aka Alarm
A gentler way to wake up
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
aka Alarm wakes you at the right moment in your chosen window — not at an arbitrary fixed time.
Pick a wake-up window (any time, plus 30 minutes). Tap Start. aka Alarm listens to the ambient sound of your room and builds a rolling baseline of how quiet it really is. When the window opens, the first time you turn over, sigh, or shift the duvet, the alarm fires. If nothing happens, it fires at the end of the window so you never oversleep.
• Gentle wake-up — the alarm tone fades from 1 % to 100 % over a minute, so you come out of sleep gradually instead of being jolted.
• Smart snooze — lightly move the phone to snooze. The snooze duration is randomised between 60 seconds and 15 minutes, clamped to whatever's left of your window.
• On-device only — audio never leaves your phone. Nothing is recorded, stored, or transmitted. No accounts, no servers, no analytics.
• Native iOS 26 design — Liquid Glass throughout, no custom skinning.
How it works in one paragraph: the app continuously samples microphone input to compute the ambient sound level (in dBFS) and maintains a five-minute rolling baseline. Within the wake window, a level rise above the baseline by a configurable threshold triggers the alarm. The microphone is active only while an alarm is set. Audio samples are processed in memory and immediately discarded.
aka Alarm is open source under the MIT licence.
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- New: sensitivity setting. Tap the gear and adjust how easily sounds above your room's baseline wake you - from Very low to Very high. The level bar now shows a red trigger line, so you can calibrate it live against real room noise.
- New: "Start listening" setting. The microphone now stays off until shortly before your wake-up window (1 hour by default, adjustable from "right away" to "5 minutes before"). Kinder to your battery, and the mic runs only when it matters.
- Fixed: the microphone could go completely silent while AirPods were connected. Bluetooth is now used for audio output only - your iPhone's own microphone always does the listening.
- Fixed: a several-second freeze when tapping Start.
The developer, Aleksandr Alekseev, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Aleksandr Alekseev
- Size
- 676.9 KB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Aleksandr Alekseev