START HERE 7 nights
Seven Straight
One week, no nights off. Where almost everybody begins.
ENTRY
$10
EXAMPLE RETURN
+25%
SLEEP CHALLENGES · IOS FIRST · 18+
Go to bed on time.
Get up on time.
Get paid for it.
Put a fixed entry on a sleep challenge. Hold your bedtime and your wake time every night, and finish with your entry back — plus a share of what everyone who dropped left behind.
No element of chanceSnooze takes 0% of the potNothing decided at random, ever
How it works
Three steps. Your own money does the convincing.
- 01
Pick a challenge
A week, a fortnight of weekdays, a full month. Each sets its nights, its sleep window and one fixed entry — $5 to $50 — and everyone in it pays alike.
- 02
Hold the night, then get up
Lock in before lock-by, leave the phone alone, then get up and move — Snooze looks for that in Apple Health. Both halves are scored, and the second is what makes the first mean anything.
- 03
Finish, then get paid
Clear every night and your entry comes back with a share of everything the owls who dropped left in the pot. The challenge settles once, the morning after its final night.
Miss a night and you are out for good — your entry stays in the pot for the owls who finish, and the seat cannot be bought back at any price. That is the money on the line, and it is the whole reason this works. A miss costs you nothing beyond the entry you already paid: no penalty fees, no debt, no subscription, and Snooze takes nothing from the pot. The one thing Snooze charges is the card processing cost, once, on money coming in by card.
The shapes they come in
Start with a week. Most people stay for the month.
WEEKENDS OFF 14 nights
Weekdays Only
Sunday to Thursday, two working weeks. Your weekends stay yours.
ENTRY
$20
EXAMPLE RETURN
+25%
HARD MODE 30 nights
The Full Month
Thirty nights, lights out by 9:30, up by 5:30. The one people tell their friends about.
ENTRY
$50
EXAMPLE RETURN
+50%
MAKE YOUR OWN
Your rules, your nights, your entry.
Anyone can open a challenge and set the terms: the lock-by, the wake target, how many nights, whether weekends count, and what it costs to enter. Publish it to the community or keep it to a group of friends — the pot and the rules work the same either way.
COMMUNITY CHALLENGE
5 AM Club, 14 Nights
- lock-by 9:30 PM
- wake target 5:30 AM
- 14 nights · every night
- $20 entry, set by the host
A challenge runs with whoever buys in. Leave any time before your first night opens; after that it is yours to finish.
The pot is entries only — nothing is added and nothing is taken out. The rates above are arithmetic on a stated drop rate, shown so the shape of the thing is legible; they are not forecasts. In the app the number beside a challenge is built from how that challenge is actually going, and it is captioned with what it came from.
SNOOZE · SLEEP RECEIPT
I FINISHED
ALL 30 NIGHTS
ALL 30 NIGHTS
+50%
$75.00 total received
Shareable the morning your challenge settles.
WHEN THE NIGHT LANDS
The number is a rate, not a jackpot.
An entry is deliberately small, so dollars undersell it. What a run actually produced is a rate of return on the money you put at risk — and that is the headline on your result screen, with the dollar total beside it so the percentage is always checkable. Snooze never annualises it. A thirty-night result is a thirty-night result.
0%
Snooze takes nothing from the pot, and nothing from a payout
Once
One settlement, the morning after the final night — entry back, plus your share
−100%
What a lost entry reads as. The rate tells the truth in both directions
STRAIGHT ANSWER
There's no luck in this.
Snooze is not a betting app and there is nothing to wager on. Whether you hold a night depends on two things you control: whether you were off your phone before your lock-by, and whether you were up and moving after your wake target.
- 01 No odds, no draw, no house. Nobody is playing against you, nothing is decided at random, and Snooze never takes a cut of the pot — so it does not profit when you drop.
- 02 Everyone who finishes qualifies, and shares equally in what was left behind. If nobody drops, nobody pays anybody — every entry simply comes back.
- 03 One fixed entry, paid once, shown before you pay it. Snooze never asks for more, and never charges you for a night you missed.
- 04 Nothing here is decided by chance or by us. A night turns on two readings from your own phone, and you can see both. Snooze needs to be able to read your Health data to score the morning — so it asks before you can lock in, and a challenge you cannot be scored for is one you are never allowed to enter.
- 05 Challenges with money in them are for adults 18 and over, in the United States, at launch. Free challenges come later. The official rules sit in the app before you join anything.
WHAT WE CAN AND CANNOT SEE
Worth knowing before you join the list.
Snooze measures phone use. It never blocks an app, and calls, alarms, accessibility features and emergency services always work — that is not a setting, it is a floor.
- Snooze watches its own lock session through the night and reads movement from Apple Health after your wake target. It never sees your messages, your apps or your browsing.
- Seeing the phone unlocked for something other than Snooze needs an entitlement from Apple that we have applied for and do not yet hold. Until it lands, the early challenges are for people who want the habit, run with friends rather than strangers.
- Android has no reader yet, so a creator can still turn the rise half off for a challenge. Every challenge shows you which halves it scores before you pay.
FAQ
Let Otis answer your questions.
How do I actually get paid?
The challenge settles once, the morning after its final night. Everything the owls who dropped forfeited is split among everyone who finished, and it lands in your Snooze wallet together with your own entry — there is no claim step and no button that gates the money. From the wallet you cash out to a US bank account through Stripe, which takes one to two business days and costs nothing.
What happens if I miss a night?
You are out of that challenge, permanently. Your entry stays in the pot for the owls who go on to finish, and the seat cannot be bought back at any price. That finality is deliberate: a rejoin would turn a forfeit into a fee, and the loss has to be real for any of this to work. What does not happen is anything extra — Snooze never charges you beyond the entry you already paid. You are free to start a different challenge whenever you like.
What exactly is being scored?
Two things, both on your own phone. A bedtime: you lock in before the challenge lock-by and leave the phone alone until your wake target. And a rise: movement showing up in Apple Health inside a tolerant window after that target. The rise is not a bonus round — it is the half that cannot be faked by simply not using a phone, which is exactly what the bedtime half is blind to. Getting up at 6:11 for a 6:00 target is fine; the window is tolerant on purpose.
Is this gambling?
No. There is no element of chance in a Snooze challenge: whether you hold a night depends entirely on whether you were off your phone before your lock-by and up after your wake target. There are no odds, no draw and no house — Snooze takes nothing out of the pot, so it never profits from your dropping. Everyone who finishes qualifies, on identical terms. Challenges with money in them are limited to adults 18 and over in the United States at launch.
What if my watch was charging, or I denied a permission?
Then the night is lost, the same as if you had slept through. We would rather tell you that plainly than imply otherwise: Apple deliberately hides whether an app was refused permission, so a phone that cannot be read and a morning spent in bed reach us as exactly the same silence, and there is no honest way to tell them apart. Keeping your device readable is part of the challenge, like charging your phone. Snooze asks for Health access before you can lock in and refuses the night without it, so you are never in a challenge you could not be scored for.
What if I need my phone in the night?
Calls, alarms, accessibility features and emergency services always work. Snooze does not block anything on your phone and it never could — it watches, it does not gate. If you unlock and start scrolling past your lock-by, that night does not count, and that is the only consequence.
What does Snooze charge?
Nothing out of the pot, and nothing to cash out. One fixed entry per challenge, shown before you join. What Snooze charges is the cost of the card swipe, once, on money coming in: pay for an entry by card and the processing cost is added on top and shown in the breakdown before you confirm, and topping up your Snooze wallet works the same way — so a join funded from the wallet adds nothing, because that swipe already paid. There is no subscription, and no charge of any kind for a missed night.
Can I get a refund?
You can leave and get your entry back in full, processing cost included, any time before your first night opens — that is the wind-down window a few hours ahead of lock-by. Once it opens the challenge is yours to finish: there is no leaving and no refund, because an entry you could walk away from on the night is not a commitment. The only other refund is ours to make, if something on our side goes wrong.
Can I be in two challenges at once?
No — one live seat at a time. One night of sleep can only satisfy one challenge, so a second seat would be a second entry riding on the same evidence: you would pay twice for one night, and two pots would both count it. You can browse everything while you are in one, and join the next as soon as your current run ends.
Can I set up my own challenge?
Yes, and the best ones tend to be community-made. Pick the lock-by and the wake target, the number of nights, whether weekends count, and the entry — for example in bed by 9:30 PM and up by 5:30 AM for fourteen nights at $20. Publish it openly or keep it to friends; the pot and the settlement rules are identical either way.
Your first challenge could start tonight at 10.
Seven nights of lights out by 10 PM and up by 6 AM, one $10 entry, and Otis watching the clock. There is no public build yet — leave your email and you will hear from us when there is.
iPhone first · Android after · United States at launch