# Project VIGIL — The anti-breaking-news app.

> The anti-breaking-news app. (iPhone/iPad app by Textbook Narcissism, LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/project-vigil/id6796047991 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Textbook Narcissism, LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6796047993)
- Category: Entertainment, Lifestyle
- Price: $0.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 63 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-04
- Data updated: 2026-10-06

## What is Project VIGIL?

"Could cure. Could destroy. Could change everything."

That's how modern news talks about anything uncertain. Headlines built on speculation, not fact. Alerts designed to trigger anxiety before anything has actually happened. The reader supplies the anxiety. The headline takes the credit.

VIGIL is a conceptual art piece that critiques that system using its own tools: the headline, the push notification, the "breaking" alert. But VIGIL inverts them. Most of its notifications exist to tell you nothing has changed. Only one, ever, tells you something has.

Like most art, VIGIL observes a single event from the public discourse. What it reports is deliberately bare, a Rorschach test built from a headline instead of ink. You decide what it means.

Should the event occur, VIGIL confirms, archives and a new observation period begins.

What VIGIL does:

• Observes one undisclosed event, every 15 minutes, silently in the background
• Confirms only after independent verification, never on a single source
• Lets you choose how often you hear from it: enable push notifications every 15 minutes, every 60, or only when the status changes
• Homescreen widget support for at-a-glance updates without opening the app

What VIGIL doesn't do:

• No news feed, no analysis, no punditry
• No probabilities, no countdowns, no "breaking"
• No speculation, ever, in either direction
• No user tracking, analytics, or telemetry collected

## Chart rankings

- #198 in Top Paid · Entertainment (US App Store)

## Is Project VIGIL safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Project VIGIL.

## Is Project VIGIL legit?

Project VIGIL has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Project VIGIL is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-06

Improved App Store search visibility. No other changes in this release.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-04

No release notes.

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