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Clucky launches iPhone alarm app with rooster wake-up calls and mandatory missions

Confirmed1 source · Sep 5, 2026

A new alarm application uses disruptive sounds and interactive challenges to prevent users from dismissing alerts and returning to sleep.

Clucky launches iPhone alarm app with rooster wake-up calls and mandatory missions
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What happened

Clucky, an iPhone alarm app founded by Adrian Angelo Abelarde (formerly a software engineer at Fanatics), has launched on the App Store with a $39.99 annual pro subscription. The app features a rooster crowing sound as a wake-up option alongside conventional options like chimes, birds, and digital beeping, plus an Extra Loud Mode. To dismiss the alarm, users must complete one of several missions including solving math problems, memorizing tile sequences, typing transcribed audio, shaking the phone, walking, doing push-ups, tilting a ball toward a goal, or completing an AI camera challenge. The app tracks wake-up metrics and provides a weekly "Rooster Report" grading performance, and users can create private alarm groups called "Nests" or "Flocks" with friends or family for accountability.

Context

Clucky enters a market category that includes other challenge-based alarm apps like Alarmy and Awake, addressing the widespread problem of habitual alarm snoozers who turn off alerts and return to sleep. By making alarm dismissal deliberately irritating and requiring active engagement, the app aims to force full wakefulness rather than allowing partial or unconscious responses to wake-up alerts. The social accountability features (Nests and Flocks) and performance tracking expand the app's appeal beyond individual convenience to include group motivation and gamification elements that reward sustained wake-up discipline.