The short answer
Every Roosta mission has a timeout, and an escape hatch opens after a delay you configure — regardless of how the mission is going. A failed mission returns you to a ringing alarm rather than switching it off. You are never locked out of your own phone.
Three rules that cannot be switched off
This is the objection almost everyone has before installing a mission alarm, and it deserves a specific answer rather than reassurance.
- 1Every mission has a timeout. No mission can run indefinitely; if it cannot be completed, it ends rather than trapping you in it.
- 2The escape hatch opens on a delay you choose, and it opens regardless of mission state. Not on completion, not on a correct answer — on time elapsed.
- 3A failed mission returns to the ringing state, never to silence. Failure must never be an accidental route to switching the alarm off.
Choosing your delay
The delay is the single most important setting in the app, and there is no universally correct value. A long delay produces real friction and is right for someone whose only problem is getting out of bed. A short delay is right for someone whose mornings occasionally contain flights, hospital shifts or a child who has been sick in the night.
Both are legitimate. What is not legitimate is an app deciding for you, or hiding the setting to protect its own effectiveness metric.
Snooze is limited, not punished
Snooze remains available and can be capped: after a number of snoozes you set, the mission becomes mandatory. Snoozing is acknowledged gently rather than treated as a moral failure — the mechanic is already adversarial, and shaming a person at 6am is both unpleasant and counterproductive.