Decompress

On the App Store For sale

Three minutes to talk through your day, then it is saved on your phone and nowhere else.

Why it exists

Closing a work day properly is hard when the only tools are a notes app or a journal you never keep up with. I wanted something you could speak into for three minutes and then put down. No writing, no streaks, no account.

How it works

Rating how stressful work feels, one to ten

Step one

Say how it feels

One tap, one to ten. No explanation needed.

Speaking freely while the transcript builds

Step two

Talk for three minutes

Speak freely, or type instead. The recording is never saved.

A week of before and after ratings

Step three

Notice the pattern

A week at a glance, showing how talking moved each day.

What it will not do

  • Send anything to a server. There is no Decompress backend at all.
  • Keep your audio. The microphone feeds the transcript and is then discarded.
  • Punish you for skipping a day. There are no streaks and no badges.
  • Pretend to be therapy, coaching, or a medical service.

Where it goes

A quiet room rather than a dashboard. Over time it should notice patterns you would miss yourself and show them gently, without grading your day or telling you what to do about it.

White paper

Platform
Native iOS, Swift and SwiftUI, iOS 18 and up
Storage
SwiftData on device. No backend, no accounts, no sync
Speech
Apple’s on-device recogniser, with a typed fallback
Summaries
Apple Foundation Models on device, with a deterministic local fallback
Layers
Prompt, capture, reflect, store, insight, present
Tests
57 across 11 suites

The full write up covers pattern detection, the summary prompt design, and the decisions that were tried and rejected. It comes with the sale, or ask me for the short version.

Buying it

The app, the source, the App Store listing and the thinking that got it there. Email support@picksley.ai and tell me what you are after.

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