A private document
The promises you keep, written down once. Read back to you, daily.
Most habit apps are loud. Creed is the opposite. Write a few principles — the things you've decided to be true about how you want to live — and Creed shows them back to you each morning, before anything else.
No streaks. No notifications. No analytics. Your data never leaves your device.
Your code.
What it does
It makes your committed self present to your current self, daily, in under two minutes.
Drift isn't a willpower failure. It's a bandwidth problem — the version of you who decided how to live isn't present in the moment the decision gets remade. Creed solves that with recognition, not motivation.
i.
Morning ritual
One principle, slowly, before your day starts. Closer to lighting a candle than checking email.
ii.
Evening question
One honest question at the end of the day. No grades, no scores — just an answer recorded, for you.
iii.
Home-screen widget
Today's focus on your home screen, in the same paper aesthetic. No nag, no badge, no number.
iv.
Seasons
Optional chapters for when one intention matters more than others. Begin a season; close it when the time has passed.
v.
The drift return
Disappear for a week and Creed greets you back. There is no streak to repair.
vi.
Local-only
No account. No cloud. No network. Export everything as JSON whenever you like.
What Creed will never do
- Track streaks.
- Shame you for absence.
- Send notifications.
- Compare you to anyone else.
- Optimize for time-in-app.
- Write your principles for you.
The principles the app itself lives by
A creed for the app itself.
These aren't aspirations — they're the rules that decided every screen, every animation, every word.
Recognition over recall.
You never have to remember your principles. The app shows them.
Ritual over tracking.
The morning moment is closer to lighting a candle than checking email.
Returning is the win.
Every behavioral app punishes absence. This one rewards return.
Your words, not ours.
No pre-written affirmations. The app is a mirror, not a mentor.
Friction where it matters, nowhere else.
Writing a principle is slow. Reading one in the morning is instant.
Specificity beats inspiration.
"Be your best self" is useless. The app gently pushes toward concreteness.
The app disappears when you're living well.
If you stop opening Creed because you're out in the world being the person you wanted to be — that is success.
Privacy
Your data never leaves your device. Not even anonymously.
The app does not declare the Android INTERNET permission. It is technically incapable of reaching a network. There are no analytics SDKs, no crash reporters, no ads, no third parties of any kind.
Everything is local.
Your principles, seasons, notes, and preferences live in a SQLite database scoped to the app's private storage on your device. When you uninstall Creed, every byte goes with it.
Settings → Export sends a JSON snapshot to your device's share sheet. You choose where it goes.