Sleep&Arrive is a new app for public transit commuters that tries to wake you based on your location rather than a fixed time.
The app can alert you as your stop gets close via an alarm on your phone and headphones, or through vibration patterns on your Wear OS watch.
It also supports transfers, estimates your location when the GPS signal is lost, and can warn you if you’re heading away from your destination.
It’s a nightmare scenario — you drift off on a bus or train after a long day, only to be jolted awake in a panic as you approach the end of the line, further from your destination than you started. A regular alarm doesn’t always cut it either, since your commute can take a different amount of time every day depending on delays. That’s exactly the problem a new Wear OS app called Sleep&Arrive is trying to tackle.
The app was announced by its developer (u/MFRKNDGN) in a post on the r/WearOS subreddit this week. Instead of waking you up at a fixed time, Sleep&Arrive is designed to track your journey and use that location data to alert you as you approach your stop, so you can risk that bus or train nap without quite so much fear.
