01A self-improvement app for men
Vigil
Six paths. One figure. A day that has a size.
You are already on all six paths: Warrior, Monk, Stoic, Ranger, Scholar, Guardian. Today gives you a short list with a price on every task. What you do pays XP to the path it belongs to, the shape of your XP names you, and one Figure wears what you have earned. The count of days never goes down.
02The app
Eight screens
What it looks like
Scroll sideways. The screens are the app's own, drawn from its content.
03The six paths
All walked at once
Nobody chooses a path. The doing decides.
- Warriorbody, training, keeping your wordWorkouts, strength, carrying, cold, doing the thing you said at the hour you said.
- Monkstillness, quiet, lessSitting, phone-free hours, silence, one desire left alone, eating without a screen.
- Stoicthe mind under pressureWriting the difficulty before answering it, the evening review, leaving what is not yours, going without a comfort.
- Rangeroutside, sleep, the clockTime outside, distance on foot, waking at the hour, bed by the hour, no second alarm.
- Scholarlearning, craft, the long workReading, lessons, deep-work sessions, finishing and showing, redoing the worst part.
- Guardianthe people in your keepingCalls, unasked favours, answering the avoided message, hours given, showing up for someone.
04How it pays
Earned, never granted, never spent
A price on every task. A size to every day.
The numbers are the app's, not yours to type. They only go up.
The proofYour word, the clock, or the phone
Every task can be marked on your word. Run the timer and it is timed. Let the phone see a workout, a night's sleep, an hour outside, and it is verified. Verified pays more. Your word still counts.
The day has a sizeYour word pays up to twice the goal
A task marked by hand pays until the day has paid twice its goal, then it pays nothing. The timer and the phone keep paying. Five tasks of your own a day. Nothing to farm.
The countDays never decrease
A missed day is written down as a break, in the same grey as everything else. The streak resets; the count of days does not. The morning after points at the next thing.
The ladderEvery level opens something
Custom tasks at 3, the dressing room at 4, the share card at 5, Bronze at 8, titles at 12, Steel at 14, Silver at 20, Gold at 30. Nothing on the ladder is bought.
Goals, measuredReal targets, in real units
Twenty workouts. A thousand pages. Twenty nights of seven hours. The app counts them from what the clock and the phone saw. You do the thing.
The week and the monthRead back in numbers you did not type
Every Monday a note in plain words: which path led, how many days met the goal, how sleep moved. Progress shows thirty days against the thirty before.
05The Figure
What you have become
One body. Forty-eight pieces.
Every path dresses him in its own pieces, earned by the path's level: the hands at level 3, the chest at 8, the shoulders at 14, the head at 20, the held piece by finishing the path's goal. A 30-day path streak earns his back, a hundred days the legendary held piece, a year the aura. The pieces stay when a streak ends.
The six-sided shape of his XP gives him a title: Warrior, Scholar-Warrior, Balanced. Achievements, twenty-five families in five tiers, strike an epithet after it: the Unbroken, the Returned. From level 4 you dress him yourself, any piece you own, in any slot, mixed across the paths.
06What it does not do
By design
- No account, no server
- Everything Vigil knows is on the phone. Health data is read on the device, with your permission, category by category, and never leaves it. Delete the app and it is gone.
- Nothing for sale that changes progress
- XP is earned, never granted, never spent. No boosts, no unlocks, no cosmetics. What a man earns is his.
- No red, no shame
- A break is recorded in the same grey as a rest day. There is no word for it in the app. Three notifications at most, none of them because you have been away.
- Not a medical or crisis service
- Vigil is a daily practice, kept by the man who keeps it. It gives no medical, psychiatric, legal or financial advice. In immediate danger, call your local emergency number.
07Company
Wyoming, USA
Valid Ventures LLC
An independent software studio in Sheridan, Wyoming, designing and publishing its own apps for iPhone. Small on purpose, on-device by default, one product at a time. Vigil is the first.
For anything about the app, TestFlight, or the company, write to us. A person reads the mailbox.
Sheridan, WY 82801
United States