Your ordinary day,
made yours.
Describe the ordinary day you wish you had, the rhythm, the energy, the small good things. Sundial learns your real life and gently shapes your actual days toward that shape, one tiny nudge at a time.
Free to shape one ideal day and get gentle nudges. No streaks, no guilt, nothing to keep up with.
Days slip by
Most days are fine. Few of them feel like yours.
Nothing is wrong, exactly. The days are just spent before you get to the parts you meant to live. It happens quietly, a little at a time, until a whole run of ordinary days has gone by without feeling like yours.
The morning
goes before you meet it
You meant to start slow, sit with a coffee, step outside. Then a screen had you, and the good part of the morning was already spent.
The middle
fills with everyone else
The hours you have go to the next thing and the next. Not bad hours, just not quite yours. You look up and it is dark.
The evening
arrives already tired
The small things you wanted, a walk, a real dinner, an early night, are the first to be dropped when the day runs long.
Sundial is a gentle way to turn that around. Not by doing more, but by quietly shaping your ordinary days back toward the ones that feel like you.
How it works
Three quiet steps, then weeks of gentle leaning.
You describe the day you want. Sundial learns the day you tend to live. Then it closes the gap between them, slowly, in a way you can always ignore.
Describe your ideal ordinary day
Not a perfect day, an ordinary one that feels like yours. The rhythm you want, where your energy should sit, the small good things you keep meaning to make room for.
Sundial learns your real life
It reads the lightest signals of how your days actually go and finds the gap, gently, between the day you described and the day you tend to live.
It nudges your days toward that shape
One small, well-timed nudge at a time, over weeks. Nothing forced. Then it shows you how close your real days came to your ideal one.
See your day take shape
Sketch the day you want. Watch a real one lean toward it.
Set where your energy sits and choose a few small good things. Sundial draws the shape of your ideal day, then shows how a real day slowly comes to meet it.
Where your energy sits
Small good things
Your ideal day
The warm line is the shape you asked for. The dusk line is a real day, before Sundial has been nudging it.
how close the real day came
A gentle plan for the day
- 7:30 amA slow coffeeLet the first coffee be for nothing but itself. Ten minutes before the day asks anything of you.
- 8:00 amMorning light outsideStep outside while the light is still soft. A few minutes is enough to tell your day it has begun.
- 12:30 pmA real lunch, away from the screenClose the laptop and eat somewhere else. The afternoon goes better when the middle of the day is yours.
- 3:00 pmA walk outsideA slow walk when the afternoon dips. No podcast, no steps to hit, just out and back.
- 8:30 pmRead a few pagesA few pages of something that is not a screen. Enough to slow down, not enough to owe yourself more.
This week, one small shift
This week, protect one thing: read a few pages at 8:30 pm. Let everything else stay loose. One kept moment is how a day starts to turn.
You want a day with some light in it. Sundial will nudge the bright parts toward the hours you actually have energy, and keep the evening soft.
Shape your real daysWhat it does
It cares how a day felt, not how much you got done.
Sundial works quietly in the background of your ordinary life. Here is the whole of what it does, and none of it asks you to keep up.
It learns your real rhythm
Sundial pays attention to how your days actually move, not how they should. It works from your real life, so its sense of a good day is yours, not a template.
Tiny, well-timed nudges
A gentle note at the right moment, not a pile of reminders. A nudge to step outside while the light is still good, to close the laptop before dinner. Small enough to say yes to.
It tracks the texture, not the tasks
Sundial cares whether the day felt like yours, not whether you cleared a list. It follows the shape and feel of a day, the parts a checklist never sees.
A weekly, gentle reflection
Once a week Sundial shows you how close your real days came to your ideal one. Kindly. It is a mirror, not a scoreboard, and there is nothing to fail.
It protects rest and small joys
The walk, the early night, the ten quiet minutes. Sundial treats the small good things as the point, and quietly guards the room they need.
One ideal day, or a few
A weekday has a different shape than a Sunday. On Sundial you can keep more than one day-shape, and let each season of your life have its own.
An honest word
Not another productivity app.
There are no streaks to keep, no scores to chase, and nothing here to make you feel behind.
Sundial is not trying to help you do more. It is trying to help your ordinary days feel more like yours.
If a nudge does not fit your day, you ignore it. Sundial simply learns, and tries a little softer next time.
Your days are yours. Sundial only ever leans, gently, in the direction you already chose.
From people
Quieter mornings. Weeks that look a little more like you.
“I did not want another app telling me to hustle. Sundial did the opposite. My mornings are mine again, and it only ever asks for one small thing at a time.”
“It is the first thing I have used that cares how a day felt, not how much I got done. The weekly look-back is kind. My weeks slowly started to look like the day I described.”
Pricing
Free to begin. About six dollars a month to go all the way.
Start free and shape one ideal day. When you are ready for Sundial to learn your whole rhythm, it is the price of a nice coffee, once a month.
Free
Shape one ideal ordinary day and get gentle nudges toward it.
Yours to keep, with no time limit.
Start free- One ideal day-shape
- A gentle daily plan and first nudges
- See how a real day maps onto your ideal
- No streaks, no scores, no time limit
Sundial
Your rhythm, learned over weeks, and days that slowly feel like yours.
Billed $58 yearly, in USD.
Shape your day- Full learning of your real rhythm
- Richer, better-timed nudges
- Weekly how-close-was-it reflections
- Seasons and more than one day-shape
- Protects rest and your small joys
- Export or delete everything, anytime
Prices shown in USD. Sundial works worldwide, and you can cancel any time. Nothing about the free plan expires.
Questions
The gentle questions people ask.
No. There is no calendar to fill and no habits to log. You describe the shape of a day you want, and Sundial gently helps your real days move toward it. It is about how a day feels, not what you check off.
No. Sundial offers a small nudge at the right moment, and only a few a day. If one does not fit, you let it pass. There are no streaks and nothing to keep up with, so there is nothing to feel guilty about.
From the lightest signals you choose to share, the rough rhythm of your days, and how you respond to its nudges. You stay in control of what it sees, and you can pause or delete it at any time.
The free plan lets you shape one ideal ordinary day and receive gentle nudges toward it. It is genuinely useful on its own, with no time limit.
Full learning of your rhythm, richer and better-timed nudges, weekly how-close-was-it reflections, seasons, and more than one day-shape. It is about six dollars a month, in your local currency.
Yes. Your days are yours. We keep what Sundial needs to help and nothing more, we never sell it, and you can export or delete everything whenever you like. See Your data and Deletion.
Begin gently
Let tomorrow feel a little more like yours.
Describe one ordinary day you wish you had. Sundial will take it from there, one small nudge at a time. Free to start, nothing to keep up with.