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Wake Up, Friend
When you can't stop scrolling, a friend pulls you out
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When you can't stop scrolling, a friend pulls you out
2 followers
A small crew of 2–6 friends who pull each other off the phone. Stuck scrolling? Press red on your Lock Screen or Dynamic Island. A friend sends one small, real thing to do (a line, a voice clip, a photo), and you come back with a live photo. Blue lets you stay, no judgment. Nobody awake? Notes they left still reach you. No AI, no tracking, no sign-up. New in 1.1: Flagship makes your crew's phones light up like a call.
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Hi Product Hunt 👋
Most screen-time apps try to stop you with a wall: a timer, a block, a guilt screen. Walls are easy to tap through at 1 a.m. A friend saying "go look out the window and send me the sky" is a lot harder to ignore.
Wake Up, Friend is built around that. You and 1–5 friends form a private crew:
🔴 Red: "pull me out." Press it from the Lock Screen, the Dynamic Island, a widget or Shortcuts. A friend gets a quiet notification and sends you a White Rabbit: one small, real thing to do. A line of text, a voice clip, or a photo of where they are.
📷 You do it and come back with a live photo (no camera roll, no faking). It lands in The Desert, your crew's shared album. No likes, no comments, no feed.
🔵 Blue: "I know, I'm staying." It only starts a timer. Nobody judges you for it.
✉️ Nobody awake? Friends leave sealed notes ahead of time, and one opens for you.
New in 1.1 is Flagship: when you press red, your crew's Lock Screen and Dynamic Island light up like an incoming call, even with the app closed. On iOS 26 or later it can ring with your crewmates' own voices.
A few things I cared about:
• No AI anywhere. Every task comes from a person.
• No sign-up and no tracking. Your crew's data lives in your own iCloud; the app never watches what you do on your phone.
• Everything that pulls you out is free. Optional packs only change how it looks and sounds. Flagship is a subscription the captain pays once for the whole crew.
• Call Hours: everyone sets when they can be pulled in, and outside them calls arrive silently.
It's iPhone only (iOS 17+), in English and Simplified Chinese.
I'd love to hear what your "1 a.m. scroll" looks like, and what a friend could say that would actually get you off the phone.