Wake Circles
Wake Circles and challenges
A streak nobody sees is a promise to yourself. A streak four people see is a different kind of promise.
Wake Circles
A Circle is a small private group — roommates, a team, a family, three friends who all claim they are morning people. Two to twenty is the sweet spot.
Private by default
A Circle is not a profile and not a feed. Nobody outside it sees your mornings, and there is no public directory to be found in.
You join by invitation
A link, a QR code, or a short code you can read out loud. No contact upload, no scanning your address book, no suggesting people you half know.
A shared board
Every verified morning appears on the Circle's weekly board — and so does every morning that did not happen. That asymmetry is the entire point.
One reaction
Props. One tap, one positive signal, nothing to compose. No comments and no DMs, which keeps a morning habit from becoming another inbox.
Four ways to compete
Time-bounded, so there is always a reason to care about this week specifically.
Consistency Race
Most verified mornings over the week takes it. The purest version — showing up is the whole game.
Best for: a group with different schedules
1v1 Duel
Seven days, head to head, one point per planned morning completed. No bonus for extra reps.
Best for: one friend who keeps talking
Team Goal
A shared number — thirty earned mornings between all of you. Nobody wins individually, so a strong week from one person genuinely helps everyone.
Best for: teams and households
First-Ring Week
Completing your chosen wake target on schedule, for as many planned mornings as possible. Your actual alarm time stays private; only the outcome is scored.
Best for: fixing a slipping routine
Why we do not rank by reps
It would be easy to sort a leaderboard by total repetitions. It would also be irresponsible.
A volume leaderboard tells a competitive person that the way to win is to do more push-ups, before breakfast, half awake, every single day, with nobody watching their form. That is a straightforward path to an injury, and it has nothing to do with waking up well.
So the ranking is built on mornings earned, completion percentage and streak, with on-time completion as the tie-breaker. Reps show up as a statistic because people like seeing them. They are not what you win on.
Local Morning League
Optional, off by default, and deliberately blunt about location.
If you turn it on, Wakeletics resolves your position to a city or metro region — Bratislava, Prague, Huntsville — and then discards the precise coordinate. What gets stored is the region identifier. Nothing finer.
You can also just pick your city from a list and never share location at all.
The league runs in weekly seasons and ranks the same way Circles do: mornings earned, not reps. Nobody in it can see where you live, how far you moved, or what time your alarm is set for.
Nudge
A friend in your Circle can send one wordless nudge if a planned morning has not happened after a grace period you configure. It is opt-in, rate-limited to one per friend per morning, quiet-hours aware, and carries no free text — so it can be a reminder, never a lecture. Turn it off globally or per Circle at any time.