Wend: Routine Widget & Timer

Lluis Gasso Villarejo

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About this app

Wend runs a routine one step at a time. One action on the screen, a countdown, and a big Done button. Nothing else competing for your attention.

The point of it is the home-screen widget: the step you're on and how long is left, without opening anything. If you lose track of time — the thing people call time blindness — that widget is the whole reason the app exists.

WHAT IT DOES
- One step at a time. A full-screen run mode with a single action and a calm timer.
- A live home-screen widget. Your next step and its countdown, at a glance, offline. The countdown is the operating system's own timer, so it moves on its own rather than updating every half hour.
- If-then cues. Attach a "when…" trigger to a step instead of a clock time — "after I put the kettle on → take the tablets".
- Overtime. When a step runs long the timer counts up past the end instead of nagging you, so you can see how long you've actually been at it.
- Calm by design. Low stimulation, high contrast, no points, no streaks, no confetti.
- Offline, no account. Your routines stay on your device.

WHERE THE DESIGN CAME FROM
Both main ideas are borrowed rather than invented, and you can go and read the originals.

Putting the next step and a running clock on the home screen comes from Russell Barkley's work on self-regulation, which argues for representing information physically at the point of performance rather than expecting someone to hold it in their head.

The if-then cue comes from research on implementation intentions — phrasing a plan as "when X happens, I do Y" — set out in Gollwitzer and Sheeran's 2006 review.

The references are listed at wend.lluisgasso.com/research.

Wend doesn't claim to do anything to you. It borrows two techniques and then gets out of the way.

WEND PRO (one-time or monthly)
- Scheduled reminders.
- Multiple home-screen widgets, one per routine.
- Calm accent themes.
- A library of ready-made routines.

The free tier gives you unlimited routines and a widget, and stays that way.

Wend is a focus and routine tool. It is not a medical app, it makes no health claims, and it treats nothing.

What’s new

What's new in this build • First-run intro for the run mode, home-screen widget, and reminders.
• Now localized into 7 languages, including starter routines and the widget.
• Pro paywall shows live, localized store prices.
• Polish and stability fixes.