Daily presence ritual
Alive Here is for the hard seasons — recovery, chronic illness, caregiving, a project that outlasts your motivation. Each day you tap once. A private circle of three sees it. That’s the whole ritual. No feed, no streak to shame you, no ads, ever.
Two of three checked in today.
Still tapping at 60 days — without a streak counter.
We don’t chart “progress up and to the right.” A flat line is a good line.
What’s different
Miss a day, miss a week — nothing resets, nothing turns red. Your circle sees a gentle gap, not a broken chain.
Not a network. Three people who agreed to watch for each other. Small enough that a silent day gets noticed.
After 10pm local, the app goes silent. No pings, no nudges. The one place that won’t buzz at you in bed.
Long-press the tap to send a “rough day” flag. Your circle sees it without you having to type a word.
There is nothing to scroll. Open it, tap, close it. The whole session is under five seconds by design.
Export or delete everything in one tap. No dark patterns on the way out, no “are you sure” guilt screen.
Setting up a circle
A week in a circle
| Day | You | Sam | Rosa |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | here | here | here |
| Tue | here | — | here |
| Wed | rough | here | here |
| Thu | here | here | — |
| Fri | here | here | — |
| Sat | — | here | check? |
| Sun | here | here | here |
No counts, no scores, no percentages shown to your circle. Just: here, rough, or a gap. Rosa’s second gap surfaced a quiet “check?” to Sam — nothing was sent to Rosa.
Your own year of taps — the gaps are yours to keep, not a wall of shame.
Made with clinicians
52% have tapped past 60 days, 29% past a year.
Average 0.4 pushes per day — almost all are “your circle checked in.”
Zero notifications sent after 22:00 local. It’s a hard rule, not a setting.
Our pledges
These aren’t settings you toggle. They’re how the app is built, checked by an outside audit each year.
Inside a circle today
A “gap 2” is the only thing that ever prompts action — and it prompts a human, not an automated message.
Not a habit app
| Alive Here | Streak apps | Group chats | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily effort | 1 tap | Log & rate | Type a message |
| Miss a day | Soft gap | Streak resets | Silence → guilt |
| Who sees it | 3 people | Just you | Everyone |
| Ads | None | Common | — |
| Night quiet | Enforced 22:00 | Rare | Buzzes all night |
| Feed to scroll | None | Sometimes | Endless |
Honest fit
From people who tap
“Day 300-something. I have no idea the exact number and that’s the point. It never once made me feel like I failed.”
— A., 14 months sober“My mom taps every morning. When she missed two days I drove over. She’d had a fall. The app didn’t save her — the gap did.”
— Elena, caregiver“Chronic pain means my ‘productive’ days are rare. One tap doesn’t judge which kind of day it was.”
— Theo“We run it for a research team on a two-year build. It’s the only status update that isn’t about the work.”
— Dr. Nwosu, lab leadFor clinics & care teams
Recovery programs, chronic-care panels, and outpatient teams use the Clinic tier to see a consented roster’s daily “still here” without adding a portal nobody logs into. A gap surfaces to a clinician; the client never gets a nagging bot.
Two-day gaps a clinician reached out on before the next appointment.
Every client on a Clinic roster opts in and can leave the roster in one tap.
A day with it
Your window opens. A soft prompt, once, in your chosen hour.
Open, tap, close. Long-press if it’s rough. Under five seconds.
Two of three see you’re here. Nobody has to reply.
Two quiet days surfaces a “check on them?” to the other two.
Quiet hour. The app goes dark until morning.
Support & onboarding chat
| Mon–Fri | 8:00–20:00 local |
| Weekend | 10:00–16:00 local |
| Quiet hour | 22:00–07:00 (all tiers) |
| Crisis | See resources in-app |
Plans
Alive Here is a Clawsum project. We make money from Circle and Clinic, never from ads or selling data.
Before you start
No. Alive Here is a light daily check-in, not care. If you’re in crisis, contact a local emergency number or hotline — we list them in-app on every screen.
Three is small enough that a quiet day gets noticed and big enough to share the weight. Larger groups turn into a feed nobody watches, which defeats the point.
Taps, timestamps, and circle membership — encrypted. No phone number required, no ad IDs, no third-party trackers. You can export or delete all of it in one tap.
From 22:00 to 07:00 local, the app sends no notifications to anyone. Gap prompts wait until morning. It’s enforced server-side, so no setting can override it.
Download the app and start Solo free. The chat on this page helps you set up a circle, move a team onto Clinic, or ask a real person a question — it’s for the product, not a sales funnel.