Make Small Social Steps a Habit, Without Anyone Watching

Reaching toward people is a skill, and a skill grows with small, repeated reps. Reps lets you tap one each day and keeps the record on your own phone.

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The problem

Apps for meeting people need someone else to say yes, and when nobody answers it can feel like failing. Meanwhile the small things you can do alone, like greeting a neighbour, texting first or leaving the house for no errand, leave no trace, so it is hard to see that you are moving at all. Most habit apps are built for gym sessions and glasses of water, with accounts and feeds that make a private effort feel public. People searching for how to make friends as an adult, or what to do after moving to a new city, usually do not need a matching algorithm. They need a way to start small and see that it counts.

How Reps (Small Social Steps) works

• Open Reps and you already have three small steps waiting, such as saying hello, texting someone first and leaving the house. You can swap them for others from a list of twelve.
• When you do one, tap it. That is one rep: the count goes up, today's dot lights up, and a short kind line appears. Tapped by mistake? Undo is there for five seconds.
• Your streak counts the days in a row with at least one rep. Miss a day and the run ends, but your longest run stays on screen as something that happened.
• Once a week, make a week card from your counts. It shows how many reps and how many days, never the names of your steps, and you can share it or keep it.

What you get

• Twelve steps, written for where you liveThe default reps are written for each language and culture, not translated word for word. In Japanese the first one is greeting a shop or station staff member rather than a stranger on the street. Pick three to start and swap them whenever you like.
• A map of dots, not a scoreA day with at least one rep gets one dot, and that is all. There are no levels, no points and no leaderboard, because the point is to see yourself moving, not to compete. The free map shows the last two months; older dots are kept and appear with Pro.
• A kind line, never a lectureAfter each tap Reps shows one short, non-judging line such as "That counts" or "Nobody had to say yes for this to count". It never asks how you feel and never tells you to see someone.
• A real passcode with ProPro adds a real passcode: PBKDF2-SHA256 at 200,000 rounds derives the key and AES-256 in GCM mode encrypts your data on the device. Pro also adds your own reps, the full-year heatmap, numbers for each rep and a week card with no 1usd.life badge, for $1 once.

Private by design

Reps has no account and no server, so what you log is never sent anywhere. There is no feed, no one to match with, no analytics and no reminder while the app is closed. Days follow your own phone's clock at the moment you tap and are stored as a fixed date. The week card is drawn on your device and contains only counts. Reps is a habit log, not therapy or a medical tool: support lines are listed in Settings, and if things feel heavy a person you trust or a professional helps more than any app.

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