Today’s Step
Choose a step in your own words. Start before, during, or after it. Running out of time never turns the step into a failure.
A REASON TO PUT DOWN YOUR PHONE × CITY-BUILDING
Put down your phone.
Build a town.
Step away from your phone. Record what you managed to do. Turn that real-life step into the power to rebuild a town with your own hands.
iPhone ・ Free ・ No ads ・ No account ・ Action records stay on your device
Optional app limits create a stopping point. Your next real-life action is up to you.
SEE THE APP
The whole idea,
in 6 screens
Pause before opening. Put a limit on the day. Take a real-life action and let it grow your town.
PLAY GUIDE
Start with just 3 steps
Put down your phone. Record what moved forward. Use that step to build your town. The deeper systems—construction, production, and deliveries—can wait until you are ready.
Put down your phone
Choose one thing you might do now, such as “drink water” or “take a shower,” then step away from your phone.
You can also record something already finished or partly doneRecord what happened
When you return, record what you finished, what you partly completed, or something else that moved forward.
Several things can be recorded togetherBuild the town
Your record becomes progress you can use to plan roads and buildings, then watch the town’s life and story unfold.
Not sure what the town needs?
See the first screens in more detail →Open Build to plan roads, buildings, or terrain. Open Info to check supplies, deliveries, and current needs.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
One recorded step
starts rebuilding a town
DAYBREAK CITY turns what you do in real life into the power to shape roads, buildings, deliveries, residents’ lives, and the story of a town at your own pace.
Roads and construction
Use your town-building progress and budget to connect roads and build homes, markets, workshops, public services, and a harbor. Plans can wait in the town until you are ready.
Supply, delivery, and story
Follow construction materials, food, the next shipment, and residents’ needs. The choices you make become the history of your town.
Review the apps you use most
Review the last seven days, then give overuse a stopping point. Daily limits and scheduled hours work together. During-action breaks and 5, 8, or 10 second opening pauses are optional.
OPTIONAL SCREEN TIME SUPPORT
See your use.
Choose your limit.
Review the last seven days on your iPhone, choose from the apps you use most, and set a daily time. Nothing changes until you explicitly enable the limit.
See the three setup steps →- View usageTop apps and daily averages from seven days
- Choose appsSelect targets in Apple’s picker
- Set a timeUse the suggestion or choose your own
START WITH ONE SMALL STEP
Give yourself one reason
to put down your phone today.
No large goal or daily streak is required. Finished steps and partial steps both leave a place in your town.
WHAT THE TOWN BELIEVES
No blame. No rush. You can return.
Small actions still count
Drink water, rest, or head to work. Record what you did in your own words.
The town is safe while you are away
No streak is required, and an absence does not damage the town. Continue from wherever you return.
Your records stay with you
No account is required. Your town and action records stay on your device and can be exported as JSON.