Guide
Yappie guide
How Yappie works
Everything you can do in Yappie — the ideas behind it, step-by-step how-tos for desktop and mobile, and the little power features most people miss.
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What Yappie is, the ideas behind it, and how to get going.
What is Yappie?
A calm focus companion: a little pet that grows as you focus, rest and show up.
The big ideas
Sessions, trust, growth, rest and calm: the mental model behind the app.
Get Yappie
Install it, use it as a guest or signed in, sync for free, and pick a plan.
Meeting Yappie
The seven-step first run: naming, colour, what Yappie is for, nudges, your favourite topics, and the keepsake it hands you.
Finding your way around
Yappie draws its own title bar, and everything else lives behind one menu — here's the whole map.
A day with Yappie
A short walkthrough of a focused day, start to finish, including a day off.
Focus & tasks
The focus timer, your Today and Tomorrow lists, and how you organize work.
Focus sessions
The timer, the break Yappie offers afterwards, and why stopping early never costs you the minutes.
Today
Your live list for the day, the one menu behind every card, and the trust behind a tick.
Tomorrow
Plan ahead without the pressure of doing it now.
Unsorted focus
The bank that catches every minute of focus that had no task attached.
Breaks & activities you log
The bottom drawer that records a coffee, a walk, a call or a whole day off so they still count.
Recurring tasks
Reusable tasks that drop a fresh copy into Today on the days you choose.
History
A calm, read-only record of the days behind you, and now a way to search it.
Projects
Buckets that give each task a home.
Tags
Cross-cutting labels that gather work across projects.
Growth & rewards
How Yappie grows with you: aspects, levels, your Journey, streaks and the sky.
Growth: levels & aspects
Five aspects, one overall level, and eleven astronomy titles, all built from things you actually did.
Your Journey
The eleven astronomy tiers, the piece of sky each level adds, and how to wear a tier as your background.
Yappie's energy
A daily battery that drains as you focus, refills as you rest, and shows on the badge at the top of the window.
Streaks & streak freezes
What keeps a streak alive, how freezes are earned and spent, and how time off protects it.
My sky
Every day hides a shape; the things you actually do place the stars that reveal it.
Gallery of Greatness
Every night worth remembering, hung on a wall you can search, name and write to.
Charts & your daily read
Seven gentle cards of your own patterns, plus an optional once-daily read.
Hall of Glory
Fourteen categories of badges that flip over to show the day you earned them.
Rest & time off
Declaring days off, what changes on a rest day, and coming back.
Taking time off
A weekly rhythm, one-off leaves, and a calendar that lays the whole thing out.
What a rest day looks like
On a day you've declared off, the whole app steps back — here's exactly what changes.
Coming back
"Actually, I want to work", the welcome-back greeting, and filing a stretch you never declared.
Friends & groups
Focusing alongside other people, cheering them on, and study groups.
Friends & co-focus
Add friends by code, see what they choose to share, and settle into a shared session.
Cheers
Send a friend a short note, optionally hand-delivered by your pet.
Focus with a stranger
Sit with whoever is waiting, for as long as you like, with nothing to say.
Study groups
Small circles that focus together, in Chill or Hardcore.
The study room
Everyone in the session stands somewhere in a drawn village, walking in as they join.
Notifications
Your in-app inbox for requests, invites, reminders and cheers.
Make it yours
Your pet, the sound, the scenery, the theme, and the optional helper.
Customize your pet
Name it, dress it, and see what levelling opens up next.
Playing with Yappie
Squish it, tickle it, stretch it, and let it show you the things it keeps.
Soundscapes
Calm tracks, a player that follows you around, and offline listening.
Backgrounds
The artwork behind your pet, and why a locked sky is not always a paywall.
Themes
Ten palettes for the whole app, and one switch that follows your OS.
The AI companion
Optional AI: off, your own key, or hosted by Yappie.
Wellbeing nudges
Five optional reminders, their real intervals, and when they stay quiet.
Privacy & plans
What stays on your device, what syncs, and what a paid plan changes.
Privacy & cloud sync
Where your data lives, what free cloud sync carries, and the grid that decides what other people see.
Plans & what's free
Every productivity feature is free. Here is what Lite, Super and Super Family actually add.
Referrals
Invite a friend, and once they have reached the focus minimum you each get a token.
How-to guides
Short, task-shaped walkthroughs for the things people do most.
Working with tasks
Add tasks and steps, set times and alarms, and tick things off without losing the focus behind them.
Focusing
Run a session, take a break, log the time you spend away from the timer, and use the two quieter views.
Organizing
Create projects and tags, attach them to your work, and find things again later.
Friends & groups
Add friends, cheer them on, sit down with a stranger, and join or run a study group.
Personalizing
Your pet's name and face, soundscapes, backgrounds, themes, nudges, AI and sync.
Tips & hidden gems
The small things that are easy to miss on each platform.