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Glade Journal tab showing a six-day streak and slider prompts for energy, connection, and sleep — Daily check-ins built from prompts the group lead writes.

Goals list with daily and weekly goals, one checked off — Daily and weekly goals, checked off from the journal.

Practices list with shared agreements like phones away at dinner — Shared practices. Call them rules or habits if you like.

Journey tab with current and best streak, an activity heatmap, and a monthly mood chart — Streaks, an activity heatmap, and mood over time.

Together tab showing today's question awaiting an answer, the streak, and recent conversations — One question a day. Answers stay hidden until you've both replied.

A rate-one-to-five question revealed, comparing both partners' answers and guesses, with replies below — Tap days are quick games: guess your partner's answer, then compare.

Features

Daily journal with prompts, goals, and to-dos written by the group lead
Together: a daily question for partners, with answers revealed only once both have replied
Tap-day games: guess your partner's answer, rate 1–5, and "you or me?"
Review and react to each other's days, with comments and reply threads
Journey insights: streaks, activity heatmap, mood trends, and achievements
Glimpse: on-device reflections on your day, powered by Apple Intelligence where available
Rename core terms like Practices, To-dos, and Lead for the whole group
Syncs through iCloud on iPhone and iPad, with no account and no server

Glade is a private, shared journaling app for iPhone and iPad. One person sets up a group and writes its daily prompts, goals, to-dos, and practices. Everyone they invite journals against them, checks things off, and builds streaks together. The Together tab is designed for couples: each day brings one question, and neither person sees the other’s answer until both have replied.

Everything lives in iCloud. There’s no account to create, no backend, and no analytics. Journals sync and are shared entirely through Apple’s CloudKit, and Glimpse reflections are generated on-device and never stored or sent anywhere. Glade is currently in TestFlight beta.

Under the hood

SwiftUI with the Observation framework, targeting iOS 26
Core Data + CloudKit via NSPersistentCloudKitContainer, using a private store plus a shared store for CloudKit share zones. Invites are standard iCloud share links.
No server. CloudKit handles identity, sync, sharing, and push notifications.
Versioned, additive-only schema migrations, verified by tests and deployed with cktool
On-device intelligence through Apple’s Foundation Models and Natural Language frameworks
Zero third-party dependencies and about 730 tests written with Swift Testing

How I built it

I built Glade with Claude Code using a spec-driven workflow. Each feature started as a brainstorm and turned into a written design spec and implementation plan. Subagents then executed the plan task by task, with a review between tasks and a final review of the whole branch before the build shipped to TestFlight. Custom Claude skills generate the Together questions and journal prompts against written rubrics, and I review every batch.

From June through September 2026 that added up to over 1,000 commits, about 33,000 lines of Swift, and more than 80 design specs. Glade replaced an earlier Next.js web version of the same app.