ByeBed is an iOS alarm app (iOS 26 or later) with no snooze button. When the alarm rings you complete one of 14 missions: a photo of a random object, the sky, your made bed, grass, your pill or one of your own objects; math; shake; push-ups counted with Apple Vision; drawing; Bird hop; maze; memory sequence; or memory pairs. If you stop the alarm without finishing the mission, it rings again (up to 10 times over 15 minutes). It exists to break the snooze habit.

What is ByeBed?

Last updated: October 15, 2026

ByeBed is an iOS alarm app with 14 wake-up missions (photo missions, math, shake, push-ups counted with Apple Vision, drawing, maze, memory games and a tap game). There is no snooze button: if you stop the alarm without finishing the mission, it rings again, up to 10 times over 15 minutes. It exists to break the snooze habit.

How it works

Instead of a snooze button, ByeBed opens the mission you picked when the alarm fires. Alarms use Apple's AlarmKit (iOS 26+), so they ring even in silent mode and Do Not Disturb. If you stop the alarm without finishing the mission, it rings again up to 10 times over the next 15 minutes; for a genuine emergency there are 2 skips per month. The catalog covers 6 photo missions (random object, sky, made bed, grass, your pill, one of your own objects), math typed on a keypad, shake, push-ups counted by the camera with Apple Vision body pose, drawing, Bird hop, maze, memory sequence and memory pairs. Photo and drawing missions are checked online by an AI model (Google Gemini); push-ups, shake, math and the games run on your phone.

Why missions

A mission makes you sit up, move and pay attention before the alarm goes quiet, which makes drifting back to sleep much harder. Whether a task also shortens morning grogginess (sleep inertia) has not been established yet: the 2019 review by Hilditch and McHill covers the countermeasures studied so far, such as caffeine, sound and light, and does not list wake-up tasks among them.

Try ByeBed

Rated 4.8 ★ on the US App Store (October 2026). ByeBed is a free download; using it requires a subscription, with a 3-day free trial on the annual plan for eligible new subscribers: https://apps.apple.com/app/byebed-alarm-with-missions/id6762573248

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