Animal Alarm: Cute Alarm Clock

Animal Alarm puts a real cat on your phone. Not a drawing, not an animation: real video of a real cat, with real cat sounds, and it reacts to your finger. Touch the glass and the cat walks over and rubs its cheek against it. Move your finger slowly and it closes its eyes. Tap the empty floor and it pads over there. Flick left or right and it comes that way. Double-tap or swipe up and it jumps. Leave it alone and it grooms, looks around and sometimes simply comes to you. Sleepy at night, lively in the morning. THE ALARM At your wake-up time the cat comes to the glass, crying. The alarm does not stop until you pet it: slowly, for three seconds in all. One long stroke is enough. Ignore it for thirty seconds and it cries louder and head-butts the glass. After a minute it hisses and fights. Pet it and it goes quiet: oh, you are up. Snooze for five minutes and it comes back louder. Snooze twice and it arrives already fighting. The alarm rings through the system alarm, so it works with the app closed and the phone locked. THE WIDGET A home screen widget shows your cat in a different pose each time, with your next alarm. YOUR CATS Cheese, an orange tabby with green eyes, is yours for free. Five more cats can join you with a one-time purchase, no subscription: Tuxedo, Mackerel, Calico, Russian Blue and Siamese. Each has its own room and its own moves. Purchases are tied to your store account and can be restored on a new phone. QUIET BY DESIGN No ads. No account. Nothing to sign up for. Anonymous usage statistics are optional, and in the EU, UK and Switzerland the app asks first. Available in English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, French, German and Spanish. ON ANDROID Allow alarm permissions and "Display over other apps" in the app so the cat screen opens the moment it rings, even while you are using another app.

First release. A real cat that wakes you up, a home screen widget, and five more cats to meet.