Novenas+ vs Pora

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Did you read with your child? Did you pray today? Did you call your mother? Did you take your meds? Pora is a gentle iPhone diary. Instead of "how did you feel", it asks "did I today". You pick a role — Parent, Believer, Patient — and the app shapes tiles around your day. In the evening you tap the ones that happened. Ten seconds. No writing up, no judgment. WHAT PORA IS • A daily tap, not an essay. Tiles matched to your role — prayer, meds, movement, a call to loved ones, reading, sleep. • Numbers only when needed. A tile with a unit (°C, mmHg, min) asks for one value and saves it. • Liturgical calendar inside. The app knows Lent, Advent, the Rosary October. • Context when it matters. Activate "Illness" for a week — the Today grid gains extra tiles, and reverts when the window closes. • Monthly Activity view. Four Saturdays of reading with my daughter in March. Three days of fever in February. A glance, not a spreadsheet. • PDF for the doctor. Export a range — temperature, meds, symptoms — ready for the appointment. With a clear notice: this is not a medical device. WHAT PORA IS NOT • No account. No cloud. No sync. • No ads. No tracking. No analytics. • No subscription. Three roles are free (Parent, Believer, Patient). The rest are one-time App Store purchases. • No "how did you feel today?" No mood slider. No streak score. ROLES AND CONTEXTS Spouse, In Sobriety, Man, Amateur Athlete, Caregiver, Pilgrim, Creator, Neat Keeper, and a few other ones. Each role brings its own tiles but you can add custom ones - only you know what is important. PRIVACY The database is encrypted locally. Nothing leaves the phone. If you enable iCloud Drive backup, the file is yours — not ours. Full privacy policy at pora.life/privacy. FOR WHOM For people who want to know certain things happened — without running a second life inside an app. For parents. For believers. For the sick. For caregivers. For those on the road. Pora. Did I today...?