Post | 12 Mar 2026
Very glad to announce that Mindful Check-In has finally reached submission to the Apple App Store! This is my first public-facing full featured app, from idea to reality.
The day that always felt like it would never come! Started last September, Mindful Check-In is the first solo project I have worked on that I hope will find a real, regular utility in the lives of its users - acting as more than a portfolio piece of software.
What does it do?
Mindful Check-In allows you to start a 28 question survey where you're asked various questions about how you feel and the environment around you. You use a green-amber-red traffic light colour scale to answer each question. At the end of the survey you review your answers by topic area to get a list of factors you are managing well, managing just 'okay' and areas to focus on.
Where did the idea come from?
The idea is that amidst your everyday life you might be so busy you're not paying enough attention to small little factors which over time or in accumulation might be enough to be dragging down your mood or increasing your anxiety. This intention comes from personal experience over my lifetime where for me, it turned out to be figuring out a series of little things that would result in helping me feel less anxious or drained - which in my non-medical opinion, where possible, is much better than medication or expensive support through counselling. Or, at least, it's sure worth paying some close attention to some of the simple things before seeking to go down those paths - though as with the app, nothing I say is medical advice - just a personal opinion of mine from personal experience to-date. We're talking about things like not enough sleep, too much caffeine, perhaps you're working in dark rooms and your eyes are strained or under some dull flickering office lighting - enough of little things like this can really drag you down. From Checking In regularly with the app, you can begin to reflect on things that rarely cross your mind at work or when occupied with daily life. Perhaps a pattern will arise and you can make a few simple changes - and I hope from that, you begin to reign a bit more control over some of the choices you are making and the impacts they have on you.
Features
- Take a Check-In Survey (28 questions to answer or skip)
- Resource Topics with gentle tips and general information
- Past Record Management to view and reflect or delete records
- Data export to file or deletion options in settings
Technologies Used
- Apple Swift Programming Language
- Apple SwiftUI Packages
- JSON record files, parsing and exporting
- Works on iOS
Future Development Pipeline
I'd like to add a biometric lock using FaceID to the app in a next version to protect anything sensitive that users might decide to note in the app. Notifications were originally implemented but as I was still learning Swift and SwiftUI back in September during the early build phases I removed it. I think I'd also like to bring this to the rest of the Apple platforms such as iPad, Mac, even the Apple TV - why not? ...and if it can handle it, Apple Watch. Beyond this, once it is in use and further polished from real world feedback a web-app, Android version.. or as many platforms as I can get it on to would be worthwhile to learn how development on those platforms and their supported languages works and to expand the availability to more people.
Links
Until it's approved... I can't share the URL yet but you can view the source code at: