Thriving
Under 2h screen time, full of energy
Digital wellbeing · in character
Your day feeds your mascot.
Mindling mirrors how you use your phone into life, mood, and stakes for a creature you actually want to keep thriving — not another guilt dashboard.
Live preview — same SVG mascots and dev sliders as the app (age, life, species).
The loop
Screen time in. Mascot state out.
Usage translates into how your mascot feels — and the home screen shows the whole loop at a glance: a today strip (“1h 24m on phone · −12 life”), an evolution countdown, and comet arcs that orbit your mascot while a shield or boost ticks down. A playful feedback loop — not a scorecard shouting at you.
- Today strip
- Evolution goal
- Powerup comets
Ambient presence
It lives on your lock screen.
Your Mindling doesn’t wait for you to open the app. A home-screen widget keeps their life, mood, and today’s drain in view; a Live Activity counts shields and boosts down in real time on the lock screen; and on iPhone the Dynamic Island shows your mascot’s face with a live life ring.
- Home-screen widget
- Live Activity
- Dynamic Island
Widget · Live Activity with real-time countdowns · Dynamic Island
Stakes
Seven moods — one continuous story.
Same spectrum as the Mochi emotion reference in Paper: each step is a readable beat from calm focus to last-chance tension. In the app, moods tie to life and screen time, with motion and morphing between states so it never feels like a dry chart.
Content
2–3h screen time, doing well
Tired
3–4h screen time, needs a break
Stressed
4–5h screen time, visibly worn down
Anxious
5–6h screen time, overwhelmed
Critical
6h+ screen time, barely holding on
Dying
24 hours to save them
Growth
Age stages
Calendar days matter. Your mascot ages on a real-world clock — not just session length — and their evolution stage unlocks new looks as they stick with you.
Baby
Fresh hatch, round proportions, maximum cute. The baseline look for a new generation.
Teenager
Limbs and attitude emerge — still yours, with a bit more edge and animation range.
Evolved
Full-grown silhouette and details for mascots that have stayed alive long enough to earn the glow-up.
Insight
Know exactly what drains you.
The stats tab leads with the habit, not the spreadsheet: a streak chain you won’t want to break, a daily report card graded against your baseline, and — on Android — a per-app drain report that shows which apps actually cost your Mindling life today.
Streak chain
Days under your limit keep the flames alive. Today is still waiting to be earned.
Today’s report card
One glanceable grade from today vs your 28-day baseline — and your mascot ties it to the next goal.
Drain report Android
Per-app minutes × drain weight, attributed from the real day ledger. Untracked apps stay free.
Yours truly
Turn a pet photo into your Mindling.
Snap or upload a picture of your real pet (or muse) and the Studio builds a one-of-a-kind mascot around it — not just a filter, but a character you raise inside the same life-and-mana loop as the rest of the roster.
Custom runs live beside classic species; you still earn stages, moods, and generations with the same rules.
Care & progression
Collect, dress up, leave a legacy.
Feed, shield, and boost with mana, then spend it in a shop built around collecting: hats and glowing auras for your mascot, mana packs when you need a top-up. Your profile keeps score — species discovered, cosmetics collected, and a legacy number that only ever grows.
- Cosmetics
- Mana packs
- Legacy score
Reality check
Built natively for real device signals.
Mindling targets iOS Screen Time and Android usage stats behind explicit permissions. Foreground sync is the reliable path; background work varies by platform. Mana for purchases is designed to flow through store infrastructure — not spoofed client-side.
Stay close
Be first when Mindling hatches.
One email when TestFlight and Play betas open. No spam, ever.
Feed it focus.
Not feeds.
Your screen time has a life now