A kinder way
to wake the world.
We're building the alarm we wished existed — one that works with your body instead of shocking it. Light before sound, calm before noise.
It started with a simple complaint: being jolted awake by a siren is a miserable way to begin a day that's supposed to be good.
Most of us start every morning with a small jolt of panic — a blaring tone that spikes the heart rate and leaves a fog that takes an hour to clear. We kept asking why the most repeated moment of the day had to feel like an emergency. It doesn't.
Sunlight has woken humans gently for as long as there have been humans. So we set out to put a sunrise inside the phone already on your nightstand — to stage light across the screen and flashlight, and let sound arrive last, softly, only once you're already surfacing.
LumAlarm is the result: a small, focused app with surprising depth, made for light sleepers, early risers, shift workers, and anyone chasing a calmer morning. Less stopwatch, more wellbeing companion.
To make the first moment of your day the calmest — to replace the jolt with a sunrise, so millions of people wake up clear, not shocked.
Principles we build by
A few convictions that shape every decision — from the wake screen down to a single toggle.
Light before sound
Waking is a process, not a switch. We lead with light and let sound arrive last and softly — working with your physiology, never against it.
Calm is the product
The feeling matters more than the feature list. Every screen should lower your heart rate, not raise it — beautiful in motion, quiet in spirit.
Progressive disclosure
Set a time and go — that path stays effortless. The deep per-alarm power is there when you want it, never dumped in your face.
Accessibility is non-negotiable
Large touch targets, labelled controls, full screen-reader support, light and high-contrast themes. A kinder morning should be for everyone.
Your data stays yours
No ads, no tracking, no account. The only thing that ever leaves your device is an optional weather lookup you can switch off.
Honest about wellbeing
We share the science plainly and cite where it leads — and we're clear that a gentle alarm supports good habits, but isn't medical advice.
Accessibility is a hard requirement, not a checkbox
LumAlarm is a dark-first Jetpack Compose app, but it ships light and high-contrast themes alongside it. Every control carries a content description for screen readers; touch targets are deliberately large and fat-finger friendly; and the wake screen enforces WCAG-style contrast so its text stays legible even as the sunrise background brightens — and at 5% screen brightness in a pitch-dark room. We treat a missed label or a thin contrast ratio as a bug, not a nice-to-have.
See the accessibility guideWe'd love to hear from you
Questions, bug reports, or just a kinder-morning story — we read everything.
Your nights are nobody's business
LumAlarm has no account, no ads, and no analytics that follow you. Your alarms, sounds, and settings live on your device. The only network request the app makes is an optional weather lookup for the spoken greeting — using your approximate location, only at wake time, and only if you turn it on. Nothing about your sleep or schedule is ever sent to us or anyone else.
A companion, not a clinician
LumAlarm is provided to help you build gentler sleep and wake habits. The science we share is general wellbeing information, not medical advice, and the app is not a medical device. If you have persistent sleep problems — trouble falling or staying asleep, loud snoring with pauses, or daytime sleepiness that affects your life — please talk to a qualified professional.