Waker vs Stoke Alarm

Your alarm goes off. You silence it in half a second, half-asleep, same as yesterday, same as tomorrow. After enough mornings, your brain barely wakes up to do it. Waker is the alarm your brain can't learn: a voice that greets you by name and pulls you into a real conversation that's different every single morning. There's no snooze button to slap. You talk your way awake, and by the end of the chat you're not just up. You're already thinking. No ads. No screaming sirens. No math problems at six in the morning. ■ How the morning goes Your alarm fires. Waker says good morning to you, by name. It mentions the rain, asks about your nine o'clock, remembers you wanted to start with a run. You just answer. A few exchanges later your eyes are open, your head is running, and going back to sleep feels stranger than getting up. ■ The night before In the evening, Waker nudges you to shape tomorrow: when to wake, which voice, what matters most in the morning. Thirty seconds before bed, and your first waking minutes already point the right way. ■ Keep the streak alive Commit to your wake-up days. Finish your morning conversation and your streak grows, with badges along the way and streak freezes for the occasional rough night. Snoozing stops feeling like a relief and starts feeling like losing something. ■ Gentle or firm? Your call Gentle: Warm and patient. Meets you where you are and brings you forward. Firm: Caring but direct. Keeps you honest with your own goals. Neither shouts. Neither guilts. They just make staying in bed harder work than getting up. ■ An alarm you can trust Built on Apple's alarm system: it rings even on silent, even in Focus. Your voice is transcribed right on your iPhone. The audio never leaves the device, only the words do, to keep the conversation going. ■ Make it yours • Your name: every greeting is personal • Your first action: the thing you planned to do when you get up • Your weather and your calendar: woven into the conversation • Your voice: 32 voices across 5 languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian) ■ Recommended for • People who snooze five times and hate themselves for it • People who want mornings with direction: today's weather, today's calendar, today's plan • Early runners and gym-goers who need a push out the door • Anyone who wants to start the day thinking, not scrolling • Not for heavy sleepers who need a 100-decibel siren. Waker wakes your mind, not the whole house. Tonight, set the alarm. Tomorrow, talk your way awake. -- ■ Subscription and payment Waker requires a subscription (weekly or yearly). Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. • Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ • Privacy Policy: https://getwaker.app/privacy.html • Email: support@getwaker.app

You're might hate this alarm. At least until you're standing in the kitchen at 5:03 AM, coffee in hand, realizing you've been awake for 20 minutes and didn't even fight it. TLDR here's what you're getting: - A conversation that's different every morning (your brain can't adapt to it) - Relentless retries until you're actually up - An AI with zero respect for your "5 more minutes" Stoke is an alarm you turn off by talking. When it fires, an AI starts a real voice conversation with you: and it won't end until you're actually, fully, irreversibly awake. It doesn't beep. It doesn't make you do math at 5 AM. It's like someone marching into your room and talking you out of bed — except it's different every single morning. Here's what every other alarm app gets wrong: they wake you up for 10 seconds. You shake your phone, solve a puzzle, take a photo of your toilet... and then silence. And in that silence, your pillow whispers "just 5 more minutes" and you're gone. Every. Single. Time. Stoke doesn't give you that silence. Instead of 10 seconds of consciousness, you get 5–15 minutes of someone talking you out of bed. It asks you things. It responds to what you say. It's unpredictable and it's relentless. By the time it's done with you, you're awake. WHO THIS WAS BUILT FOR - Neurodivergent brains. The ones that can turn off an alarm without ever waking up. If your mornings are 45 minutes of snooze on autopilot while your brain is still loading, that's not laziness; and a louder beep was never going to fix it. A conversation forces your brain online, because you can't answer a question in your sleep. - The 5 AM gym crowd. Your days are packed, your evenings are unpredictable, and 5:30 AM is the only slot that's reliably yours, so you set the alarm on six hours of sleep. You don't lack discipline at 10 PM when you set it. You lack backup at 5 AM when the bed argues back. Stoke is the gym bro who's already awake, dragging you out of the bed. You've probably already: - Solved the puzzle with your eyes closed and went right back to sleep. - Put your phone across the room. Walked there and back with zero memory. - Tried the sunrise clock, the bed shaker, the 130dB speaker. Your brain adapted in days. - Set 15 alarms 3 minutes apart. Turned off every single one. If that's you: welcome. You found the alarm you can't outsmart. No snooze button. Mute it, dismiss it - it comes back. Again and again. Until you're up. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/