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37 wordsVelvet Alarm is a silent alarm for Apple Watch that taps your wrist as you start to stir, up to 30 minutes before your alarm time, while your iPhone rings at your time if you weren’t stirring.
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Velvet Alarm is a silent alarm for Apple Watch: it taps your wrist as you start to stir, up to 30 minutes before your alarm time, and your iPhone rings at your time if you weren’t stirring.
Press contact: support@velvetalarm.com · Facts checked on 4 November 2026
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| What it is | An alarm app for iPhone and Apple Watch. The Watch taps your wrist as you start to stir, up to 30 minutes before your alarm time; the iPhone rings at your time if you weren’t stirring, never later. |
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| Name | Velvet Alarm, two words, always together. The App Store listing still says Wristwake: Silent Smart Alarm until the update that renames the app. |
| Maker | Sebastian Škoić, a solo developer, also known as the tech creator Sebs_Tech. |
| Country | Slovenia |
| First release | 28 October 2026, on the App Store (as Wristwake) |
| Current version | 1.0.1. Version 1.0.2, with the app in 34 languages, is in App Review. |
| Requirements | An iPhone 11 or later, or iPhone SE (2nd generation) or later, with iOS 26 or later. To wake as you stir: Apple Watch Series 6 or later, SE (2nd generation) or later, or any Ultra, with watchOS 26 or later. |
| Prices | A 7-day free trial with Monthly or Yearly, or a one-time Unlock forever. Prices vary by country; the App Store shows them. No ads. |
| Privacy label | Data Not Collected (App Store). |
| Category | Utilities, with Health & Fitness second. Rated 4+. |
| Get it | Velvet Alarm on the App Store |
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55 wordsVelvet Alarm wakes you with a tap on your wrist as you start to stir, up to 30 minutes before your alarm time, with no sound for your partner. Not stirring? Your iPhone rings at the time you chose, never later. Everything stays on your iPhone and Apple Watch: no account, no ads, no servers.
About Velvet Alarm
98 wordsVelvet Alarm is an iPhone and Apple Watch alarm app made by solo developer Sebastian Škoić in Slovenia. In the last 15 or 30 minutes before your alarm, your Watch notices when you start to stir, from your wrist movement and your heart rate when it has a reading, and taps your wrist. Your iPhone alarm is set the moment you set it and rings at your time if you weren’t stirring, then repeats 2 and 5 minutes later. It has no account, no ads and no servers, and its App Store privacy label is Data Not Collected.
Velvet Alarm is an alarm clock. It does not diagnose, treat or monitor any medical condition.
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About the maker
Sebastian Škoić is a solo app developer from Slovenia and the tech creator behind Sebs_Tech, with more than 30,000 followers across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. He designed, built and ships Velvet Alarm on his own: the iPhone app, the Apple Watch app and the website.
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Apple Watch, iPhone and App Store are trademarks of Apple Inc. Velvet Alarm is not affiliated with Apple.
Facts checked on 4 November 2026.