Poink

For those times when you just need to stop falling asleep somehow, late nights or even during the day.. use Poink!


Poink is unlike the other "keep me awake" apps where you have to keep telling the app that you are awake.
With Poink, the app tells YOU when you are falling asleep.




How does that work ?

Poink works by detecting variations in your phone's movement when it is held in your hand.

With Poink switched on, hold the phone upright, holding more towards the base of the phone.
The moment you start falling asleep the phone begins to tilt and Poink starts to alert you. It's that simple.




The best things about Poink..

• You can continue using your phone for other things while Poink runs in the background.

• It gets better... Poink runs even when the screen is off ! - best for lactating mothers who do not want to wake up their baby but need to keep themselves awake.

• Whenever Poink detects a substantial phone tilt and needs to alert you, it starts by vibrating the phone first and even then if you do not respond, Poink will start ringing the phone as a last measure to wake you up.


Poink was made keeping in mind the needs of students studying late into the night, lactating mothers who need to feed their babies at night, people doing desk work in the night shift and for any other instances where you needed to stay awake.




The Poink team truly values any kind of feedback you have about our product, so please do write to us about things you like or don't like about Poink.



We hope you like Poink and find it useful for your use.






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NOTE:

• Care should be taken while using Poink that the user is in a stable environment e.g. if ever the phone happens to fall out of the user’s hand, it falls to a stable place e.g. a bed, a table, on the couch etc.
• Lactating mothers should not use Poink as the sole method of staying awake, to ensure optimal safety of your baby.
• For a select few phones alerting does not work when the screen is off.This is due to these models not being able to send tilt sensor information when the screen is off.(Also see "Coming Soon" section below)







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PERMISSIONS used :

• VIBRATE - for Poink to be able to vibrate the phone during alerts.

• READ_PHONE_STATE - for detecting an incoming/outgoing call so that Poink can be paused.

• WAKE_LOCK - for detecting phone tilt when the screen is off and Poink is running.






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COMING SOON:

• SCREEN DIM feature - for the select few phones where Poink is not able to alert the user when the screen is off (as mentioned in "Note" section above), we are adding a feature by which Poink can still be used on those phones with the screen just dimming and not turning off.