☀ The alarm that proves it rang. Version 1.0
Wakeward is a wake-up alarm for iPhone and iPad built on AlarmKit, the framework Apple introduced in iOS 26 that gives an app the same alerting path as the built-in Clock. That means a Wakeward alarm sounds at alarm volume through Silent mode, through every Focus including Sleep, over the Lock Screen, and after a restart — and it keeps working if you force-quit the app or never open it again, because iOS itself is holding the alarm, not Wakeward.
On top of that it adds the three things the built-in Clock has no answer for.
A second, completely independent system alarm a few minutes after the first, armed at the same moment and canceled automatically the instant you properly stop the first one. If anything at all stops you hearing the primary, the backup still rings.
It is also the honest answer to alarm collisions. When two apps have an alarm set for the same minute, iOS picks a winner non-deterministically and a single press of a physical button silences all currently ringing alarms. A backup three minutes later has nothing to compete with.
One screen that verifies everything iOS will actually report: that permission is granted, that every alarm you have switched on is genuinely present in the system's own list (and re-arms it if not), that your audio is not routed to headphones, your battery is not about to die, whether you have changed time zone, and whether a daylight-saving change lands tonight.
It also asks you about the four things iOS refuses to tell any app — ringer volume, “Change with Buttons”, Attention Aware Features, and whether the app is hidden. Wakeward asks rather than guessing, because an advisory that says “you are muted” when you are not would destroy the point of the whole feature.
After every alarm: when it was scheduled, when it actually rang, the drift between the two, when you stopped it, and the iOS build it happened on. Where iOS does not report something, the receipt says so rather than inventing a number.
Every part of the reliability engine is free, forever. Charging for “your alarm will actually ring” would make the app's whole claim untrue for most of the people who install it. Pro sells the morning, not the ring.
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Alarms, repeats, labels, snooze | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Rings through Silent mode & Focus | Yes | Yes |
| Backup alarm | Yes | Yes |
| Self-repairing alarm check | Yes | Yes |
| Bedtime pre-flight | Yes | Yes |
| “Test my alarm in 10 seconds” | Yes | Yes |
| Backup notifications | Yes | Yes |
| Widget, Lock Screen & Siri | Yes | Yes |
| Alarm receipts | Last 7 days | Everything |
| Alarm tones | 3 | All 9 + gentle versions |
| Wake-up tasks | Maths only | Maths, typing, memory, steps, wake-up check |
| Wake-time consistency score | — | Yes |
| Wind-down reminder | — | Yes |
| Ads | Small banner | None |
Wakeward Pro is US$4.99/month or US$24.99/year (with a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan), or US$39.99 once for Lifetime. Prices in other regions are set by Apple. Payment is charged to your Apple Account; a subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings, or from Settings › Membership inside the app.
Wakeward cannot control the alarm volume, and neither can any other app. iOS plays alarms at the system ringer volume and offers no API to change it. What Wakeward does control is how loudly its tones are mastered, and every one is built on the 520 Hz low-frequency signal that fire-safety standards mandate for sleeping areas precisely because it wakes people who sleep through higher-pitched sounds.
Apple states plainly that alarms scheduled by hidden or passcode-locked apps silently fail. No app can detect this, so it is genuinely down to you.
If your iPhone's front camera sees you glance at it, iOS quietly reduces the alarm volume. Apps cannot detect or prevent this. You can switch it off in Settings › Face ID & Passcode › Attention Aware Features.
There is a known iOS 26 bug where swiping an alarm away while the phone is unlocked can leave an empty Live Activity stuck in the Dynamic Island. It survives force-quitting and even deleting the app; restarting your iPhone clears it. This affects Apple's own sample code too — it is not something Wakeward can fix.
Earlier versions of iOS 26 have bugs in AlarmKit that stop custom alarm sounds playing or looping correctly. Rather than ship a wake-up alarm on top of those, Wakeward requires 26.2.
Yes. iOS holds the alarm, not Wakeward. It also survives a restart.
Yes. Alarms scheduled through AlarmKit sound through the Ring/Silent switch and through every Focus, including Sleep.
You can, but avoid setting both for the same minute — iOS picks between them unpredictably. If you keep Clock alarms, Wakeward's backup alarm is the safety net.
The alarm list syncs through your own iCloud. Whether a given device actually rings is a separate per-device switch, off by default on iPad, so an iPad on the kitchen counter does not join in at 6:30.
No. It records when your alarms rang and when you stopped them, and computes how consistent your wake time is from that. It does not use the microphone or the accelerometer to guess at sleep stages, because phone-derived sleep stages do not stand up to the evidence.
Email mwsupplylimited@gmail.com. If an alarm has ever failed for you, please include the receipt from the Wake Log — it names the exact iOS build and the drift, which is usually enough to identify the cause.