Android first · in development

You can't snooze a hungry cat.

Kibble rings through silent mode, Do Not Disturb, and your best half-asleep thumb. There is no snooze button on the ring screen. Just the time, the cat, and the one thing standing between him and breakfast.

No ads, at any tier
Four missions
Works offline

Monday 14 SeptemberWeekdays

6:30

“I'm starving. This is on you.”

Feed Miso

Shake the phone 30 times

Hold 10s to stop

THE RING SCREEN · NO SNOOZE ON IT

Three screens, one morning.

That's the whole app.

9:41

No streak yet

Miso sitting, waiting for the first morning

“First morning tomorrow. No pressure.”

YOUR ONLY ALARM 7:00 Every day · walk 30 steps

Streaks start after your first mission. Miss one and you keep going from there.

Add another alarm

01 · The night before

Set it, pick a mission

One alarm, set during setup, already on the home screen. Choose what tomorrow-you will have to do: walk, shake, type, or scan.

Monday 14 SeptemberShake

6:31

18 / 30 Keep shaking

Almost there

Snooze 5 min · 1 of 2

Hold 10s to stop

02 · 6:31 am

You are up before it stops

It rings through silent and Do Not Disturb. The ring around the cat is the progress bar. Thirty shakes, counted, and it keeps telling you where you are.

6:33Skip

“You came back.”

STREAK13 days

UP IN2m 41s

Good morning

03 · Out of bed

Finish it, feed him

Finish the mission and the sound stops instantly. Miso eats, in silence, and you get your streak and how long it took.

Why it works

Snooze is the most-used button on your phone.

The default alarm loses to a half-asleep thumb every morning. People who genuinely struggle to get up are not helped by a louder sound. They are helped when dismissal is physically impossible from a horizontal position.

You have tried putting the phone across the room. It was back on the nightstand inside a week.

Pick how hard tomorrow should be.

Every mission has an emergency exit: hold for ten seconds. It costs your streak. Costly, not impossible. You should always be able to stop a sound in a real emergency.

Steps

Walk 20, 30 or 100. Counted from the accelerometer the instant your foot lands, and it checks the pace, so waving the phone will not pass for long.

Shake

15, 30 or 60 shakes. The gentlest option, and the one to start with if you are not sure you will stick with any of this.

Typing

Type a short phrase to prove you are reading it. Works from anywhere, and it is the one mission that does not assume you can walk.

Barcode

COMING LATER

Register the barcode on the coffee jar in your kitchen. Then the only way to stop the alarm is to go and scan it. The one you cannot beat from bed.

The cat

Six moods, and none of them are cruel.

His mood only ever responds to how you got up. He has nothing to say about anything else in your life, and he never asks you for money.

Asleep

“Night. Don't make it weird tomorrow.”

Hungry

“I'm starving. This is on you.”

Grumpy

“Five more minutes. For you, not me.”

Let down

“You went back to bed. It's fine.”

Eating

“Okay. You're forgiven.”

Pleased

“Twelve mornings. Look at you.”

Reliability

A cute alarm that misses one morning gets deleted that morning.

Most apps in this category have review sections full of “worked for a week, then stopped.” That is almost always Android's battery saver quietly killing the app overnight. Kibble is built around that problem first and decorated second.

Why your Android alarm didn't go off, and the setting to change on each manufacturer. It works whatever alarm app you use.

Said plainly: Kibble is an alarm clock, not a guaranteed wake-up service. Keep a backup alarm for anything that really matters: a flight, an exam, a shift.

Exempt from Doze

Scheduled with the one Android API that deep sleep cannot defer, not the one most apps reach for.

A backup alarm, 60s behind

Some manufacturer builds silently drop a pending alarm. That costs you one late minute instead of a whole morning.

Heard through silent and DND

Without asking for permission to override your notification settings.

Survives a reboot

A timezone change, a clock change and an app update too. Alarms do not come back from any of those on their own.

Setup that names your phone

Xiaomi, Samsung, Oppo, Vivo and Honor each bury a different switch. Kibble detects yours and opens the right page.

A check you can run yourself

So when something is wrong you can see which setting it is, rather than guessing.

Price

Waking up is free. Money is for more cat.

Everything that gets you out of bed costs nothing and always will. A paid tier is planned for later, for people who want more cat.

No ads. At any tier. Ever.

Everything, today

Free

Every alarm you want to set
Shake, steps and typing missions
Your streak, and a freeze every fortnight
Thirteen weeks of history, exportable
Any alarm tone on your phone
The full reliability toolkit

Cat Club · later

Not yet

Three more cats to collect
The barcode mission
More alarm sounds

Questions people ask before they trust an alarm.

Mostly the same eight, and all of them come down to one thing: will it ring.

Will the alarm still go off if my phone is on silent?

Yes. Kibble plays on the alarm stream, which Android keeps separate from ringtones and notifications, so silent mode and Do Not Disturb do not silence it. If something else is playing, Kibble takes audio focus rather than mixing quietly underneath it.

Why do alarms fail on Xiaomi, OPPO, Vivo, OnePlus and Samsung phones?

Those manufacturers add their own battery saver on top of Android's, and it closes background apps overnight no matter what Android says. It is the single most common reason a third party alarm does not ring. Kibble names your phone's manufacturer during setup and walks you to the exact screen that needs changing, because the setting is in a different place on every one of them.

What happens if I force stop the app or restart my phone?

The alarm survives both. Alarms are registered with Android itself rather than held by a running process, they are re-registered after a reboot, and a second backup alarm is set sixty seconds behind the first in case the first one is delayed.

How do I actually turn the alarm off?

By finishing a mission: walking 20, 30 or 100 steps, shaking the phone 15 to 60 times, or typing a short phrase. There is no snooze button on the ring screen at all. If you switch snooze on for an alarm, it appears part way through the mission, once you are already up and moving, and it costs you a second mission to come back from. A barcode mission, where you have to go and scan something in another room, is coming later.

What if there is a real emergency and I need it to stop now?

Hold the exit for ten seconds and it stops. It costs you your streak, which is the point: expensive enough that you will not do it half asleep, never impossible. An alarm you cannot switch off is a hazard, not a feature.

Is Kibble free, and are there ads?

The app is free and there are no ads at any tier, now or later. Everything that gets you out of bed costs nothing. A paid tier is planned eventually for extra cats and extra missions, and nothing that affects whether you wake up will ever sit behind it.

Does it need an internet connection?

No. Kibble works entirely offline. There is no account, no sign in, and your alarms, streak and wake history stay on the phone and are never uploaded anywhere.

Is there an iPhone version?

Not yet. Android comes first, because Android is where alarms actually fail and where the reliability work matters most. iOS comes after.

Not out yet

Android first, then iOS.

Kibble is being built now, Android before iOS, and it is not on the Play Store yet. Leave an email and you will get exactly one message, on the day it is.