Rise or Pay Alarm

Your alarm is on the line. When it rings, complete a wake-up challenge to keep it. Skip or fail, and that alarm is deleted — you'll spend Alarm Tokens, the in-app currency, to set a new one.

Rise or Pay is an alarm clock with real stakes and no snooze button. Most alarm apps try to wake you up by being louder or more annoying. Rise or Pay works on the other side of the problem: it gives you a reason to get up. Instead of bargaining with yourself at 6 am, you make a simple deal the night before — rise, or pay in tokens.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Set an alarm and pick a wake-up challenge.
2. When the alarm rings, complete the challenge to keep your alarm.
3. Skip it or fail, and the alarm is deleted. Replacing it costs Alarm Tokens.

FOUR WAYS TO PROVE YOU'RE AWAKE
- MATHS CHALLENGE: solve a quick problem to switch your brain on. Ideal if your mind wakes before your body — nothing kills sleepy autopilot like arithmetic.
- SHAKE CHALLENGE: physically shake your phone until the counter is done. Your arm is moving, your blood is flowing, and going back to sleep suddenly takes effort.
- PHOTO CHALLENGE: take a picture to dismiss the alarm — which can mean getting out of bed to do it. The distance between you and the mattress is the whole point.
- AUDIO CHALLENGE: record a clip to confirm you're properly up. Speaking out loud is a surprisingly hard thing to do while half asleep.

Pick the challenge that suits your mornings, from brain-first to body-first, and change it whenever you like.

WHY A STAKE WORKS WHEN VOLUME DOESN'T
Loud alarms get muted. Annoying alarms get deleted. What actually changes behaviour is a consequence you chose yourself. Losing an alarm stings just enough to make "five more minutes" feel expensive. Alarm Tokens are an in-app currency: you use them to add alarms, and you can top up through in-app purchase. To be clear — there are no cash bets, fines or real-money wagers. The stake is your alarm and your tokens, nothing else.

BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO SLEEP THROUGH EVERYTHING
- Heavy sleepers who silence a regular alarm without ever waking up
- Serial snoozers who set six alarms and negotiate with all of them
- Students with 9 am lectures and early exams
- Shift workers and nurses whose wake-up time changes every week
- Early gym-goers protecting a 5 am session
- Anyone whose morning routine keeps dying by Wednesday

MAKE IT YOURS
- Custom alarm times, repeat days and alarm sounds for every routine
- Multiple alarms for work, uni, the gym, early flights and weekends
- Sign in with Apple for quick, secure access
- Push notifications so upcoming alarms never catch you out
- Camera and microphone are used only to complete photo and audio challenges
- No account clutter, no feed, no noise — just alarms with consequences

SEE YOUR PROGRESS
Track your stats and unlock achievements as your wake-up streak grows. See how often you beat your challenge, spot your weak mornings, and turn small wins into a routine. Rise or Pay is not a sleep tracker, and it won't analyse your night — it focuses on the single moment that decides your morning: the one where you either get up or you don't.

FAIR AND TRANSPARENT
The app is free to download. Alarm Tokens can be earned as a welcome bonus for new users and purchased in packs if you run out. You stay in control of the difficulty and the cost of not showing up.

Download Rise or Pay and turn tomorrow's wake-up into a challenge you intend to win.