Gedup: Push Up Alarm Clock

Gedup is an alarm clock for heavy sleepers that you cannot swipe away. In the morning a task waits for you, like push-ups, squats or a quick sum. It stays quiet only once you have finished it.

HOW A MORNING GOES

At night you set the alarm and pick the task it should ask of you tomorrow. In the morning it rings, even when your iPhone is on Silent or a Focus is on. Tap Stop and Gedup opens with your task, and the alarm keeps sounding until it is done. The camera counts along, and the last rep stops the alarm.

By then you are up, you have moved, and you are awake. That is the whole point.

You can snooze too. How often, and what it costs you, is up to you: a share of your squats, for example.

CHALLENGES FOR BODY AND MIND

The camera counts five exercises right on your iPhone, without you tapping anything: push-ups, squats, sit-ups, jumping jacks and lunges.

If you would rather think than move, you get a task for your head: mental arithmetic, a memory game, a slide puzzle or a color test.

Two more work another way. Scan a code you picked beforehand, like a printed one on your bathroom mirror. Or shake your iPhone, which works in the dark too.

Pick one task and keep it, or let the app draw a different one every morning.

THIRTEEN ALARM TONES

Gentle, melodic or classic: a tap plays each tone, so you know what will wake you before you pick it.

Discovery signals