Find your unconscious loops.
Your apps unlock connection, creativity, serendipity, and livelihood. But they're also built to addict you and siphon your attention.
Impulse Mirror helps you stay in charge.
Reflect on your impulses without breaking flow.
Set up a mirror for any app you're curious about. Choose from 192 supported apps, across 16 categories.
Reflect out loud when there's a lot to say, type when you're around people, or tap through prompts when you don't have the words.
Skip the reflection when you're in the zone. Pause reflections when you don't want interruptions. Your mirror keeps counting impulses either way.
Impulse Mirror holds every impulse and reflection, so your patterns show up over time.
Your data lives on your device. There's no account, and we never receive what you write.
Impulse Mirror runs on a personal automation in Apple's Shortcuts app.
How it works
You tap one of your apps. The Shortcuts automation opens Impulse Mirror first.
Impulse Mirror prompts you to reflect on what impulse brought you there. Speak it, type it, or skip.
The app opens. Nothing is blocked, and your answer is saved to its mirror.
The alternative to cold turkey.
Keep the good stuff, ditch the rest.
Reflections reveal your unconscious patterns. You decide which patterns to embrace and which to change.
Experiment with tiny real-life changes that address the root impulse.
Continue reflecting to see which changes worked, and catch yourself in the moment.
Three promises
No timers, no lockouts, no friction for friction's sake. You always get to do what you came to do.
Any app can be used in ways that serve you and ways that don't. Impulse Mirror doesn't judge your screen time. It backs your own discernment.
What you write stays on your device. No account, no profile, nothing that tracks you across the web. Your attention is nobody's business but yours.