[OC] I pulled anonymized usage data from a gentle alarm clock iOS app and mapped where people are using it across the US

Each purple dot is a city, town, or village where at least one person used the app in November 2025. I thought the patterns were interesting enough to share here:

\- The East Coast really lights up, especially the Northeast corridor (Boston → NYC → Philly → D.C.).

\- California has several dense clusters, with the Bay Area and LA as the brightest spots.

\- There’s a surprising amount of usage in rural areas, especially across the Midwest and the South, though it’s much more spread out there.

\- In the Mountain West and desert Southwest, most of the map is dark, but places like the Denver area, Salt Lake City, and Albuquerque show sparse yet distinct clusters.

\- Florida is bright along both coasts, especially around Miami and the Tampa Bay area.

And yes, at a high level this does look a lot like a standard US population density map, which totally makes sense. Still, it’s fun to see that familiar pattern emerge specifically from where people live and wake up using a gentle alarm instead of the default one.

Source: [Wonderwake: Gentle Alarm Clock](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6475820849?pt=118982322&ct=cmp1&mt=8)