# Shadow Work Journal & Prompts — Daily Guided Self Reflection > Daily Guided Self Reflection (iPhone/iPad app by Bram Amine.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shadow-work-journal-and-prompts/id6773619244 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Bram Amine](https://appshunter.io/developer/6773619246) - Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 17+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 17 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-05 - Data updated: 2026-08-28 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shadow-work-journal-and-prompts/id6773619244/reviews.md ## What is Shadow Work Journal & Prompts? A nightly shadow work ritual for the dark night of the soul. Twelve questions name the pattern running your life. One card a night asks the question you have been avoiding. And once you have written enough, the journal reads you back. You were never broken. You were just never given the blueprint. THE QUIZ Twelve questions, no account, free. It names which of six archetypes is running your life right now: the Performer, the Carrier, the Exile, the Guardian, the Ghost, the Architect. You get the shadow it casts and the line it lives by. Not a horoscope, and not a label to wear. ONE CARD A NIGHT A deck of 54 cards, nine for each archetype, in three kinds. Truth cards name what you are carrying. Prompt cards ask the question you have been avoiding. Mirror cards hand your own behaviour back to you without judgment. Most nights your card comes from your own archetype. Every fourth night it crosses over from another, because the pattern you cannot see is rarely the one you would have chosen. THE JOURNAL Tap Reflect and write with the card in front of you, or open the journal and answer that night's written prompt. Entries are kept on your phone and can be locked behind Face ID. Search everything you have written. Export all of it as plain text whenever you want. A year on, the app will quietly show you what you wrote on this night. Your shadow stays yours. THE SHADOW READING Most journals hand you good questions and then leave you on your own with the answers. This is the part that does not. Once you have written two reflections, premium unlocks a reading of your own journal: the themes, the contradictions, the figures that keep coming back. It reads across the whole run of what you have written, not just this week, and it reads the readings that came before it, so it can tell you what has moved since the last one and what is still standing exactly where you left it. It gets sharper the longer you keep going, because there is more of you in it. Your entries are sent for a reading only when you ask for one, and only after the app has asked your permission and named exactly who processes them. Everything else stays on your phone. THE PASSAGE Thirty nights. The count rises only on the nights you actually write, and it never falls. Miss a night and it waits where you left it. This is not a productivity metric and there is nothing to lose. WHEN IT GETS HEAVY Shadow work can go further than you planned. A "Too deep tonight?" button sits on the writing screen: it ends the session and walks you back to solid ground in three steps. Crisis lines for the US, the UK and the Netherlands are always one tap away. ALSO INSIDE A home screen and lock screen widget that keeps tonight's card in view. Face ID lock, free for everyone. Optional sign in with Apple or Google, and account deletion in two taps. No ads. FREE AND PREMIUM Free: the quiz, your archetype, tonight's card, the nightly written prompts, the app lock, the widget, and your first five reflections. Premium: the full deck of 54 cards, unlimited writing, and the Shadow Reading. 9.99 USD per month or 59.99 USD per year, with the first two weeks free. Prices vary by country and are shown before you buy. Subscriptions renew automatically unless you turn renewal off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple account settings at any time. Some part of you has been waiting a long time to be seen. Tonight is a reasonable time to begin. Terms of Service: https://www.architectwithin.co/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.architectwithin.co/privacy Billed through Apple. One week free, then $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Cancel any time in two taps in your iPhone settings. Your journal is stored on your device. Entries leave it only when you ask for a Shadow Reading, and they are not kept on our side after it is written. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Yearly | $59.99 | per year | | Monthly | $9.99 | per month | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.2.0 — 2026-08-25 Quieter under the hood: one less thing running while you write. Your journal, your entries and your readings are untouched. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-08-23 Architect Within now runs properly on iPad instead of as a stretched phone app. Two additions to the journal. Patterns shows what your writing reveals over weeks: your rhythm, which shadow you keep circling, what has changed in how you write. All of it worked out on your own device and sent nowhere. And you can now log a good moment, because not everything you exiled was painful. ### 1.0.4 — 2026-08-20 The app now asks what you make of it at most twice, and never again once you have said it is not working for you. Your nightly ritual is unchanged. ### 1.0.3 — 2026-08-19 This update adds The Work: a guided program of 38 steps across the six shadow archetypes. Start with the shared foundations, meet the two loudest shadows (money and desire), then work the pattern you actually run. Exercises write straight into your journal. ### 1.0.2 — 2026-08-18 You can now rate Architect Within from Settings. Small refinements elsewhere. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-28.*