3 days free, then it's a paid app — on purpose. A free alarm is easy to ignore; one you pay for isn't. And whatever you stake, wake on time and you pay $0 — always.
A $20 stake costs $20 only if you sleep through your alarm. Wake on time every day and Pro costs $9.99 a month and your stakes cost nothing, forever. We only ever keep money you deliberately put on the line and then lost — that's the product.
No. Gambling offers a chance to win money. WakeStake offers none: you can only avoid losing your own stake by waking up. No winnings, no odds, no house edge to chase — just your money, your alarm, and your legs.
No — deliberately. Free alarm apps are easy to install, easy to mute, easy to forget. Paying for your alarm is the first commitment device; the stakes are the second. You get 3 mornings free to prove it works on you.
Trials get the whole product; the help desk is for paying members. Billing and subscription questions are always handled by the App Store, trial or not — nobody is ever stranded on a money issue.
No. Money stakes are optional — the word stake risks your pride instead: pick a person, and if you sleep through the deadline they get a text saying so. Most people start there and graduate to cash.
One mission, camera-verified for movement: jog in place, squats, push-ups, sit-ups — or mental math. Then name your #1 outcome for the day. Finish inside 30 minutes of the alarm and you pay $0. Tapping a button is not waking up; the mission is.
Your card is charged the stake and the money is forfeited — kept by us as the commitment fee. Not donated, not returned, not credited. Knowing that is what gets you up.
You're responsible for your device: charged, on, and allowed to ring. If it can't sound the alarm, you can still be charged — otherwise airplane mode would be a snooze button. You accept this each time you arm a stake.
Edit or cancel any stake freely until one hour before the alarm — then it locks. Genuinely wrong charge? There's an appeal in the app before a charge settles, reviewed by a human. And if you completed your mission offline, the charge reverses automatically when your phone syncs.
No — that's the point. A refund button would make this a normal alarm app, and normal alarm apps don't work on you. Fairness is automatic instead: verified completions are never charged, late-syncing completions are auto-reversed.
Yes, three of them. A single stake never exceeds $100. After three straight charged misses with no completed mission between them, charging pauses until you win a morning. And nothing is ever staked without your explicit consent screen, every time.
Movement is verified on your phone. Proof clips stay on your device, deletable anytime. One exception: stakes of $50+ upload a short clip solely to verify completion, then it's deleted immediately. Details in the privacy policy.
iPhone first, Android right behind. Subscriptions bill through the App Store / Google Play; stakes are processed by Stripe.