Log stages. Climb your mountain.
A daily logbook for iPhone, Mac and Android. You jot down what happened, gain altitude toward a mountain you pick, look back for ten minutes on Sundays. No account, no streak counter, no coach.
You work every day. By Sunday you can't say what happened.
The meetings on your calendar are documented. The shipped projects your team has seen. But the weeks before — what was that? You remember stress, an argument with the bank, a late night. The rest the current swallowed. And the work that carries the business — following up, improving the script, learning — just disappears, because it has no time slot.
Solo consultant · Munich
One person. Munich. No investor.
I'm Jonas. I wrote Hokd because I couldn't find an app that just wanted to be a logbook — without "guiding" me, without a score, without a streak counter that breaks me when I miss a day.
Hokd has no growth team, no onboarding funnel, no push notification dragging you back. No dashboard comparing you to anything. No account, no tracking, no "keep your streak alive". You use the app when you need it. When you don't, it isn't offended.
If something is broken or missing: support@balane.tech. I answer myself.
Not what you plan — what you actually did.
Plans are cheap. Done is not. Hokd flips the to-do list: you log backward, not forward. Each stage adds altitude, each day climbs higher, each week sets an anchor. At the end, you stand on the mountain you picked — Mont Blanc, Everest, your own.
A step is a step. That's all it is.
Streaks punish you for missing a day. XP systems hand you numbers that mean nothing. Hustle apps want you to do more today than yesterday.
A mountain wants nothing. You pick a peak — Watzmann, Zugspitze, Mont Blanc, Everest. Each stage is altitude. Take a week off? The mountain stays where it is, so do you. You start again where you left off.
2,962 meters of Zugspitze is a real number. You can picture where you are — halfway up, just below the plateau, a hundred meters under the summit cross. More concrete than "Level 47", more honest than "your 12-day streak is at risk".
If you make it, it was a mountain. If you don't, it still was. You can keep going, or pick another. Both count.
One per stage. Clear separation.
Each stage goes into one of five categories. Altitude per category is calibrated so deep work counts higher than routine.
Depth
50mLong focused blocks. Code, strategy, complex problems solved.
Creation
40mShipped something: PR merged, article published, pitch sent.
Courage
35mThe uncomfortable thing: hard talk, raised price, said no.
Learning
30mDeliberate practice, reading, understanding.
Care
15mMaintenance: inbox, bookkeeping, standup, appointments.
Sunday. Three steps. One anchor.
On Sundays, you open Hokd, set an anchor for the week, capture the courage moment of the past seven days. The anchor stays pinned at the top for seven days — across every screen.
Themes, not journal.
Instead of one monolithic journal, you create themes you write about regularly. "What stops me from going deep?", "Where am I impulsive?". AI summarizes the patterns when you ask — otherwise just your words, your time.
Scripts with version history.
The discovery call script. The complaint response. The investor pitch. Save versions, track outcomes per run, let AI review what worked.
Local first.
No account, no login, no tracking. Data stays on your device. On iOS and macOS, AI runs on-device via Apple Intelligence. On Android, only when you use Pro — and only the input text is sent, never stored.