Most alarms are a sound you silence. Fifi is a call you answer. It rings through Silent mode and a Focus — built on iOS 26 AlarmKit, so the alarm needs no network. Your Lock Screen shows an incoming call with a face and a name. Answer, and one of ten characters reads you your day: last night's note, your forecast, your headlines. An ASMR whisper, a film-noir detective, a nature doc, a drill sergeant, a pantomime baroness, a fairy godmother. 39 ringtones. A backup call. A streak.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
Every alarm app I've used treats waking up as a fight. The category leader
literally markets itself as the world's most annoying alarm clock.
But the real problem isn't the alarm — it's the ten seconds after. You
silence it, you're still horizontal, and you start scrolling. The first
moment of the day goes to nothing.
I wanted the opposite. The idea landed when I thought about how I actually
get woken up most mornings: by my cat. So Fifi doesn't beep. She calls, and
when you answer there's someone on the line who has your day.
Two things I learned building it:
**Reliability stopped being a moat.** iOS has never really let third-party
apps set alarms — before iOS 26 everyone kept a silent audio session running
all night, which dies on reboot or when you swipe the app away. That's the
cause of every "it didn't go off" review in this category. AlarmKit fixed it,
and it fixed it for my competitors too. Which meant the product had to be the
caller, not the clock.
**Characters have to differ by what they DO, not by adjective.** I sampled a
competitor's ten voices and seven were doing the same thing — "you're wasting
your potential, get up" — in different vocabulary. Mine are separated by
speech act: soothes, narrates, observes, orders, taunts, bestows. No two
alike. It's also the only test I found for whether a character still has
anything to say on morning 365.
I also cut CallKit, which gives you Apple's real incoming-call screen and
looked perfect. It needs a VoIP push from a server, so the alarm dies when
the phone is offline. An alarm that needs a network connection is not an alarm.
Happy to answer anything. Which character would you want calling you?
About Fifi on Product Hunt
“An alarm that calls you, and reads you your day”
Fifi launched on Product Hunt on September 15th, 2026 and earned 73 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #26 on the daily leaderboard. Most alarms are a sound you silence. Fifi is a call you answer. It rings through Silent mode and a Focus — built on iOS 26 AlarmKit, so the alarm needs no network. Your Lock Screen shows an incoming call with a face and a name. Answer, and one of ten characters reads you your day: last night's note, your forecast, your headlines. An ASMR whisper, a film-noir detective, a nature doc, a drill sergeant, a pantomime baroness, a fairy godmother. 39 ringtones. A backup call. A streak.
On the analytics side, Fifi competes within iOS, Productivity and Alarms — topics that collectively have 774.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Fifi performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Fifi?
Fifi was hunted by Yancie-Troy. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Fifi including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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