06:228 min early
You were already stirring, so it did not wait.
Wake up before your alarm.
A smart alarm that waits for a lighter moment in your sleep to wake you.
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Tock has been written about in The Washington Post, The Guardian, TechCrunch and Forbes.
The whole night, worked out by morning.
Snoring
6 minutes, saved as a clip you can play back.
23nights
A night counts at 90% of your goal, and one miss a week is bridged.
78%
Going to bed at the same time beats going to bed earlier.
Waking up mid-cycle is why mornings hurt.
A fixed alarm has no idea what it just interrupted. Tock spends the half hour before your wake time watching for the moment you are already stirring, and rings then. If it never finds one, it rings exactly when you told it to.
Everything between good night and good morning.
You get to hear what woke you. Tock listens all night and sorts what it hears with Apple's SoundAnalysis, on the phone itself: snores, coughs, sleep talking, a door. Every clip is kept with a time against it, and every clip plays.
Last night
13 sounds
- A door23:392s
- A dog00:274s
- Sleep talking01:5812s
- Snoring02:146 min
The nightstand is the whole setup. No band, no ring, nothing extra to charge. Deep, REM, light and awake are estimates on a phone-only night, and the app says so on the very screen that shows them. Connect Apple Health or a wearable and measured stages take over.
Whatever your wearable logged, Tock reads. There is no Watch app and you do not need one: connect Apple Health and heart rate, HRV, blood oxygen, respiratory rate and wrist temperature land on the same night as everything the phone heard.
Heart rate52bpm
HRV48ms
Blood oxygen97%
Respiratory rate14br/min
It keeps ringing until you solve something. A little math, a few steps, a photo of the spot you saved in the kitchen. Nine missions in three families, on by default, because dismissing a normal alarm takes one thumb and no consciousness.
Solved, alarm off
No two nights sound the same.
Most of Tock's 63 sleep sounds are built on your phone as you listen, sample by sample, so there's nothing to download and nothing that loops back round. Ten of them are here.
Nothing is playing
Pick one above. It fades in, and only one plays at a time.
A preview, not the library. In the app you can layer four at once and save the result as a mix, set how far away 42 of them feel, and wake up to any of 18 tones or to your own audio.
Don't just take our word for it.
Priya R.
I stopped starting the day angry
I was a four alarms and still late person, and I spent the first hour of every day furious about it. I'm usually up on the first one now, sometimes a couple of minutes before it even goes off. My girlfriend noticed before I did, which tells you something.
Marcus T.
It rings on silent. I stopped leaving my phone loud all night for the sake of one alarm, and everybody in this flat sleeps better for it.
the first hour isn't a write-off now
Two months in. What I didn't expect was that I'd stop dreading the alarm, because it stopped catching me at the worst possible moment. Same amount of sleep, roughly. Completely different morning. I still don't fully understand how it knows.
It found the thing waking me at 3
I asked the coach why I keep surfacing around three and it went back through my last two weeks and then played me the clip. The heating coming on. I moved the timer by an hour and I've slept through since. I was expecting a chatbot and got something that had actually been listening.
Sam K.
Fourth alarm app this year and the first one I've kept past a week.
took a while to click
Honestly ignored the wind-down for the first two weeks. Then I started actually doing it when it asked, and now I'm out by about half eleven instead of scrolling until one. I get my evenings back and I stop stealing from tomorrow to finish today.
Tomás L.
The rain doesn't loop. I had no idea how much the loop was bothering me until it was gone, and now I hear it in every other app I try. You end up lying there waiting for the seam instead of falling asleep.
Both halves in one app finally
I already wear a watch to bed, so the stages come from that through Health instead of from an estimate, and the alarm is the good one. I stopped opening two apps every morning to piece the night together.
Femke D.
My mum uses it in Dutch, which sounds like a small thing until you've tried explaining an alarm app to someone in their second language. She's been on it since Christmas.
I know what a late dinner costs me
Turns out I snore for about an hour on the nights I eat at ten and barely at all otherwise. You can play the clips back, which is horrifying, and then quite useful.
Chris B.
The good-night screen goes almost black by itself after a few seconds, so the phone can sit on the nightstand all night without lighting up the room. My partner stopped complaining, which is the review really.
Woke up before it on a Saturday
Paid for the year after three days, which I never do. What sold me was waking up on a Saturday at the time I'd set for Monday, on my own, with no alarm involved at all.
Before you set the first one.
Does it drain my battery?
It costs real battery, and we would rather say so than round it down. Tracking a night keeps the microphone and the accelerometer awake until morning, so it is not a rounding error. Most people already charge overnight and never think about it again. If you would rather not, run one night on a full charge and see what it actually costs you before you commit to the habit.
Will the alarm ring on silent, or with a Focus on?
Yes to both. Tock schedules its alarms with AlarmKit, which is Apple’s own alarm system, so they ring through the silent switch and through a Focus and take over the screen with the native full-screen alert. It is the same path the built-in Clock app uses, not a workaround built on notifications.
Do I need an Apple Watch?
No, and there is no Tock app for the Watch. Tock is an iPhone app and a phone on the nightstand is the whole setup. If you do already wear something to bed, connect Apple Health and Tock will read the sleep, heart rate, HRV, blood oxygen, respiratory rate and wrist temperature it wrote there, which is also what turns estimated sleep stages into measured ones.
How accurate are the sleep stages?
On a phone-only night they are estimates, and Tock labels them as estimates on the screen where you read them. A phone on a nightstand has your movement, the sounds in the room and the clock, and that is enough to make a decent guess at where the light and deep stretches were. It is not enough to stage sleep the way a lab does, and an app that claims otherwise is guessing too, just more confidently. Connect Apple Health or a wearable and the measured stages take over.
What does Tock cost?
Tock Pro is $39.99 a year or $4.99 a month, and both start with a three-day free trial. There is no free tier: after onboarding, Tock needs a subscription. You can cancel any time from Settings on your iPhone, and if you cancel during the trial you are not charged.