Verdict — Decision Journal
Write, Wait, Review, Learn
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
A private decision journal. Write it down, let time pass, come back to see the outcome. Learn where your instincts were right, and where they missed.
Verdict is a small, deliberate journal for one intellectual habit: writing down what you expect to happen before you decide, then coming back weeks or months later to see whether the world agreed with you.
This habit is not new. Charlie Munger has spent sixty years insisting that inversion, asking how would this fail before how would this succeed, is the single most useful trick in decision-making. Ray Dalio built one of the largest hedge funds in history around the discipline of writing down failure modes before committing. Psychologist Gary Klein calls it a pre-mortem. Verdict gives the habit a place to live and a shape to hold.
WHAT IS INSIDE
Record a decision. One line title, a pre-mortem, mental weight, a settlement period. That is the whole ritual.
Take field notes during the settlement period. A sentence when things change, timestamped automatically. When you come back to review, you see the whole timeline, not just what you thought on day zero.
Review honestly. Score 1 to 10. Would you do it again. One principle you would hand to your future self.
Vault. Every principle you have extracted, accumulating over time into your own set. Not quotes from other people. Yours.
Case studies. Five real decisions from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio, Naval Ravikant, and Jeff Bezos. Free. Written as editorial prose, not bullet points.
Insight. A soft calibration chart showing how confident you were versus how right you actually were, over time. Domain-level regret rates. Your own circle of competence, drawn from evidence rather than pride.
VERDICT PRO, ONE-TIME PURCHASE
Paid once. Never a subscription. Less than two months of any comparable notes app.
Read as a Book. Your Vault as a bound edition, one principle per page. This is the piece worth screenshotting.
Advanced Insight. Quarterly calibration comparison, decision quality timeline, risk-preference profile.
PDF editions. A5 booklet, Kindle format, hardcover style, gift edition.
Two Pro themes. Ember Press and Midnight.
Custom review reminders. Multi-tier, mid-cycle nudges, time of your choosing.
Home Screen widget. See what is fermenting without opening the app.
WHAT VERDICT DOES NOT DO
No accounts. No servers. No tracking. No analytics. No AI writing anything for you. No push notifications that treat you like you need to be nagged. No streaks, no badges, no dopamine hooks.
Verdict runs entirely on-device. Your decisions sync between your iPhones through iCloud, using Apple private CloudKit. The developer never sees your data. The app contains no analytics SDK of any kind.
Ratings & Reviews
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v1.1
Widgets you can tap. Home Screen widgets now open the exact decision or review in one tap, so you can act on it right away.
Lock Screen widgets. Three new accessory sizes let you keep pending reviews and today's principle on your Lock Screen.
Large Insight widget. A monthly no-regret snapshot and your three most-regretted tags, all at a glance.
Anniversary card on Home. Older decisions resurface on their one, three, six, and twelve month marks, inviting a re-read.
Cleaner language. Widget strings, empty states, and settings were swept for English and Simplified Chinese consistency.
Under the hood. Local MetricKit diagnostics help me find crashes and hangs without any data leaving your device.
The developer, 迅 王, 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
- 迅 王
- Size
- 3.4 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- 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 and Simplified Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Verdict Pro $19.99
- Copyright
- © SameX
