I'm Awake
Tap
One button. For light sleepers, or your first morning.
FreeThe sun is sleeping
The Mac alarm that makes sure you're really up.
When it rings, it takes over your screen until you solve a quick mission. Then it checks that you stayed up.
Free to use. Pro is free for 7 days, no card and no account. macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel.
How it rings
Your screen is the alarm.
A mission is the off switch.
At the time you set, Kill Snooze covers every display and plays your sound. It goes quiet while you solve, and starts over if you stop. Try it: this one is real.
Alarm ringing
6:30
Friday, March 21 · Gym
Snooze · 5 min · 2 left
Solve to Wake
Get them all right to stop the alarm.
7 + 8
?
Good morning!
Now46°
8 AM50°
Noon63°
5 PM55°60%
Jacket
Umbrella
12-day streakClick the keypad, or click the screen and type. A wrong answer clears itself.
No way out
Close the lid. Mute it.
It keeps ringing.
Only the mission stops it.
- Sound off? It turns it back on, at the volume you chose.
- AirPods still connected? It rings in them and in your Mac's speakers.
- Anti-Escape Standard Pro Once it rings, closing the lid won't stop it.
- Anti-Escape Hard Pro Close the lid for the night: your Mac stays awake and rings. Keep it plugged in.
Wake-up missions
Seven ways to switch your brain on.
Pick one per alarm, or chain several. Go gentle on weekends and brutal on the day of a flight. Snooze, and the next one gets harder.
17 × 6 = ?
Math
A few sums, from 7 + 8 up to two products at once.
FreeTyping
Retype a sentence exactly. Your hands and eyes have to cooperate.
Pro
14 ? 10 = 4
+−×÷
Missing symbol
Find the operator that makes the equation true.
ProMemory tiles
A pattern lights up, then goes dark. Tap it back from memory.
ProAim trainer
Sleepy z's pop up, one at first, then several at once. Hit every one, and don't miss: a miss takes one back.
Pro0 / 40
Click quest
Tap your companion awake. Every tap feeds it.
ProAfter the alarm
Awake is not the same as up.
Stopping an alarm takes ten seconds. Falling back asleep takes thirty. So Kill Snooze keeps an eye on you a little longer.
- Hardcore check. Stay active on your Mac for five minutes. Go still for one, and the alarm comes back.
- Wake-up check. A softer version: five minutes later, it asks if you're still there.
- Idle Guard. No mouse, no keys for 30 minutes during the hours you pick, and your alarm rings. For the nap you didn't plan at your desk.
Your companion
Meet your Astre.
A small sun that grows with your streak. Get up every morning and it moves through eight forms. Miss your alarms and it wilts. It is, somehow, the thing that gets people out of bed.
The real evolution, as it plays on your screen the morning your Astre grows.
The last four forms stay hidden. You meet them by getting up.
The one job
Built to ring. Honest about when it can't.
A sleeping Mac can't ring, and no app can change that. So Kill Snooze keeps yours awake, and tells you the night before if anything could get in the way.
Keeps your Mac awake
From the evening before an alarm, your Mac won't doze off on its own. The screen still turns off.
Beats the mute key
Muted, left at 8%, or AirPods still on? It rings anyway, then puts your volume back.
Covers every screen
Two displays, a full-screen app, a video playing: the wake screen goes on top of all of it.
Ready for 6:30 AM
- Your Mac stays awake from 6:30 PM
- Plugged in
- Anti-Escape Hard: the lid can close
- Volume at least 60%
This card sits on your dashboard. One click fixes whatever is off.
Pricing
Start free. Pay only if it changes your mornings.
The download includes everything in Pro for 7 days. No card, no account. After that, the free version keeps ringing.
Free
$0 forever
- 2 alarms
- Tap and Math missions
- Built-in sounds
- Rings through mute and AirPods
- The readiness check
- Your Astre and your streak
Kill Snooze Pro
$29.99 per year
- Unlimited alarms
- All seven missions, chained if you like
- Anti-Escape: close the lid, it still rings
- Hardcore check, wake-up check and Idle Guard
- Gentle wake with a sunrise
- Your own sounds or a YouTube video, and extra loud
- Missions that get harder when you snooze
Your license key arrives by email. One key works on 2 computers.
Questions
Before you trust it with your morning.
Will it ring if my Mac is asleep?
No, and be careful with any app that says otherwise. What Kill Snooze does is keep your Mac from falling asleep on its own before an alarm, starting the evening before. Leave the lid open and the charger in, and it rings. With Pro, Anti-Escape Hard lets you close the lid too: your Mac stays awake until the alarm. The dashboard tells you the night before if something is off.
Why does Anti-Escape ask for my password?
It installs a small helper that keeps a closed MacBook awake, and macOS asks you to approve that once. The helper only works during an alarm, or from the evening before in Hard mode, never all day. Anti-Escape comes with the download from this site.
What happens when the 7-day trial ends?
Nothing breaks. Kill Snooze goes on as the free version: your alarms keep ringing, with the Tap and Math missions. Your Pro settings stay saved and come back the moment you enter a key.
Can I use one key on two Macs?
Yes. A key works on 2 computers at once. You can free a computer yourself, from the app or from your customer portal, and move the key to another one.
What do you know about me?
Nothing about your sleep or your alarms: they stay on your Mac. There is no account and no tracking. A few things leave your Mac, and only if you use them: an approximate location for the weather on the wake screen, the YouTube video you pick as an alarm, and your license key when you activate it. The privacy policy has the detail.
Which Macs does it run on?
Any Mac on macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, Apple Silicon or Intel.
Tomorrow morning starts here.
Set one alarm tonight. See what you do with the extra hour.