WakeRight vs SleepSoundWake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WakeRight
This app offers a gentle wake-up experience by simulating a sunrise on your screen. It features customizable sunrise durations and styles, along with motivational content to start your day positively. It also includes features to help you wind down in the evening.
- Full-screen sunrise animation
- 18 sunrise styles
- Configurable sunrise duration
- Morning stories and quotes
- Night reminder
- Live Activity on Lock Screen
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WakeRight replaces your harsh alarm with a gentle sunrise that fills your screen, waking you naturally. Leave your phone open overnight and WakeRight gradually brightens your screen with a beautiful sunrise animation like real dawn. FEATURES - Full-screen sunrise animation that gradually brightens your room - 18 sunrise styles: Classic, High Noon, Ocean, Aurora, Galaxy, and more - Configurable sunrise duration (1-30 minutes) - Morning stories and quotes to start your day - A stories tab to help you wind down or recharge during the day - Night reminder to start Sleep Mode before bed - Live Activity shows sunrise progress on your Lock Screen - AlarmKit integration for reliable alarm sounds WAKERIGHT PRO - Multiple alarms - Weekly alarm schedule - All 18 sunrise styles (2 free) - Custom color themes
SleepSoundWake
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A simple bedside companion designed to help you and your whole family rest better. SleepSoundWake is a clean, customizable clock that doubles as a personal noise machine - perfect for nightstands, hotel rooms, Airbnbs, and kids' bedrooms. Big readable digits glow in night-vision-safe colors so the room stays dark while the time stays glanceable from across the bed. An "OK to wake" sun icon allows kids to know when they can get out of bed without forcing an alarm to go off. But if you need it, an alarm can be enabled with an entirely separate time. WHAT'S INSIDE - A glanceable clock with huge, dimmable digits in red, amber, blue, green, white, or any custom hue - A built-in noise machine with five mixable sounds: white noise, brown noise, fan, rain, ocean - Six audible alarm tones: Digital, Joy, Siren, Zombie Alert, Birds Chirping, and Car Alarm - A silent "Wake Up Time" indicator that lets young kids know when it's okay to get out of bed - A separate audible alarm for grown-ups, with time-sensitive notification delivery - True-black background with a faint warm vignette for depth - Choice of clean, digital, or classic serif clock fonts - Optional toggles for 24-hour time, seconds, date display, and colon blink DESIGNED FOR OVERNIGHT USE SleepSoundWake is built specifically to be left on all night — without burning your battery, your eyes, or your OLED screen: - Per-minute integer-pixel drift quietly shifts the digits over the course of the night so pixel wear is spread across hundreds of positions, never concentrated in one place - Coupled brightness dims the screen backlight AND the perceptual lightness of the tint, so dark genuinely looks dark - Honors Low Power Mode automatically — drift, animations, and per-second updates pause to conserve battery - No continuous animations, no flashing colons by default, no surprises - No accounts, no tracking, no ads PERFECT FOR: - Parents of toddlers who can read a sun icon but not yet a clock - Couples who want a quieter, dimmer alternative to a bright lock-screen clock - Travelers who want their kids' bedtime routine to work in unfamiliar rooms - Anyone who sleeps better with rain, ocean, fan, or white-noise sounds CUSTOMIZE EVERYTHING Tap anywhere on the clock to open settings: pick a tint from a smooth color slider, adjust brightness, choose a font, mix sleep sounds, set the wake-up time and alarm, choose an alarm tone, and toggle display options. The settings appear as a full-screen panel — single column on iPhone, two-column on iPad. SleepSoundWake works in portrait on iPhone and landscape on iPad — the two orientations that make sense on a bedside dock. Time-sensitive notifications make sure your alarm gets through even when Focus is on. PRIVACY SleepSoundWake collects nothing. No analytics, no signup, no servers — everything runs locally on your device. Sleep well. Wake when it's time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SleepSoundWake at none against WakeRight's 1. SleepSoundWake also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. WakeRight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SleepSoundWake asks for nothing beyond the download.
WakeRight ships an update every 6 weeks, SleepSoundWake every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WakeRight | SleepSoundWake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vincent Pavlish | Andrew Stroud |
In-app purchases
WakeRight
- WakeRight Pro$4.99
SleepSoundWake
No in-app purchases









