One night at a time
Ten minutes at a window, three sounds named, a slow four-count breath — and one line to write about it afterwards. Nothing more is asked of you.
Free · Lifestyle · iPhone
Howlbound: Alone
28 nights, one evening ritual
Every evening the app hands you a single small task — ten minutes at a window, three sounds named, a slow four-count breath — and one line to write about it afterwards. Nothing more is asked of you.
Night 4 / 28
Week 1 — The Threshold
3 nights running
Pup
The light is filling. Anything begun tonight tends to hold.
Tonight's taskNight 4
Three Sounds
Observation · 5 minOpen a window if you can and give the outside five minutes of attention. Write down exactly three sounds — no more.
Start · 5 min
Sleep watchLast night
23:10 → 07:05 · “woke once, went back down quickly”
ReflectionNight 4
Which three, and which one was closest?
Rain on the flat roof. A car, two streets
away. The fridge. Rain, closest.
Saved as you write.
Complete the Night
Skip tonight
Night 4 closed.
Ash joins the pack.
You heard three. There were eleven. Start where you can.
ASH · SCOUT
The trail4 / 28
The den fire — stage 4 of 6. It grows a step each night you close.
How the night goes
One task. One line. Then the night is closed.
Howlbound is not a habit grid with a hundred switches. It asks for one small thing an evening and then gets out of the way — and it keeps a record you can actually read back.
Twenty-eight nights, four weeks
The trail runs from The Threshold to The Full Moon. Close a night and the cell fills in. Skip one and it stays open — the programme does not end, and you can walk it late whenever the hour appears.
A pack gathers behind you
Name your wolf on the second night. Seven more join on fixed nights along the way, each with a story of its own, and your rank climbs from Pup to Alpha as the nights close.
A voice at the end of the week
At the end of each week the pack leader reads back what you wrote. It is entirely optional — switched off, the Old Wood speaks instead and everything still works.
The first circle
Twenty-eight nights, written down in advance.
Every night has a name, a kind and a length before you get there — so there is nothing to decide at eleven at night. Hover a cell to see what that evening asks for.
Week 1
The Threshold
Learn to stop the evening on purpose instead of letting it stop you.
- 1First Silence
- 2Name Your Wolf
- 3Dim the Den
- 4Three Sounds
- 5Ember Breathing
- 6Tomorrow's Trail
- 7First Howl
Week 2
The Cold Trail
Go outside the room: weather, sky, distance, and an earlier bed.
- 8Star Count
- 9Silent Hour
- 10Wind Reading
- 11The Long Walk
- 12Nightmare Map
- 13Early Den
- 14Second Howl
Week 3
The Pack
Nights that involve other people, and the parts of yourself you keep quiet.
- 15Letter to Your Wolf
- 16One Call
- 17Shared Silence
- 18Off the Trail
- 19Phone Outside the Den
- 20Old Story
- 21Third Howl
Week 4
The Full Moon
Look back over the month and leave the den in order behind you.
- 22Count the Nights
- 23Longest Silence
- 24Gift of the Wood
- 25Moon Watch
- 26What You Feared
- 27The Den Is Built
- 28Final Howl
Silence
5A window, low light, nothing running. From four minutes on night five to twenty on night twenty-three.
Observation
6Name the weather, count five lights in the sky, find the moon. Attention, out loud and written down.
Motion
4Fifteen minutes on a route you already know, lit the whole way. Familiar and well-lit is the rule.
Reflection
10Tomorrow's three things. The anxious thought, named exactly. A letter from your own wolf.
Ritual
3Name your wolf, go to bed twenty minutes early, make the call you have been putting off for a month.
In the den
What is waiting when the trail is not enough.
Four ways to walk the month, a fieldbook to read on the nights you cannot sleep, and a leader who has actually read what you wrote.
Four trails to walk
The written twenty-eight, a shorter quiet month, a strict one that binds a ritual to every night, or an endless draw with no counter at all.
- The First Circle · 28
- Silent Wood · 14
- Winter Den · 28
- Free Range · no end
A fieldbook of the night
Twenty rituals with real steps, twenty night sounds explained — what makes them, what they mean, what to do when you hear one — and twelve pages of wolf lore.
- 20 rituals
- 20 night signs
- 12 lore pages
A voice at the end of the week
The Alpha's Answer reads your week back in one of four tempers, and the keeper will talk about your evenings whenever you ask. Optional, and switched off it stays fully usable.
- Stern Alpha
- Old Wolf
- Quiet Watcher
- Den Mother
A sleep watch you fill in yourself
Two times, the wake-ups and a word for how it went. Nothing is measured, nothing runs in the background, no sensor and no health permission is ever asked for.
- Lights out → woke at
- No sensors
- No health data
Rank, fire and sixteen badges
Your wolf climbs from Pup to Yearling to Hunter to Alpha as the nights close, the den fire grows a stage each evening, and sixteen badges mark the things worth marking.
- Pup → Alpha
- 6 fire stages
- 16 badges
The real moon, and one bell
Each night carries the actual phase overhead and a line read from it. One local reminder in the evening with the name of tonight's task, delivered by your device and sent nowhere.
- 8 phases
- Evening bell
- Plain-text export
The seven
Seven wolves arrive on fixed nights, and each has one thing to say.
They are not decoration. Each joins on the night that earned it, keeps count of one kind of evening, and speaks once — bluntly, in the app's own words.
Ash
Scout
You heard three. There were eleven. Start where you can.
Keeps count of your Silence nights.
Vela
Yearling
A closed sky is still an answer. Write it down and come back tomorrow.
Keeps count of your Ritual nights.
Bram
The Old Wolf
Naming a thing is not the same as beating it. It is still the first move.
Keeps count of your Reflection nights.
Kova
Hunter
Most nights out end with nothing. Go anyway. That is the job.
Keeps count of your Motion nights.
Sable
Watcher
You have been afraid of the dark for a long time. You are still sitting in it.
Keeps count of your Observation nights.
Rook
Howler
Four voices, mistuned on purpose. That is how a small pack fills a valley.
Answers on the four Howl nights — 7, 14, 21 and 28.
Mora
Den Mother
Twenty-eight nights. Not all of them closed. All of them yours.
Counts every night you came back to after a skip.
Pupnight 1
→
Yearling8 closed
→
Hunter18 closed
→
Alpha28 closed
Sixteen things worth marking
What this app knows about you
There is no sign-up and no account, so there is nothing here that identifies you.
No analytics, no ads, no tracking
The app runs no analytics, no advertising code, no crash reporting and no attribution tracking. We never learn your name, your email, your device identifier, or how often you open this.
The writing stays on the phone
Night records, reflections, badges, statistics, your wolf's name and every setting live in the app's own private container on your device. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is shared with another app.
One moment text leaves, and only if you ask
Three optional features hand text to a language model so a reply can be written — the weekly reading, the Night Counsel conversation and the final Chronicle. Each asks first, and one switch turns the whole thing off for good.
Say something
Questions, bugs,
Questions, bugs,
or a night that should exist.
Written and kept by one person. Mail lands at trinaberry1988@gmail.com and gets read.
The wood is quiet.
Step into the first night.
Twenty-eight evenings, one small task each. Free, no account, and nothing you write leaves the phone unless you ask for a reading.