Clucky is a newly launched iPhone alarm app designed for habitual snoozers, offering an unconventional wake-up experience featuring a crowing rooster. According to the article, the app requires users to complete a mission before they can dismiss the alarm, joining a growing category of alarm apps like Alarmy and Awake that employ challenges to prevent users from simply turning off their alarms and returning to sleep. While the rooster option is highlighted as the app’s most amusing feature, Clucky’s broader strategy aims to make the process of dismissing an alarm irritating and absurd enough to ensure users fully awaken.
In addition to the rooster alarm, Clucky provides more conventional sound options such as gentle chimes, peaceful birds, and a classic digital beeping noise, along with an “Extra Loud Mode” that maximizes volume upon activation. The app’s wake-up missions encompass a variety of tasks, including solving math problems, memorizing and tapping tiles in sequence, typing dictated phrases, shaking the phone, walking, performing push-ups, tilting a ball toward a goal, and completing an AI camera challenge. Clucky also features a detailed statistics section that tracks metrics like the average duration the alarm rings before a mission is completed, the number of missions beaten, and total wake-ups, as well as a “Rooster Report” that grades weekly wake-up performance. Furthermore, users can create private alarm groups called “Nests” or “Flocks” with friends or family to synchronize wake-up times and maintain mutual accountability. The app, founded by former Fanatics software engineer Adrian Angelo Abelarde, is currently available on the App Store with a pro subscription priced at $39.99 per year. Source