Stop wondering whether you took it.
Ritual is a log for the handful of things you take every day. One at a time, the whole screen for each, so a dose goes in with one thumb before you are properly awake — and the answer is sitting on the first screen for the rest of the day.
For iPhone.
Every figure and every screen on this page is drawn from one sample log — a generated year the design was built against, not anybody’s record. Nothing on this page came out of a real person’s phone, and nothing ever could: the log never leaves the device.
Seven in the morning, one hand, before coffee.
That is when this actually happens: half awake, holding a glass of water, doing it one-handed. Each screen shows one thing and asks for one action. Nothing to read, nothing to aim at, nothing to dismiss.
One at a time, in the order you take them. The bottom third of the screen is the button.
Took a different amount? Two pads and the number in front of you, already set to what you usually take.
Once it is in, the card settles and says the time. Tapped it by mistake? Undo is right there.
The answer to “when did I last take this?”
Every dose you recorded, grouped by day, newest first. Narrow it to one medication or one fortnight — for the week you are trying to reconstruct, or the question a doctor asks about how long you have been on this amount.
- Adjusted doses
- A dose you changed is marked on the entry itself, so it is still visible a year later. 48% of the sample log’s melatonin entries carry one.
- Nothing found
- If nothing matches, it says why: you did not take it in that stretch, and when you first did.
- Deleting
- Logged the wrong thing? “Removed 2.5 mg, 27 July,” and eight seconds to change your mind.
A year of entries adds up to something true.
Not a score. Your own record, read back to you: when you usually take things, which ones you actually adjust, and the stretches where you took nothing at all.
A medication keeps its colour everywhere it appears — bound to what it is, never to its rank in a chart. The three taken only when needed share one neutral, and a neutral mark never appears without its name beside it.
314 entries, 48% of them away from the usual 3 mg, moving in both directions. four of the six daily ones barely move at all.
No streaks, no percentage, no red. 6 days with nothing at all is a fact, not a failure.
The ring is the day.
One arc for each thing you take daily, filling as you record them, always in the same order — so a gap in the same place means the same thing every morning. Three filled after breakfast, one left at bedtime. It is the only thing in Ritual that keeps score, and it forgets at midnight.
A medication you take only when needed takes no arc. It is owed nothing on any given day, and if it took one the ring could never close.
Things Ritual does not do.
You are not training for anything and there is nothing here to win. Each of these was considered and left out.
- Streaks
- A day you missed becomes something you lost. Ritual records what happened and keeps no score you can break.
- Adherence percentages
- “98.4%” is a grade. “Six days with nothing at all” is a fact, and it is the more useful of the two.
- Celebration
- No confetti, no badges, no “great job”. Taking your magnesium is not an achievement.
- Charts in the morning
- The year lives in Patterns. Before coffee you get the thing in front of you and nothing else.
- Colour as the only signal
- Every state has a shape and a word too: a filled dot and a written time, a hollow dot and an em dash.
- Sharing and comparison
- No feed, no friends, no ranking against other people taking the same things.
One page for the appointment.
Ninety days on one page: what you take, how much, when you usually take it, and how often the amount changed. 500 entries, 6 May to 4 August 2026. Hand it over instead of trying to remember in the room.
Every column covers exactly the window printed at the top, so nothing on it is stretched to look better. It is the one thing that leaves the app.
No account, no sign-in, no sync. The log lives on your phone, which is also the only place it lives.
The summary sheet prints, and the whole log exports as a file you keep. Where it goes after that is your decision.
Reminders are off until you ask for them. Then it is one a day, and it says what is still open rather than what you missed.
The whole of it is written out in the privacy policy, including what happens to the log when your phone is backed up, which is the one part nobody thinks to ask about.