Pay only when you lose. No subscription fee.

Snooze and Lose does not sell anything up front. You save a payment card once through Paddle, our merchant of record, and that card is charged only when you miss a staked alarm. There is no monthly plan, no fee for setting alarms, and nothing to top up.

Egyptian SMS stakes

On supported Android phones you can instead choose an Egyptian charity and authorize an EGP 5, 20, or 50 donation stake if you miss your commitment. These tiers request 1, 4, or 10 separate donation texts at EGP 5 each. An active Egyptian SIM, SMS and phone permissions, and Android premium-SMS setup are required before SMS alarms can be armed. Your operator collects the donation directly; Snooze and Lose receives no SMS stake and takes no platform share. Available airtime, network access, and operator support affect sending and collection. Sending can be delayed or incomplete. A failed or uncertain send stops the remaining texts, and we do not automatically retry it.

During setup, open Android Premium SMS settings, select Always allow for Snooze and Lose, and confirm that choice in the app. Android does not expose that setting through a supported third-party permission check, so the confirmation records your acknowledgement. If Android does not yet list the app, an optional, explicitly requested setup SMS can register it. Choosing Send may donate EGP 5 immediately; choosing Cancel registers the prompt without that donation. A setup donation is separate from an alarm stake. No setup message is sent automatically.

The same selected stake covers both the alarm and an enabled wake-up check, with one shared text limit. The app reports partial dispatch separately from payment; it cannot refund a carrier donation. Contact the operator or charity for their refund process. All card details below apply to card stakes.

How card payment works

What happens to a lost stake

• If you dismiss an alarm on time, nothing is charged.
• If you miss the dismissal window, the stake you chose for that alarm is charged to your saved card.
• Every staked alarm is tied to an approved charity: pick one or keep the default. If you miss the dismissal window, the 20% platform share is rounded down to the nearest cent and the remainder, at least 80%, is queued for payout to that charity.
• You may commit the full stake: 100% is queued for charity payout and 0% is retained.

If a charge fails

If your card declines a lost-stake charge, the charge is retried and the app pauses new stakes until you update your card. Alarms without a stake keep working as normal.

Refunds

A lost-stake charge that was made by mistake, or that you dispute, is reviewed and, where appropriate, refunded through Paddle to the same card. See the Refund Policy for the rules, including the point at which a charity portion can no longer be reversed.

Additional notes

• There is no subscription fee. Saving a card creates a $0 Paddle plan that never bills on its own; it only lets a lost stake be charged.
• Nothing is paid up front. A charge happens only when you miss a staked alarm, for exactly that stake.
• Dismissing a staked alarm on time means no charge at all.
• SMS stakes (Egypt) are separate from card stakes: one EGP 5 donation text to an approved Egyptian charity, collected by your mobile operator, never by Paddle. The app records that the text was sent, not that it was collected, and cannot refund it.
• Payment processing is handled by Paddle as merchant of record. Any taxes that apply in your region are included in the stake amount, so your card is charged exactly the stake.