Features

Two taps in. A shadow pushed back.

Braveclimb is small on purpose. You do the uncomfortable thing in real life; the app turns it into light, a card and a hit on the voice that told you not to, so courage you can't usually see becomes something you can hold.

Home

Your shadow, today

The shadow you're facing fills the screen: its name, the lie it tells you, and one gold bar of how far you've pushed it back. Your motto answers it. The next thing you planned sits right under the bar, one tap from done.

the shadow · its lie · your motto
Log

Two-tap logging

Pick what you faced, then say how it felt, honestly: Unease (a whisper), Fear (a shout) or Dread (a roar). That's the whole log. A note is optional. Backed out? It's still a step, and the flame stays lit.

what you faced · how it felt
Hit

Strike the shadow

Every log lands as a full-screen hit: lightning cracks across the shadow and the light you earned rises out of it. Harder acts hit harder. Push a shadow all the way back and it breaks to dawn, and the next voice steps up.

a hit for every act · dawn at the end
Collection

A card for every act

Everything you face becomes a card, kept in an album for the shadow you faced it against. A Dread act pulls a Mythic card: gold foil, a holo sheen, and what you actually did written across it.

every act a card · dread pulls mythic
Cards

Monthly punch cards

Pick an action and a number, like reach out 10 times in October. Every time you do it, a hole lights up in gold. Put a promise on it if you like and let a friend hold you to it, on the honor system.

one action · one number · one month
Year

A year of light

Your whole year on one screen, each day lit by the hardest thing you faced. Tap a day to see its cards. Below it, a stack for every shadow you've faced down, with its count and its Mythics.

365 days · tap any one
Insights

The Honest Mirror

A weekly recap, an "are you getting braver?" difficulty trend, and a fears-vs-reality gap that shows how rarely the scary thing was as bad as you feared.

weekly · trends · braver?
Private

Local-first & private

No account, no backend by default. Everything lives on your device, works fully offline, and never has to leave your phone. Export a backup any time.

no account · offline · yours
The grades

How did it feel, honestly? Harder earns more.

it counts in full either way
rejection counts · backing out is still a step
×1
Unease · a whisper
A small stretch you almost talked yourself out of.
×1.25
Fear · a shout
Genuinely hard. Your pulse was up the whole time.
×1.5
Dread · a roar
The one you'd normally avoid entirely. It pulls a Mythic card.
Next

Meet the ten shadows you'll face.

The Doubter, The Critic, The Impostor, The Perfectionist and six more, each its own painting and each with its own lie.

See the shadows
loggingtwo taps
grades3
shadows10 + ∞
cardsone per act
dataon-device
skinsShadow · Original