SARGE

Sarge: Habit Alarm · for iPhone

The habit app you can't swipe away.

Reminders are easy to ignore — that's why they don't work. Sarge schedules real, full-screen iPhone alarms for your habits. Gym at 6 rings like your wake-up call: loud, on screen, through Silent mode. Then it asks one question and writes down your answer.

Get notified at launch Coming soon to the App Store · free to start
Next reveille 06:00 tomorrow, 0600
Sarge firing a real full-screen iPhone alarm: RUN. You said 12:38. It's 12:38 — with an Answer Sarge button and slide to stop
A real system alarm — not a notification.

"Pushed 13×. Usually to 7PM.
Done at 7PM: never."

That's Sarge reading one man's gym record back to him. Every habit app counts your streaks. Sarge is the first one that notices what you dodge — because it's the only one standing there when the alarm goes off.

The drill

Fire. Answer. On the record.

One honest transaction per habit per day. It takes five seconds, and it can't be faked — pauses get expensive, and even hitting Stop gets written down.

01 / FIRE

The alarm goes off

A real alarm, at the time you set, on the days you chose. Full screen. Loud. It does not care that you're comfortable.

The Roster screen counting down 44 seconds to the next alarm
02 / ANSWER

Sarge asks once

Did it, pushing it, or skipping today. A push buys 5, 30 or 60 minutes — and the options narrow each time you push.

The answer sheet: DID IT, pause options, and an honest skip with a reason
03 / RECORDED

The record keeps score

Every answer lands in the ledger. Done days, held days, dodged days — the truth, in one calendar you can't argue with.

The Record screen: 23 done, 11 skipped, 13 pushes and a month heatmap

The honesty ledger

Five answers. All of them count.

DID ITThe salute. Logged, carry on.
PUSHEDBought time. Sarge comes back — and remembers where you push to.
SKIPPEDAn honest no, with a reason. Never punished. Always counted.
FROZENOne freeze a week (Pro) holds the line — a frozen day counts as kept.
STOPPEDSwiped the alarm away without answering? That's a record too.

This is the part nobody else has. A reminder you ignore leaves no trace. An alarm you stop leaves a mark — so your record finally shows the difference between a rest day and a retreat.

The Sunday Debrief: a weekly scorecard per habit, skip reasons, and next week's orders

The debrief

Sunday, your week gets read.

The record pays you back as insight — patterns you genuinely can't see from inside your own week.

  • SCOREA scorecard per habit — kept days over scheduled days, no vanity numbers.
  • WHYYour skip reasons, tallied. "Tired ×2" on the board hits different.
  • WHENYour danger hours. Sarge spots where the pushes cluster — and suggests moving the alarm to the hour you actually do the thing.
  • NEXTOne order for next week. Move it, shrink it, or hold — based on your record, not a quote of the day.

Loud, not stupid

Teeth you control.

Every alarm is one you loaded yourself, and the loud never lands where it shouldn't.

Quiet windows

Meetings 9–5? Inside a quiet window Sarge taps your wrist with a silent-friendly ping instead — and holds the loud call until the window ends.

Quiet Windows settings: Mon–Fri 9:00–17:00 and a weekend morning window

Honest skips

Sick? Traveling? Skip with a reason and Sarge stands at ease. Vacation mode pauses whole habits and re-arms them the day you're back.

Sarge standing at ease — the pose an honest skip earns
Sarge, a jowly bulldog drill instructor in a campaign hat, saluting
"I'm not here to make you feel bad.
I'm here so you show up."

House rule, written into the app: Sarge never shames. No guilt streaks, no sad mascot, no "you broke my heart." Skips get a nod. History never changes his mood — only today does. He's gruff because he's on your side.

The duty roster

Start free. Go full roster.

Free

The whole discipline, for one habit.

  • One armed habit with the full alarm mechanics
  • Escalating pauses — pushes get more expensive
  • Quiet windows and honest skips
  • This week's record and the Sunday debrief
  • Two of Sarge's calls — Reveille and Roll Call
  • Export everything, any time. Your data is yours.

Pro

The full campaign.

  • Unlimited armed habits
  • The full record — every month, every pattern, the mirror insights
  • Freeze tokens — one held day a week that counts as kept
  • Sarge's voice pack — three more calls
  • iCloud backup to your own private iCloud

Pricing is set on the App Store at launch, with a free trial on the yearly plan. No ads, no tracking, either way — see the privacy policy.

Fall in. At 0600.

Sarge is finishing training and reports to the App Store soon. Want the launch-day ping — the only email we'll ever send you?

Get notified at launch

Requires iOS 26 — real third-party alarms are new to iPhone, and Sarge is built on them.