Kibble
01 · The night before
Set the alarm, pick a mission
Choose what tomorrow's you will have to do: walk, shake, or type. Miso goes to sleep. So do you.
Android first · in development
An alarm clock you can't cheat, because a cat is counting on you.
Kibble won't let you silence it from bed. When it rings, the cat is hungry, and he doesn't get fed until you've done something that requires standing up.
The problem
Snooze is the most-used button on your phone.
The default alarm is defeated by a half-asleep thumb. People who genuinely struggle to get up are not helped by a louder sound. They're helped by making dismissal physically impossible from a horizontal position.
You've tried putting the phone across the room. It was back on the nightstand within a week.
How it works
Three steps, every morning.
01 · The night before
02 · 6am
The cat is hungry
The alarm rings through silent mode and Do Not Disturb. There's no snooze button waiting for your thumb. The screen shows the cat, the mission, and nothing else.
03 · Out of bed
Finish it, feed him
Complete the mission and the sound stops instantly. Miso eats. Your streak goes up by one. That's the whole loop.
Missions
Pick how hard tomorrow should be.
Every mission has an emergency exit that takes ten seconds and costs your streak. Costly, not impossible, because you should always be able to stop the sound in a real emergency.
Steps
Walk 20, 30 or 100 steps. Counted from the accelerometer the instant your foot lands, and it checks the pace, so waving the phone won't pass for long.
Shake
15, 30 or 60 shakes. The gentlest option, and the one to start with if you're not sure you'll stick with any of this.
Typing
Type a short phrase to prove you're reading it. Works from anywhere, and it's the option that doesn't assume you can walk.
Barcode Coming in v1.1
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 can't beat from bed.
Why a cat
Waking up as an act of care, not a punishment.
The forced-dismissal alarm isn't new. What's new is how it feels. Other apps in this category treat you as a problem to be solved. They shout, they shame, and the moment you've had one good week you delete them without a thought.
The cat is never cruel
Miso can be sleepy, sulky, or disappointed. He is never guilt-tripping, never manipulative about money, and never sick or dying. The emotional range is capped at "a bit let down" on purpose.
One screen, one job
The ring screen shows the cat, the mission, and nothing else. No news, no weather, no upsell at six in the morning.
Reliability
A cute alarm that misses one morning gets deleted that morning.
Most alarm apps in this category have review sections full of "worked for a week, then stopped". That's almost always Android's battery saver quietly killing the app overnight. Kibble is built around that problem first and decorated second.
- Exempt from Doze. The alarm is scheduled with the one Android API that deep sleep can't defer, not the one most apps reach for.
- A backup alarm, 60 seconds behind. Some manufacturer builds silently drop a pending alarm. That costs you one late minute instead of a whole morning.
- Heard through silent and Do Not Disturb, without asking for permission to override your notification settings.
- Survives a reboot, a timezone change, a clock change and an app update. Alarms don't come back from any of those on their own.
- Setup that names your actual phone. Xiaomi, Samsung, Oppo, Vivo and Honor each bury a different switch that stops alarms firing. Kibble detects yours and opens the right page.
- A reliability check you can run yourself, so when something is wrong you can see which setting it is rather than guessing.
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.
Price
Waking up works 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.
Everything, today
There is nothing to buy, and nothing is held back.
Free
- Every alarm you want to set
- Shake, steps and typing missions
- Your streak, and a freeze every fortnight
- Thirteen weeks of wake history, exportable
- Any alarm tone on your phone
- The full reliability toolkit
Cat Club Later
For when one cat isn't enough.
Not yet
- Three more cats to collect
- The barcode mission, the one you can't beat from bed
- More alarm sounds
No price yet, and none quoted here when there is one. Prices are set per country by the store, and a number typed onto this page would be wrong almost everywhere.
No ads. At any tier. Ever.
Not out yet
Android first, then iOS.
Kibble is being built now, Android before iOS, and it isn't on the Play Store yet. Leave an email and you'll get exactly one message on the day it is.
