Haptica vs Keep Me Awake

Haptica is a silent Apple Watch timer that helps you feel time without sound, alarms, or constant screen checks. Stay on schedule with subtle haptic cues on your wrist, so you can manage time discreetly while staying focused, present, and professional. Use Haptica when a loud alarm would be distracting, awkward, or disruptive. It is built for meetings, presentations, patient visits, clinical workflows, focus sessions, workouts, intervals, and Pomodoro-style timing. Feel time without interrupting the moment Most timers demand attention. Haptica is designed to keep you aware of time without pulling you away from what you are doing. Use it to: • Stay on time without checking your phone • Feel quiet time cues through Apple Watch • Avoid disruptive alarms in professional settings • Keep meetings, visits, and presentations moving • Stay focused during deep work or study sessions • Time workouts, intervals, circuits, and rest periods • Manage Pomodoro sessions without breaking flow Built for professional and personal use Haptica is especially helpful when timing matters, but sound is not the right answer. Perfect for: • Clinicians managing patient visits • Presenters and public speakers • Professionals in meetings • Teachers, coaches, and trainers • Students and deep work sessions • Fitness, intervals, and Tabata-style workouts • Anyone who wants a quiet, discreet timer Why people use Haptica • Silent Apple Watch timer • Haptic and vibration-based time cues • Discreet timing without sound • Less screen checking • Simple, fast timer setup • Useful for work, health, fitness, and focus • Designed for moments where normal alarms do not fit A better way to stay on time Haptica helps you stay aware without looking distracted, interrupting a room, or breaking your concentration. Whether you are seeing a patient, leading a meeting, giving a presentation, studying, working out, or managing focused work blocks, Haptica gives you a quiet way to stay on track. Feel time. Stay present. Keep moving. Apple watch should remain in Silent Mode when using Haptica Timer

Stay awake until the time you choose. Keep Me Awake rings the moment you start to drift off, so you make it through the night feed, the night shift, the all-nighter or the jet-lag reset. TWO WAYS TO STAY AWAKE • Check-In: tap "I'm awake" every 5, 10 or 15 minutes. Miss one and the alarm goes off. • Dead Button: hold a finger on the screen. The moment it slips, the alarm rings. • Set "stay awake until" (say 6 AM) and press Start: the session ends on time, even the night the clocks change. RINGS WHEN IT MATTERS • Hear it before tonight: Test the alarm (Settings) rings 15 seconds after you lock the phone, like a missed check-in. Not heard? It says what to change: Silent, volume, Alarms or a Focus. • On iOS 26, a missed check-in rings like the Clock app: through Silent and Focus, phone locked or app closed. • Before iOS 26, a chain of Time Sensitive notifications rings through a Focus like Sleep (Silent mode can mute it). • An unanswered alarm rings up to 15 minutes, then stops and the start screen shows when. • If iOS closes the app overnight, your session keeps going. • A call, Siri or unplugged headphones can't silence the in-app alarm for good. The session warns if the volume is too low or headphones are in. • Notifications off and no Alarms? The start screen says nothing can ring with the app closed, and opens the setting. • A phone that dies can't ring: the app warns when the battery is low and unplugged or won't last to your end time. Can't plug in? With Alarms on, a Check-In lets the screen sleep and still rings. CHECK IN WITHOUT UNLOCKING • The countdown sits on the Lock Screen (all night, past iOS's 8 hours) and in the Dynamic Island, with an "I'm awake" button. • Hands full? Say "Hey Siri, I'm awake in Keep Me Awake" (or press the Action button): the check-in starts over, phone locked, and Siri says when the next is due. • Alarm ringing with the app closed? Touch and hold its notification (or use your Apple Watch) and tap I'm awake. With the wake-up check on, only the sum stops it. WIDGETS AND ONE-TAP START (FREE) • The Tonight widget for your Home Screen (small or wide), StandBy and the Lock Screen (a card, a countdown ring or a line above the clock). • It shows your end time, this week's hours and nights in a row; during a Check-In, a countdown and "I'm awake" (Home Screen, StandBy). • On iOS 18 and later, put Start Check-In in Control Center, on the Lock Screen or the Action button, or ask Siri to start one. A SLEEPY THUMB CAN'T FAKE A SUM • Optional wake-up check, in both modes: the alarm keeps ringing until you solve a quick sum. SEE EVERY NIGHT YOU KEPT • Hours awake this week, a bar per day, and nights in a row kept to your end time. • Tap a night: each check-in, when the alarm rang, how fast you answered. • Your nights stay on your phone. Delete one or all. EASY TO READ AT 3 AM • Every screen, button, sum key and the Lock Screen card's words grow with your iPhone's text size, up to the largest sizes. • VoiceOver reads the countdown and every button, says when the alarm rings and how to stop it, and lets you hold Dead Button's circle. Dark Mode and Reduce Motion supported. PRO, A ONE-TIME PURCHASE (NO SUBSCRIPTION) • Start soft, get louder: the check-in alarm builds to full volume over 30 seconds • All four alarm sounds, plus your own sound files (they ring with the app closed) • Check-ins every 1, 2 or 3 minutes, or Random (3 to 8 minutes apart, so you can't doze off to the rhythm) • Unlimited Dead Button (free sessions last 15 minutes) • Three harder sums for the wake-up check • All your nights, all-time totals and a CSV export (the last 7 days are free) • Volume control and intense vibration Please don't use Keep Me Awake to keep driving. If you're too tired to drive, pull over and rest.