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About this app

One question a day, to which there is no right answer.

Dilemma presents you with a moral dilemma every day: two conflicting obligations stemming from family, work, community, and money. You tap A or B, explain why with a single tap, and then see how others decided. Fifteen seconds, no account, no ads.

The only requirement for each of the 365 questions: both answers must provide a justification that no one should be ashamed of. If an answer is obviously correct, the question is not included in the app.

Two real-life examples from the corpus:

Your neighbor is ninety and still drives: report it to the authorities, or gamble that she can manage the seven kilometers.

Twenty euros too much change at the checkout: return it, or consider it against the handful she's accumulated over the years.

How a day unfolds:

The app opens directly to today's question. No welcome screen, no email check, just text.

You tap A or B. A short vibration confirms it, and that's it for today.

The screen asks why: gut feeling, principle, or experience. A tap of your finger.

Only then does the result appear: a bar, a percentage, the number of votes. A percentage you already know would change your answer.

Your streak continues, and tomorrow the app will remind you at your chosen time.

Six categories, 365 questions

Family, 71 questions. Parents, children, siblings, caregiving, inheritance.

Work, 71 questions. Colleagues, boss, loyalty versus rules, silence versus reporting.

Society, 71 questions. Neighbors, strangers, civic courage, cleaning rota, Sunday rest.

Friendship, 56 questions. Closeness, betrayal, trust, distance.

Money, 56 questions. Giving, keeping, owing, inheriting.

Truth, 40 questions. Lying versus leniency, if that's the whole conflict.

The easier questions are interspersed among the difficult ones, with the toughest ones reserved for the weekend.

From ten answers onwards: your analysis

Each question is positioned on one of five value axes, with the two answers at opposite ends: speak up or spare, rule or exception, for yourself or others, intervene or let it happen, common good or personal gain.

From ten answers onwards, the app reads aloud your decision, calculating it on your device instead of on a server. Next to each statement, it shows how many answers it is based on. No type is displayed at the end.

What it costs

Free and permanently: the question of the day, your vote, the community result, your series, the daily reminder, the last three days in the archive, and the countdown to your analysis.

A one-time fee of €4.99, if you wish: the complete archive with your answer and the final result for each question, plus your analysis. No subscription, no trial period, no automatic renewal. Recoverable on a new device via "Restore Purchases".

What doesn't happen

No user account, no email address, no password.

No analytics software, no advertising, no advertising ID.

No push token; the reminder is generated on your device.

No location, no contacts, no photos, no microphone.

Servers in Frankfurt am Main.

In the settings, there's an option to "Delete all my data." It takes effect immediately and is irreversible.

A random key, generated by the app upon first launch, and your answers are stored. It's not linked to any name, but it allows recurring use to be associated with the same device and is therefore treated as personal data rather than downplayed. One consequence is stated here, not hidden in the privacy policy: after a reinstallation, the key is gone, and the series starts from scratch. The purchase itself isn't.

Who writes the questions

People, in German, specifically for this app. No question is taken from an existing question bank. Translated questions can be identified by the fact that they don't take place in any country and don't include terms like "Kehrwoche" (weekly cleaning rota) or "Brückentag" (a public holiday between public holidays and weekends).