Alarm Mama
The alarm clock you have to walk to turn off
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Details
- External ID
- 1269094
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Alarm Mama
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Android, Health & Fitness, Productivity
Description
Many step alarms can be fooled by shaking the phone in bed, or make you stomp before they count anything. Alarm Mama counts real steps with the phone in your hand or pocket and ignores shaking. I tested it against recorded walks and shakes on real phones. It rings through silent mode and Do Not Disturb, re-arms after a reboot, and has an emergency stop so you're never stuck. The same walk-to-stop idea runs move breaks and water reminders. Free, no ads, no account, no tracking.
Enrichment
- Niche
- sleep, rest, and keep-awake utilities
- Vertical
- Healthcare
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- alarm clock app that requires walking to dismiss
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While basic alarm apps are simple, reliably bypassing iOS/Android Do Not Disturb and silent mode restrictions alongside custom accelerometer signal processing to distinguish real steps from shaking requires platform-specific low-level mobile expertise.
What it would actually take: A production version requires a native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) app utilizing CoreMotion/SensorManager. The hard parts include writing a heuristic or DSP filter on 3D accelerometer waveforms to filter out rhythmic shaking while validating continuous gait, and navigating OS-level background alarm permissions (Critical Alerts entitlement on iOS, USE_FULL_SCREEN_INTENT / foreground alarm services on Android) to reliably wake the device and override mute states.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 529 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #261 of 530 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Stepwise: Step Counter Walk · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Rano · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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- UltraAlarm: Get Up Alarm Clock App · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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