Not a tracker. A check-in you do with your hand: turn the stone to where you are, say how many minutes you have, and get one small practice that fits. No score, no streak, nothing to keep up with.
Now on the App Store, free. Google Play is coming.
Most of the day, something else is telling us how we are. A sleep score. A step count. A notification that says we’re behind. Solastone starts the other way around. It asks, and you answer with your hand.
You turn the stone to where you are right now. That turn is the whole check-in. No form, no one-to-ten, just a moment of noticing what your body already knows, in your own words, before anything else gets a say.
Then it asks how long you have. One minute, five, fifteen, an hour. You get one practice sized to that time, from a toolkit of well-established practices: slow breathing, grounding, gentle movement, time outdoors, writing, rest, reaching out. Not a program to keep up with. Just the next small thing.
There are no streaks, badges, or guilt. Some days you’ll check in three times, some weeks not at all, and the stone doesn’t keep score. When something is heavy, you can write it down and let it go, and watch the words dissolve over one long breath out.
Afterward, if you like, it asks whether the practice helped. That’s how, slowly, you begin to see what works for you: which practices steady you, at what time of day, in which places. The noticing is yours. The stone just keeps it.
Solastone is a wellness tool, not treatment. It won’t diagnose you or tell you what’s wrong. It’s a quiet place to notice, and to look after yourself a little.
Everything in Solastone is made to be used one-handed and silently, in the few seconds you actually have.
The stone turns a quarter at a time and settles into each state with a click you can feel. Every state has its own gem and its own pattern of taps, so you can check in with your thumb, without looking.
Then say how many minutes you have. From opening the app to a running breath practice is three taps.
Phone in your palm under the table, halfway through a long meeting: yellow, five minutes, breathe.
Follow the circle with your eyes, or by feel with the phone face down. If the pace isn’t right for you, turn the circle mid-breath to lengthen or shorten it. Solastone remembers the pace you like for each practice.
Lights off, phone face down on the blanket, a slow pulse under your palm. Nothing to watch.
Each check-in places one pebble. There’s no count and no score, only an arrangement that grows as you come back: a few stones, then a small cairn, a spiral, a mandala, one day a stone shelter.
Miss a week and nothing is lost. It never goes backward, and your pebbles are exactly where you left them. Beside them, what has helped you lately gathers quietly, from your own answers.
Mornings have seemed lighter for you lately, especially at home. When afternoons at work turned yellow, slow breathing often seemed to help.
There were heavier evenings too, and you checked in anyway. That kind of noticing takes care.
Maybe, when an afternoon starts to tip, you could try that breath a little earlier.
Your stone
After a week or so of check-ins, you can ask your stone for a short letter about what it has noticed. It’s optional and needs an account, and before anything is sent you see exactly what the summary holds. Your notes and thought logs are never part of it.
A quiet Sunday, a cup of coffee, three paragraphs about your own week that you didn’t have to write.
Letters are written by an AI model, Anthropic’s Claude, from that summary. They’re reflections, not advice, and they can get things wrong. What’s sent, and what isn’t.
Write what you’re carrying and let it go over one long breath out. The words are set aside on your phone, never uploaded, and you can bring them back.
Keep a few short phrases to see while you breathe, or on the home screen. With an account, your stone can write some for you.
Put together a summary of only what you choose, as a PDF or plain text, and hand it to whoever you like. Solastone uploads nothing.
From dusk to dawn, if you like, the whole app turns to oiled walnut by lamplight.
No ads, no analytics, no tracking. Accounts are optional, for backup only, and thought logs are encrypted on your phone before they leave it.
Up to two a day, only if you ask for them. Never streaks, badges, or guilt.
Prototype. Details will change.
The app is one half of Solastone. We’re making the other: a stone that fits in your palm and turns without looking, in a meeting, on a train, in the dark. It stands on a small travertine base when you set it down. No screen to wake, no app to open.
There’s no date or price yet. If you’d like to hear when there is, join the waitlist.
Join, and you’ll get a short confirmation now, then one email when the app launches and one when the stone is ready. Nothing in between.
Your email is used only for this and never shared. One reply takes you off the list.
