Reconnect vs Mettle

It starts the same way every time. You unlock your phone out of habit. Maybe you have a spare minute, maybe you are putting off a task, feeling drained, or lying in bed. One scroll becomes ten. Ten becomes an hour. The things you actually wanted to do, reading, creating, resting, or being present with the people around you, quietly slip away. You don't need another harsh blocker. You've tried those. They fight you, guilt you, then get turned off. Reconnect does something different. It places a gentle, personal pause right when you open a habit-forming app during your chosen protected hours. No alarms. No lockouts. Just Your Words, the things you said truly matter to you, appearing at the exact moment autopilot usually begins. Then you choose. Take a pause, breathe, and return to what matters. Or continue to the app, with no judgment, no penalty, and full freedom. That's it. A conscious moment before passive scrolling starts. HOW IT WORKS 1. Name what matters to you in Your Words. 2. Choose which apps get a gentle pause before opening. 3. Set your active protected hours (your evenings, focus hours, or bedtime). 4. Open an app during your hours and see your reminder. 5. Take a pause or continue. You are always in control. WHY RECONNECT IS DIFFERENT Not a rigid restriction tool. Not a habit tracker. Not a timer. Reconnect is built on an anti-guilt philosophy: • No streak counting. No daily scores. • No punishment for skipped days. • No pressure to be performative or hyper-productive. • A calm calendar that softly marks your reconnected days in green and leaves empty days neutral, with no red, no warnings, and no shame. You always decide. Every single time. KEY FEATURES • Your Day and Reclaimed Time: See the estimated minutes you reclaimed today. No judgment about screen time, just a quiet reflection of time returned to your real life. • Your Words: Write your personal anchors during onboarding. Your own aspirations appear front and center before you scroll. • Gentle Breathing Space: Step into a quiet breathing pause, two calm cycles of inhale, hold, and exhale, to help you slow down before you decide. • Custom Protected Hours: Set your schedule whenever mindless scrolling tends to happen, whether during evening wind-downs, work slumps, or late nights. • App Selection: Choose exactly which social and habit-forming apps receive a gentle pause. • 15-Minute Conscious Window: When you choose to open an app, enjoy a 15-minute window without recurring interruptions. • Calm Calendar: A quiet view of your reconnect moments. Soft awareness without streaks or pressure. • Morning Reflection: A gentle 9:00 AM check-in recalling yesterday's calm, quietly stepping back if you need a break. PRIVACY FIRST • Everything is stored locally on your device. • No account required. No login. No sign-up. • No personal data ever leaves your phone. • Works entirely offline. No ads. No data selling. Your attention is not a product. SUBSCRIPTION Reconnect offers a 7-day free trial followed by an annual subscription at $4.99/year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID Account Settings. Any unused portion of the free trial is forfeited upon purchase of a subscription. Terms of Use and Privacy Policy are available below. FOR YOUR REAL LIFE Reconnect will not optimize your life. It will not measure your performance. It will not make you feel pressured about earlier today. It will simply show you what you said matters to you, right before the scroll begins. A small moment. Your words. Your choice. The personal pause before scrolling. --- Privacy Policy: https://nodevalabs.com/reconnect/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://nodevalabs.com/reconnect/terms-of-use/

Mettle is a free walking game where your steps are the weapon. Invite your friends to create a party of heroes that encounter monsters. Every real-world step you take deals damage, and defeating monsters earns you coins. Exchange coins to recruit fun heroes, like mage, swordsman, archer, and bard. Level up your heroes by walking to deal more damage per step. How it works: - Select your starting hero to level up. When you walk in real life, you deal damage to monsters. - Create a party and battle side by side with your friends anywhere. - Deal with fun monster encounters. One minor monster every day, and a super boss every Sunday. - Steps sync from Apple Health and strike the monster automatically, even while the app is closed. - Collect a roster of heroes across 24+ lines, feed them XP from your walking, and evolve them into rarer forms. - Climb the leaderboard with daily and weekly fun competition that rewards the biggest walker. - Earn and spend coins and embers to recruit heroes and buy potions: an economy fed entirely by walking. - No ads. Just you, your friends, and lots of walking! Note from the creator: Hey, I’m Daniel, and I built Mettle to motivate my family and friends to walk more and stay active. The first week of testing was a complete success. Everyone was hooked and genuinely making an effort to walk more to defeat the monsters together, level up their heroes, and climb the leaderboard. I designed and built Mettle entirely on my own. My goal now is to share it with any group that wants to stay active together. Happy walking!