How does ByeBed force you out of bed?
ByeBed has no snooze button. When the alarm rings, tapping Stop opens a mission: math, push-ups, a photo, a drawing and more. Leave without finishing it and the alarm rings again, up to 10 times over 15 minutes.
No snooze, no easy escape
Alarms are scheduled with Apple's AlarmKit, so they ring even on silent and in Do Not Disturb. There is no snooze. The alarm's Stop button opens the mission you chose; close it without finishing and the alarm rings again a minute later, then again, for 15 minutes (10 re-rings). The only shortcut is an emergency skip, limited to 2 a month, for alarms set by mistake.
Variety of missions
14 missions in the current version (1.7.3): math typed on a keypad, shake (30 shakes), push-ups counted by the camera on your phone (Apple Vision), drawing, four mini-games (bird hop, maze, memory sequence, memory pairs) and six photo missions (a random object, the sky, your made bed, an object you chose, grass, your pill). Each alarm has a difficulty, Easy, Normal or Hard: for example 3, 4 or 6 math problems, or 5, 10 or 20 push-ups.
The science
Researchers have not yet found a reliable way to switch off sleep inertia right after waking (Hilditch and McHill, 2019). What a mission does is simpler: it gets you up and moving at the first alarm, and it removes the snooze button, the reward that keeps the snooze habit going.
Sources
- Hilditch & McHill, Nature and Science of Sleep, 2019. Sleep inertia: current insights
Tired of hitting snooze?
ByeBed replaces the snooze button with a mission: math, push-ups, a photo. Stop the alarm without finishing the mission and it comes back, up to 10 times over 15 minutes. Subscription required, with a 3-day free trial on the annual plan for eligible new subscribers.
Download ByeBed on the App Store