Ebb Life
iPhone · private · on-device
As healthy as possible while still living a little.
iPhone · in testing
As healthy as possible while still living a little.
iPhone · in testing
Drag a slider — the words are your own.
Go on — move them. Four numbers a night, about forty seconds; everything else it reads on its own.
The whole idea
A mirror, not a coach.
Most health apps grade you. Ebb Life just reflects. You rate four parts of your day, it reads sleep and movement and heart rate from Apple Health, and it holds the two up side by side. No streaks, no goals, nothing to break. A day with three bourbons and four hours of sleep is data, not a failure — and a bad week is never something the app makes you feel.
The four
Four scores, every night. The last two are first-class here, not an afterthought — because they travel with sleep, drink, stress and movement as much as anything, and almost nothing measures them. Each domain has its own colour at the same weight as the others, so a low score looks exactly like a high one. Only the length changes.
Energy, vitality, soreness.
Clarity, mood, focus.
Desire and function, regardless of activity.
Closeness and connection.
How it works
Four 1–10 sliders, in your own words — you write what each number means during setup, so a 7 means the same thing every night.
Sleep, steps, workouts, resting heart rate, HRV. Drinks you log write back to Health (water, caffeine, alcohol) so you don't need a second app — and your weight too, but only if you turn that on. Everything else it just reads. Food is a few taps.
Once there's enough to be sure, it starts naming the patterns — the honest ones, with the numbers behind them.
The rhythm
The two check-ins open full-screen the first time you unlock Ebb Life inside their window — warm in the morning, dark at night — and each appears at most once a day. Log it or swipe it away and it's gone until tomorrow. Open the app to log a drink or read a pattern and it stays out of the way completely: it never interrupts what you actually came to do.
"You slept 7h 12m." Confirm or nudge the number, weigh in if you like, and step through to last night's private log — nothing you're made to do.
A dark, quiet screen with all four sliders on one page. The day stays open until 4am, so a late night still lands on the right day.
Set the hours each one may appear — or turn both off entirely. It waits for you to open the app; it never buzzes you first. Off is a perfectly good way to use it.
You slept 7h 54m.
Morning · warm & bright
Tuesday · about 40 seconds
Swipe down to leave it — the day stays open until 4am.
Evening · always dark
Windows, not alarms.
Turn both off and Ebb never interrupts — you can still check in any time from Home.
Your windows
The payoff
After a few weeks Ebb Life starts telling you which of your own inputs move which scores — in plain language, ranked by how sure it is, with the working shown. It only speaks when the maths clears a conservative bar, it says "not enough for that yet" rather than inventing something, and it never claims cause. The cost of a wrong pattern is trust.
Alcohol the night before is your strongest negative signal — across all four domains.
High confidence112 paired daysDrinks
Build a shelf of what you actually drink — your coffee, your pour, your usual glass of water — each at its real size. Logging is one tap, or a long-press to change the size or count; nothing is ever typed. Alcohol shows the standard-drink maths (ml × ABV × 0.789 ⁄ 14), caffeine scales with the cup, and water reads against your own typical day, never a target. The drinks you log write straight to Apple Health — water, caffeine, alcohol — so Ebb replaces the second app you were using for it, and still makes no network calls of its own.
On your Home & Lock Screen
Pin two or three favorites and they show up as one-tap buttons in a widget and in the app icon's long-press menu. Tap once — it's logged and written to Health, no launch. This is where the water actually gets logged.
Meals
The same shelf idea as drinks, for food. Build a short menu in your own words — no database, no calories, no weighing, no barcodes. Open it and it's already filtered to the moment: lunch opens on your usual lunch, a short list. Tap what you had, hit Log once, done — because a meal is several things at once, not one at a time. Reach it from the app, a Home Screen widget, or just say "Log a meal in Ebb Life." Never a takeover — three meals a day is too many to interrupt.
Lunch — your usual
The rest of it
An optional, more personal log kept in a separate encrypted store with its own key and a second Face ID gate. Leave it closed forever and nothing else misses it.
On a supported iPhone, ask a plain question and get an answer written by Apple's on-device model — from your own numbers, never sent anywhere.
It finds where a relationship actually flips — two drinks, not one; caffeine after 2pm — and lags it to the right day, instead of implying less is always better.
Private by design
No account, no sync, no analytics — and no networking code at all. Health data is read; the only things written back are the drinks you log — and your weight, if you turn that on. Your medications are read-only; Ebb never changes them. Nothing is ever sent off the phone. It's encrypted at rest and opens with Face ID, and the most personal part — a private log with its own gate and its own key — can be left closed forever without the rest of the app missing it.
On-device intelligence, when your iPhone supports it: the questions you ask and the weekly note are written by Apple's on-device model, offline. Not medical advice — a mirror, kept to itself.
When it's ready
Ebb Life is in testing now. Leave your email and I'll let you know when it's out — and whether you'd like to help test it first.
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