Compass
A wheel of life you have to earn. Answer twenty-four short questions about the last fortnight and the app draws your wheel from them. Nothing else moves it.
Eight directions, honestly kept.
Body, mood, social, money, work, curiosity, nature, spirit. A bearings check asks three short questions about each — how often something was true over the past fortnight — and the wheel is derived from your answers rather than typed in. The rose carries no numbers on its face: you read shape, not digits, because a wheel with numbers on it grades you.
A new install is empty. Most apps hand you a filled-in example and hope you don’t look closely; this one waits until it has something true to draw.
A place to stand, and look around.
No streaks. No badges. Nothing graded.
A wheel you have to earn
A new install is empty on purpose — eight named directions and no shape. The rose fills in when you answer, and there is no way to nudge a score because you felt like it.
Twenty-four questions
Short, about the past fortnight, and asked in different words each time so the fourth pass doesn't read like the first. Two minutes, whenever you want one.
A record, not a scoreboard
Every check leaves a shape behind. Put them side by side and watch the picture move — you're comparing shapes, not marks out of ten.
A trailhead, never a failure
Your lowest direction gets an amber ring. It's a place to go and look at, and there's a two-minute step waiting there the moment you want one.
Field notes with real citations
Nine short pieces on what actually helps, each carrying the paper it came from. No folk wisdom, no “studies show”.
The campfire
One line about the day, and then you put it down. It's kept, so you can read it back. The counter says nights at this campfire — never “day streak”.
Your judgement, next to what’s measured.
Optional, and off unless you turn it on. Five of the eight directions gain a second opinion from outside you — published figures about the world rather than your own reading of yourself:
- The air where you live — satellite data, via Our World in Data
- Household income against everyone alive — World Bank
- Working hours where you live — International Labour Organization
- How many people move enough — World Health Organization
- How people rate their own lives — Wellbeing Research Centre
Every reading names its source, says which group it’s comparing you against, and states what it cannot tell you. Three of the eight directions have nothing honest to compare against, and the app says so rather than inventing something. It needs one fact to work — which country you’re in — and that never leaves the phone.
No account. No network at all.
Compass makes no network requests of any kind. There is no analytics, no tracking, and no third-party code in it. Everything you write lives on your device, and deleting the app deletes it.
Compass is a reflective tool, not a medical or diagnostic one. Its questions were written for this app and are not a clinical instrument. If you’re struggling, please talk to someone qualified.
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