Alarm Mama: Wake, Move & Drink

Hit snooze ten times? Alarm Mama won't let you. It is an alarm clock made for heavy sleepers: the alarm keeps ringing until you get up and walk the number of steps you chose. Twenty steps gets you out of the bedroom, and by then you're awake.

STEPS THAT ACTUALLY COUNT
Most step alarms make you stomp or bounce before they register anything, and they reset the count if you shake the phone. Alarm Mama counts real steps in real time, whether the phone is in your hand or your pocket, and it never resets your progress. Shaking the phone in bed pauses the counter instead of counting. Tested walk by walk against real recordings.

THREE REMINDERS, ONE RULE
• Wake-up alarms: ring until you walk to dismiss them. Repeat by weekday, label them, pick a sound per alarm.
• Move breaks: a stand-up reminder every 25 minutes (or anything from 5 minutes to 4 hours) while you work or sit, a gentle alarm you stop by walking a few steps. Smart skip stays quiet when you already walked.
• Water reminders: ring, walk to the kitchen, drink, tap. Or set the walk to zero if the bottle is on your desk. Daily glasses goal and tally included.

MADE TO RING
Alarm Mama rings through silent mode and Do Not Disturb, shows over the lock screen, re-arms itself after reboots and battery-saver kills, and goes to full volume for wake-up alarms then puts your volume back. If the phone kills the app mid-ring, the alarm resumes.

SOUNDS
Six built-in sounds or any ringtone on your phone. Wake-up alarms get Siren or Classic beep, loud on purpose. Breaks and water get Marimba walk and Gentle stream: warm, quiet reminders that nudge instead of shout. A different sound for alarms, breaks and water, and breaks and water get their own volume slider and a soft fade-in.

PAUSE AND QUIET TIMES
At the gym, at prayer, in a meeting? Pause breaks and water for 30 minutes, an hour, two hours or the rest of the day, or tap "Pause 1 h" right on a ringing reminder (the pause buttons are off until you turn them on, so a lazy tap is never one touch away). Set recurring quiet times once, including a five-prayer preset you can adjust, and the reminders stay silent then and come back on their own. Wake-up alarms are never paused.

STANDBY CLOCK
Prop the phone up on your desk or bedside table. A big, clear clock fills the screen; a few seconds later the weather, your next alarm and live countdowns to your next move break and water reminder join it. Tap the break tile to start or restart the countdown, tap the water tile to log a glass. Set it as your phone's screen saver and it appears by itself whenever the phone is charging, right over the lock screen. Turns red and dim when the room is dark, and shifts gently to protect OLED screens. Open it from the Alarms tab, a long-press shortcut on the app icon, or a Quick Settings tile.

SAFETY FIRST
An emergency stop unlocks after a delay you choose, so you are never trapped by a ringing phone. Turn on Pause buttons (Breaks tab) and ringing breaks and water reminders can also be skipped or paused.

FREE, PRIVATE, NO ADS
Everything is free forever. No ads, no tracking, no subscription, no account. Nothing about you leaves your phone; the optional weather asks Open-Meteo for the city you type, nothing more. If Alarm Mama got you out of bed, you can buy the developer a coffee inside the app.

Works on Android 8.0 and up. Uses the phone's motion sensors while an alarm rings, and the internet only for Google Play (updates and optional tips) and the optional weather.

Recent changes:
- Shaking the phone no longer counts as steps: only real walking does
- Fixed a crash of the StandBy screen saver when the screen turns off
- Better step counting with the phone in a pocket