AtLeast 1.0: a timer you can feel

If you have an Apple Watch, I'd love for you to try it: AtLeast on the App Store.

If you missed the beta issue, here's the short version. I have recurring TMJ, and part of managing it is slowing down: breathing, quiet time, a few minutes at a time. I keep my eyes closed when I do that, and every timer I tried ends with an alarm I have to open my eyes and tap. So I built one I can feel. It taps my wrist to say keep going. When the taps stop, I've done my minimum, and there's nothing to dismiss, so if I want to keep going, I just do.

What's in 1.0

AtLeast on Apple Watch: pick a timer, a soft green glow while it taps, and the finish screen once you pass your minimum

Taps during, silence when you're done. Set a minimum from 1 to 60 minutes and how often you want a tap. There's no alarm at the end and nothing to dismiss. Keep going as long as you like.
Six haptic strengths, from gentle to max. Beta testers told me the early taps were "too polite," so now you choose.
iPhone and Apple Watch together. Pick a timer on your iPhone and it pre-loads on your watch. Press Start on your wrist, and your iPhone mirrors the live session. No watch with you? Run the session on the iPhone itself.
Apple Health, your way. Give a timer a Session Type and each finished session is saved as Mindful Minutes or a workout like Yoga. Pick it per timer, so a sit and a stretch each count as what they were. AtLeast only writes to Health. It never reads it.
Private by design. Everything runs on-device. There's no account, and your timers and history sync through your own iCloud.

The iPhone companion: pick a timer, press Start on your Apple Watch, and the iPhone mirrors the live session

The free app does everything I built it for: the timer, the built-in timers, the iPhone companion, and Mindful Minutes and Yoga saved to Health.

AtLeast Pro

Pro is for when you want more:

Your own timers, saved and ready to go
History: every finished session grouped by day, with streaks and quiet minutes
Every Session Type: Flexibility, Cooldown, Core Training, Traditional Strength, and more

AtLeast Pro: History with streaks and quiet minutes, and a session's detail showing when the minimum was reached

It's $0.99 a month, or $9.99 a year with a 7-day free trial. There's also a one-time AtLeast Founder option if you'd rather pay once and support the app.

More than meditation

A lot of things have the same shape: a floor, not a countdown. I use it eyes closed with ear plugs in, for at least 15 minutes. It also works for:

Cold plunges, where you really don't want to look at a screen
Yoga and stretching, holding a pose with a rhythm on your wrist
Planks and wall sits, so you feel the time instead of watching it
Focused work, Pomodoro-style, with a quiet finish

Anything where the point is to at least do it, and keep going if it feels right.

I made a two-minute video for RevenueCat's Shipaton that shows it on a wrist:

https://youtu.be/uGqpKWTIwFw

One small favor: Tuesday, November 10

AtLeast is featured on Uplift Indie on November 10. Uplift Indie is a community calendar where indie developers download each other's apps and leave honest reviews. If you've used AtLeast, that's a great day to leave a rating or a review on the App Store. And if you haven't tried it yet, that's a good day to start.

Built alongside a few other things

AtLeast is the app that pushed a lot of my open source forward this year:

SundialKit v2: the Watch↔iPhone communication layer behind AtLeast's sync
SundialKitStream 1.0 (out Oct 4): async streams over SundialKit
DictionaryCoding 1.0 (out Oct 4): a small new package for Codable to and from [String: Any], for the message passing

I'll go deeper on those in a later issue. One of them involves a crash that happened 23 minutes into every session, and how I tracked it down.

What I'd love from you

Try it on your wrist and tell me what still feels off. Is a tap too strong, a session too long, or a moment where you looked at the screen when you shouldn't have needed to? Just reply to this email. I read every one.

And one more: Daniel Steinberg is coming back on EmpowerApps. We record on Wednesday, October 28, and we're talking about what's new in Foundation Models. What would you ask him? Reply with a question before the 28th and I'll bring the good ones in, with credit.

👉 AtLeast on the App Store

Thanks for following along from beta to 1.0.

Leo

P.S. Next up: two talks in two countries, and what each one did to the tools behind it.