Moo DreamsBefore the ring
A sunrise, if you want one
Over 5 to 30 minutes the clock lifts from its night brightness, a warm light grows from the bottom of the screen, and birdsong joins softly over the second half. Then the alarm.
The family alarm clock for iPhone and iPad
Thursday, October 29
Mornings that start themselves.
An alarm that rings through Silent, Focus and a closed app. A challenge to end it. A loving word after. And at night, a clock in your kid's colours that knows when the sun comes up.
Coming to the App Store · iOS 26 and up · Free for one kid
One morning
From the first light to the morning report, in six steps.
Swipe through it. This is what the kid sees, and what you get at the end.
The ring
Through anything
Silent mode, a Focus, the app closed: every alarm is handed to iOS itself. On the Night Stand the app rings it in the kid's colours; on a locked device it is iOS's own alarm.
Stop buys minutes
Not a way out
iOS puts a Stop button on every alarm and no app can remove it. In Moo Dreams, Stop is a snooze: it buys the minutes you allowed, or a single minute if you allowed none, and the alarm comes back until the challenge is done.
The challenge
Finish it
Hold the sun, match the pairs, solve a few sums, type or say today's message, shake the device, walk a few dozen steps, scan a code taped across the room, photograph a spot you chose, or tap a sticker on the door frame. You pick, per alarm.
Then
A loving word
Something you wrote, read in a voice you chose, even your own. A recording from Grandma. A line from the positive pack. It plays the moment the challenge is done, or the first time the app opens that morning.
And you
The morning report
Up at 6:47, one snooze, four minutes to finish. Your phone hears it the moment it happens, and the two-week report keeps the streak, the snoozes and last night's mood.
Built for the parent who is still the alarm
The parts parents end up loving.
Each one came from a thread of parents saying the same thing. The full list, with how to use every piece, is on the Features page.
Alarms that actually ring
Silent, Focus, the app swiped away: iOS rings it anyway. While the clock is on the screen the app takes the ring over a few seconds early, so nothing pops up beside it, and a quiet safety alarm sits half a minute behind the whole morning. A closed, crashed or force-quit app still rings.
Finish it, don't just stop it
The alarm comes back after every Stop until the challenge is done, for as long as it takes. Let them snooze a few times if you like, or name a time: free snoozes until 7:00, then the follow-ups. Only a parent's PIN ends a morning early.
Your voice as the alarm
Record "Ava, time to get up" and the Night Stand rings with it, again and again, until she starts the challenge. Children wake to a parent's voice far more often than to a tone.
A loving word after
Write it and pick the voice, including your own Personal Voice. Record it, or let Grandma. Or lean on the positive pack, the fun pack of jokes and riddles that closes the morning, and, if you want it, the faith pack. Rules decide which plays when.
Check back
For the kid who finishes and climbs back in. Ten minutes after the challenge a quiet "Still up?" asks for one tap. No tap, and the alarm rings again, challenge and all, even with the app closed.
The Night Stand
Digits or an analog dial in their colours, placed where they like, over black or their own photo. Two brightness levels, a sky that follows the sun, and Moo along the bottom. For little ones, a wake light instead of a ring: a moon through the night, a sun when it is time, and a tap on I'm up!
Not up yet, on your phone
When the bedside device rang and twenty minutes later your phone has heard nothing, it says so. A device that is off cannot ring, and this is how you find out. The notice clears itself when word arrives.
A calmer bedtime
At wind-down the clock dims and asks how they feel. The answer picks the sleep sounds and tomorrow's message, with a minute of breathing on harder nights, a timer, and a pre-flight that catches a low battery or a muted device before you do.
Set it from your phone
With family sync, the bedside device picks up alarms, challenges and messages the moment you save them, through your own iCloud. Grandparents can join and record. The morning report comes back the same way.
Private by design
No account, no analytics, no ads, no third-party code. Microphone and speech stay on the device. Nothing leaves your family's devices except through your own iCloud, and only if you turn sync on. The App Store label reads Data Not Collected.
New in the Night Stand
The sky follows your sun.
On the charger, the clock keeps the real day: daylight while the sun is up, a warm dawn and dusk around sunrise and sunset, and the stars and moon at night, with shooting stars and Moo over the moon every few minutes. At wind-down she walks off to bed and comes back at dawn.
The times come from your time zone out of the box. Allow an approximate location once and they are on the minute. This whole website does the same thing with your clock: the dial in the corner lets you play.
6:00 AM
Thursday, October 29
Ava⏰ 6:45 AM · ⚡ Charging
Free, then one unlock
Everything for one kid is free. The Whole Herd is one purchase.
No subscription. The unlock is a one-time purchase in the App Store, shared with your family through Family Sharing.
Free
One kid, all in
- Every alarm and every challenge, with the Gentle, Standard and Quiet start wake-up styles, Sunrise, Check back and Up by
- A wake light for little ones, just-once alarms, planned holidays, lights from your Home app with the alarm, and a star for every on-time morning
- Written messages read aloud, the positive pack, the fun pack and the faith pack
- Ten sleep loops and twenty pieces of sleep music, the bedtime check-in and the breathing minute
- The Night Stand, its looks, the sky and Moo
- The Barn and the morning report, behind your PIN
The Whole Herd
One-time purchase
- Every kid in the house, and the grown-ups too
- Recorded messages from family, and your voice as the alarm
- Heavy-sleeper wake-ups that get louder, switch sounds and buzz
- A song from Apple Music as the wake-up or at bedtime
- Family sync: set the bedside device from your phone, hear "Ava is up", and the Not up yet notice
Hand the morning to Moo.
Set up takes a few minutes. The Getting started page walks through every screen, and the Tips page has the tricks for heavy sleepers, shared rooms and teens.
Coming to the App Store for iPhone and iPad, iOS 26 and up.