Wakeful
Wakeful is a symptom tracker for narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia. Log cataplexy, sleep attacks, hallucinations and naps in three taps. At your next visit, show one page: how often, and since when.
For iPhone with iOS 26 or later. No account. Your health data stays on your phone.
Cataplexy per week
Example−50%13.5 a week before the dose change, 6.8 after
Example data. Wakeful counts what you log, week by week, and marks the day a dose changed. Switch the episode type.
Wakeful is an iPhone app for people with narcolepsy type 1 or 2 and idiopathic hypersomnia. It keeps a quick log of your symptoms and turns it into one page your sleep doctor can read.
Cataplexy, sleep attacks, hallucinations and sleep paralysis take three taps to log. Naps can be planned, reminded and timed. An evening check-in asks how sleepy you were. It works with any treatment, or none.
If you take oxybate twice a night, Wakeful also rings for dose 2. Its alarms use Apple's AlarmKit, so they ring like your Clock alarm, even in Silent mode and Focus.
Logging, naps and alarms are free. Wakeful Plus ($4.99 a month or $29.99 a year) adds the one-page PDF report, full history, trends, iCloud backup and CSV export. Wakeful never diagnoses, and it never suggests, calculates or changes doses.
3 tapsto log an episode
1 pagefor your sleep doctor
$0for logging, naps and alarms
0 accountsdata stays on your iPhone
Your doctor will ask how often. Tap +, pick what happened, set how strong it was. Triggers and a note are there when you want them, and the time is filled in for you.
Also from the Lock Screen widget and a Control Center button that logs cataplexy in one tap.
Your sleep doctor asks how often, how many and since when. The report answers on one page: episodes per week, naps, sleepiness and doses taken, with the date of a dose change marked.
Example data. The PDF, 90-day and custom ranges, trends and CSV export are part of Wakeful Plus; the 7- and 30-day report screen is free.
28 days · Night plan 10:30 PM and 1:15 AM · Dose change Oct 20
4 in the 2 weeks after the dose change, 7 before.
Recorded by the patient in Wakeful. Not a diagnosis.
Wakeful export.csv
| date | time | type | detail | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 01:22 | Dose 2 | Taken | |
| 2026-11-02 | 11:00 | Nap | 20 min | |
| 2026-11-02 | 11:40 | Sleep attack | 4 min | |
| 2026-11-02 | 14:30 | Nap | 15 min | |
| 2026-11-02 | 15:12 | Cataplexy | Moderate | Laughter |
| 2026-11-02 | 21:40 | Sleepiness | 7 of 10 | |
| 2026-11-02 | 22:31 | Dose 1 | Taken |
If your doctor prescribed a twice-nightly oxybate, Wakeful wakes you for the second dose. On a different medicine, skip this part. Everything above works without it.
First, enter the times your doctor gave you.
Dose 1, dose 2 and when you usually wake. Wakeful sets one alarm for each dose and repeats them every night you choose.
Then, at 1:15 AM, it rings.
Like an alarm, not a notification: it breaks through Silent mode and Focus. Tap Taken and the time is saved. Remind in 10 min rings again later.
Finally, in the morning, it checks.
If dose 2 has no answer, Today asks: Did you take dose 2? I took it, or I skipped it. Your log stays true even on the nights you don't remember.
These are real settings in Wakeful. Switch them to see what each one does.
Remind me before each planned nap.
5 minutes before, for up to four naps a day. Start the timer from Today, rate how rested you feel after.
Ask how sleepy I was each evening.
One question, one tap, a score from 0 to 10. It lands in the report next to your doses.
Ring for dose 2 in Silent mode and Focus.
For twice-nightly oxybate. AlarmKit alarms, the same kind as the Clock app, with Taken and Remind in 10 min on the Lock Screen.
Ask again if I stop it without Taken.
A backup notification 5 minutes later, then a question on Today in the morning.
Back up to my private iCloud.Plus
Your own iCloud database through Apple's CloudKit. Only you can read it; there is no Wakeful server.
No account, no Wakeful server, nothing sold. Doses, episodes, naps and notes live in the app on your phone.
Open the app and set your night plan. There is nothing to log in to.
With Plus, iCloud backup goes to your own private iCloud database. Only you can read it.
Anonymous counts of taps and screens. Never notes, triggers, medication names or dose times.
No ads, no data brokers, no cross-app tracking. Read the details in the privacy policy.
Logging, naps and dose alarms never sit behind a paywall. Wakeful Plus adds what you bring to the appointment.
Everything you need day to day, free for as long as you use it.
Everything in Free, plus what you bring to the appointment.
The same Wakeful Plus, about $2.50 a month when paid yearly.
Billed through your Apple ID. Cancel any time in iOS Settings.
Wakeful is an iPhone app for people with narcolepsy type 1 or 2 and idiopathic hypersomnia. It keeps a quick log of cataplexy, sleep attacks, hallucinations, sleep paralysis, naps and daytime sleepiness, and makes a one-page report you can bring to your sleep doctor. If you take oxybate twice a night, it also rings for the second dose.
No. Logging, naps, the sleepiness check-in and the report work with any treatment, or none. The dose alarm is for people who take oxybate twice a night. You can skip it during setup.
With Wakeful Plus, the Report tab makes a one-page PDF for the dates you pick. Share it with the iPhone share sheet: AirDrop, Mail, Messages, Files or print.
Free: logging every episode type, planned naps with reminders, the evening sleepiness check-in, the widget and Control Center button, your last 14 days of history, and for twice-nightly oxybate the dose alarms, Taken from the Lock Screen and the morning check.
Wakeful Plus adds the one-page PDF report for any date range, 90-day and custom ranges, trends, full history, iCloud backup and CSV export.
$4.99 a month or $29.99 a year, billed through your Apple ID. You can cancel any time in iOS Settings. Logging and dose alarms stay free either way.
On your iPhone. There is no Wakeful account and no Wakeful server. If you turn on iCloud backup (Wakeful Plus), your data is also stored in your own private iCloud database, which only you can read.
No. You enter the times your doctor gave you. Wakeful never suggests, calculates or changes doses, and it is not medical advice.
Yes. Wakeful's dose alarms use Apple's AlarmKit, so they ring like the alarms in the Clock app, even in Silent mode and Focus. You allow alarms once during setup. AlarmKit needs iOS 26 or later.
A backup notification asks again 5 minutes later. If dose 2 still has no answer, the Today screen asks you in the morning: “Did you take dose 2?” You tap I took it or I skipped it, so your log stays accurate.
Pick what you want to track and start with the next episode. A few weeks later, your doctor gets one page.
Wakeful is a tracking tool, not medical advice. It never diagnoses, and it never suggests, calculates or changes doses. Always follow your doctor's instructions.