Liminal Ascent 1
“Ease in, don't force it.”
BodyClock reads your circadian clock from a single wake time and answers the question that matters: which phase you're in right now, what it's good for, and when the next one starts. Effort lands where your biology can carry it.
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Your day, as a wave
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One day, eight versions of you
From the first groggy hour after waking to the evening wind-down, each window has its own biology and its own strengths. Your clock moves through all eight, every day.
“Ease in, don't force it.”
“Strike while it's hot.”
“Coast, eat, connect.”
“Rest is the work right now.”
“Catch the second wind.”
“Create, go nonlinear.”
“Begin the descent.”
“Power down.”
The app
Now
Open it and you know: which phase you're in, what it's good for, what to skip, and when the next one starts. That's the whole home screen.
Routines
Each phase holds a few lines of routine — what you actually do there, written your way. No checkboxes, no streaks, nothing to fall behind on.
Rhythm
Check in when you feel like it — energy, one tap. Enough of them and your own curve forms next to the textbook one, drawn from real days.
Yours
Your phases are yours: rename them, reword their voice, nudge when they start. The clock bends to how you actually run, not the average.
The careful part
Circadian rhythms are among the best-established findings in biology. The minute-by-minute hacks sold by productivity culture are not, and BodyClock keeps the two apart. It shows you the evidence, names where interpretation begins, and runs a small experiment so your own pattern can overrule the average.
How we writeMiss a night and nothing breaks. The map reads your rhythm from whatever you log.
Your plan is a starting guess. You try it against real days and adjust what doesn’t fit.
The afternoon trough is for recovering. When it’s time to rest, the app says so.
Pricing
Free is the textbook clock, forever. Pro is the app learning yours — your lived wave, drawn from your own days — for $4.99/mo or $39/yr.
The field guide
Circadian entrainment in plain terms: why morning light and a steady wake time reset your body clock, how meals, exercise and caffeine help, and a two-week plan to try it.
Read the guideA practical, evidence-aware way to place demanding work, lighter tasks, and recovery across the natural rises and dips of a real day.
Read the guideChronotype runs on a continuous scale rather than two boxes: where your body clock prefers to sit on the 24-hour dial, how much of it is genetic, and how to read yours from real days.
Read the guideTwo minutes to start
Your phases appear, named and timed, with the live one lit. Free, works offline, no account needed.