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Notes on waking up
Alarm reliability, iOS 26 AlarmKit, and honest comparisons.
The heavy sleeper's wake-up kit: 7 things that actually work
Apps, hardware, and habits that make waking up mandatory instead of optional — in the order we'd buy them.
7 alarms you physically can't sleep through, ranked
Ranked by one metric: how hard is it to defeat half-asleep? Snoozing counts as defeat.
How to wake up when you've slept through everything
Louder isn't working. A 7-step system: friction, missions, vibration, light, and timing.
What is AlarmKit? iOS 26's alarm framework, explained
The first time Apple ever opened the real alarm pipeline to developers — what changed, and which apps use it.
Your alarm app has been lying to you (and it wasn't its fault)
Until iOS 26, iPhone treated third-party alarms as notifications — mutable, suppressible, killable. AlarmKit changed everything.
AlarmPop vs Alarmy: which alarm app actually gets you out of bed?
Missions, reliability, privacy, and price — an honest head-to-head, including what Alarmy does better.