# Hereafter: Lanterns Keeper — Guide the lost. Light the way.

> Guide the lost. Light the way. (iPhone/iPad app by James Paton.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hereafter-lanterns-keeper/id6782757590 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [James Paton](https://appshunter.io/developer/6779110174)
- Category: Games, Role Playing, Simulation
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 106 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-30
- Data updated: 2026-08-06
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hereafter-lanterns-keeper/id6782757590/reviews.md

## What is Hereafter?

A lantern burns at the edge of the world, and the lost come seeking the way on. You are its keeper.

One by one, travellers arrive — a ferryman, a grandmother, a drowned bride, an old soldier who carries the weight of many wars. Each brings a portrait and a quiet plea. Swipe to linger a while and offer comfort, or to send them gently onward into the dark. You are not here to judge them. You are here to help them find peace before they go.

Every choice stirs four quiet tides — Warmth, Calm, Passage, and Spark. Keep them in balance and the lantern stays lit. Let any one rise too high or fall too low, and your watch ends in a soft, poetic farewell. The tides are always shown before you choose, so a long watch is a matter of care and skill, never luck.

Stay long enough and the watch begins to change you. A spine of quiet encounters slowly returns a memory you had lost: that you, too, were once a keeper, and how your own light came to burn here.

• A warm, bittersweet story told one card at a time
• 68 hand-painted travellers, each with their own plea and their own peace
• 25 collectible Story Endings to discover and keep in your gallery
• 13 realms to master — three open realms, then the complete Keeper's Lantern road in one purchase
• Rise through eight Keeper Ranks and a ladder of goals, so no watch is ever for nothing
• Skill, not chance: every choice's effect is shown before you commit
• Gentle by design — no timers, no punishment, no ads

Light the lantern. The lost are waiting.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Keeper's Lantern | $3.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.6 — 2026-07-30

This update removes product-interaction analytics and aligns Hereafter's privacy posture to diagnostics-only reliability reporting. Gameplay, progress and the Keeper's Lantern purchase flow are unchanged.

### 1.0.5 — 2026-07-27

Steadier purchases and a smoother lantern watch.

• Buying the lantern now completes reliably first time
• Restoring a purchase on a new device is more dependable
• Stability and performance improvements throughout

### 1.0.4 — 2026-07-26

A quiet maintenance update. Hereafter can now report its own crashes, hangs and performance problems, so faults get found and fixed instead of waiting for someone to report them. Nothing personal is collected — the App Store privacy details list exactly what is.

### 1.0.3 — 2026-07-24

The lantern burns a little steadier. The Keeper's Lantern price shown in the app now always matches the App Store exactly — even if your storefront region changes — and purchases recover more gracefully. No changes to the story or your progress.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-07-04

Clearer realm progression, matched choice effects, improved result screens, and a fuller thirteen-realm road with progressive difficulty.

## More apps by James Paton

- [Tiny Courtroom](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tiny-courtroom/id6781199898)
- [Chef Stack](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chef-stack/id6782283342)
- [Airtight: Excuse Generator](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/airtight-excuse-generator/id6783538343)
- [Elluna: Bedtime Stories](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/elluna-bedtime-stories/id6783539614)
- [JobTray](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jobtray/id6783540162)

All apps by James Paton: https://appshunter.io/developer/6779110174

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