Alarm at 9:00
Same time every day. But your mornings aren't the same — so a fixed reminder can come too early or too late.
Your morning starts when you wake up
Not at 7:00 sharp. Not at sunrise. SinceWake anchors your reminders to the minute your morning actually began — the moment you pick up your iPhone after the night, confirmed with one tap — and the whole chain shifts with you.
Overslept till 9:42? Everything moves with you. No edits, no guilt.
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The problem
Fixed-time reminders lie about your morning
“Meds at 9:00” fires while you're still asleep — or an hour after breakfast. Morning rules aren't clock rules: empty-stomach meds, sunlight in the first 30 minutes, coffee after 90. They all count from one moment the clock doesn't know.
Reminders timed since wake
Fires when your morning actually begins. Slept in on Sunday? One tap when you pick up the phone, and the chain follows you.
How it works
Wake. Answer. Remind.
Your iPhone already recorded the night
The motion chip keeps its own log of stillness and movement for days. SinceWake reads that history in the morning — nothing has to run while you sleep.
It asks — it never decides for you
The first time you pick up the phone — or take your first steps — after hours of stillness, inside your wake window, SinceWake asks: “Are you up?” Yes anchors the morning at the minute the phone moved. No — or no answer — and it simply asks again the next time you pick the phone up. The question vibrates and lights the screen; it makes no sound. If nothing has been seen by your usual hour, a morning check-in asks the same question 45 minutes after your typical wake time — the one alert with a sound, and it can be switched off.
Your chain fires from that minute
Meds right away, sunlight by +30, first coffee at +90. The wake time is the minute the phone moved, not the minute you answered, so a +30 step still lands thirty minutes after you woke.
Nothing to detect — a hotel nap, a phone left in the kitchen? Tap “I'm awake” and the chain runs from that minute.
Prefer no minutes at all? Switch the chain to In order: the steps become a plain checklist, the morning is on the first one not ticked, a tick moves it on, and a step left unticked for 15 minutes is reminded of once. The morning closes on its own three hours after you woke — both numbers are yours to change.
Stage two
A watch will make it sharper — never required
The iPhone app is available now: one question, one tap. The Apple Watch companion is the next stage, and this is what it adds.
- Fewer morning questions. When steps and heart rate from the wrist agree on when the night ended, that is corroboration a phone cannot get, and the morning will anchor itself before you've found your slippers. When they disagree — a night trip, a vivid dream — it asks instead of guessing.
- Reminders on whichever device is closer. Tick a step on the watch, see it done on the phone.
- The complication keeps detection warm. Keep SinceWake on your active face and the watch stays on the case overnight.
Charging the watch tonight? The iPhone takes over. Never owned one? The iPhone asks you instead — one question when you pick it up.
In the box
Made to be touched, not just heard
Your next step on the Lock Screen
A Live Activity keeps the step you are on, and the hour it is due, on the Lock Screen until your morning is done — the hour, never “in 13 minutes”: a banner is read long after it was drawn, right under the clock. The Dynamic Island shows the sunrise and the minute your morning began.
Mark it done anywhere
Tick a step on the watch, see it done on the phone — completions sync both ways, instantly.
Act from the notification
Hold the notification and tap Done — without opening the app.
Interface previews are illustrative. The actual app may look different, but the core functionality remains the same.
Privacy
Your night never leaves your devices
No server. No account. No analytics. Sleep and motion data are read on your devices and stay there. SinceWake never writes to Health and has nothing to sell — except the app itself.
Pricing
Full access on every plan
No crippled free tier and nothing held back: whichever plan you pick, you get the whole app — unlimited reminders and morning chains, timed or as a plain checklist, the Lock Screen banner, protocol templates, wake-time history. The yearly plan starts with two weeks free.
Monthly
$4.99/mo
- Month to month
- Cancel any time in App Store settings
14 days free
Yearly
$29.99/yr
- About $2.50 a month, billed once a year
- Two full weeks free — enough mornings to know
- Cancel before day 14 and pay nothing
Lifetime
$69.99 once
- Pay once, updates included
- No renewal to remember
US prices shown; your App Store lists the local price for your region. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled.
Questions
Before you install
Do I need an Apple Watch?
No. The iPhone's motion chip keeps its own record of stillness and movement, and SinceWake reads it in the morning — nothing has to be running while you sleep. When you pick the phone up after the night it asks “Are you up?”, and one tap starts the chain. The Apple Watch companion is stage two: worn overnight it will add heart rate and wrist movement, so the anchor lands sooner and is questioned less often.
What if it gets my wake-up wrong?
It can't get it wrong on its own: no morning starts without your Yes. Answered Yes too early by mistake? Reset the wake-up in the app, and the next pickup asks again. Slept through the question? The pickup question is never repeated on a timer — only when the phone moves again — so it cannot wake you. The one timed alert is the morning check-in, 45 minutes after your typical wake time, and it can be switched off in Settings. Woke up without touching the phone? Tap “I'm awake”, or set the exact minute by hand.
Does anything about my sleep leave the phone?
No. There is no server, no account, no analytics and no ads. Sleep and motion are read on your devices and stay there. Even the diagnostics file is written to your phone and goes nowhere unless you send it yourself. See the privacy policy.
What does it cost?
$4.99 a month, $29.99 a year with the first 14 days free, or $69.99 once for lifetime access. Every option is the whole app — there is no limited free tier. US prices shown; your App Store lists the local price.
What happens when I have done everything on the list?
The morning ends there. Tick off the last step and the counter settles, the Lock Screen banner comes down, and whatever reminders were still due today are dropped — untick one and it comes back. A chain running in order also closes on its own a set number of hours after you woke, three unless you change it, and whatever is left unticked is marked missed.
Can I skip the minutes and just have a list?
Yes. In Edit reminders switch the chain from By time to In order. The steps keep only their order, dragged into shape; the morning is on the first step not ticked, and ticking it moves the banner on. The first step is announced when your morning begins, and a step still unticked 15 minutes after the one before it gets one reminder — never a second. Your steps keep their minutes for when you switch back.
More in support — including how to send us a morning that went wrong.
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