Terms of Use

The app

Beat the Blanket is an alarm app that encourages you to get up before sunrise. You save a reference mirror selfie, and to complete an alarm challenge you take a fresh mirror selfie. A successful check before sunrise earns a win and builds your streak.

• The app uses Apple's AlarmKit and requires iOS 26 or later.
• The daily morning alarm and morning streak tracking are free.
• Blanket Plus, a paid subscription, adds extra alarms. See Blanket Plus.
• The morning window ends at sunrise for your saved location, or 15 minutes after the alarm when sunrise can't be determined. Extra alarms have a 15-minute challenge window and their own history.
• On days you confirm you are away from your saved home, your morning streak is kept but no win is added.

Breakfast Club, a planned community feature, is not part of the app today and is not included in any subscription.

Alarm reliability

Beat the Blanket is designed to make getting up harder to put off, not impossible to avoid. Please understand how it behaves:

• Opening the challenge camera gives you one 30-second quiet window. A separate rescue alarm rings if you don't complete the challenge.
• Pressing the iPhone Stop control may schedule another alarm 30 seconds later while the challenge window is still open.
• You can end an alarm by confirming you are away from your saved home.
• Alarm volume follows your iPhone's settings.

Alarms depend on things outside our control, including your iPhone's battery and power state, volume and sound settings, Focus modes, permissions, iOS behavior and system limits, and app or system updates. We can't promise that an alarm will always ring, that it can't be stopped, or that it will wake you.

Mirror matching

Mirror checks compare your fresh photo with your reference selfie using Apple's Vision image similarity, entirely on your iPhone. This is a motivational check, not a security feature. It does not verify your identity, it does not guarantee that a photo is live, and it may not stop someone from reusing an earlier photo. It can also fail to match a genuine photo, for example in poor lighting.

Blanket Plus

Blanket Plus is a single auto-renewing subscription, offered monthly or yearly. It unlocks additional alarms, each with its own repeating schedule, sound, label, mirror check and history. The app doesn't set its own limit on how many alarms you can add, but iOS system limits still apply.

• The price and billing period are shown in the App Store before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account.
• The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings, or from Manage subscription in the app. Deleting the app does not cancel it.
• If you reinstall the app or change iPhones, use Restore purchases in the app with the same Apple Account.
• Apple handles all purchases, renewals, cancellations and refunds under its own policies. Refund requests go to Apple.

The free morning alarm stays available whether or not you subscribe.

Acceptable use

Use the app only for personal, lawful purposes. Don't:

• use the app to take photos of other people without their permission
• reverse engineer, modify or interfere with the app, except where the law allows it
• try to get around Blanket Plus or the App Store's purchase system
• use the app in a way that breaks the law or Apple's terms

Privacy

The Beat the Blanket Privacy Policy explains how the app handles your information. Your mirror photos, alarms and locations are kept on your iPhone.

Intellectual property

Beat the Blanket, including its name, design, artwork, sounds and code, belongs to Deen First Tech or its licensors and is protected by law. We grant you a personal, non-transferable license to use the app on Apple devices you own or control, under these terms and Apple's terms. The photos you take remain yours.

Availability and changes

We may update the app, change or remove features, or stop offering it. We'll try to give notice of significant changes where we reasonably can. If a feature included in Blanket Plus is removed, your rights to a refund are determined by Apple's policies and applicable law.

Disclaimers and limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the app is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, including that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any alarm will sound or wake you.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Deen First Tech will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss resulting from a missed, late or stopped alarm, a failed or incorrect mirror check, or an unavailable feature. Our total liability for any claim relating to the app is limited to the amount you paid for Blanket Plus in the 12 months before the claim.

Some places don't allow these exclusions or limits, so they may not all apply to you. Nothing in these terms affects consumer rights that can't be waived by law.

Apple terms

These terms are between you and Deen First Tech, not Apple. Apple's Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies to your use of the app. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content, has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for it, and is a third-party beneficiary of these terms with the right to enforce them against you. Your use of the App Store is governed by Apple's own terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, except where the law of the country you live in requires otherwise.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the app changes. We'll post the new version here with a revised date, and give additional notice where the law requires it. If you keep using the app after an update, the updated terms apply.

Contact

Questions about these terms can be sent to founder@deenfirst.tech.

Deen First Tech LLC