One Small Thing - When Bored
Something to do, right now
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Bored? Tap once and get one specific thing you could start in the next minute. Works with the wifi off, no account, nothing collected.
You have an hour and no idea what to do with it. You pick up your phone. Forty minutes later you put it down feeling worse than when you started.
One Small Thing is for that hour. You open it, tap one of three lines, and get a single card: one specific thing you could start in the next minute, and a sentence on why that one.
HOW IT WORKS
Tap whichever is true right now:
· I'm bored — give me something to do
· Bored of the usual — give me something I haven't done
· Today feels empty — help me end the day
You get one card. Not a list, not a feed. If it doesn't fit, push back — lighter, don't want to leave the house, free, something completely different — and you get another one. When it fits, close the app and go do it. Tap once when you're back. That's the whole thing.
LATE AT NIGHT IT STOPS SUGGESTING
Past an hour you choose, it won't try to start something with you. It walks three short steps to end the day instead: look back at it, name the first thing for tomorrow, one small thing to unwind. Then it says good night. In the morning, the thing you named is waiting on the home screen, and tapping it clears it.
1,200+ THINGS TO DO
From untangling the charging cables to walking to the corner shop to study a drink you've never had. Indoors and out, free and not, lazy and not. Every card says how long it takes and whether it costs anything.
IT WORKS WITH THE WIFI OFF
There is no server. The whole library ships inside the app. It works on a plane, in a basement, in airplane mode, on a phone with no SIM in it.
NO ACCOUNT. NOTHING COLLECTED.
Nothing to sign up for. What you've done and what you've saved sit in a database on this phone, and you can export the lot as JSON or wipe it, from Settings, in two taps. No analytics, no ad SDK, no tracking, and no notifications trying to drag you back in. This app has done its job at the moment you close it.
THE COLOURS FOLLOW THE SKY
Afternoon is pale blue, dusk is orange, late night is off-white on near-black. It uses the real sunrise and sunset where you are, so it never looks the same at two different times of day.
Free with 300 things to do. A one-time purchase unlocks the whole library — 1,200+ — including everything added later. No subscription, and nothing to cancel.
Made by one person. The trade for collecting nothing is that I can't see what anyone does with it — so if a suggestion is bad, email me and I'll fix that entry. That's the only way I find out.
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English is in. The app now follows your phone's language, and the whole library — every suggestion, every wind-down step — is written in English rather than translated from the Chinese one.
There's also a one-time unlock for the whole library now. The 300 free ones stay free — nothing that was free has been taken away.
The developer, 北京丈量世界科技有限公司, 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.
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Information
- Seller
- Beijing Zhang Liang World Technology Co., Ltd.
- Size
- 36 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Simplified Chinese
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Unlock Everything $3.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Beijing Zhang Liang World Technology Co., Ltd.