A room you earn, never buy.
Every item is earned by showing up. Nothing is for sale.
Tap something to add it. Pal goes over to it.
01What it costs
Everything costs nights, not money.
Each wind-down you finish earns Embers, the room’s currency. Prices are shown in nights: one night is one finished wind-down.
Night Sky
a set Pal wearsStar charm
2nights
Moon charm
5nights
Night scarf
6nights
Firefly charm
7nights
Aurora cape
24nights
1 night = 1 finished wind-down
- 34
- things for the room
- 0
- things that cost money
The details
- “A finished wind-down pays 10. The same on night two and night forty.”
Choose the short version of a night yourself and it earns 6 instead. Your streak is safe either way.
When your streak reaches 7 nights, 14 nights and the full length of your plan, you get a bonus of 50 Embers. Each bonus comes once, even if you start a streak over.
Prices run from 2 to 30 nights. Finish a whole wardrobe set and you get a keepsake for your shelf, not extra Embers. Night Sky’s is a paper moon.
- Your Embers
- “They never expire and they’re never taken back. A missed night takes nothing.”
- Rearranging the room
- “Moving is always free. Nothing can be lost.”
- Choosing a different room
- “Everything you’ve collected moves with you.”
02Its own life
It has a little life of its own.
Every so often, it does one small thing, like looking outside or playing with something you own.
- “I hold it with both hands.”
- “I count them.”
- “I sit and open a book.”
- “I nap here after the wind-down.”
- “I shake it and listen.”
- “I take it down and run.”
The details
No more than three things in the room move at the same time, so it stays calm. You can pick Pal up and move it somewhere new.
Wherever you put Pal is the right place.
You can ask Pal anything, in your own words. When an answer needs your numbers, Pal looks them up first and lists what it checked. Tap under the answer to see the numbers behind it.
03The wardrobe
Try it on Pal before you spend.
Try on anything, even what you haven’t earned yet.
- 41
- things to wear
- 7
- places on Pal
- 6
- sets of five
The details
There are six sets to wear and four sets for the room, with five things in each. Some pieces don’t belong to any set.
Save an outfit you like as a look. One tap puts it back on.
- “Wearing a look spends nothing.”
You earned everything in here.
04Two visitors
Two visitors, never random.
Each one comes because of something you did.
A sparrow on the sillOne morning after every 7 nights of your streak
A letter on the nightstandThe morning after you finish a habit
randomNothing here is left to chance
The details
When your streak reaches 7 nights, a sparrow lands on the windowsill one morning within the next five days, between 6:30 and 10. It stays for 20 seconds, or longer if you’ve put out a bird feeder. It doesn’t earn you anything. It’s just a visit.
You can’t predict the morning, but it isn’t luck: your streak decides it. The sparrow comes back at 14 nights, and every 7 nights after that.
A habit is finished when you tell Pal it mostly runs on its own now. The next morning, a letter is waiting on the nightstand. It stays until you open it. Tap it to see what you earned.
05Focus
Focus, with Pal beside you.
Pick an activity and a length. Pal sits with you while you study, read, work or breathe.
What a focus session earns
Nothing.
If you stop early
“End here. That still counts.”
When you pause
Pal looks up at you. It’s the only time it does.
A forgotten session
If it ended over six hours ago, it skips the celebration.
The details
- Why it earns nothing
- No points, no streak, no Embers and no tally of past sessions. Focus time is for focusing, not for scoring.
- If you stop early
- The button has no stop sign on it. Ending early isn’t a failure, so it shouldn’t look like one.
- Every activity has its own lengths.
- The preset lengths start at 3 minutes for breathing and 30 for building. One list of lengths couldn’t fit both.
06Its limits
It knows what it isn’t.
When a night feels heavy
“I’m not a doctor or a crisis line. I won’t pretend to be.”
When you talk off the record
“I’ll forget this. Say it anyway.”
What it can do
“I won’t guess at causes. I’ll show you what changed.”
The details
If something you write sounds like a heavy night, Pal doesn’t act like an expert. It doesn’t wait for you to ask for help, either. It says:
I’m staying right here with you. And there are people who are better at this than I am.
It shows this under the words “If it’s heavy right now”, next to two crisis lines you can reach straight away.
07How often it speaks
Five messages a day, at most.
Never a guilt trip. They come in four kinds.
a day
- Evenings
- Your rhythm
- Your summaries
- A gentle hello
The details
- Evenings when it’s time for your steps2
- Your rhythm a caffeine cut-off, or a heads-up about your energy3
- Your summaries one in the morning, one at night2
- A gentle hello after a few days away1
- In one day5
The four kinds add up to 8. No more than 5 ever arrive in a day.
There’s one exception: “Your wind-down reminder arrives at the time you chose, even inside quiet hours.” That’s the moment it’s meant for. And your iPhone still has the last word: “Sleep and Do Not Disturb always win.”