Just 10 more minutes… ⏰😩

We’re all guilty of it: hitting snooze on that alarm not once, not twice, but all the way to “now I’m really late” panic o’clock. We tell ourselves tomorrow will be different. And the next day, we’re once more dashing out the door in a whirlwind of morning-time chaos.

But there’s another way to alarm your way out of bed, and it comes courtesy of Alarmy Pro.

Imagine this alarm was your mum trying to wake you up for school: fall back to sleep at your own peril! When Alarmy Pro goes off, there’s no way to mute or lower the volume. The only way to put an end to its incessant ringing is by completing a mission you’ve chosen for yourself when you set the alarm time.

And these missions are quite the challenge. Math Problems requires you to jump-start your sleepy mind to solve them; Shake asks you to shake your iPhone to reach a set score; Take a Picture will have you clambering out of bed to snap a photo of somewhere or something that matches the image you’ve registered; Memorize Game displays a number of coloured tiles that you must remember the order of; and Barcode/QR-code registers codes on household items like your toothpaste tube, which you must then find in the morning and scan. If you succeed, the alarm shuts off.

Which mission is guaranteed to get you out of bed you might wonder? Well the App Store editors took the Alarmy Pro challenge for themselves and answered resoundingly for ‘Take a picture’.

Now imagine this… You register a picture of a mug from your kitchen cupboard when you set your alarm. When the alarm starts rocking out the next morning, you jump out of bed, dash across your room, through the living room and into the kitchen to retrieve said mug. Now you have to place it on the table, steady yourself and take a photo of it. And just like that, not only will the alarm stop clanging, but you’re wide awake.

The relentlessness of Alarmy Pro may test your morning patience from time to time, but it can also be kind too, boasting a soothing Sleep Music selection that will help you drift off, as well as a Today panel that gives you your daily horoscope, weather forecast and news. Try the challenge for yourself and you might just become the reluctant early bird we all strive to be.