Still
One sentence. One word. A moment for yourself.
A sentence each day and a place to leave one word of your own. Over time, those words become a record of the year.
Designed, built and released in fourteen days.
I wanted a small push to get moving in the morning. The first idea was a daily motivational quote.
While building it, I became more interested in what happens after reading. That became the core: one sentence to read, one word to reflect.
A blank page asks a lot of you. Still gives you a simple place to start. Read the sentence. Find a word for your day. Leave it there.
No feeds, no streaks, no scores. Nothing has piled up when you come back.
The sentence sits at the centre of the screen with room around it. Serif type gives the sentence weight; the small labels carry the date and the one action.
Most of the work went into proportions. With so little on screen, every decision is visible.
A word is a small record. A year of them gives you something to return to.
The year appears as a field of dots. Each one takes you back to that day. Today stays the starting point; the wider picture grows on its own.
A widget puts the sentence on the home screen, a local notification brings it back each day. Everything you write stays on the device, with no account and no backend.
You can start without signing up and read the sentence without opening the app.
The hardest work never showed up in a screenshot. App and widget had to show the same sentence, a new day had to begin correctly, and yesterday’s entry had to stay untouched.
When an app offers one thing a day, getting that one thing right carries all the weight.
GPT structured the requirements, Claude implemented and refactored the SwiftUI project. I directed the work, reviewed the interface and tested the behaviour.
Thirteen friends tested it through TestFlight. Fourteen days after the first prompt, Still was on the App Store. AI helped me get to a working version sooner. I still had to decide what belonged and test how it worked.
A sentence for today. A word of your own.
