Earn the silence
It won’t go quiet until you’ve earned it. Solve a problem, scan a code across the room, or knock out five squats while the camera counts. Set a few of those through your day and you trained without ever finding the time.
Wake up
Earn the silence
Solve to silence
14 + 9
Hold to exit
The two traps
Your hand finds snooze before your brain wakes up. Forty minutes vanish and the day starts without you. Then there’s the workout you keep meaning to do. You’re not lazy about it. An hour at the gym is a lot to ask of a day that’s already full, and nobody makes good calls at 6am with their eyes shut. So Rizen doesn’t leave it to the moment. You set it once, and it holds you to it.
6:00
Alarm set
6:47
Actually up
47 minutes gone. Every single morning, before the day even starts.
45m
The plan
0
Times you went
Week three of next week. That gym bag has ridden in your back seat so long it’s basically furniture.
The day that adds up
Pick a first ring, a last ring, and a gap. Rizen lays small alarms across your day. Each one wants eight squats or a thirty-second wall sit before it’ll go quiet. Then it’s over and you’re back at your desk, slightly out of breath, having done more than you did all last week.
New plan
First ring
9:00 AM
Last ring
5:00 PM
Every
6 rings · Mon–Fri
+ 2 more · 3:00, 4:30 PM
Set them all to squats
6
rings
8
squats
48
squats
Forty-eight squats. On a Tuesday. You never changed clothes, never blocked out an evening. Rizen won’t tally it up for you. It just keeps ringing.
Pick Light, Solid, or All in and Rizen rotates the exercise so you're not doing squats six times in a row. Or choose exactly what you want from the five and it deals them out across the day.
The default rotation is squats and wall sits — nothing that puts you face-down on the office carpet. Flip one toggle when you're somewhere you don't mind the floor, and push-ups, sit-ups and planks join in.
The whole plan collapses to a single line on your home screen: Next · 1:00 PM · 8 squats. Weekend off, or a day you're not having it? One toggle kills the set.
Six ways to earn the silence
To kill the alarm you finish a real mission. Pick your poison, and chain them if you’re serious about never snoozing again.
Move to silence.
The camera watches your body and counts the reps. Not a step counter, not you tapping “done” from the couch. It counts every honest rep, and it does not round up.
It all happens on your phone. No frame, no video, no picture of your living room ever leaves the device or gets saved anywhere.
Solve to silence.
Randomized problems, a new one every time. You can't do arithmetic asleep. That's the trick.
Scan it across the room.
Tape a code to the bathroom mirror. A screenshot won't fool it, so you have to walk over.
Tap a tag to wake.
Stick a tag on the fridge or the coffee machine. The fridge is a long way from the bed.
Prove the bed is made.
Recreate the scene live on camera. You have to be standing in front of the real thing.
Shake yourself awake.
Hold the phone and shake until it's satisfied. A polite wobble won't register, so your arm wakes up first and the rest of you follows.
There’s always an Emergency Exit. You’re never locked in. It costs you the streak, which is the point.
Good morning
Next sunrise
Rises in 7h 12m
Weekday wake-up
All alarms
Weekday wake-up
Mon–Fri · Math · QR Code
Gym
Sat, Sun · Photo
Lazy Sunday
Sun · NFC Tag
Wake to a sunrise, not a jolt
We call the look Observatory Dawn: deep indigo night, warm parchment light. It’s built to feel like the moment right before sunrise.
No blare. The light eases in, indigo to amber, filling the room before the sound ever spikes.
The second you beat your mission, the screen floods with warm light. You didn't just kill an alarm. You started the day on the right side of it.
Never oversleep
Rizen fires a real system alarm that cuts through Silent mode, Focus, and Do Not Disturb. Then it backs that up, so one missed trigger can’t sink your morning.
Friday, June 12
9:41
Rizen
Wake up
6:30 AM · Weekday wake-up
Solve a problem to silence it.
Build a streak you won’t want to break
Every morning you beat is a morning won. Rizen counts your streak, paints a heatmap of every win, and tracks the snooze you didn’t cave to. Momentum is the point. Don’t break the chain.
96%
Mission success
21
Longest run
Straight answers
It's annoying for about 30 seconds. The 30 seconds that get you out of bed.
Nobody's asking you to. The default set is squats and wall sits: standing, half a minute, no floor and no change of clothes. Push-ups only show up if you invite them.
Then start where Rizen starts you: five squats. That's the floor, on purpose. Five squats you actually do are worth more than forty-five minutes you keep rescheduling.
No. The camera looks for a body and watches your joints move. Nothing is recorded, saved, or uploaded — it's math on your phone, and it's gone the second the alarm is.
Emergency Exit, always one hold away. You're never trapped. It just costs you your streak.
Real system alarm. It cuts through Silent and Focus, and there's a self-test so you can prove it fires tonight.
Free for a week, then it's a subscription. Not sold by day seven? Cancel in the App Store and you're out nothing.
In closed beta right now, public in a couple of weeks. The catch: the camera rep-counting is iPhone-only so far, so the beta has the alarm and the other missions, not Hero. Get in line at alarm.rizenhq.com/android.
Questions
Rizen is an alarm clock app for iPhone with no snooze button. The alarm keeps ringing until you complete a mission that proves you're actually up: do a set of push-ups or squats while the camera counts them, solve a math problem, scan a QR code you've stuck across the room, tap an NFC tag, shake the phone, or take a live photo of something like your made bed. Those exercise alarms also work through the day, not just at 6am. It tracks a streak of honest wake-ups, needs no account, and keeps all your data on the device.
Instead of one 45-minute session you never get to, you do 30 seconds of work several times a day. You build a movement plan: pick a first ring, a last ring, and a gap between them (30, 45, 60, 90 minutes, 2 hours, or 3), and Rizen lays exercise alarms across your day. Each one asks for a small set — say 8 squats or a 30-second wall sit — and won't go quiet until the camera has counted it. Then it's over and you're back at your desk.
The camera watches you. Rizen uses Apple's on-device body-pose detection to track your joints and count reps from the angles they make — elbows for push-ups, knees for squats, your body line for a plank. It counts effort, not perfect form: nobody's grading your depth. But it won't take a hand waved at the lens, and it won't take your word for it either.
No. No frame, no video, and no joint position is ever saved or sent anywhere. The camera feed is processed on your phone, in the moment, purely to count the rep — then it's gone. There's no account to upload it to in the first place.
That's more or less who it's built for. Rizen starts you at five easy squats, deliberately — a set anyone can clear cold, with no warm-up and no getting changed. The default rotation is standing-only (squats and wall sits), so you're never stuck doing floor work in front of coworkers, and you can flip a toggle to add push-ups, sit-ups and planks when you're somewhere you don't mind the floor. No program to keep up with. Just an alarm that won't quit until you've done a few squats.
The built-in alarm asks nothing of you — one tap, even eyes closed, and it's gone. Rizen makes silence something you earn: dismissal requires a mission, so the half-asleep version of you can't cheat. It also does something your other alarms never tried — it comes back through the day, 10:30, noon, mid-afternoon, with a small set of exercise each time. On top of that you get streak tracking, a gradual sunrise wake screen, and a self-test that proves the alarm will fire tonight.
You can do anything you want. It's your phone. But the whole point is a system that's harder to weasel out of than your own 6am willpower. Use the Emergency Exit if you really need out. It just costs you your streak.
There's an Emergency Exit every single time — a deliberate five-second hold, so you can't fat-finger it half-asleep, but always there when you genuinely need out. We'd rather you bail and keep your morning than wrestle a math problem. It breaks your streak, and that's the only cost.
Yeah, we know. That's the most common complaint in the whole category, and it's exactly why we obsessed over it. Rizen fires a real system alarm that pierces Silent mode, Focus, and DND, backed up by a redundant burst of notifications. And there's a built-in self-test, so you can prove it'll fire tonight, before you ever trust it with tomorrow.
Only if you want those missions. Math, Photo, Shake and the exercise missions need nothing but the phone in your hand. Want the across-the-room kind that really drags you out of bed? Print a QR code (free) or grab a cheap NFC tag. Your call.
Seven days free, and it's the whole app — not a teaser. After that it's a subscription you set up in the App Store, which means a card on file: if Rizen hasn't earned its spot by day seven, cancel there and you pay nothing.
Closer than you think. Android is in closed beta right now and goes public in a couple of weeks. Worth knowing before you sign up: the camera rep-counting is built on Apple's on-device pose detection, so it's iPhone-only for the moment. The Android beta has the alarm, the reliability work, and the other missions — the exercise mission comes later. Join the beta or grab a launch heads-up at alarm.rizenhq.com/android.