One alarm never
worked for you.

Build an honest wake up plan.

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Slowrise schedule showing tomorrow's ladder of five alarms from 7:00 to 7:30
The first Slowrise alarm of the morning, counting down to the next one with a generous snooze

The snooze spiral

You set eight alarms.
You snooze all eight.

After a snooze, they all start blurring together. Slowrise solves for this and lets you enjoy your snooze.

How it works

Gentle start, firm finish.

  1. 1

    Set your window

    A soft “start drifting awake” time and a hard “feet on the floor” deadline. That’s the whole setup.

  2. 2

    We build the ladder

    Slowrise fills the window with alarms that ramp from easy-snooze to no-snooze. Change any rung by hand if you like.

  3. 3

    Rise on your terms

    Forgiving at 7:00. Immovable by 7:30. You choose how much runway you get.

7:00snooze · 9 min
7:08snooze · 9 min
7:15snooze · 5 min
7:23snooze · 5 min
7:30no snooze
gentle → firm

One tap to plan a week

One plan, a whole ladder.

Set a wake-up once and assign it to the days you want. Slowrise spaces the rungs and ramps the firmness for you — weekdays sharp, weekends soft.

Slowrise weekly schedule

Built on AlarmKit

It breaks through Silent & Focus.

Slowrise rings even when your phone is muted or on Do Not Disturb — the way an alarm actually should. No more sleeping through a silenced buzz. This is what iOS 26 makes possible, and why Slowrise needs it.

A firmer Slowrise alarm mid-ladder

The hard stop

The last alarm doesn’t
take no for an answer.

At your deadline, snooze disappears — the only way out is to confirm you’re actually up. You get exactly one emergency two-minute grace, for the mornings that really need it.

The final Slowrise alarm, past its deadline, offering only ‘I’m up’ and a single emergency two-minute snooze

Sounds

Every rung, its own sound.

Birdsong to start drifting awake. Something with more spine for the finish. Set a different tone for each step of the ladder.

Editing a wake plan — its name, repeat days, and each rung of the ladder with its own sound

Why I built it

My mornings got a lot better when I just accepted that I love snoozing. I still get up on time, but now I get to drift awake and enjoy being half awake.

Morning doesn’t have to
be a fight.

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Questions, answered

How is this different from setting a bunch of alarms myself?

You build the plan once and reuse it, instead of setting the same pile by hand every night. And there’s no snooze-or-dismiss decision at each alarm: the whole ladder is scheduled up front, so quieting one doesn’t add another — the next is already waiting. Nothing stacks up, and the last one can’t be snoozed at all.

Will it actually wake me if my phone is silent?

Yes. Slowrise uses AlarmKit, Apple’s alarm system, to break through Silent and Focus modes. It rings like a real alarm, not a notification.

Why does it need iOS 26?

AlarmKit is what lets an app outside Apple’s own Clock ring through Silent and Focus, and it arrived in iOS 26. Without it Slowrise could only post a notification your phone would happily mute — so rather than ship something that quietly fails to wake you, we require the version that works.

Is there an Android version?

Not yet. Android can do this too, through the system alarm clock, and it’s on the list — but iPhone comes first and we’d rather say so plainly than take your email for a date we can’t promise.

What if I have a genuine emergency and need five more minutes?

Even the non-negotiable final alarm gives you exactly one emergency two-minute snooze. Firm, but not cruel.

Can I still snooze the early alarms?

Absolutely — that’s the point. The gentle start is fully snoozable. Slowrise only gets strict as you approach the deadline you set.