An independent developer. There is no parent company, no venture funding and no advertising business behind it. Mornio is supported by its Pro subscription, priced at $7.99 per month or $29.99 per year.

Is Mornio available on Android?

No, and it is not planned. Mornio's alarm is built on Apple's AlarmKit, an iOS-only framework that lets a third-party app schedule a real system alarm which sounds through Silent mode and Focus. There is no equivalent on Android, so a version there would be a weaker product with the same name.

Why does Mornio require iOS 26.1?

Because it uses AlarmKit exclusively and has no notification-based fallback. Notification alarms can be suppressed by Focus modes, which is exactly the failure an alarm cannot afford. The cost is that Mornio cannot run on older iPhones at all, and we say so on every page rather than burying it.

Why does Mornio publish comparisons with competitors?

Because people search for them, and the alternative is that the only comparisons available are written by someone else. We keep them defensible by sourcing every competitor fact to that app's own App Store listing, dating it, naming where competitors beat us, and telling readers when to buy something else.

About Mornio: Why It Exists

Mornio is an iPhone alarm for one specific failure: you hear the alarm, you turn it off, and you wake up an hour later with no memory of having turned it off.

Why it exists

Almost every alarm ever made treats dismissal as success. The noise stops and the job is considered done. But dismissing an alarm takes almost no wakefulness, and the ten minutes afterwards are when most oversleeping actually happens.

So Mornio does two things a normal alarm does not. It refuses to stop until you scan a specific code you registered, which lives across the room. Then, a few minutes later, it checks again to confirm you stayed up.

What we decided not to build

This says more about the product than a feature list would:

No accounts. An alarm needs a time, not an identity.
No sleep tracking. A different product. Sleep Cycle does it better.
No streaks or scores. For some people a streak is pressure rather than motivation.
No ads. An advert between you and turning off a 6 a.m. alarm is indefensible.
No custom alarm tones. We tested them and they stopped after a few seconds while the system tone kept ringing, so we chose the one that keeps making noise.
No notification fallback for older iOS. That is the version a Focus mode can silence. It costs us every user below iOS 26.1, and we still think it was right.

Who makes it

Mornio is built by an independent developer and published on the App Store. There is no parent company, no venture funding and no advertising business. It is supported entirely by the Mornio Pro subscription, which is the only thing it ever asks of you.

How we write about competitors

We publish comparison guides covering other iPhone alarm apps, which is obviously self-interested. So the rules are fixed and stated on every page:

Every competitor fact comes from that app’s own App Store listing, is dated, and is linked.
Every comparison names where the competitor beats Mornio.
Where a listing is silent, we write “not stated” rather than claiming a feature is missing.
Mornio’s iOS 26.1 requirement is stated as a real limitation, not buried.
No invented ratings, no fabricated test results, and no self-authored reviews presented as independent.

Several of those pages tell readers to buy something else, or nothing at all. That is deliberate. A comparison you cannot trust is worth nothing.

What Mornio does not claim

It reduces the risk of oversleeping. It cannot guarantee you will wake up, it is not a medical device, and it will not compensate for chronic sleep deprivation. For a morning you genuinely cannot miss, we recommend a second independent alarm on another device, which is advice against our own commercial interest and still the right advice.

Contact

Email support@mornioapp.com. There is no account system, so if you report a problem we cannot look anything up about you, which means your description is all we have. The troubleshooting page lists the details that help most.

Journalists and creators: there is a press kit with the facts, screenshots and boundaries in one place.

About Mornio