I’ve never been a morning person. For as long as I can remember, waking up early felt impossible—forcing myself awake just left me groggy and uncomfortable. I wanted to feel truly refreshed in the mornings, but nothing seemed to work.

Then I learned about sleep cycles: if you wake up at the right point in your cycle, you feel alert instead of groggy. I tried manually timing alarms around my sleep cycles, and it worked… most of the time. But doing it every night was a hassle, so I started looking for an app to automate it.

The apps I found either had too many extra features I didn’t need or locked the main functionality behind a subscription. That’s when I thought, “Why not make one myself?” I’m not an iOS developer, but I know about programming, so I bought a $99 Apple Developer account and started building.

After some trial and error, I made Sleke: simple, minimal, and focused purely on sleep cycles. Now, most mornings, I wake up feeling genuinely refreshed.

I’m sharing it on the App Store so anyone struggling with mornings can try it. You get 7 free sleep sessions, and the premium version is a one-time purchase—no subscriptions, no extra fluff. I built it for myself, but if it can help anyone else wake up better, that would be amazing.

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Sleke

Sleep with Sleep Cycles

Sleep with Sleep Cycles