Alarms That Actually Work
Built on Apple's AlarmKit — fires through Silent Mode, Do Not Disturb, every Focus mode, and device restarts. System-level reliability that notification-based apps can't match. How it works →
The iPhone alarm that fires through Silent Mode & DND
Rouse is built on Apple's AlarmKit — the same system-level technology as the built-in Clock app — so your alarm sounds through Silent Mode, Do Not Disturb, every Focus mode, and device restarts. Then it goes further: voice-coached routines for mornings and workouts, milestone countdowns for the dates that matter, and sleep insights generated entirely on your device.
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Reliable Alarms. Timed Routines. On-Device AI.
Everything you need to sleep better, wake up on time, and build routines that stick.
Voice Coaching
Hands-free voice announcements coach you through every routine step — transitions, countdowns, elapsed and remaining time. Stay on track without checking your phone.
HIIT Repeat Groups
Loop exercises with second-precision timing. Tabata, EMOM, custom circuits — voice coaching announces every round and transition. 3 ready-made HIIT presets included. See the HIIT timer →
22 Routine Presets
Morning, HIIT, Pomodoro, meditation, study, kids bedtime, shift work, and more. Browse the library, preview any routine, and start with one tap. Morning routines →
On-Device Sleep Insights
Nightly sleep reports and insights that adapt as your habits improve, plus a Rise Briefing each morning — all generated on your device with Apple Intelligence. Your sleep data never leaves your iPhone.
10 Wake-Up Missions
Math, Shake, QR Code, Steps, Pattern, Photo Match, Typing, and more. Chain multiple missions together. 2 free, 8 more with Premium.
Timers with Voice
Cooking timers, nap alarms, focus blocks — with voice countdowns and Timer Check that follows up to confirm you noticed. Fires through Silent Mode.
Bedside Clock & Sleep
13 clock faces, automatic sleep tracking, 45 premium sounds, 8 noise generators (white, pink, brown, and more), HealthKit integration, and 22 achievement badges.
Back Up & Restore
Export your alarms, timers, routines, and countdowns to a file you keep, and import it on a new iPhone. No account means nothing of yours sits on a server — so the backup is yours, not ours. Free for everyone.
See Rouse in Action
Real screens from the app — alarms, routines, missions, countdowns, and the bedside clock.
Routines for Every Part of Your Day
Timed steps. Voice coaching. Hands-free. Build your own or choose from 22 presets across 7 categories.
Morning Routines
Stretch, shower, breakfast, commute prep — each step timed and announced. Stay on track without watching the clock. Presets: Quick Start, Full Morning, Parent Rush. Learn more →
HIIT & Fitness
Tabata (20s/10s), EMOM, custom circuits with repeat groups. Voice announces round numbers and transitions. Second-precision steps for interval training. Learn more →
Focus & Pomodoro
25-minute focus blocks with 5-minute breaks, deep work sessions, study blocks with active practice and review. Voice coaching keeps you accountable without breaking flow. Pomodoro timer →
Wellness & Meditation
Morning mobility, guided meditation structure, desk breaks, breathing exercises. Gentle voice cues keep you present without needing to watch a screen.
Evening & Kids
Wind-down routines, bedtime structure for kids, after-school schedules. Timed steps make transitions predictable for the whole family.
Shift Work & ADHD
Pre-shift prep, post-shift wind-down, and structured daily routines. External timers and voice prompts provide the structure that shift schedules and executive function challenges demand. ADHD routines →
One routine is free with full voice coaching and up to 5 steps. Premium unlocks unlimited routines, unlimited steps, and HIIT repeat groups.
Try Rouse FreeWhy Choose Rouse Over Other Alarm Apps?
Most alarm apps were built on notifications that can be silenced. Rouse was built from day one on Apple's AlarmKit for system-level reliability.
| Feature | Rouse (AlarmKit) | Traditional Notification-Based Apps |
|---|---|---|
| Works in Silent Mode | ✓ | ✗ |
| Works in Do Not Disturb | ✓ | ✗ |
| Works in Focus modes | ✓ | ✗ |
| Survives device restart | ✓ | ~ |
| Fires when app is force-quit | ✓ | ~ |
| Timed routines with voice coaching | ✓ | ✗ |
| HIIT repeat groups (Tabata, EMOM) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Timer voice announcements | ✓ | ✗ |
| On-device sleep insights | ✓ | Varies |
| Wake-up missions | 10 types + chains | Varies |
| Milestone countdowns with auto-flip | ✓ | ✗ |
| One-tap holiday countdown templates | 31 across 7 categories | ✗ |
| Recurring countdowns (weekly/monthly/yearly) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Sobriety / habit streak tracking | ✓ | ✗ |
Comparison reflects alarm apps that schedule alarms via standard iOS notifications. Some competitors are adopting AlarmKit on iOS 26; capabilities vary by app and version. Verified June 2026. See our honest Rouse vs. Alarmy comparison and AlarmKit explainer.
Count Down to Every Milestone
Birthdays, retirements, sobriety, due dates, anniversaries, vacations, exam dates, holidays, project deadlines — Rouse tracks them all in one place.
Point a countdown at any future date and watch the time shrink toward it. Point one at any past date and it counts up from that moment. The same countdown auto-flips when the target arrives — your due-date countdown becomes your baby's age, your wedding countdown becomes your anniversary counter. One thing to set, forever useful.
Recurring countdowns roll forward automatically. Set Christmas, Mother's Day, or your billing date once — Rouse silently advances to the next occurrence as soon as each one passes. Pick weekly, monthly, or yearly recurrence per countdown. Alerts on recurring countdowns re-aim themselves at each new target, so "1 day before Christmas" fires every December 24 forever.
31 one-tap holiday templates. Christmas, Easter, Eid al-Fitr, Lunar New Year, Hanukkah, Passover, Mother's Day, Thanksgiving, St. Patrick's Day, the solstices and equinoxes — organized by category (Major, United States, Christian, Jewish, Islamic, East Asian, Seasonal) with your region's holidays surfaced first. One tap and it's on your Home tab, dated correctly, recurring yearly. Browse every holiday countdown →
Track streaks for the count-ups that matter. Sobriety days, no-spend days, no-social-media days, exercise streaks — any "days since" can opt into streak tracking. Rouse surfaces a trophy with your longest run so far and counts every reset. Beat your own record.
Tap the time to cycle the format. See "100 hours" — or "4 days, 4 hours" — or "2 years, 3 months, 1 week, 4 days, 11 hours, 55 minutes, 4 seconds." Each countdown remembers your preferred format, so the milestones you check daily look exactly how you want them to. The same cycling works on stopwatches and timers, so anywhere you see time in Rouse you can dial in the unit that makes sense.
Lock Screen widget keeps your most important date visible without opening the app. Pin a countdown to feature it. Time-zone safe — crossing borders never changes the elapsed or remaining duration. The free tier includes 2 countdowns; Premium unlocks unlimited. All templates, recurrence, streak tracking, and display-format cycling are free. More on the countdown & day counter →
- Personal milestones: birthdays, anniversaries, sobriety dates, weddings, graduations, retirements.
- Family: due dates, baby's age in days/weeks/months, kids' big-day countdowns.
- Holidays & observances: Christmas, Easter, Eid al-Fitr, Lunar New Year, Hanukkah, Passover, Thanksgiving, and 24 more — one-tap templates.
- Work: project deadlines, launch dates, contract renewals, performance review cycles.
- School: exam dates, semester ends, graduation, application deadlines.
- Travel & events: vacations, concerts, sports event days, festival dates.
- Habits: sobriety streaks, no-spend days, exercise streaks, screen-time resets — opt-in streak tracking with best-streak history.
Why People Switch to Rouse
Silent Mode & DND
Voice Coaching
HIIT Intervals
22 Routine Presets
On-Device Sleep Insights
10 Wake Missions
Built on Apple's AlarmKit — the same system-level alarm technology as the built-in Clock app.
No Accounts. No Tracking. No Ads.
An alarm app sees when you sleep, when you wake, and how well you rested. Rouse treats that as yours.
No accounts. No tracking. No analytics. No ads. Rouse has no accounts of any kind — nothing to sign into, nothing to delete. There is no advertising SDK, no third-party analytics, and no in-app analytics events. Apple's privacy manifest for Rouse declares no tracking and an empty tracking-domains list, and you can verify that on the App Store listing itself.
Your sleep and health data never leaves your device — not even to us. Every AI feature — nightly sleep reports, insights, and the morning Rise Briefing — is generated on your iPhone using Apple Foundation Models. Devices without Apple Intelligence get built-in summaries, also produced on-device. There is no cloud AI in Rouse.
The complete network list. The only network requests Rouse makes are your App Store purchase (processed by Apple and RevenueCat), Apple's WeatherKit for the weather in your morning briefing, and a small static settings file it downloads at launch. That list is exhaustive — everything else, from alarms and timers to routines, countdowns, and sleep tracking, works with no connection at all.
Health data stays under your control. Rouse reads and writes sleep records only with the HealthKit permissions you grant, managed in Apple's Health app and revocable whenever you want. See why Rouse is the private alarm clock for iPhone, or read the full privacy policy →
No Tracking
No Ads
No Accounts
Works Offline
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$2.99
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- Unlimited routines & HIIT repeat groups
- Sleep insights & Rise Briefing
- All 10 mission types
- Timer voice announcements
- 45 premium alarm & sleep sounds
- Smart Alarm & custom themes
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$24.99
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Start Free, Upgrade AnytimeFrequently Asked Questions
More detail on the App Store listing and in Support.
Reliability
Yes. Rouse is built on Apple's AlarmKit technology, which fires alarms at the system level — just like the built-in iOS Clock app. Alarms fire through Silent Mode, Do Not Disturb, all Focus modes, and even after device restarts.
Rouse is built natively on Apple's AlarmKit (iOS 26), so alarms fire at the system level rather than as notifications that Silent Mode, DND, or Focus can suppress. Beyond reliable alarms, Rouse adds timed routines with voice coaching, HIIT repeat groups, milestone countdowns with holiday templates and streak tracking, and on-device sleep insights — a combination no other alarm app offers in one place.
Rouse requires iOS 26 or later. It uses Apple's AlarmKit framework, only available on iOS 26+, which provides system-level alarm reliability that notification-based apps cannot match.
Routines & Timers
Rouse includes 22 ready-made routine presets across 7 categories: Morning, HIIT/Fitness, Focus/Pomodoro, Wellness/Meditation, Evening/Wind-Down, Kids/Family, and Shift Work. Each routine has timed steps with voice coaching that announces transitions, countdowns, and time remaining. HIIT repeat groups support Tabata, EMOM, and custom circuits with second-precision timing. One routine is free with full voice coaching; Premium unlocks unlimited routines and repeat groups.
Yes. Rouse's timed routines with voice coaching provide external structure for mornings — hands-free step announcements keep you on track without checking a screen. Each step has its own countdown timer so you always know how much time you have. The routine library includes presets designed for structured mornings, and you can customize your own with specific durations for each task.
Yes. Rouse includes HIIT repeat groups that loop exercises with precision timing — perfect for Tabata (20s work / 10s rest), EMOM, and custom circuits. Voice coaching announces round numbers, step transitions, and countdowns hands-free. Steps are set to the exact second. Presets include Tabata Classic, HIIT Circuit, and EMOM 10.
Privacy
No. Rouse contains no advertising SDK, no third-party analytics, and no in-app analytics events. Apple's privacy manifest for Rouse declares no tracking and an empty tracking-domains list. There are no accounts, and no Rouse server that collects your data. The only network requests the app makes are your App Store purchase (processed by Apple and RevenueCat), Apple's WeatherKit for weather, and a small static settings file it downloads at launch — none of which carry your sleep, health, or usage data. Your alarms, timers, routines, stopwatches, countdowns, and sleep data are stored on your device.
Rouse is built for this. It has no accounts, records no analytics, contains no ad or tracking SDKs, and works fully offline for alarms, timers, routines, and countdowns. All AI runs on-device using Apple Foundation Models — your sleep and health data never leaves your device, not even to us.
Yes to both. Alarms, timers, routines, stopwatches, countdowns, and every sleep feature are stored locally and work fully offline — the only network requests are a small settings file at launch, weather (Apple WeatherKit), and App Store purchases (RevenueCat). And there are no accounts in Rouse at all (removed entirely in version 2.0): nothing to sign into, nothing to delete. Purchases restore through the App Store.
No — never. Every AI feature (sleep reports, insights, and morning briefings) runs on-device using Apple Foundation Models; devices without Apple Intelligence get built-in summaries, also generated on-device. Health data is read and written only with the HealthKit permissions you grant, which you manage in Apple's Health app and can revoke at any time.
Countdowns
Yes. Rouse lets you count down to any future date — birthdays, retirements, due dates, anniversaries, exam dates, vacations, project deadlines — or count up from any past date. The same countdown auto-flips at the target instant, so it keeps tracking forever. Tap the time display to cycle between years, months, days, hours, colon, and full-units formats. Each countdown remembers your preference. The free tier includes 2 countdowns; Premium unlocks unlimited.
Yes. Rouse ships with 31 one-tap holiday templates organized by category: major holidays (New Year's Day, Valentine's, St. Patrick's Day, Halloween, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve), United States (MLK Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving), Christian (Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Easter, Pentecost), Jewish (Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah, Passover), Islamic (Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha), East Asian (Lunar New Year, Mid-Autumn Festival), and Seasonal (spring/autumn equinox, summer/winter solstice). The picker is locale-aware — your region's templates appear first. Each template defaults to yearly recurrence, so picking 'Christmas' once gives you a countdown that auto-advances every year.
Yes. Any countdown can be set to repeat weekly, monthly, or yearly. When the target passes, Rouse silently rolls the countdown forward to the next occurrence the next time you open the app. Alerts attached to a recurring countdown have an opt-in 'Reschedule with each occurrence' toggle (on by default) that re-aims the alert at each new target — so '1 day before Christmas' fires every December 24.
Yes. Point a Rouse countdown at any past date — a birthday, a sobriety milestone, a wedding anniversary, the day you started a new job, the date a loved one passed — and it counts up from that moment. Display formats include calendar-aware years/months/weeks (2y 3mo 1w 4d), precise to the second (2y 5mo 1w 4d 11h 55m 4s), or raw seconds with thousands separator. A Lock Screen widget keeps your most important date on the home screen.
Yes. Any count-up countdown (one pointed at a past date) can opt in to streak tracking. Rouse surfaces a trophy badge with your longest run and counts how many times you've reset. Resetting bumps the target to 'now' and starts a new streak; if your current run was longer than your previous best, it becomes the new high-water mark. Built for sobriety milestones, no-spend days, exercise streaks, no-social-media streaks, and any 'days since' habit you're trying to maintain.
Birthdays, retirements, sobriety milestones, due dates, weddings, graduations, exam dates, vacations, project deadlines, sports event days, baby's age (in days/weeks/months), religious observances (Christmas, Easter, Eid al-Fitr, Lunar New Year, Hanukkah, Passover, Ramadan), seasonal moments (solstices, equinoxes), days since a habit started, days until a relationship anniversary — anything anchored to a specific moment in time. Crossing a timezone never changes the elapsed/remaining duration because Rouse stores absolute UTC instants.
Pricing
Yes. Rouse has a generous free tier with alarms that work in Silent Mode, one routine with full voice coaching and up to 5 steps, Math and Shake missions, 10 alarm sounds, timers, 2 stopwatches, 2 countdowns, and a bedside clock. Premium ($2.99/month, $24.99/year — save 30% vs monthly, or $59.99 lifetime) unlocks unlimited routines, HIIT repeat groups, unlimited countdowns, on-device sleep insights, all 10 missions, 45 premium sounds, and more.