About Captain Wake
The alarm you can't turn off until you're actually awake
Captain Wake started with a simple, embarrassing problem: we kept sleeping through our alarms. Not the “hit snooze twice” kind — the “wake up at 11am with fourteen dismissed alarms and a missed meeting” kind. We tried louder tones, alarms across the room, three phones at once. Nothing stuck, because a normal alarm asks for one half-asleep swipe, and a half-asleep brain is very good at swiping.
Why a “mission” alarm
The fix that finally worked wasn't willpower — it was removing the option to fail. So we built an alarm that won't turn off until you complete a real task that forces your brain online: solve math, take a photo of a specific object, scan a barcode in another room, or shake the phone. By the time you've done it, you're awake for real. The alarm survives closing the app, restarting the phone, and muting the volume, so there's no back door.
What we believe
- Waking up is a system, not a personality trait. The right setup beats motivation every time.
- Privacy by default. Photo missions are verified entirely on your device with Apple Vision — your images are never uploaded.
- Honest content. Our blog is written from real experience with oversleeping, not spun from a keyword list.
Who we are
Captain Wake is built by a small independent team operating under Zuxy Capital LLC-FZ. We're a mix of heavy sleepers, night owls, and one genuinely insufferable 5am person. We use the app every single day, and most features exist because one of us couldn't get out of bed.
The articles on this site are written by Gio Shell.
How this site is made
We say this plainly, because a generated page is easy to mistake for a hand-written guide.
- Articles. Every article is written in English, with the help of AI writing tools, on questions our team picks from real problems with waking up. The other 19 languages are automatic translations of the English original; each translated article says so at the top and links back to it.
- Data pages. Sunrise, sunset, daylight, golden hour, moon and prayer times are computed with standard astronomical formulas (the NOAA solar model and the Meeus lunar series) for the cities in the GeoNames database. Clock-change dates come from the IANA time-zone database, tide predictions are cached NOAA data, airport pages use OurAirports and OpenFlights, and metro hours are a curated table of operator-published times. These pages are generated from those datasets, one page per city or route.
- Corrections. Found something wrong? Email [email protected] and we will fix it.
Get in touch
Questions, feedback, or feature ideas? Email us at [email protected] — we read everything and usually reply within 24 hours. You can also visit our contact page or read the blog.