Wolf Alone: Life Coach

Most self-improvement apps hand you a library and wish you luck. Wolf Alone asks one question — what are you actually here for — and then decides the rest. NINE PROGRAMMES, AND THE APP RUNS ONE OF THEM There are nine, and they are not nine themes. They are nine separately written routes — for a breakup, for anxiety, for lost attention, for money, for loneliness, for skill, for discipline, for physical hardness, for a flat life — and they share almost nothing. You pick one on the first screen. It has six named stages and more than thirty steps, and exactly one of them is open at a time. Tonight has one thing in it. When it is done — actually done, read from what you did rather than ticked off — the next one opens. There is no "mark complete" control on a programme step anywhere in this app, and no calendar behind it, so there is no day thirty to fall behind on. Disappear for a fortnight…