The reveal
One line, and nothing else on the screen.
Hold the moon, or shake the phone. What comes out is one question with nothing around it, and it stays until you close it. Sit with it as long as you like.
Not the one? Shake again for another.
A question, once a day
Journaling, without the blank page.
Shake the moon and one honest question comes out. Answer it on paper, in your head, or out loud. Thirty seconds, and you know yourself a little better than yesterday.
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No blank page.
Lua asks. You only answer. One question at a time, never a cursor blinking at you.
Nothing to type.
Say it on a walk, write it in the notebook you already have, or just think it through. Lua has no text box, on purpose.
Nothing kept.
No account, nothing saved, nothing sent. What you think stays where you thought it.
Why so little
Apps want more of you. Lua wants less.
Track your mood. Rate your sleep. Tick the boxes, answer the follow-ups, keep the streak alive. Somewhere along the way, reflection got turned into a form to fill in, and a form is the opposite of a quiet mind.
Lua does the reverse. One question, a handful of features, and then it lets you go: back to the real world, and to the quiet place inside you where the answer actually is.
Two thousand years
This isn’t new. It’s old.
Answering an honest question about your own life, on purpose, is the oldest habit there is. Emperors did it, and so did people with nothing.
Lua’s questions are written by hand and picked slowly. A few hundred of them, from light to heavy, none of them generated.
The soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, V.16
The question is ours. The answer is yours.
How it feels
Shake. Read. Sit with it.
This is Lua as it is on your phone today. The moon is the whole interface: hold it, and the glass opens on one question.
Where they come from
You choose how deep it goes.
Three sources: you, your life, and the world beyond it. Three weights, from light to heavy. Change either whenever you like.
- Self Who you are, right now: your feelings, your character, the day you just lived.
- Life What you do with your time: work, relationships, family, the dreams you’re chasing or postponing, how you’re spending the years you have.
- Beyond You Bigger than you: curiosity, existence, the universe, the questions nobody has a clean answer to.
Light · Medium · Heavy
Self is open now. Life and Beyond You are being finished; leave an email inside the app and it will tell you when they open.
Send it to someone
Send one to a friend. They don’t need the app.
It arrives with one line saying somebody thought of them, and then the question, exactly as you saw it. Answer it together, or apart.
Coming back
Come back, and the moon fills.
There is no chart here, and nothing to lose. The object keeps the count for you: each day you come back, a little more of it is lit. Full at twenty-five days.
Where the answer goes
Still no text box. On purpose.
Lua’s not built for typing. Paper works better for this. The write button copies the question to your clipboard, so you can paste it into your favourite notes app if you’d rather write there instead.
Lua keeps none of it. No account, nothing saved, nothing sent.
Get Lua
Take the moon with you.
Works on any phone today as a web app. Add it to your home screen and it opens like one. App Store and Google Play are on their way.
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In English and Portuguese, written and translated by hand.
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