509) - [PourMath](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pourmath/id6780965002) - [Saturon: A2L PT Chart](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/saturon-a2l-pt-chart/id6781320978) All apps by Karolis Valatka: https://appshunter.io/developer/1850435087 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-10-25.*