Waky Dawn — Better Mornings Bundle

About 30 minutes before the wake-up time you set, Waky Dawn starts to glow — faintly at first, then brighter, the way a window does at dawn. At your chosen time, a wake sound plays if you want one. You set everything directly on the clock: nothing to download, nothing to pair.

That is exactly the morning Waky Dawn was built for. From October to March, the sky often isn't light yet when your alarm goes off, so nothing tells your body that morning has started. Dawn does: about 30 minutes before your wake-up time, the light in your room begins to rise, so you open your eyes to a lit bedroom instead of darkness.

It won't make winter shorter. It changes the first thing you see — and for many people that is what makes getting up in the dark stop feeling like a wall. The 30 nights let you judge it on real winter mornings, not on a promise.

Everyone responds to light differently, so Dawn doesn't rely on it alone. At your chosen time a wake sound plays — the light is the gentle part, the sound is the safety net. Keep your usual alarm on for the first few nights while you find the settings that suit you.

If you know you sleep through most alarms, the Waky Hush in your box is a different kind of cue: a vibration on your wrist that rises in three stages until you switch it off.

Dawn sits on your nightstand and rises to its full warm brightness over 30 minutes, so the room is already lit when your wake-up time arrives — even when it's pitch black outside. The brightness is adjustable, so you decide how bright the peak feels in your room. It is not a clinical light box; see the question on light therapy below.

No. Waky Dawn works on its own: plug it in, set your wake-up time on the clock, done. There's no account to create, no update to install and no monthly fee. The same goes for the Waky Hush — you set it on the band.

Setup is a few presses on the clock itself, and the quick-start guide in the box walks you through it. Changing your wake-up time works the same way: adjust it on Dawn before bed, and the light and sound follow the new time next morning.

If anything isn't clear, write to hello@waky-online.com and we'll walk you through it.

Your phone does wake you — with a sound, from the dark, and it's the first thing in your hand. Dawn gives you two things a phone can't: light that builds before the alarm, and a wake-up that doesn't need your phone within reach. Whether that changes your mornings is for you to judge, which is what the 30 nights are for.

Honest answer: a light that fills the room is visible to both of you. It is, however, far softer than a phone siren going off next to their head, and many couples end up waking more calmly together.

If your wake-up times are very different, the Waky Hush wakes one of you on the wrist, in silence, without touching the room. That's why it's in the box.

Dawn is the sunrise alarm on the nightstand: gradual light before your alarm, plus an optional sound. Hush is the silent wrist alarm: vibration in three rising stages, for someone who sleeps through sound or can't wake anyone else. They're two separate devices with their own settings — Dawn for the one who hates how waking feels, Hush for the one who doesn't wake at all.

Waky Dawn with its USB cable and quick-start guide; the Waky Hush silent alarm with its magnetic charging cable; a pair of reusable earplugs with a case; and two printed guides — The Phone-Free Morning Playbook and The Sleep Sanctuary Guide. Everything ships in one parcel and appears on your order summary.

No hidden costs: shipping is free and tracked, the price shown is the price you pay, and nothing renews.

Orders ship with tracking and usually arrive in about 10 days. You'll get the tracking link by email as soon as your parcel is on its way. If it's taking longer than that, write to us and we'll check on it.

Yes — that's the point of the 30 nights. Use Dawn normally, every night, for a full month from the day it arrives. If your mornings haven't changed, email hello@waky-online.com within those 30 nights and we'll walk you through the return.

Send back the Waky Dawn in its packaging with the cable and guide; the Waky Hush, the earplugs and both printed guides are yours to keep. Return shipping is at your cost, and we refund the full price once the parcel reaches us.

Waky Dawn and Waky Hush are covered for two years against manufacturing defects. If either stops working in normal use, write to hello@waky-online.com with your order number and a short description, and we'll repair or replace it. Wear and tear or damage from misuse isn't covered. The same address answers setup questions — you don't need a fault to write.

Waky Dawn is a sunrise alarm, not a treatment. What it offers is a cue you set the night before: light that's already in the room when the alarm sounds. Some people find that a more workable start than a sound from the dark. It hasn't been shown to treat ADHD symptoms, and it won't get you out of bed on its own.

No — Waky Dawn is a wake-up light, not a treatment. Clinical light boxes use around 10,000 lux to treat conditions like seasonal depression. What Dawn gives you is light at the moment you wake up, which dark winter mornings otherwise don't. If your mood drops every winter, talk to your doctor — Dawn isn't a substitute for that.

Winter is when you'll notice it most, because it gives you the light the sky doesn't. But it works at both ends of a long winter day: when it's dark by 4:30, the sunset mode fades a warm light down slowly at bedtime, so the evening ends with a soft glow instead of a phone screen.

The rest of the year it does the same job — a gradual wake-up instead of a sudden sound, an alarm that lets your phone sleep in another room. And with blackout curtains, your room is dark at wake-up time in July too.