Early: Photo Alarm Clock
Wake up: no snooze, no excuses
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Your alarm goes off. You reach for it. You turn it off. You go back to sleep.
Early breaks that loop. The only way to silence it is to get up, find a real object, and photograph it. No slider. No five more minutes.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Set an alarm and pick a mission.
2. It rings — through Silent mode and through Focus.
3. It does not stop until the camera sees what you were sent to find.
By the time you've crossed the room, you're awake. Willpower was never the issue. Distance was.
TEN MISSIONS
• Object Hunt — a random household object, different every morning
• Nature Hunt — get outside and photograph something living
• Pet Hunt — track down your animal
• Touch Grass — literally
• Sky Photo — point the camera up and catch the morning
• Make Your Bed — make it, then photograph the evidence
• Math Problem — solve it before your brain is ready
• Affirmations — type it out and mean it
• Bible Verse — start the day with a verse
• Surprise Me — a different mission each morning, and you won't know which
39 objects across household, nature and pets.
WHY IT WORKS
You can dismiss a slider in bed with your eyes shut. You cannot photograph a running faucet without standing up.
IT RINGS THROUGH SILENT AND FOCUS
Early is built on Apple's AlarmKit (iOS 26 and later), so it rings even on silent, even in a Focus mode, with a full-screen alarm on your Lock Screen. On earlier versions of iOS it falls back to a burst of time-sensitive notifications.
YOUR PHOTOS NEVER LEAVE THIS DEVICE
Recognition runs entirely on-device using Apple Vision. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is added to your photo library, and no one — including us — ever sees a frame. Early records only what the classifier concluded.
KEEP THE STREAK
Wake history, streaks, and how long each morning took you.
EARLY PRO
Free includes Object Hunt, six objects, two alarm sounds and one alarm — and it always rings, always through Silent and Focus. Reliability is never paywalled.
Pro unlocks all ten missions, all 39 objects, all 14 alarm sounds, unlimited alarms and the Stats tab.
Monthly and annual are auto-renewable subscriptions to Early Pro. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Lifetime is a one-time purchase and does not renew.
Terms of Use: https://www.waveplayapps.com/earlyalarm/terms
Privacy Policy: https://www.waveplayapps.com/earlyalarm/privacy
Minor bug fixes
The developer, Waveplay Apps, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- WAVEPLAY APPS (OPC) PRIVATE LIMITED
- Size
- 63.6 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Early Pro Lifetime $29.99
- Early Pro Annual $19.99
- Early Pro Monthly $2.99
- Copyright
- © WavePlay Apps