A playful model inspired by brain chemistry, not medical advice.
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A free account syncs your tasks. Totally optional.
Tap when done. One task covers an area. Goal: all 5.
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Inspired by Meet Your Happy Chemicals (L. G. Breuning). Not medical advice.
Balance is a playful model inspired by ideas about brain chemistry. It does not measure real hormones or neurotransmitters, and it is not medical, psychological, or health advice. The requirements are simple real-life habits meant to nudge you toward a varied, real-life day. If you're struggling, please talk to a qualified professional.
How it works
Today's goal: touch all 5 areas. Each area has three tasks; doing any one of them (for at least its minimum time) covers that area and turns it white. Extra tasks are welcome but the goal is breadth. All 5 covered is a full day. The Week tab also counts variety: areas you covered with something different from the day before. Everything resets at local midnight.
The areas: Dopamine for small steps toward something, Endorphins for laughing and moving for fun, Oxytocin for trust and people, Serotonin for pride and respect, and Calm for cortisol, the brain's alarm. Some alarm is normal; Calm is about letting it pass.
45-day habit: optional, at the bottom of the Path tab. Pick one action to repeat daily; give it about 45 days to feel natural. Missed days just stay empty.
Next and reminders favour the area you covered least this week, so all five get their turn.
Swaps and hobbies: tap Swap next to an area's name to pick different actions for it. Every area always keeps three tasks. Your own hobbies (sketching, singing, crafting…) live in Dopamine's swap list under Do your hobby.
Quick tasks like Keep a promise or Share a win have no minimum time; tap them once you've done them.
Brain health: stays fresh for 12 hours after your last completed task, then slowly gets spots, cracks and flies, fully rotten after 3 days. Completing any task brings it back.
Haptics
A gentle tap when you finish a task, a double tap when you cover a new area, and three for a full day. Works on Android, and on iPhone with iOS 18 or later.
Gentle reminders
Up to three times a day, Balance suggests one real-life action for the area that needs it most. Reminders appear inside the app: when a time passes, you'll see the card the next time you open Balance.
Suggest an activity
Know a great real-life action? Send it in (up to 5 a day). Every idea is reviewed by a person before it could ever appear in the app.
Account
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Your data
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