The journal
Ends in paragraphs.
Honest, often useful, and almost never re-read. Nothing about next week is different for having written it.
Time Freedom Review · A HourLife mini app
The week that ends in a decision.
Most weeks end without one. You mean to reflect, you don't, and the next week arrives looking exactly like the last.
Five questions about the week that just ended, answered in your own words. You leave with a one-page Next Week Contract: keep one thing, release one thing, protect one thing, try one thing.
iPhone · iOS 26 · Local-first, iCloud optional · One-time purchase
Why this exists
A review that ends in a feeling changes nothing.
Reflection apps ask good questions and then hand you paragraphs. Planners ask you to fill Monday before you have decided what Monday is for. Neither one produces the thing that actually alters a week: a small number of choices you can remember on a Tuesday.
The planner
Ends in a list.
Forty things you could do, with no statement of what the week is for. A list is a workload, not a direction.
The contract
Ends in four decisions.
Short enough to hold in your head. Specific enough that you know, by Friday, whether it held.
The ritual
Five questions, once a week.
Sunday evening, or whenever your week actually turns over. One question at a time, in your own words, with a hint available if you want one and nothing filled in for you.
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01
What mattered enough to keep?
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02
What consumed time without earning its place?
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03
What will you release or reduce?
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04
What deserves protected space or a boundary?
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05
What small experiment will you try next week?
Question two is the one nobody enjoys, and it is the reason the other four are worth answering. Nothing is scored, nothing is shared, and a question you skip stays blank rather than nagging you.
The artifact
One page. Four decisions. Deliberately no more.
The contract is what the ritual produces. Put it on your Home Screen or Lock Screen so you meet it on a Tuesday, when it matters — not only on Sunday, when you wrote it.
Keep
The signal worth carrying forward
Release
The weight you are choosing to put down
Protect
The space that gets first claim
Try
The small test that makes it real
Four is the whole design. A fifth line was tried and every week filled it with something that belonged on a task list, which is the failure mode the app exists to avoid.
The part that compounds
Did last week hold?
The following week you mark each decision — held, partly, or missed. It takes four taps and it is the only measurement in the app.
Then read one decision down every week you have made it. Release, twelve weeks running. That column is a more honest description of your life than any chart of hours, and it is the thing no single week can tell you.
See what you keep deciding.
Not a streak, and nothing resets. A missed decision is information about the week you were actually in.
Compare
Last week's contract beside this one.
Patterns
One decision, read down every week.
What it refuses to do
The shorter list is the honest description.
- No tasks, and nothing to check off
- No habits, streaks, or a chain to protect
- No score, grade, or weekly percentage
- No calendar integration, and no reading of your time
- No feed, no friends, no sharing your week with anyone
- No subscription
Nothing here counts anything you did or nags you about it. It is a decision, and a record of decisions, and that is the whole app.
Private by default
Your words stay on your phone.
There is no account, no sign-up, and no email address to hand over. Nothing leaves the device unless you turn on iCloud sync, which is off until you ask for it and uses your own private iCloud database.
- Storage
- On your iPhone. No server of ours.
- iCloud sync
- Off by default, on when you say so.
- Sign-in
- None. There is nothing to create.
- Tracking
- No ads, no analytics, no attribution.
Pricing
The review is free. Forever.
All five questions, the contract, and every week you have ever written. Your own words are never behind a purchase, and neither is how it looks.
The ritual
Free
The five questions, the contract, your full archive, and all three papers to print it on.
Complete
$4.99 once
Whether decisions held, patterns across weeks, the widgets, one weekly reminder, and export as image or PDF.
Mini app bundle
$9.99 once
Time Freedom Review, TinyPact, and every mini app added later — at no extra cost.
The bundle covers the mini apps. HourLife itself — the full Life OS — is a separate product and is not included; we would rather say so here than have you find out at the till.
Before the app ships
The same ritual runs in your browser, free.
Time Freedom Review began as a web tool on HourLife, and that version is still here — the same five questions, the same contract, saved to your HourLife account. The iPhone app adds the widget, the verdicts, and the patterns, and keeps everything on the device instead.
Version 1.0 · Coming to the App Store
Small on purpose, and staying that way.
The app is finished and in review preparation for iPhone. Until it lands, the web version above is the whole ritual — and the release will be written up here when it ships.
The other layers
A week decides. A floor holds. A system remembers.
TinyPact protects the minimum you refuse to lose. HourLife runs the whole shape of a life. This one only asks what next week is for.