NeuroAlarm – No Escape Alarm

Alarm clock for heavy sleepers: it keeps ringing until you complete a real wake-up challenge. Walk 100 metres. Climb stairs. Scan a QR code in another room. Solve maths. No ads, no account, no tracking.

You hit snooze. Again. NeuroAlarm ends that: the challenge is the off-switch, and there is no shortcut around it.

HOW IT WORKS
Set the alarm, pick a challenge, set the difficulty. When it fires, the ring screen takes over – even on a locked phone – and stays until the challenge is done. Snooze is rationed: 2 by default (or 0), each one shorter than the last, then none. Emergency Wake Mode forces full volume with no snooze at all.

20 WAKE-UP CHALLENGES

Get out of bed (sensor-verified):
• Steps – walk 20 to 500 steps, counted by the step sensor
• Walk – 50 to 500 m outdoors, GPS-verified, fake-location detection
• Run – 500 to 3,000 m with a pace check
• Stair Climb – real altitude gain from the barometer; lifts don't count (needs a barometer)
• Squats – reps counted by the motion sensor

Camera and voice:
• Photo – point the camera at a real object, say your kettle or front door; recognition runs on the phone and your photos are never uploaded
• QR scan – tape a code to the bathroom mirror; the off-switch lives in another room
• Voice – out-shout your alarm for 5 to 15 seconds

Brain on (easy to brutal):
• Maths • Memory sequence • Stroop colour test • Number Stroop • Arrow Flanker • Pattern • Anagram • Captcha typing • Trivia • Reaction time • Mini Sudoku
• Calm breathing – a timed box-breathing round for gentler mornings

Chain two challenges back to back with Compound alarms.

BUILT TO NOT BE BEATEN
• Survives reboots and power-off, and fires on a fully locked screen
• Optional uninstall lock stops a half-asleep you from deleting the app
• Emergency Dismiss exists, but you must type a long phrase by hand and it is logged as a surrender – never as a wake

ACTUALLY PRIVATE
No ads. No account. No email. No analytics SDK. No tracking. Photo recognition runs on the phone. Your alarms, wake history and recordings stay on your device.

Internet is used for the optional Pro purchase (Google Play) and by Google's ML Kit, which sends anonymous diagnostics when you use Photo or QR – never your images.

STAY UP – DON'T DRIFT BACK (PRO)
• Night Lock – from bedtime until it rings, your alarms are locked; unlock early only by solving a hard maths round, so a half-asleep you can't quietly turn tomorrow off
• Back-to-Bed Guard – dismiss the alarm, lie back down, and it rings again; it watches for you settling back to sleep and re-rings the same challenge
• Surprise Me – pick a pool of challenges and one is drawn at random each night, so there's no rehearsing the easy one
• Own-Voice Wake Message – record your own voice; it plays before the tone and repeats to pull you out of bed

MORE IN PRO
• Wake Insights – weekly wake report, trends, weekday breakdown, chronotype fit, CSV export (headline stats are free)
• 30-Day Wake Reset – a structured programme scored from real challenge wakes, not tick-boxes (Day 1 is free)
• Smart Wake – rings early in the 30 minutes before your alarm if you're already stirring
• Sunrise simulation, a 15-track ambient library, three voice packs (Calm Coach, Drill Sergeant, ASMR Whisper), premium haptics and themes
• Your wake streak on the home-screen widget, and a ring screen that follows your chosen theme
• Optional Health Connect sleep logging, on-device

FREE vs PRO
Free: Quick Alarm (tap to dismiss), two full challenges – Maths and Squats – so you can feel the no-escape wake before you pay, and a home-screen widget for your next alarm. No ads, ever.
Pro: every challenge and every Pro feature above. Choose monthly, yearly, or pay once for lifetime. New yearly subscribers get a 7-day free trial – cancel any time, including during the trial.

If you are done oversleeping and want an alarm that does not let you off the hook – a challenge alarm for heavy sleepers, no snooze escape, no ads – install NeuroAlarm.