Shadow Work Journal & Prompts

New: The Work. 38 guided steps through the six shadow archetypes, from the first dig to a practice that survives Monday. Start with the quiz, free.

A nightly shadow work ritual for the dark night of the soul. Twelve questions name the pattern running your life. One card a night asks the question you have been avoiding. And once you have written enough, the journal reads you back.

You were never broken. You were just never given the blueprint.

THE QUIZ Twelve questions, no account, free. It names which of six archetypes is running your life right now: the Performer, the Carrier, the Exile, the Guardian, the Ghost, the Architect. You get the shadow it casts and the line it lives by. Not a horoscope, and not a label to wear.

ONE CARD A NIGHT A deck of 54 cards, nine for each archetype, in three kinds. Truth cards name what you are carrying. Prompt cards ask the question you have been avoiding. Mirror cards hand your own behaviour back to you without judgment. Most nights your card comes from your own archetype. Every fourth night it crosses over from another, because the pattern you cannot see is rarely the one you would have chosen.

THE JOURNAL Tap Reflect and write with the card in front of you, or open the journal and answer that night's written prompt. Entries are kept on your phone and can be locked behind Face ID. Search everything you have written. Export all of it as plain text whenever you want. A year on, the app will quietly show you what you wrote on this night. Your shadow stays yours.

THE SHADOW READING Most journals hand you good questions and then leave you on your own with the answers. This is the part that does not. Once you have written two reflections, premium unlocks a reading of your own journal: the themes, the contradictions, the figures that keep coming back. It reads across the whole run of what you have written, not just this week, and it reads the readings that came before it, so it can tell you what has moved since the last one and what is still standing exactly where you left it. It gets sharper the longer you keep going, because there is more of you in it. Your entries are sent for a reading only when you ask for one, and only after the app has asked your permission and named exactly who processes them. Everything else stays on your phone.

THE PASSAGE Thirty nights. The count rises only on the nights you actually write, and it never falls. Miss a night and it waits where you left it. This is not a productivity metric and there is nothing to lose.

WHEN IT GETS HEAVY Shadow work can go further than you planned. A "Too deep tonight?" button sits on the writing screen: it ends the session and walks you back to solid ground in three steps. Crisis lines for the US, the UK and the Netherlands are always one tap away.

ALSO INSIDE A home screen and lock screen widget that keeps tonight's card in view. Face ID lock, free for everyone. Optional sign in with Apple or Google, and account deletion in two taps. No ads.

FREE AND PREMIUM Free: the quiz, your archetype, tonight's card, the nightly written prompts, the app lock, the widget, and your first five reflections. Premium: the full deck of 54 cards, unlimited writing, and the Shadow Reading. 9.99 USD per month or 59.99 USD per year, with the first two weeks free. Prices vary by country and are shown before you buy. Subscriptions renew automatically unless you turn renewal off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple account settings at any time.

Some part of you has been waiting a long time to be seen. Tonight is a reasonable time to begin.

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Billed through Apple. One week free, then $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Cancel any time in two taps in your iPhone settings. Your journal is stored on your device. Entries leave it only when you ask for a Shadow Reading, and they are not kept on our side after it is written.