A meditation alarm for iPhone
Stillwake turns your morning alarm into a few quiet minutes of meditation. No snooze button. The bell only stops once you're up, upright and still.
Snoozing is a habit. So is sitting. Stillwake swaps one for the other, five quiet minutes at a time.
How a morning works
Set it once. Every morning after that, the bell does the hard part.
01 · THE BELL
Stillwake uses Apple's alarm system, so it rings through silent mode and Focus like a real alarm. Tap Stop and your prep time begins.
06:30 · wake
02 · PREP TIME
You get a few minutes to get up properly. Then a second, softer bell calls you to sit.
06:45 · bell
03 · THE SIT
The front camera checks you're sitting upright and still, right on your phone. Slouch, wander off or fall asleep and the timer pauses. Go back to bed and the bell rings again.
3 to 20 minutes
04 · MORNING KEPT
Finish your sit and the alarm switches off until tomorrow. Your streak grows quietly in the background.
Streak +1
The live mirror
While you sit, a live mirror shows exactly what the posture check sees. Gold lines on your head, shoulders and hips mean you're upright. Slouch and they fade to grey, and the timer waits for you.
Privacy
The posture check runs on your iPhone with Apple's on-device Vision framework. Nothing is recorded. Nothing is sent. There's nothing to leak.
Video is analysed live on your phone and never saved, uploaded or shared.
No sign-up, no email, no profile. Open the app and set your alarm.
No analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs. Your mornings are yours.
Built for real mornings
Streaks, total minutes, and a chart of when you sat compared with the bell.
Stop the alarm and crawl back to bed, and the bell comes back. Finish your sit and it's done for the day.
Start with five. Go longer when you're ready. Breathing is fine; it's slouching and wandering off that pause the timer.
Built on Apple's alarm system, so it rings like the Clock app.
Real emergencies happen. Hold to stop, any time.
Your bell and sit time on the Lock Screen and in StandBy.
Why a bell
I spent years as a Buddhist monk. The hardest part was never the sitting. It was getting to the cushion.
Every morning the bell rang, and every morning we went. Not because we felt like it. Because the bell rang.
Stillwake is that bell. No voice telling you how to breathe, no feed to scroll. Just a bell, a cushion and you.
ChanikulFormer Buddhist monk, now building apps
Pricing
The free version is a complete daily practice. Premium opens everything up.
£0
Forever
£24.99 / year
About 48p a week, after a 7-day free trial
£3.99 / month
Cancel any time
Launch prices in GBP. Subscriptions are billed through your Apple ID and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends.
Questions
Yes, that's the idea. You sit upright and still for your chosen time. If there's a real emergency, Emergency stop ends the alarm straight away.
No. It's analysed live on your iPhone and never recorded, uploaded or shared. Stillwake's privacy label is Data Not Collected. Read the privacy policy.
That's fine. There's no technique to learn. Sit comfortably, keep your back straight and stay still. A short guide shows you how to prop your phone and sit.
Yes. Stillwake uses Apple's alarm system, so it rings like the built-in Clock alarm, even on silent or in a Focus mode.
Stillwake is built for iOS 26 and works on iPhones that support it. You'll need somewhere to prop your phone, like a small stand or a steady surface.
Soon. Stillwake is in final testing and is coming to the App Store first.
Stillwake is coming soon to the App Store for iPhone.
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