Steep: one thought a day
A daily reflection ritual
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Steep is a journal for one thought a day.
Each morning, a single thought lands on your phone. You can steep it (sit with it, keep it) or pour it (let it go). That's the whole rhythm.
There is no streak counter. There is no daily score. Sundays default to a quiet rest day with no notification. If you miss a day, nothing breaks. If you miss a week, the app waits.
Over months, the thoughts you keep accumulate into something quietly meaningful. A list of threads you returned to. A small portrait of what you paid attention to. A year, in cross-section.
What you get for free:
• A new thought, every morning
• A growing archive of what you kept and what you let go
• Threads, the topics you returned to, gathered automatically
• A weekly silence on by default
Premium adds six slow artefacts that build over months:
• Pull the thread, a layered re-reading of today's thought — three hand-written reflections pulled one at a time, deepening what you came to sit with
• Thread Letters, a short letter on the first of each month composed from the thoughts you kept that month
• Your Virtues, a slow self-portrait that fills in across six axes as you steep
• Your Rings, a 12-month cross-section of the threads that shaped your year
• Your Words, a typeset page of the words your kept thoughts keep returning to, sized by how often each one came up
• Your Year, once a year a long letter composed from twelve months of kept thoughts, with the artefact trio compiled into a single printed-feeling page
• The full archive, with no horizon
Steep is private by design. Your reflections never leave your phone. There is no analytics, no sync, no server, no account. Apple sees only that you're subscribed. We never see your reflections.
A small, careful piece of software, made by one person, slowly.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://steepdaily.app/terms
Privacy Policy: https://steepdaily.app/privacy
Ratings & Reviews
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A few small additions and quiet fixes.
New Reading size option in Settings. Default respects iOS Dynamic Type; Larger and Largest set a floor for those who want roomier type.
The home-screen widget and Today screen now always agree on the day's thought.
A Rate Steep entry in Settings for anyone who'd like to leave a review.
Stability fixes around iCloud sync and the daily thought.
The developer, Alex Stewart, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Alex Stewart
- Size
- 8.2 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Steep Lifetime $19.99
- Steep Premium · Yearly $9.99
- Steep Premium · Monthly $1.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 PaperCloud Studios

