All questions, answered

Risly is an anti-snooze alarm clock for iPhone. Its alarms can only be silenced by completing a wake-up mission — scanning an object, solving math, shaking the phone or doing push-ups. There is no snooze button.

Three things: there is no snooze button, dismissing requires completing a physical or mental mission, and alarms are built on Apple's AlarmKit so they ring through silent mode and Focus. A standard alarm asks you to wake up; Risly checks that you did.

Same family, different backbone. Risly is built natively on AlarmKit, Apple's system alarm framework from iOS 26, so alarms fire like the built-in Clock app — through silent mode, Focus, and even a force-quit — instead of relying on notification tricks. Add a focused mission set, streaks with Sun-Ninja grades, 18 languages, and no ads inside.

That's exactly who it's built for. Risly is a loud alarm clock for heavy sleepers: it rings at full volume through silent mode and Focus, there is no snooze button, and the only way to stop it is a mission that gets your body or brain moving. If you can sleep through that, we'd like to study you.

Risly requires iOS 26 or later. That's what makes the unstoppable alarm possible.

The unstoppable alarm relies on AlarmKit, which Apple introduced in iOS 26 — older versions simply can't guarantee the alarm fires. Android isn't supported for now.

18 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

The alarm rings anyway, at full volume. Risly uses AlarmKit, Apple's system-level alarm framework introduced with iOS 26, which is designed to break through silent mode, Focus and Do Not Disturb.

Yes. Risly is built on Apple's AlarmKit, so alarms break through Focus, Do Not Disturb and the silent switch — reliably, at full volume.

No. Because alarms are scheduled at the system level, force-quitting Risly doesn't stop the alarm. The mission remains the only exit.

No. Alarms are scheduled with the system, so Risly doesn't need to run in the background all night.

Disable the alarm the night before — you're in control before it rings. Once it rings, the mission is the only way out. That's the point.

Every mission has an accessible fallback so you're never trapped: for example, a camera mission can fall back to math. The fallback is deliberately not easier than getting up.

Yes. Alarms can be one-off or recurring per weekday, so shift workers and nappers can build their own patterns.

You get 3 full days of everything, free. After that, Risly is a single annual subscription with the price always shown upfront — cancel anytime from your Apple account.

Risly is free for 3 days — enough to win your first mornings. After that it's a simple annual subscription, cancel anytime.

Camera processing for scan and push-up missions happens entirely on-device — images never leave your iPhone. Risly collects anonymous usage analytics and subscription status, and nothing is ever sold to advertisers.

No account is required to wake up. Your alarms and streak live on your device.