Earn your mornings.
Wake up.
Wakeletics turns your alarm into a camera-verified push-up or squat challenge. Real reps, counted on your phone. The morning doesn't start until your body does.
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- Rep counting
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- Movements
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What Wakeletics is
An alarm with a condition attached.
Not a fitness tracker. Not another clock app with a workout bolted on. Wakeletics is one idea, executed properly: the morning doesn't count until your body has done something about it.
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A real alarm
Built on the alarm framework Apple ships for exactly this job. It shows on the Lock Screen and cuts through silent mode and Focus.
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A workout gate
When it fires, you land on one screen: your camera, your rep count, and the number you have to reach.
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Verified reps
Your phone watches your joints and counts only the repetitions that genuinely happen. Half reps move nothing.
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A streak worth keeping
Finish and it's logged. Stop early and it isn't. After a week you stop arguing with the alarm.
How it works
Four steps. Thirty seconds to set up.
Set the target
Pick a time, pick push-ups or squats, pick a number. Ten reps is a real morning. Start lower if you want — the app won't push you into a number you shouldn't be doing at 6 AM.
The alarm fires
A proper system alarm, built on the framework Apple ships for exactly this — able to cut through silent mode and Focus, and show up on the Lock Screen like an alarm should.
The camera counts
Prop the phone against something and move. Wakeletics tracks your joints in real time, shows you a live skeleton, and counts the reps that actually happen.
Morning earned
Hit the target and the streak is yours. Stop early and it isn't. That's the entire deal, and it's the reason it works.
Why it works
Because a button can't tell if you're awake.
It removes the decision
Snooze works because dismissing an alarm costs nothing. Ten push-ups cost something. By the time you've paid, the argument is already over.
Movement beats sleep inertia
The fog after an alarm doesn't lift because you sat up. It lifts because your heart rate did. Wakeletics puts that in the first sixty seconds of your day.
Proof changes behaviour
A streak you can't fake is worth more than one you can. Every morning in Wakeletics was verified by a camera, which is exactly why the number means something.
Other people are watching
Put four friends in a Wake Circle and skipping stops being private. Accountability does more for a habit than motivation ever has.
Rep verification
Half reps don't count.
Every repetition runs through a state machine: valid start position, real depth, controlled return, in that order. A bounce at the bottom moves nothing. Lose the frame and it pauses rather than guessing.
Live skeleton
You see exactly what the app sees, drawn only where tracking is actually confident.
Framing that helps
MOVE BACK. FULL BODY. TOO DARK. Plain instructions instead of a spinner and a silent failure.
Feel every rep
A haptic tick and a tone on each valid rep, so you never have to look at the screen mid-set.
Push-ups
Side-on to the camera. We watch elbow angle, body line and the return to full extension. Sag your hips or stop halfway and the counter stays put.
Squats
Face the camera. Hip, knee and ankle angles decide whether you actually got low enough. Standing back up resets the rep — no bouncing your way to ten.
Privacy
Your camera never leaves your phone.
Pose detection runs entirely on-device. No frame is uploaded, stored, or sent to a server — not for processing, not for review, not later.
What syncs is a number. The exercise, the rep count, whether you finished. That's the whole payload.
- No video upload, ever
- No cloud vision API in the rep path
- No precise location — city-level at most, and only if you opt in
- Share cards never include your wake time or camera imagery
Wake Circles
Someone is going to notice.
Put your roommates, your team, or three friends in a Circle. Every verified morning lands on a shared board — and so does every morning you skip.
Ranked by mornings earned and consistency, never by who did the most reps. Rewarding volume at 6 AM is how people get hurt, so we don't.
Consistency Race
Most verified mornings this week takes it.
1v1 Duel
Seven days, head to head, one point per morning.
Team Goal
Thirty mornings between all of you. Nobody wins alone.
Local Morning League
Your city's weekly board. Region only — never your address.
Early testers
The people who got up first.
Wakeletics is still in development. These are the people testing it before anyone else.
“I built this because I lost the same argument with my alarm every single morning for years. The moment the phone started counting reps, the argument stopped being winnable.”
“I expected to hate it. What actually happens is you do eight push-ups while still annoyed, and then you are just awake — which never happened with a snooze button.”
“The part that got me was that it refuses to count a half rep. You cannot talk your way past it the way you can talk your way past yourself at 6 AM.”
Wakeletics gear
Coming soon.
Kit for people who get up. Drop your morning in first — the shop opens later.
Training teeSoon
CapSoon
BottleSoon
ShakerSoon
TowelSoon
RollerSoon
ExpandersSoon
MatSoon
PillowSoon
CupSoon
Straight answers
The questions people actually ask.
- Can I just turn the alarm off without doing the reps?
- You can always stop the sound — iOS guarantees that, and an alarm you genuinely could not silence would be unsafe. What you can't do is get credit for it. Stop early and the morning is logged incomplete, the streak resets, and your Circle sees the gap.
- What if I'm injured, or it's an emergency?
- There's an emergency exit on the workout screen, always reachable. It ends the session immediately. The morning counts as incomplete and your streak resets — but you're never trapped.
- Does it work in a dark bedroom?
- Up to a point, and it tells you when it can't. Below a usable light level Wakeletics pauses counting and asks you to turn on a light rather than inventing reps you didn't do.
- Can I cheat it?
- Not easily, and not by half-repping. The recognition rejects partial range, duplicate bounces and lost tracking. It isn't unbeatable — but you'd have to work harder at cheating than at doing ten push-ups.
- Is there an Android version?
- Not yet. Wakeletics is built on iOS-specific alarm and vision frameworks, and we would rather ship one platform properly than two badly.