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Smart Wake times your alarm to your lightest sleep. Night Mode simulates sunrise. A spoken briefing starts your morning. Underneath: an engineering guarantee that no alarm can end in silence — layered fallbacks through audio, haptics, and Apple Watch.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Mark, a solo developer from Pittsburgh. I've spent the last 17 months building Alora Wake around one question: "If this fails, what wakes the user?"
Every alarm app promises to wake you. But if you're a heavy sleeper, you know the real story — the alarm that didn't fire because of a silent update, the streaming song that never played, the "smart" alarm that decided you didn't need waking. So the fix becomes three alarms, ten minutes apart, at maximum volume. You wake up — into a cortisol spike.
I didn't think gentle and reliable should be a tradeoff.
I'm a pilot and veteran — about 30 years in aviation, where a missed wake-up is never an option — and I built Alora Wake to that standard, like safety-critical software. Every code path that could end in silence routes to a fallback: primary audio → bundled sound → haptics → Apple Watch. A watchdog literally checks that audio is actually playing seconds after fire time, and escalates if it isn't. I call the invariant NO SILENT ALARM — a wake path without a fallback doesn't ship.
On top of that foundation, the mornings get nice: Smart Wake uses your heart rate and motion to catch your lightest sleep in the wake window. Night Mode fills your room with a slow sunrise. When you dismiss, a calm spoken briefing gives you weather, calendar, and how you slept. And if you're the kind of sleeper who's slept through everything — 11 dismissal challenges, plus a backup contact who gets notified if you sleep through it all.
It's free to try, with a 7-day trial on premium.
I'll be here all day. Honest question for the heavy sleepers: what's the worst thing an alarm app has ever done to you? I've spent 17 months making sure this one can't do it.
Did my first test run this morning and it was great. Purposely let it go for a few minutes to see how the system reacted and the escalation worked as advertised! Enjoyed the messages and “what to expect for the day” blurbs. Fantastic app!
Alora Wake has been great for me. As a person who travels quite a bit, I can get thrown off by time zone changes and long schedules. Alora Wake helps me pull out of my deep sleep and keeps my attention so I don’t lay my head back on the pillow. My mornings have gotten much better with the ready for bed prep that lets me know when to shut down for the night and get some rest. I turn my phone to night mode and use the ocean sound to mimic my kids sound machines when I’m on the road. My sleep has been excellent during travel now. The health tracker capability shows my sleep trends are similar to what I get at home even when on the road.
The text a friend to let them know you’ve over slept is a great buddy system function. You can share a teammates number and have them get a text if you’ve over slept the alarm. Keeps people honest for each other!
The daily briefing keeps me on track to start my meetings and calls on time and gets me out the door ready to go after my day.
The tone options and the availability to use a specific song on Apple Music is also a great function. No longer do I hear what would sound like a nuclear reactor warning.
I definitely recommend this app, even if you aren’t a heavy sleeper. There’s so much value in one spot!
@Alora Wake Hi Mark, love having the option of a gentle, sunrise wakening with a daily calendar. Helps start my day off on the right foot.
I love this app. I sleep in the dark and the sunrise feature gives me light on my schedule which really helps me wake up gently.
I am a problem sleeper, not able to keep a regular schedule for sleep duration or wake up. I think this will be a solution for me.
As a masters track and field athlete, the state of my nervous system affects my performance. This app has features that gradually prime me for wake up and helps me to feel sharp and energetic when I wake up. This helps me both at work and for track. I will be using it for the Masters Championship to ensure my nervous system is at its best and ensure that I wake up and that I’m ready to go on time.
I found Alora very intuitive to use and setup. While I’ve no challenges to wake up when desired (growing up in the pre-digital world taught skills later generations needn’t worry about), I did find the the display of my day’s scheduled events at the ready very handy. I can see the value of the app to those who regularly change time zones either physically or working corporate jobs with associates / customers in different time zones.
This is brilliant. I, too, am a veteran (30 years in the Marines) and never had the option of oversleeping. I used to place various electric and manual clocks hidden around my bedroom in order to sleep “at peace” in case power went out, etc. I really love the concept here of the gentle wake and using creative alternatives for pulling me out of my heavy slumbers. Very excited to explore this app even more! Thank you!
I like the Gentle Wake feature as the sounds seem to begin my waking process before the actual alarm goes off, making it much less jarring to hear the alarm. I feel more prepared to start my day. After trying a few different Gentle Wake sounds, I think Night Chord is my favorite.
Wow! Absolutely love the idea of the alarm adjusting my wake up time for changes in traffic and weather. The morning briefing is a nice touch as well.
I am not a deep sleeper, by any means. I'm the opposite. However, I do know that after a long night of tossing and turning and I finally crash. Waking can be an issue. I've slept thru some raucous surroundings.
I thought I would give this a try for Mark, but alas. I am an android user. So I can't get it. Seems that only means that the product is literally missing half the market. Sounds great though.
The sunrise simulation actually got me out of bed calmer than I expected, and having the spoken briefing kick in right after felt like a small luxury. The fallbacks for audio and haptics are a smart touch for deep sleepers.
About Alora Wake on Product Hunt
“Wakes you gently and always wakes you”
Alora Wake was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 21 upvotes and 24 comments, placing #38 on the daily leaderboard. Smart Wake times your alarm to your lightest sleep. Night Mode simulates sunrise. A spoken briefing starts your morning. Underneath: an engineering guarantee that no alarm can end in silence — layered fallbacks through audio, haptics, and Apple Watch.
Alora Wake was featured in iOS (110.5k followers) and Health & Fitness (82.9k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 65.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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