Sunday, four things due
Starting stops being the hard part.
Tell him the whole mess — the essay, the problem set, the reading you have been avoiding since Tuesday. He gives it back as one next step, and one is a thing you can actually begin.
For students · macOS
A small yeti who lives on your Mac, keeps you company while you work, and catches you the second the scroll starts.
He plans the week with you, holds the focus block, and brings you back to the exact paragraph you left. No streaks. No lecture. No guilt about the hour you already lost.
$79 once · $29 with a code you can unlock on this page

hi. i’m stoiq. what are we finishing today?
He walks. He notices. He knows when to say nothing.
What he’s for
Not a system to learn and not a dashboard to keep up with. One small creature who knows what you sat down to do.
Sunday, four things due
Tell him the whole mess — the essay, the problem set, the reading you have been avoiding since Tuesday. He gives it back as one next step, and one is a thing you can actually begin.
Tuesday, 40 minutes
Pick what you are working on and how long. He sits in the corner while you do it — quiet, one glance away, and there when you look up.
2am, one more video
Open TikTok mid-block and he notices in seconds and asks if you want to go back. He knows which paragraph you were on. Keep scrolling and he draws the line — the feed goes behind him until the block is done.
There is no streak to break, nothing to lose by closing the laptop, and no counter keeping score of your bad weeks. He is a witness, not a warden. When you come back — tomorrow, or in six days — he still knows where you were.
The 2am save
You did not decide to open TikTok. Nobody does. It is 2am, the essay is nine hundred words short, and somewhere in the last forty minutes your thumb made a decision your brain was not part of.
He shows up small and asks first, because sometimes the tab really is the work. Most of the time that is the whole rescue. Keep going and he draws the line — the feed sits behind him until the block is finished.
He can’t read your screen. No keystrokes, no screenshots, nothing about your messages. He sees the sites you asked him to shield and the work you told him about, and nothing else.
What you get out of it

While you focus he slips off somewhere and comes back with what he found. A fern from a cloud forest. A monstera he will not explain. Put them wherever you like on your desktop; they grow for exactly as long as you do.
Nothing wilts. Nothing resets. Nothing is ever taken away.
Skip a fortnight and the plant is still there, the same size you left it. That is the entire deal, and it is the one every app that kills your streak gets wrong.
The Day One offer
Lifetime licence — one payment, no renewals.
Stoiq is $79, once. A creator’s code takes $50 off it, which is how their followers pay $29. You do not have to know a creator to get that price. Leave your email and we will make you a code of your own, on this page, right now.
$79once · no subscription, ever
Lifetime licence — one payment, no renewals.
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Payment is handled by Stripe. We never see your card. Your receipt arrives by email.
Something for your companion to wear, made for the people who were here first and never sold to anyone who arrives later. It does not exist yet. When it does, it lands on your account without you asking.
The yeti, the red panda, the raccoon — and every companion after them. Not a bundle you bought, a licence that keeps covering them.
Founding purchases are numbered in the order they arrive. Yours is recorded the moment you buy, and the app shows it — the lower it is, the earlier you were.
Not a beta badge that disappears when the beta does. It is a permanent fact about your account, and it stays after everyone else arrives.
Your ordinal on something you can actually post. One per founding purchase, and the number on it is the one in our books.
Everyone who focuses grows a monstera. Day Ones grow the albo — the rare variegated one, white-marbled, the plant people queue for in real life. It only ever goes to the people who were here first.
At launch means it ships with the paid build. Planned means decided, not built. We would rather name the thing honestly than invent a feature to sell a page. Whatever we make for Day Ones reaches you retroactively, at no extra cost.
Before you buy
30 days, full refund, no questions. Write to hello@stoiq.ai — a person reads it.
It is a Mac app. macOS 14 or newer, with the browser companion included. The iPhone app comes with it and costs nothing extra.
Your purchase attaches to your email. Stoiq is free while it is in private beta, so there is nothing to activate today. When the paid build ships you sign in with the address on your receipt and it unlocks — no licence key to lose, and you will never be asked to buy it twice.
One email, one code, one reason. We keep your address so we can tell you when the build is ready. That is what it is for.
Prices are in US dollars. Payment is handled by Stripe — we never see your card. See all plans