Still

What it is

Still is a meditation app in two halves. A native iOS app in SwiftUI, and a Next.js web app that holds the audio library and the account. Same catalogue, same two guides, one subscription.

The feature it is built around is called Made For You. You describe what is actually on your mind, the interview, the 3am spiral, the goodbye, pick a length and a guide, and within a day there is a meditation written for exactly that sitting in your library. Nobody else has it.

Why I built it

Every meditation app hands you the same library it hands everyone else and calls the personalisation a recommendation algorithm. The thing keeping you up tonight is specific, and a generic session about letting go of tension is not aimed at it.

The other reason is more boring and more honest: the incumbents have hostile billing. Hard to cancel, unclear renewal, trials designed to convert by accident. That is a solvable problem and it happens to be the exact problem I spend my working hours on.

How it works

Every core practice is recorded by both guides, Eli and Nora, and you can switch between them mid session. Around that sit Deep Rest for NSDR, sleepcasts, and breathing led by a moving orb rather than a countdown.

On iOS it is AVPlayer over a configured audio session, so it keeps playing with the screen off and behaves properly on the lock screen, which sounds trivial and is the difference between an app people use at night and one they delete. Offline downloads run on signed URLs so a cancelled subscription does not leave the whole library sitting unprotected on the device.

Streaks forgive rest days. A streak that punishes you for sleeping is not a wellbeing feature, it is a retention mechanic wearing one.

Where it stands

Web app deployed, iOS app built, App Store listing written and ready. The remaining work is the submission itself and the subscription plumbing, which is where the shared billing layer earns its keep.