Mindling

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.

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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: calm streaks, wobbly days, and the occasional dramatic turn when life runs low. The point is a playful feedback loop — not a scorecard shouting at you.

Mindling home with mascot and action cards.
Home
Stats overview in Mindling with usage summaries and mascot context.
Stats

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.

Thriving

Under 2h screen time, full of energy

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.

Stage 1

Baby

Days 0–7

Fresh hatch, round proportions, maximum cute. The baseline look for a new generation.

Stage 2

Teenager

Days 8–21

Limbs and attitude emerge — still yours, with a bit more edge and animation range.

Stage 3

Evolved

Day 22 onward

Full-grown silhouette and details for mascots that have stayed alive long enough to earn the glow-up.

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.

Mindling studio screen for creating a mascot from a photo.
Studio · from photo to mascot

Care & progression

Feed, shield, boost — then browse the shop.

Spend mana on moments that matter in the app, open the shop for cosmetics and bundles, and visit the studio when you want to dream up something new. Built as a cozy loop around your mascot, not a grind.

  • Power-ups
  • Shop
  • Studio
In-app shop with mana bundles and items.
Shop
Mascot studio creative flow.
Studio
Profile and progression in Mindling.
Profile

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.

Device frames use PNGs rendered from Paper artboards (Light) via paper-screens; see assets/screens/README.txt to refresh when designs change.

Stay close

Always bringing the care.

We will open TestFlight and Play betas here when they ship. For now, this button can point to your mailing list.

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Replace the mailto with your real list or store links when you have them.