Daily Songwriter

One word a day. Ten minutes.

Only for iPhone

Free · In‑App Purchases

iPhone

The word, the ten minutes and everything you write stay free. The steps that take it toward a finished song are one purchase, not a subscription. Somewhere on your phone are voice memos that run forty seconds and stop. Daily Songwriter gives you one word a day and ten minutes to write about it. You can write. That was never the problem. What goes missing is a reason to start today, and evidence that you have been showing up. THE TEN MINUTES The word is a concrete thing. Screen door. Rust. Floorboard. Never love, never time: you cannot smell those. You start the timer and write without stopping to think, fix, rhyme or judge. Not what the word means: what it weighs, what it smells like, what it sounds like when it closes. Every sense you have, including the two nobody counts: balance, and where your body is. Most of what comes out is scaffolding, and that is the job. You are making the material a song gets built out of, and the only way to the two lines with a pulse is to write past the forty that do not. The timer stops and you are done for the day. Same requirement on the good days. THE WORDS Four hundred of them, written in an order, no two of the same kind side by side. Each carries a short exercise, and the exercise changes shape day to day, so the practice does not calcify into the one move you get good at. Day two. Rust. Write about rust using only what you could hear if the lights went out. The whole track is free, first day to last. On a day the word will not go anywhere, ask for a second one. The first is not spent. It comes back about a month later, because a word you could not face on a Tuesday might be the one in November. THE DAYS YOU HAVE LONGER Above the ten minutes sit seven steps. Mine it. Find the three lines with a pulse. Put somebody in it. Who was there, and what happened. Sort it. Pictures in one list, thoughts in the other. Write the chorus. Out of the thoughts, and finish it first. Build the verse. Out of the pictures. Shape. Where it repeats, and what has changed. Sing it. Badly, out loud. Follow the note that wants to move. You go as far as you feel like. Steps never count toward anything, because the moment a step counts, ten minutes stops feeling like enough. A RUN THAT DOES NOT PUNISH YOU Miss a day and nothing happens to your run. Miss more and the run is held at its number for a week rather than deleted, and writing inside that window picks it up. Nothing turns red. No notification tells you what you broke. The track is an order rather than a calendar, so day twelve comes after day eleven whenever you get to it. The history grid is one square a day, so you see what you actually did. A widget puts today's word on your Home Screen. A reminder carries the word and the exercise, if you want one. IT WILL NOT WRITE YOUR SONG FOR YOU There is no AI in Daily Songwriter. Not as a feature, not as a suggestion in the margin, not later. A machine will hand you a hundred lines about a screen door in a second, and not one of them is the line about your mother catching the door before it slammed, every time, for forty years. That line costs ten minutes and it has to be yours. IT STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE No account, no sign-in, no server. Nothing you write is transmitted anywhere. The privacy label says Data Not Collected, which is a description of the app rather than an argument about it. WHAT IT COSTS Free, permanently, with no trial and no expiry: the word every day, the second word, the timer and the page, the whole track, your run, your history, the widget, reminders, everything you write, export, and the first two of the seven steps. One purchase: the five steps above them, and songs, which hold the days that fed them and every draft you keep. Not a subscription. There is nothing else to buy. WHERE THE PRACTICE COMES FROM Object writing is Pat Pattison's. He teaches it at Berklee and set it down in Writing Better Lyrics. Daily Songwriter does not rename it, does not claim it, and is not affiliated with him or with Berklee. Nothing here teaches you chords. It assumes you can already write, and that the problem is starting.

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    Seller
    • FREE RIVER STUDIOS LLC
    Size
    • 2.3 MB
    Category
    • Music
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    13+
    • 13+
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    Yes
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