Gus, the Gumption hedgehog gumption
for recovering people-pleasers

the coach who remembers
what you said yesterday.

Three minutes every morning. Gus listens — then follows up tomorrow on what you actually said: the boundary you almost held, the "no" you keep drafting and deleting.

Not a generic journal that forgets you. Not another streak you'll break.

Free to start · Pro $39.99/yr with a 7-day free trial · iPhone, iOS 17+

The Gumption home screen — Gus's next-morning note threading what you said yesterday

therapy is once a week. the resentment is every day.

A blank journal never answers back. ChatGPT forgets you the second you close it. Gumption is the daily practice in between — built for the people-pleasing → resentment loop, and nothing else.

the difference

it remembers.

Every reflection becomes part of your story. The next morning, Gus doesn't open with a generic prompt — he opens with you.

  • Follows up on what you actually said. "You held the line with your mom four days ago and survived the silence" — your specifics, not a template.
  • Threads your whole history. It names the pattern across days — the "no" you keep drafting, the meetings you go quiet in.
  • Asks one real question. Not "how do you feel?" — the specific, slightly inconvenient question you've been avoiding.
Gumption's weekly thread — Gus reads the pattern across your whole week
the morning ritual

three minutes. every morning.

A spoken minute to center, two minutes to be honest. That's the whole thing.

1

listen

A three-minute morning broadcast — a centering minute with Gus, then a prompt that points at the thing you've been avoiding.

2

say it plainly

Type your reflection. Private — only tomorrow's you reads it. No feed, no likes, no audience.

3

come back tomorrow

The next morning, Gus follows up on exactly what you said — and banks another day you showed up for yourself.

what's inside

warm, but with a backbone.

Free

the morning broadcast

A spoken three-minute reckoning to start the day — Gus's voice, then a prompt that's actually about you.

The morning broadcast on the Today screen
Free

say it plainly

Type it out. One prompt, no blank-page dread. Only tomorrow's you ever reads it.

The reflection composer — private, only tomorrow's you reads this
Pro

the coach that remembers you

Personalized next-morning follow-ups that thread your whole history — plus a weekly insight that names the pattern you can't see from inside it.

Free

banked days

Every day you show up is banked — and nothing resets it. No streak to break, no guilt for a missed day.

Pro

one-tap share clip

Turn a line worth keeping into a clip you can share — when you're ready, on your terms.

Free

private by default

Your journal lives on your phone — no account, no cloud history. To write tomorrow's note, today's reflection is sent anonymously, used once, and never stored.

12 days banked — you can't lose what you've already banked
the anti-streak

nothing resets this.

Most apps punish you for missing a day. Gumption refuses to. Every day you show up is banked for good — because the whole point is to be kinder to yourself, not to invent one more way to fail.

  • No breakable streak. Miss a day, life happens — your banked days stay yours.
  • Spines up. Every banked day is one more boundary you grew. Gus's spines stand for yours.
Gus

your journal never leaves your phone.

No account. No login. No cloud history of your entries — we couldn't read them even if we wanted to. For Pro's next-morning follow-up, today's reflection is sent anonymously — no name, no device ID — used once to write the note, and never stored. The only thing we keep is feedback you choose to send us. Read the privacy policy →

pricing

free to start. honest to upgrade.

free, forever

The daily ritual really works without paying:

  • The three-minute morning broadcast
  • The daily reflection journal
  • Banked days that never reset
  • A basic next-morning note from Gus
7-day free trial
Gumption Pro
$39.99 / year
$3.33/mo, billed annually
  • Follow-ups that remember your whole story
  • A weekly insight that knows your patterns
  • One-tap share clip
  • Everything in Free

7-day free trial, then $39.99/year ($3.33/mo, billed annually). Auto-renews yearly until you cancel — no charge before the trial ends, cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. See Terms & Privacy.

Gus, the Gumption hedgehog

got the gumption to
put yourself first?

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