Home doorway
Large clean day count, three second check in, Need help / Ride this out / Talk to peers / Just write. Pin orbs for the tools you actually use.
Also in this circle
Nested Path and Novelmate
Nested Path is a separate reading and practice project. Ask about its current availability. Novelmate Studio is the local first writing workspace.
Free forever
No subscription. No account wall. No "premium crisis."
Private by default
Notebook stays on the phone. Peer Chat is opt in only.
Built for 2 am
Huge targets. Hard Hour. 911 and 988 never hidden.
Feature list
What you get in 0.7.6
A recovery super app that keeps growing, without turning your journal into a product funnel.
Hard Hour / SOS
One night screen for delay, urge surf, HALT, grounding, panic card, outreach, 911, and 988. Widget SOS. OLED friendly night UI.
Anonymous Peer Chat
Optional rooms such as Change my mind, Holding space, and Small wins. Not a crisis line, and not a staffed hotline. Help and 988 stay on screen. Your notebook is not posted.
Urge toolkit
Urge timer, delay 15, playbook, urge recheck, almost used log, relapse protocol, aftercare checklist, shame free copy.
Calm body tools
Grounding 5-4-3-2-1, paced breathe, panic card, body scan, HALT, quotes, and a calm gallery when you need quiet images.
Meeting Atlas
Find rooms with filters, pins, louder last verified, travel verify nudge, and private meeting notes. Log what you attended.
People & outreach
Personal contacts with scripts, outreach ladder, sponsor call log, family drafts, boundary scripts, you tap, the phone dials or texts.
Recovery Library
Public links with source labels and honesty lines. Report a broken link. No pirated fellowship books hosted in the app.
Journal & mind
Free write, CBT thought record, prompt packs, intentions, triggers, values / why, custom check in questions, incognito journal.
Insight without shame
Constellation history, craving heatmap (Edmonton time), weekly lookback, end of day review, correlations that stay speculative.
Living backgrounds
Optimized rotating atmospheres on every page, recovery photography that changes so the app feels alive, not clinical.
Backup & privacy locks
Export JSON / plain text. Optional PhiKey notebook lock. Glance PIN, decoy PIN, quiet launcher alias, panic wipe, Help only mode.
Tool Finder
Type what you need, such as urge, people, calm, or 988, and jump. Need lanes organize ideas into short useful stacks.
Practical life rails
Money saved, meds, appointments, housing notes, paths, survival kit, Future Me card, small wins, recovery timeline.
Accessibility
Large text, high contrast, dyslexia friendly font, simple mode, TalkBack minded crisis paths, 320px layout pass.
Stay honest
Powerful tool. Not a clinic.
Today will not diagnose you, sponsor you, or replace a meeting, counsellor, or doctor. If you are in danger call 911. If you want to die or hurt yourself call or text 988. Those numbers stay free and ungated in the app.
- Now Free debug APK 0.7.6, web build, Hard Hour, optional Peer Chat, urge stack, Atlas, PhiKey, living backgrounds
- Early Widgets, reminders, Meeting Atlas polish, library growth
- Later Play Store, iPhone, Wear OS, live meeting feed
Install the debug APK
- Download today-0.7.6-android-debug.apk on your phone. Chrome is fine.
- Open the file. Android will warn that it is not from the Play Store. That warning is expected for this debug sideload.
- Allow this browser to install unknown apps, then install Today.
- Open the app and set your start date. Notes stay on the phone unless you export them. 911 and 988 do not require an account or a coffee.
Prefer the browser? Open phyllux.com/today/.
Who built this
David E. Sproule
Today is built in Edmonton, Alberta by David E. Sproule. He is creative director of Sproule Lit on phyllux.com, founder of Phyllux Tech, and the maker of Novelmate Studio at novelmatestudio.com, local-first writing tools for people who want honest craft.
He ships Today free because rough days deserve a toolkit that does not sell your journal. The same About screen inside the app names him, links these sites, and offers the coffee email below.
Friend of the house | recommended
Modern Day Recovery
Two bottles. One honest routine.
Modern Day Recovery sells a simple morning and night capsule routine: Liver Support when the day starts, Sleep Support when it ends. Every amount labelled. No proprietary blends. Clean vegetable capsules. A small Alberta shop that chose clarity over stack hype.
We love this storefront. The two bottle idea is sharp, the milligram honesty is rare in this category, and the site feels like someone actually cares about the routine they sell. Not treatment. Not a clinic. Daily wellness capsules done with pride. Visit moderndayrecovery.com.
- Morning Liver Support + night Sleep Support as one clear routine
- Every milligram labelled | no proprietary blend fog
- Sleep formula at 2 mg melatonin, not a 10 mg sleep bomb
- Supplements for daily recovery | not addiction treatment
Keep it free
Buy the builder a coffee
Today is free on purpose. If it helps you get through a hard hour, a clean day, or a peer room when you needed company, you can send David a coffee. No paywall. No guilt. Just optional fuel.
Send an Interac e-Transfer to phibronotchi@gmail.com for coffee money, or whatever you want to send. That email is the transfer destination, not a tip jar app, not a subscription.
Put "Today coffee" in the transfer message if you like. Feature requests welcome. Bugs welcome louder.
Open it. Keep it on your device.
Today is the app you open when the day is clean and when it is not. Carry the debug APK, or use the web build. Tell a friend in recovery who needs a private toolkit. Coffee for David stays optional, and it is not how you get in.