Ships on iOS 26 · Coming 2026
A witness,not a coach.
Every January, another goal. Every March, the same gap. Intus replaces goals with seasons — a 90-day chapter with a direction, not a deadline. Habits, a journal, and AI that reads your own writing back to you.
On-device AI. Your writing never leaves your phone.
Launching 2026 for iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 — three-model AI, on-device first.
Seasons
A 90-day chapterwith a stated intention.
You give your season a name worth saying to yourself for 90 days, and an intention in one sentence. That sentence becomes a lens — every morning card, every journal prompt, every insight Intus surfaces is filtered through it. A habit app without an intention is a checklist. With one, it's a frame for the chapter you're actually living.
The seasons framework is inspired by The Theme System by Myke Hurley and CGP Grey (Cortex podcast). Intus adapts the core insight — direction, not deadline — into 90-day seasons with habits, a journal, and on-device AI.
Season
Season of foundation
Do the unglamorous work. Establish the basics before anything else.
The season you return to after a long drift — or start from scratch. Habits that compound slowly. Morning before noon.
Season
Season of rest
Stop performing. Rest, read, and think without an agenda.
Named after exhaustion or after a sprint. The intention gives you permission to slow down with purpose instead of guilt.
Season
Season of showing up
Be present before being productive.
Seasons don't have to be about self-improvement. This one is a reminder — logged daily, held gently.
Name it like it matters
The title is what you'll say to yourself for 90 days. “Season of foundation.” “Season of rest.” Specific enough to remember, broad enough to hold a hard week.
One sentence, one lens
Write the intention in a sentence. Every morning card, every journal prompt, every insight gets filtered through it. The AI reads what you've actually been doing — through the lens you set on day one.
Then it closes
Around 90 days, the season closes with a written reading. It doesn't disappear — it becomes part of your archive, with its moments and rhythm intact. The next season starts clean.
Why seasons work where goals don't
A deadline.
A direction.
Fail on week two.
Absorb a bad week.
Punish the half-wins.
Count them.
That's the difference. It's structural.
What it does
Counts what otherapps don't.
Every feature points inward — toward what you've actually been doing. No streaks to protect. No notifications to earn. Just a careful record of the chapter you're in, including the partial days.
Half days count
Half days count. No streak penalty.
Most apps mark your day red when you miss. Intus marks it half. Partial effort gets recorded honestly — not failure, not full. A season that can't fail needs a habit tracker that can't either.
A morning card written for you, today
Not a template. Not a generic nudge. Each morning, Intus reads yesterday's habits, your journal entries, your calendar — and writes something personal. Something that could only be written for you, today.
Ask why you keep breaking a habit
Ask Intus why you keep dropping a habit. The answer cites your own writing back to you — not a productivity framework. It reads what your journal says about those days.
Mood meets completion
On days you complete more of your habits, your mood tends to be better. Intus surfaces that correlation without prescribing anything — just the pattern, plainly stated.
Before and after the season started
A split view of your averages in the 14 days before the season and since it began — completion rate, mood, journal frequency. Lets you see whether naming an intention changed anything.
On-device. Nothing leaves your phone.
Daily cards, rhythm prose, mood classification, and journal search run locally via Apple's on-device AI (iOS 26+). Cloud models only ever see small retrieved chunks — never your whole journal.
How the AI works
Not a wrapper.An architecture, not a feature label.
The AI in Intus is an architecture, not a feature label. On-device models handle the surface layer. Frontier models handle the synthesis. Each task routes to the model that fits — and your writing never moves further than it has to.
On-device first
The daily morning card, mood classification, and semantic search over your journal all run locally on your phone (iOS 26+). Your writing never leaves the device for any of these.
No network request. No server log.
On-device is free, forever.
Frontier models for synthesis only
Season readings, pattern-spotting, and life-shaping prompts require more. For those, Intus routes to a frontier model — but it only ever sees small, retrieved chunks of your writing. Never the whole journal. Never more than the task needs.
Small passages. Never the whole journal.
Right model for the job
Three layers, one routing decision. The daily surface stays local. Season endings use a frontier model tuned for synthesis. Life-shaping prompts — the ones worth sitting with — use the strongest model available. Each task goes to whichever fits the work.
Task-routed. Provider-agnostic by design.
Privacy is structural, not a policy
On-device FoundationModels means the surface layer — daily cards, mood, search — runs entirely on your device (iOS 26+). When cloud models are needed, they receive retrieved chunks only. The architecture makes the privacy guarantee, not the terms of service.
your writing stays on your device
The idea behind Intus
Goals have a failure mode.Seasons don't.
The name
Intus.
Latin. Two thousand years old. It means within, inward, on the inside.
Roman writers used it for the interior life — the part of a person that couldn't be performed for an audience. The conscience that speaks intus. The work no one else can see you doing.
It lives, quietly, inside another word: intuition. From intus + tueri — to look within. Intuition is what happens when you've paid enough attention to yourself that things become clear.
That's what the app is for. Not an external accountability system. Not a performance tracker. Something that helps you pay attention — inward — for long enough that things become clearer.
I didn't invent the name. I found it. — Simon
Personal expression
Pick a color for your season.
Sixteen palettes inside the app. Choose the one that fits the chapter you're in — the app wears it everywhere.
Your next chapter shouldn'tcome with a deadline.
Intus launches in 2026 for iPhone and iPad on iOS 26.Join the waitlist — be among the first to name your season.
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