iOS

How do you know your life is in balance?

Compass

A wheel of life you have to earn. Twenty-four questions draw it, and nothing else moves it.

Wheel-of-life exercises always felt too easy to cheat. You drag a slider to roughly where you'd like to be, and the picture agrees with you.

Compass screenshot
Compass screenshot
Eight directions. Twenty-four questions. No slider anywhere.

In Compass you can't draw the wheel at all. Twenty-four questions draw it, and nothing else moves it. If the shape comes out lopsided, that's the answer, and the only way to change it is to answer differently next time because something actually changed.

Compass screenshot
Where you actually stand, against everyone else standing near you.

What I didn't expect was how much I'd resist my own app.

The first honest wheel I got back was not the one I'd have drawn by hand.

That gap turned out to be the useful part.

Compass screenshot
Some days it just tells you you found the quiet bit.