I need 15 minutes
One idea while you cook, shower or take the call.
ON-DEVICE ACTIVITY FINDERAGES 1–4
iOS · preparing for the App Store
LittleDay
It's 4pm. They're bored, you're finished.
LittleDay gives you one thing to do — right now, with what is already in your house. Open it, tap what you need, and you get a single activity: what to grab, what to say, and how long it usually lasts.
YOU SAID · ZERO ENERGY
Posting box
Cut a slot in a cardboard box. Hand over the bottle tops.
01STARTING POINTS
Six ways to be stuck.
I need to get something done
Play they can carry on without you in the room.
I don't want to turn the TV on
Ready in seconds, with nothing to prepare first.
I have zero energy
No setup, no mess, and no enthusiasm required.
We need to get out
Walks, gardens, playgrounds and small outings.
Something good for development
A gentle nudge rather than a curriculum.
02OPERATION
Three taps. One afternoon rescued.
- 01
Say what you need
Tap one of six situations, or describe the afternoon in your own words.
- 02
Get one activity
What to grab, what to say to start it, and how long it usually holds.
- 03
Say how it went
One tap. The ones that flopped stop coming back; the ones that worked return.
03THE ENGINE
A recommendation engine you could check by hand.
No model, no training, no black box. The same inputs produce the same ordering every time, and every factor in the score is inspectable.
Mess tolerance is a promise
"Absolutely none" means absolutely none. It is one of the few filters never quietly relaxed to fill a screen. Neither is your child's age.
Energy is a first-class input
An exhausted parent is never offered a craft. When there is nothing left in the tank, preparation time is weighted far more heavily.
A pass is not a verdict
"Not today" is recorded, but one bad afternoon costs an activity far less than two — and firm favourites survive being asked for eleven days running.
It learns without a profile
What works is recomputed from your own feedback each time it is needed, never stored as a profile. Delete the history and there is nothing else to delete.
Nothing is claimed too early
No conclusion is drawn about your child until there are at least five pieces of feedback behind it.
No streaks, no scores
Tap the ordinary things that already happened — a walk, a book, the laundry — and some days the honest answer is that you need no activity at all.
04WHERE THE DATA LIVES
There is no LittleDay server.
Not "we don't sell your data." There is nowhere for the data to go. The activity catalogue ships inside the app, and every piece of state — your children, your history, everything it has learned — lives in one place: that phone.
- ACCOUNTS
- None. No sign-in, no email address.
- NETWORK CODE
- No HTTP client anywhere in the app.
- DEPENDENCIES
- Zero. Every import is an Apple framework.
- ANALYTICS
- No ads, no tracking, no third-party SDK.
- OFFLINE
- Full catalogue works with no signal.
- LOCATION
- One fix, on tap, reduced accuracy, never stored.
Optional, and only when you ask.
Four Apple services can be used, each triggered by an explicit tap, each degrading to nothing when unavailable. On-device Apple Intelligence only ever classifies what you typed — it never invents an activity, so no generated suggestion can reach a child.
| Service | When it is used | Without it |
|---|---|---|
| WeatherKit | Only on the outdoor path, once you have granted location | Suggestions carry on with no weather line |
| MapKit | Only when you tap "what's near us" | The rest of the app is unaffected |
| Foundation Models | When you describe your situation in your own words | Falls back to the keyword parser |
| ActivityKit | An optional Lock Screen glance during play | The in-app timer is unchanged |
05AVAILABILITY
Not on the App Store yet.
LittleDay is built, tested and running on real devices. The store record is still being completed, so there is nothing here to tap through to — and there will not be a link until there is a real one.
VERSION1.0
CHANNELSUBMISSION
ACTIVITIES121
PLATFORM 1
iPhone
iOS 26.5 or laterAn iPad build is not planned for version 1. The app assumes a phone held in one hand while the other hand is occupied, which is the situation it was written for.