Wakeout turns one-minute movement breaks into play: a goofy move at your desk, a new challenge every morning, and ten games where the camera turns your body into the controller. Apple named it iPhone App of the Year.
Made by co-founders Pedro Wunderlich and Andrés Canella. Everything below is free to use when you write about Wakeout. Click any preview for the full-size file.
iPhone App of the Year
Apple · 2020
Fact sheet
The founder story · Pedro and Andrés
Pedro and Andrés grew up in the same neighborhood in Guatemala. Years later both were stuck at desks, worn down by anxiety and the fog that settles in after too many hours in a chair. The standard advice (join a gym, train for something) was no use to two people who could barely get up. What worked was embarrassingly small: a stretch, a wiggle, a walk around the block. In 2017 they built Wakeout around that idea, one-minute moves so silly that nobody has to call them exercise.
Today Wakeout is for anyone with a body and a full day. Desk-bound professionals use it between meetings, students between study sessions, and active people use it to keep moving on the days they do not make it to the gym. People who say they hate exercise like it because it does not feel like exercise, and people in their 60s and 70s love it. In 2020, the year everyone sat down at home, Apple named Wakeout iPhone App of the Year.
Pedro Wunderlich
Co-founder
Creative director, fitness expert, product and marketing, engineer. Usually hanging from a pull-up bar.
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Andrés Canella
Co-founder
Engineer, backend master and yoga enthusiast. Always working at a standing desk.
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The long version
Wakeout is a movement app for people who do not want a workout. It turns the minutes you already have (waiting for the kettle, between two calls, at the end of a long scroll) into a one-minute move that feels more like play than exercise: a silly stretch, a quick dance, a round of punching saucers out of the sky with your own arms.
Inside is a library of more than 3,000 short moves in 102 themed packs, each one a little video you copy along with, plus ten movement games where the iPhone, iPad or Mac camera tracks your whole body. Everything is built to be small enough to start: a Wakeout takes about a minute, a challenge never more, and nothing needs equipment, special clothes or even standing up.
It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and iPhone Duo, in 19 languages, and it counts every bit of movement, from a Wakeout to the walk to the coffee place, as Watts toward a daily goal. The point is not to train. It is to move more often, all day, because it is fun.
Move Now
One giant button on the home screen. Press it and Wakeout picks a one-minute move from your mix: sitting, standing, dancing, silly, pain relief. No browsing, no deciding.
What do you need?
Energy, focus or pain relief. Say how you feel and Wakeout finds the move that fits, so the app answers the question you actually have at 3pm.
Daily Move Challenge
A new challenge every morning, a minute or less: arm circles, a wall sit, a dance. Fifty Watts on the line, and a count of how many people already did it today.
Wiggle Timer
Pick a rhythm, every 15 to 45 minutes, and Wakeout taps you on the shoulder. Each reminder ends in a quick move, not a lecture.
Walk Breaks
Stand up, walk to the window and back. The ring fills as you walk and the break is done at 100 steps, on the phone or on the wrist.
Ten movement games
The camera turns your body into the controller: punch saucers, row a river, spin a hula hoop, flap to fly, pedal Wakefield’s bike up hills. No headset, no controller, and the video never leaves the phone.
Moves you copy along with
Every Wakeout is a short video of someone doing the move, so you just follow. Head squeezes and rainbows with a cushion, kitchen hops while the microwave runs. Not feeling it? Get Another Move swaps it in one tap.
Watts, streaks and titles
Every move earns Watts toward a daily goal: Wakeouts, games, challenges and the steps Apple Health sees. Keep a day streak going and climb titles from Fresh Wiggler to Motion Sage.
A live, global crowd
The home screen shows how many people have wiggled today, live, and the most moved packs right now. You are never the only one doing chair kicks.
3,000+ moves in 102 packs
Dance breaks, back care, morning mobility, moves with a pillow or a water bottle, voice-guided Movement Therapy, and packs for the 60+ club, the couch and the edge of the bed.
Seated or standing
A whole shelf called Don’t Even Stand Up. Every move and every game can be played sitting down, at a desk or on the couch.
Apple Watch
Move Now, the daily challenge, walk breaks and the Wiggle Timer on the wrist. The new watch app also works as a controller for the iPhone experience.
Mac
The whole app on the Mac, plus a menu bar with Move Now, the Wiggle Timer and every game one click away. The movement games play through the Mac’s webcam.
iPhone Duo and iPad
Every pose of iPhone Duo has its own layout (tent mode props the camera up for the games), and iPad gets the whole app on the big screen.
Also in the box
What’s new
Wakeout 11 · movement games
Ten games, no headset, no controller. Punch saucers out of the sky, row a river, keep a balloon up, hula hoop with your hips. Rounds last a minute or two, most work seated, and every move counts toward your day.
iPhone Duo
Wakeout supports every single pose, and none of them is just a bigger screen. Tent props the camera at the perfect angle for the games, laptop puts the controls on the flat half, book splits the player from what is next, and closed keeps a compact player on the outer screen.
Daily move challenge
A new one-minute challenge every morning.
Walk breaks
A short walk that counts to 100 steps, then you are back.
A live global community
Live counts of the people moving with you around the world.
Daily top packs
The most popular movement packs of the day.
iOS 27 widgets
Full support for the new iOS 27 widgets.
Apple Watch as a controller
The new Apple Watch app controls the iPhone experience from your wrist.
Mac app with movement games
The new Mac app plays the movement games through the Mac’s webcam.
Video
26 seconds of what Wakeout looks like right now: the one-minute moves, the morning challenge and the games. Portrait, 886×1920, H.264 with music. Embed it, cut it, put it in your piece.
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The app as it is today on iPhone 17 Pro Max, transparent PNG.
iPhone: Home
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iPhone: Browse
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iPhone: Wiggle Timer
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iPhone: Playing: Arms Only
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iPhone: Playing: Leg Activator
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iPhone: Playing: Cushion Fun
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iPhone: Playing: Energy Smacks
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Movement that does not feel like exercise
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A minute of play, all day
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Your body is the controller
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Move on a periodic timer
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At your desk, on a plane, at 70
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A new challenge every day
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Their words, not ours
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Real app screens on iPad Pro, transparent PNG.
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iPad: Browse
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iPad: Wiggle Timer
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iPad: Playing: Arms Only
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iPad: Playing: Leg Activator
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iPad: Playing: Cushion Fun
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iPad: Playing: Kitchen Hops
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The Mac app, full Retina captures.
Move Now and the daily challenge on the wrist.
Movement games
Frames from the clips the app shows before each game: the real game on screen, played by the cast of our in-app previews. More about every game on the movement games page.
Hit the Spot
Whole body
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Saucer Punch
Arms and hips
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Row the Rapids
Arms and shoulders
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Balloon Juggle
Hands and arms
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Squat Water Pump
Legs
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Hula Hoop
Hips
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Squeaky Clean
Arms
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Brick Breaker
Hips and arms
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Flap & Fly
Arms
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Bicycle Run
Legs
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Brand assets
The icons are the ones shipping in Wakeout 11. Wakefield is our mascot, a bear who would rather be moving. Please keep the logo and Wakefield as they are: no recoloring, stretching or new outfits.
App icon (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
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Apple Watch app icon
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Logo for light backgrounds
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Logo for dark backgrounds
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Wordmark, ink
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Wordmark, cream
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Wakefield, cheering
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Coverage so far
Apple, App Store Best of 2020
iPhone App of the Year
“The independent developer of Wakeout! brought gentle exercise to home offices and classrooms with light-hearted and inclusive movements designed for everyone.” Read Apple’s announcement →
An interview, a full-access code to try every game, a different crop, a quote in Spanish. Write to Pedro and a human writes back.
