grackle
Do the thing. Get the shiny.
A focus timer and habit tracker for iPhone, with one gimmick: a smart-ass grackle forages while you work and pays you in treasure for staying off your phone.
Do the thing. Get the shiny.
A focus timer and habit tracker for iPhone, with one gimmick: a smart-ass grackle forages while you work and pays you in treasure for staying off your phone.
The pitch
Start a 25 or 50 minute session and the bird flies off to forage. Stay out of your phone until the timer ends and it returns with something shiny for your hoard. Quit early and it comes back with nothing, and stares. Comedy, never guilt. The bird roasts because it stays. Your streak is not a number, it is a pile of loot you can scroll through.
Start a focus session. Leave the app for more than 30 seconds and the forage fails.
Finish clean and it lands, tilts its head, and drops a shiny on the pile. Every item has its own flavor.
Bail early and it comes back empty. One kind line: it once gave up on a whole parking lot.
The hoard
Drops roll across four rarities. Sixty items in the catalog, each with its own flavor text. Once in a lifetime, a Spanish doubloon. The bird will not say which creek.
Bottle Cap, Topo Chico
Still cold somehow.
Guitar Pick, Medium
Every third person in Austin sheds these.
AirPod, Left
Somewhere a jogger grieves.
Hotel Key Card, Room 217
Checked out, never checked back in.
Chert Arrowhead
Four thousand years of Austin in one point.
Silver Dollar, 1921
Heavier than it should be.
Spanish Doubloon
Eight reales, minted under a king.
The Yellow Marble
Looks exactly like the bird's eye. The bird finds this hilarious.
The menace ladder
The notifications are the funniest thing the app does. This is the actual copy, day by day.
What it is
One-time purchase. Pay once, keep it. No subscription, ever.
No account. Nothing to sign up for. No email, no login.
Stays on your phone. Your hoard lives on your device. No server, no cloud, nothing uploaded.
No ads. The bird sells nothing. It just judges you, for free.