TEMPLE — Scripture, training, protocol

Three apps,
one discipline.

Your morning devotional, your workout, your weekly injection schedule. Three parts of one discipline, kept in three separate apps — which is what makes each one feel optional. TEMPLE puts them on one timeline.

No account. No server. Nothing you enter ever leaves your phone.
Requires the TestFlight app and iOS 17 or later.

Built to be closed.

Almost every app in this category is built to maximize the time you spend in it. This one is not. The restraint is the product, and it is enforced in the code rather than promised in the copy.

No streaks. Nothing counts your consecutive days at you.

No re-engagement. Nothing in the app exists to bring you back.

Three notifications a day, maximum. Each one switchable.

Turn a pillar off and its tab is gone. Not dimmed — gone.

Why it was built this way →

TEMPLE is not trying to become a habit.
It is trying to serve the discipline you already keep.

Nothing. There is no way for it to.

Every app in this category promises privacy. But that promise lives in a policy document, and documents get rewritten — in the next update, or by whoever owns the app next. TEMPLE has no networking code in it. Not disabled by default — absent.

Nothing to breach. No account, no password, no database of users.

Nothing to sell. Your record is not on a server to be handed over.

You are the export. CSV and a physician-ready PDF, made on the device.

It works in airplane mode. All of it. Nothing waits on a network.

What that actually means →

Most apps ask you to trust them with it.
This one never has it.

A scripture passage set full bleed, with a short written note beneath it.

The Word

Read before the day starts.

A passage each morning, given the whole screen so it is read rather than skimmed, and carried by a written note on what it is actually saying. Six plans and 152 passages, chosen for the body, for restraint, and for the long stretch in the middle.

Five skips a day — enough to find something that fits, not enough to shop until the text stops asking anything of you. Favorite what lands and reflect on it in the same tap.

New plans arrive with app updates, so the reading does not run out. The library grows with the app rather than staying where it started.

How The Word was built →

Train

The last numbers you hit, held where you can see them.

Your programs and your movements — start from an ordinary split or build a week from nothing, then rename and cut it until it is yours. Nothing is preloaded.

Mid-set, what you did last time sits ghosted behind the target, so what you have to beat is unmissable. The rest timer takes over the moment a set is done and counts you back in on your wrist. Lock the phone and log the next set from the Live Activity — a whole session, one thumb.

Runs beside Apple's Workout app rather than against it.

How Train was built →

A dose entry screen showing the working, with the measured volume marked on the syringe.

Protocol

Your numbers, checked against the syringe.

For anyone keeping a physician-directed protocol. Enter a dose the way it was prescribed — as a mass, or as units on the syringe — and TEMPLE does the arithmetic and marks the measure on a drawing of the syringe, so the number on the screen can be checked against the object in your hand. Reconstitution shows its working, using your numbers.

A cycle timeline and a heatmap of the whole run — anything from a single week to a full year — so where you are in it is one glance. Plus the warnings that matter: a result falling between two markings says so.

The library ships empty and stays empty. No compounds, no suggested doses, no lists. That is a decision, not a gap.

How Protocol was built →

Journal

One day, one record.

Mood, gratitude and tags, with entries that link back to the verse, the session or the dose behind them — so a day reads as a single record instead of four disconnected logs.

Lockable behind Face ID, which re-arms when the app goes to the background rather than staying open once you have unlocked it.

Export writes a CSV of every row and a paginated PDF summary written for a physician.

How Journal was built →

The day on one line.

Scripture, work, training and rest on a single timeline, with a line cutting across at the current hour. What is done dims and strikes through. What is past due says so quietly, once. This is where the argument becomes visible: the verse, the dose and the session share a line because they share a day.

The Today timeline with the current hour marked and completed items struck through.

A cycle timeline above a heatmap of the whole run.

One app, every screen.

iPhone

The primary experience. iOS 17 and later.

iPad

A genuine three-column layout — sidebar, the day, and the Word beside it. Not a stretched phone app.

Apple Watch

Four verbs and nothing else: glance, dose, rest, verse.

Widgets

Today, Verse and The Day, plus lock-screen circular, rectangular and inline.

Live Activity

The rest timer on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, loggable without unlocking.

Apple Health

Optional and off until you switch it on. Reads weight and resting heart rate, writes finished sessions.