Sonrise
An alarm you can't snooze until you've spent your first waking moments with God.
Download on theiPhone · iOS 26 or later
The morning, redesigned
Sonrise rings through silent mode and Focus, like a real alarm should. It goes quiet the moment you begin your wake action — read the day's verse aloud, pray it back, type a prayer, or step out of bed — and it doesn't fully release until you've done it. No snooze exists to reach for.
“Early will I seek You.” — Psalm 63:1
Finish your wake action and the screen floods upward from night into gold, the day's verse fading in word by word, a soft chime resolving. Then the Verse of the Day — every morning, for everyone — ready to carry into the day or set as your wallpaper.
“His mercies are new every morning.” — Lamentations 3:22–23
Every morning you rise lights a sunrise on your Journey calendar. Milestones at 7, 21, 40, and 100 days get their own moment. And when life happens, a monthly grace day quietly covers the gap — because this was never meant to be one more thing to fail at.
Life happens. Grace covers it.
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Because the snooze button is the thing standing between you and the morning you actually want. Nine minutes of snooze is zero minutes of real rest — just a fragmented start that leaves you groggier. Sonrise replaces it with one small act of faithfulness: read a verse, say a prayer, take a few steps. The alarm goes quiet the instant you begin, and once you've finished, the day is genuinely yours. Firm mechanics, gentle language.
Sonrise is $29.99 per year, which works out to about $2.50 a month, and it starts with a 3-day free trial. There's also a monthly option at $7.99 with no trial. You won't be charged during the trial, and we send a reminder the day before it ends — no surprise renewals. Prices are shown in your local currency at checkout.
On day 2 of your trial we send a notification reminding you it's ending soon, so nothing sneaks up on you. If you do nothing, your subscription begins on day 3. If you cancel any time before then — from Settings → your Apple Account → Subscriptions — you're never charged. You can cancel a paid subscription the same way, and you'll keep access until the period you paid for runs out.
Yes, completely. The Bible text, the reading plans, the verse of the day, and the alarm itself are all bundled into the app. Nothing about your morning depends on a signal — which matters, because your alarm has to work whether or not there's Wi-Fi at 6 a.m.
No. Sonrise has no accounts, no analytics SDKs, no advertising, and no trackers. Your streak, your journal, your prayers — all of it lives on your own iPhone, and syncs privately through your personal iCloud if you're signed in. We never see it. The only thing that leaves your device is a purchase receipt, so the App Store and our subscription provider can confirm you're subscribed. Your voice, during spoken wake actions, is transcribed entirely on-device and never sent anywhere.
Three public-domain translations ship with the app: the Berean Standard Bible (a clear, modern default), the King James Version, and the World English Bible. You can switch between them any time. They're bundled locally, so they work with no connection.
You begin again — that's the whole posture. There's no “streak lost” funeral screen and no shame copy anywhere in the app. Once a month, a grace day automatically covers a missed morning so your streak stands. Miss more than that, and the next morning simply offers a fresh start: “His mercies are new every morning.”