Walk✦Star
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Android · Free · No account

It asks when you are not expecting it.

One star. One intention. Your honest answer becomes light.

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Hold anywhere
Try it. This is the whole interaction.

What's something so meaningful about you that if it changed just 1%, your life would be different?

In 2016, researchers pooled 138 studies, nearly 20,000 people. The ones who kept track of their own progress beat the ones who didn't about six times out of ten.

Walk Star turns every honest answer into light around a star, so you can see exactly where your attention went.

Six in ten is a small edge, so don't aim it at something small.

The app is the force. You do the aiming.

Coming to Google Play

Harkin et al., Psychological Bulletin, 2016. Free · Android · no account · nothing leaves your phone.


Why this exists

Forty green squares and one red one. The red one is louder.

No grid. No badges. One star, holding one thing you named.


How it works

Six things happen.

01

Name one intention

Water. Posture. A person you meant to call.

02

Set an interval, not a time

Say every 2.5 hours. Inside that interval the moment is random. You can't brace for it.

03

The phone lights up, even locked

Full screen. It asks about your thing without naming it.

2:47
Tuesday 14 October
Did this find you today?
Hold anywhere

Arrives within seconds. You don't get to know when.

04

Hold anywhere for a second

That's the answer. No scale, no form, no note to write.

05

The answer becomes light

A particle enters orbit, joins the trail behind the last one, and dies into your star.

06

Or don't answer

Fifteen seconds. Swipe it away or let it close itself — both are answers.


The uncomfortable part

A miss makes no light. That is the whole consequence.

six answers · one silence · the next one starts a new trail

No scolding, no guilt notification, no wall of red squares. And no star you didn't earn.


Plainly

Nothing rounded up.

Platform
Android.
Price
Free.
Account
None.
Network
Zero calls. Nothing leaves the phone.
Your data
On your device. Delete the app and it's gone.
Quiet
Sleep mode. It stops asking until you wake it.
Stars
Have several. It pushes you toward one.

Fair questions

Asked first, every time.

So it punishes me for missing?

No. You just make no light that time.

Isn't a random alarm annoying?

You set the interval, and sleep mode stops it dead. Inside the interval, surprise is the point.

Why only one thing?

You can have more. Managing eleven is how the last app ate your time.

What does it change?

You answer honestly at a moment you didn't pick. I'm not selling you a result.


Name one thing. Let it find you.

A monument of your subconscious.

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