A new kind of reminder
Your direction. |
The one phrase that drives you forward — on your watch, your lock screen, and your home screen. Always in sight. Always in mind.


Not a goal. Not a task. The reason behind every decision you make. Most people have ten motivations. Norte asks you to distill them to one.
Every time you raise your wrist to check the time, it's waiting. A quiet, wordless signal that points you back to what actually matters.
A single 8 AM notification. Not a push alert, not a guilt trip. Just your own words, waiting on your screen when you wake up.
Home screen widget. Lock screen widget. Watch complication. Norte lives where you already look — not in an app you need to remember to open.
Type the phrase that's been living in the back of your mind — the reason you get up, the thing you're working toward. See it exactly as it'll appear on your phone.
"You already know your why.— The premise behind Norte
You just keep forgetting it."
You wake up with direction. A quiet intention. Today is about something real.
Slack, news, someone else's urgency. By noon you're reacting. By evening you've forgotten what the day was actually for.
On your lock screen. On your wrist. In your own words. A hundred quiet moments a day — your direction, always visible.
Once Norte launches, open the App Store and tap download. Takes under a minute — no account, no setup, no friction.
What are you working toward? Not a smart goal. Not a KPI. The raw honest reason behind everything. Write that.
Lock it in. Your Norte is saved — no account, no cloud, no sync required. It lives on your device, private and yours.
Home screen, lock screen, and watch face — each one takes under a minute. Full setup instructions are inside the app.
Each day, one tap. Am I living this today? Build your streak. Watch your journey take shape — one honest day at a time.
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The Norte complication lives on your watch face. Every time you raise your wrist, your why is waiting — a silent compass pointing you back to what matters most.
Works on any watchOS 10+ face
Every time you pick up your phone — to check a notification, the time, anything — your Norte is visible below the clock. Before the scroll. Before the noise.
iOS 17+ lock screen widget
A dedicated widget showing your Norte, your current streak, and your daily check-in. Tap to mark today on track. The one widget worth opening to.
Small, medium, and large sizes
Three places. Under a minute each. Open the one you want to set up first.
Norte is a tool, not a trap. No subscription. No upsells. No ads. No data harvesting. A fair one-time price for something that stays with you.
Pay $2.99 once. Own it forever. No recurring billing, ever.
Your Norte never leaves your device. No account. No cloud. No one reads it.
One optional morning notification. No feed. No guilt. No dark patterns.
An indie developer who needed this himself. Every dollar supports the work.
Norte is launching soon. Before it goes public, I'm inviting a small group of early users onto TestFlight — people who'll shape the final build with honest feedback.
If you want in, send me an email with the iCloud address linked to your iPhone. That's all I need. I'll read every message personally.
Limited spots. First come, first invited.
"I built Norte because I kept losing sight of my own why. I wanted something that couldn't be closed, minimized, or ignored."
— The maker of Norte
One-time purchase. Works on iPhone and Apple Watch.
No account. No subscription. Ever.
iPhone iOS 17+ · Apple Watch watchOS 10+