Moonshot Lab

Arise

The alarm that stops when you're up

Arise is an iPhone alarm that keeps ringing until you finish a proof you picked the night before: ten pushups, a paragraph typed exactly, or a photo of your kitchen.

Join the beta See a morning

Coming to iPhone. Needs iOS 26.

Arise's streaks page: 19 mornings in a row, 11 mornings to dawnwalker, with the stirring and early riser milestones earned.

A morning with Arise

From the first ring to the proof done, in three steps.

  1. The ringing screen at 6:30: good morning, a sleepy sun over a hill, a rooster, and a begin pushups button.

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    It rings, and keeps ringing

    Arise uses iPhone's own alarm system, so it rings even with a Focus on. Stopping it on the Lock Screen only buys ten seconds.

  2. The typing proof: a paragraph about bakers to copy exactly, with an empty field below.

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    You do the proof

    The alarm turns down while you work, but never goes silent. Every full pushup lights one of the sun's rays.

  3. The record: five weeks of mornings as a calendar, each on-time morning filled in clay.

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    The morning counts

    Your run of mornings grows, and the record keeps every one: on time, late, or the morning you took the emergency exit.

Pick your proof

Each alarm has its own. Try any of them from the alarm editor before you rely on it.

The alarm editor: 6:30 am, repeat days, and the proof list with typing selected and a Try it now button.

Pushups

Prop the phone up and do 5, 10 or 20. The camera counts full reps only, on the phone. Video is never saved.

Typing

Copy a short paragraph exactly, capitals and commas too. No pasting and no autocorrect.

Photo match

Register a spot once, like the kettle or the front door. In the morning, walk there and take the same photo.

Steps

Walk 20, 50 or 100 steps, counted by your iPhone's motion sensor. Out of bed is the hard part.

Built so you can't talk your way out of it

Force-quitting doesn't help
Open Arise again and it goes straight back to the ringing screen or the proof you were on.
One way out, and it costs you
Hold the emergency exit for ten seconds. The alarm stops, and your run of mornings ends.
Wake-Up Check
A few minutes after the proof, Arise asks if you're still up. No tap, and the alarm rings again.

Mornings in a row

Every run of on-time mornings earns a name. Miss one, and you start again from the first.

  • stirring3 mornings
  • early riser7 mornings
  • regular14 mornings
  • dawnwalker30 mornings
  • hill keeper50 mornings
  • sunchaser100 mornings
  • trailblazer200 mornings
  • sunkeeper365 mornings

Try Arise before it's out

Arise is close. Write to us and we'll send you a TestFlight invite as soon as testing opens.

Ask for a TestFlight invite