Small steps. Big year.
A focus buddy that grows with you
Take small steps today. Celebrate how far you've grown in a year.Yappie carries the hard parts, so you can share the happy ones with real people.Calm, local-first, and grounded in behavioral science.
A kinder kind of productivity
Everything you need to actually start
Built for brains that wander. Yappie keeps the focus loop light, encouraging and yours — never naggy, never judgemental.
- Focus together.
- A Pomodoro timer with a pet that reacts to your sessions — focus 1:1 with a friend, or join a study group’s live focus room and cheer each other on.
- Tiny, timed tasks.
- Name what you want to do and break it into small steps — Yappie can optionally suggest a few — then put a quick time on each: a gentle nudge that makes you far likelier to start.
- It grows with you.
- Earn XP across Mind, Body, Discipline, Bond and Social. Keep streaks, unlock badges, and climb titles — your Yappie levels up because you did.
- Make it yours.
- Colors, eyes, mouths, accessories and gentle wellbeing nudges you fully control — in 25 languages, and it all follows you the moment you sign in.
How it works
Focused in three steps
Name your Yappie
Meet your pet and make it yours in under a minute.
Start a session
Pick what to focus on and start the timer. Yappie focuses with you.
Grow together
Finish sessions, take real breaks, and watch your Yappie evolve.
Built on self-trust
Three honest actions, one tap each
Yappie trusts you — so you don’t have to do everything inside the app, not even your tasks. Just tell it honestly what you did: you rested, you moved, you spent time with people. No timers watching you, no step-counter, no “verifying” your calls. Your word is the whole input, and it flows straight into your growth, achievements, and charts.
I took a break
Step away to rest — a walk, a stretch, a snack, a nap. Restore your energy without guilt. No enforcement, just self-trust.
Log physical activity
Log time spent moving — walks, gym, sport, dance, anything counts. Credits the Body track on your growth spider.
Log social activity
Time with friends, family, loved ones — calls, video, in-person, a shared sport. Yappie nudges you toward real-life connection, not more screen time. Credits the Social track.
See it in motion
Seven pieces that quietly work together
Each one earns its place by doing one calm thing well.
One task, small steps
A vague task, broken into small ones
Stuck on a task? Yappie can optionally suggest a few small steps, with rough time and tags. You take what fits, ignore the rest, and start somewhere.
Pick a task
No steps yet — Yappie can suggest some.
The suggestions you see are illustrative. In the app, every breakdown is fresh and personalised.
You're in good company
Focus feels lighter with a friend
Yappie is social exactly when you want it to be — and quiet the rest of the time. Sit in a shared focus session, or leave a small cheer that reaches a friend once they come up for air. No feeds, no scores, just gentle company.
Focus side by side
Start a 1-on-1 session and your pets settle in together. You can each see the other is present and focusing — a little accountability in a safe, cozy environment.
Send a little cheer
When a friend is heads-down, their Yappie can hop over to hand-deliver a kind word — sometimes a small cheer is all your friend needs to keep going.
Make it yours
A focus space that feels like you
Dress up your Yappie, set the scene behind it, and score your focus with calm soundscapes — mix and match until it clicks.
Customize your Yappie
Mix body colours, eyes, mouths and accessories into a companion that looks the way you want.
Scenes & themes
Set a living 16:9 backdrop behind your pet, or match the whole app to a colour theme.
Soundscapes
Lo-fi, ambient, nature and focus beats — a growing library to help you drop into deep work.
One pet, every device
Same focus, wherever you open Yappie
Your tasks, your streak, and your pet move with you. Start a session on your laptop, finish it on your phone — nothing to set up, nothing to copy over.
Ready when you are · pick a focus length
Ready when you are · pick a focus length
Ready when you are · pick a focus length
Ready when you are · pick a focus length
Synced in real time across all your devices
Sync is free on every device. Using more than one at the same time is a Yappie Super feature — free accounts sync, but one device focuses at a time.
Grounded in behavioral science
Methods with a paper trail
Yappie isn’t built on vibes. Its core methods draw on nudge theory and high-quality research in social and behavioral science — applied gently, never as pressure.
Nudges, never nags
Yappie is built on nudge theory: gentle, opt-in cues that make the good choice the easy one — never pressure or guilt. Every nudge and bit of encouragement is kind by design, and you’re always in control.
Thaler & Sunstein, Nudge (2008)
Put a time on it
Estimating how long a short task will take — in minutes — strengthens an “implemental mindset” and makes you measurably less likely to put it off. Yappie asks for a quick time on every task and step.
Chun, Lembregts & Van den Bergh (2024), Journal of Consumer Psychology, 34(4), 502–509
If-then, not “someday”
Tying an action to a specific moment — “at 9am, I’ll start” — raises follow-through far more than a vague “someday.” Yappie lets you put a time on a task or step and brings it up right when that moment arrives, turning intentions into the next concrete move.
Gollwitzer (1999), American Psychologist
Earned, visible progress
Specific, challenging goals with clear feedback drive motivation. Every level and rank your Yappie gains is real progress you can see and feel.
Goal-setting theory — Locke & Latham
Momentum you can see
People push harder and stay engaged as they watch themselves close in on a goal. Yappie’s streaks, levels, and progress rings turn that pull into daily momentum.
Kivetz, Urminsky & Zheng (2006), Journal of Marketing Research, 43(1), 39–58
What gets tracked, gets done
A meta-analysis of 138 studies found that keeping an eye on your progress helps you reach your goals — most of all when that progress is recorded and visible. Yappie keeps it in front of you: charts, streaks, and a daily recap.
Harkin et al. (2016), Psychological Bulletin, 142(2), 198–229
Breaks that protect focus
Brief mental breaks during long stretches help you hold your attention instead of fading out. Yappie paces gentle focus-and-break cycles so your concentration lasts.
Ariga & Lleras (2011), Cognition, 118(3), 439–443
Every day, a clean slate
People feel most motivated to pursue a goal at the start of a fresh period — a new week, month, or year. Yappie gives you that reset, tucking yesterday away so today starts clean.
Dai, Milkman & Riis (2014), Management Science, 60(10), 2563–2582
A running start
People are more likely to finish what they’ve already begun than what they haven’t started. Yappie gets you moving from the first minute — setup ends by helping you add your first task, so you’re already underway.
Nunes & Drèze (2006), Journal of Consumer Research, 32(4), 504–512
Built to become automatic
Repeating an action consistently helps it become more automatic over time. Yappie’s recurring tasks and daily streaks make showing up the easy, repeatable default.
Wood & Neal (2007), Psychological Review, 114(4), 843–863
Yappie is a friendly focus companion — not medical or psychological advice.
Yours, and only yours
Private by default
Your tasks, pet, focus and growth run fully offline, no account needed. The optional helper stays off until you turn it on — and even then, only the minimal context you approve ever leaves your device. Only the social side — friends, co-focus, study groups — needs you online.
- Runs on your computer
- Local-first by design. Your tasks, growth and pet live on your own device. Sync is optional — and even then, the server stores your data without ever reading what’s inside.
- Account is optional
- The solo app works offline, forever — no account needed. Sign in only to sync across devices, focus with friends, or unlock Yappie Super.
- No ads, ever
- We don't sell your data and we never will. The optional subscription is how we keep the lights on.