Features

Everything the alarm can ask of you.

The home page covers the idea. This is the detail: how movement is verified, what the ten missions are, how a second habit gets stacked on the first, and what you get to watch climb.

A push-ups session: the countdown at 24 and a live view from the phone's camera showing someone mid push-up
Verified, not dismissed

It can see you move.

For push-ups and squats, prop the phone against something and get down. The countdown only runs while the camera can see you moving. Stop, and it pauses. Morning steps are counted live by your phone's pedometer.

  • Nothing is recorded. Frames are reduced to a coarse brightness grid on the phone and discarded immediately.
  • Nothing is uploaded. There's no server to upload to.
  • If the camera can't see you, it hands over to a plain timer rather than trapping you.

The long version: the alarm that makes you exercise.

Ten morning missions

Small enough to do on a bad morning.

Every mission has a floor you can clear half asleep, and a setting that grows it over time if you want it to.

Movement

Push-upsSquatsHandstand practiceYogaMorning steps

Learning

JournalingRead 10 pages

Spiritual

MeditationBible readingPrayer

Or build your own: name it, choose timed or movement, set the length. Morning steps are counted by the phone: an alarm that makes you get out of bed.

A woman in a lunge on a clay-coloured yoga mat beside her bed, arms raised, morning light through the window
After finishing push-ups the app offers meditation next, with Start it and Skip today
Habit stacking

Finish one thing, and the next is already waiting.

The best time to build a new habit is right after an existing one, while you're already up and the hard part is done. After three mornings in a row, First Light starts offering you a second mission the moment you finish the first.

  • Say yes once and it's saved: "Push-ups, then Meditation" every morning.
  • Say not now, and it's genuinely not now. It asks again another day.
  • A stacked mission is always optional. It never brings the alarm back.

Why it works: habit stacking, explained.

Progress

Watch it climb.

Streaks, mornings won, and the numbers you actually logged, charted over weeks. Your level is simply the count of mornings you've won, and it never resets.

  • The streak respects your schedule. Weekday alarms don't break it over a weekend.
  • A missed morning costs you a streak, not your progress. Consistency is measured in months, not days.
  • Ranks land on the habit-science milestones: seven days, thirty, sixty-six.

Where 66 comes from: how long a habit really takes.

Progress: a nine-day streak, sixty-six percent of mornings won, and push-up reps climbing over a month
Privacy

Everything stays on your phone.

No accounts. No server. No analytics.

  • Your photos, sessions and streak live in the app's private storage and are deleted with it.
  • Camera frames are processed on the phone in real time and never stored.
  • No third-party code, no trackers, no advertising.
  • Payment goes through Apple. We never see your card.
Missing one day doesn't undo a habit. Researchers found a single miss has no measurable effect. Two is a pattern.
One of the daily lines inside the app
As it appears on the App Store

Every screen, in order.

Wake up and do something positive It can see you move Stack habits. Own your morning Watch it climb Log what you did Ten morning missions Or start with a walk Every morning, its own alarm

Scroll sideways for all eight.

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