Two things are true at once here. Wayk is a well-made app with a lot of happy users, and we make something that competes with it. This page tries to be useful anyway, by sticking to what its listing actually says and being explicit about where our knowledge stops.
What Wayk is
| Wayk | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Wayk: Alarm Clock to Wake Up |
| Developer | Dialed Labs Inc. |
| Category | Health & Fitness |
| Ratings | 4.8 stars, about 18,000 ratings |
| Minimum iOS | 17.0 |
| App size | 275.7 MB |
| Latest listed version | 1.0.2.016, dated 30 July 2026 |
| Age rating | 4+ |
| Price | Free to download; Monthly $9.99, Yearly $19.99–$59.99 |
| Data used to track you | Usage Data |
| Advertising indicator | None on the listing |
A version dated 30 July 2026 matters more than it looks. Plenty of alarm apps in this category have not shipped in years, and an alarm that stops being maintained across iOS releases becomes a liability rather than a tool.
The missions
Wayk’s description names these wake-up tasks:
- Do pushups
- Take a photo of the sky, which effectively forces you to a window or outside
- Make your bed, which has the useful property of removing the thing you would get back into
- Find a random object, an object hunt around the room
- Read a Bible verse or read an affirmation aloud
- Solve maths problems
That is a genuinely varied set, and two of them are smart. Making your bed is the only mission we have seen in this category that changes the room rather than just occupying your hands. Photographing the sky puts daylight in your eyes, which is the one intervention with real evidence behind it for shortening sleep inertia.
The subscription requirement
Wayk’s listing is direct about this. Under a SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED heading, the description states that an active Wayk Pro subscription is required to set alarms and use missions after the setup questions.
We would rather see a free rung, but it is worth being fair about what this model is. It is not a dark pattern; it is stated on the listing before you download, which is more than some apps manage. The cost is that you commit before you know whether pushups at 6am work on you, and that is not a thing you can predict from a description. Full tier breakdown is on what Wayk costs.
What the privacy label says
Wayk declares Usage Data under Data Used to Track You, and Usage Data again under Data Not Linked to You for analytics, product personalisation, app functionality and the developer’s own advertising or marketing. There is no “Contains Advertising” note on the listing.
In this category that is a light declaration. Alarmy and SuperAlarm both declare Location and Identifiers under tracking as well. If privacy is a hard requirement rather than a preference, Mornio and Nuj declare nothing under that heading at all, but Wayk is not the app to worry about first.
Where Wayk looks strong
Reach, variety and maintenance
- iOS 17 and later, which covers a very large number of iPhones. Mornio needs iOS 26.1 and cannot help most of those people at all.
- About 18,000 ratings at 4.8 stars. We have nothing comparable, and a review base that size is real evidence that the app works for people.
- Six mission types, including physical ones. Mornio has one.
- Streaks and morning insights, which Mornio does not offer in any form.
- Actively shipping, with a version dated 30 July 2026.
- A light privacy declaration relative to its main rivals.
Where it may not suit you
Four honest reservations
- You pay before your first alarm. The one question that matters is whether a given mission wakes you, and this model does not let you answer it first.
- Three yearly prices are listed at once at $19.99, $29.99 and $59.99. Which you are offered depends on the offer you land in, so read Apple’s purchase sheet rather than any article.
- 275.7 MB, which is normal for the category and still a lot for an alarm clock if your phone is full.
- Nothing described for after the mission ends. The listing describes streaks and morning insights, which work across days. It does not describe a check a few minutes after you dismiss the alarm. If your failure is dismissing and relapsing, that is the gap.
That last point is the one we have a stake in, so treat it accordingly. It is also the reason Mornio exists: a mission proves you were awake for thirty seconds, and thirty seconds is not the same as being up. Mornio’s stay-awake check asks again minutes later and restarts the alarm if you do not answer.
What we cannot tell you
We have not run Wayk Pro through a month of real mornings, and we are not going to write a paragraph that implies we did. So this page has nothing to say about how well the pushup detection works, whether the object hunt is easy to fake at 6am, how the onboarding feels, or whether alarms fire reliably on a locked phone in Focus mode. Those are the things that actually decide whether an alarm app is good, and the honest source for them is the App Store review base and Wayk’s own support channels, not a competitor’s website.
What we can tell you is what its listing states, what it costs, what it declares, and where a different design answers a different failure. That is the whole of this page.