01An independent software studio
Software built to be kept.
Valid Ventures designs and publishes its own apps for iPhone. Small, deliberate, on-device by default. One product at a time, finished before the next is started.
02Work
In development
Vigil
A self-improvement app for men. Six paths, one figure, a day that has a size.
You are already on all six paths: Warrior, Monk, Stoic, Ranger, Scholar, Guardian. Today gives you a short list with a price on every task, marked on your word, timed by the clock, or verified by the phone. What you do pays XP to the path it belongs to; the shape of your XP names you; one Figure wears the pieces you have earned. Mastery teaches the theory behind the doing, goals are counted in real units, and every Monday the week is read back to you in numbers you did not type.
The count of days never decreases. A missed day is recorded, not punished, and the morning after points at the next thing. XP is earned, never granted, never spent, and nothing in the app can be bought that changes progress.
- Platform
- iPhone, iOS 17 and later
- Built with
- SwiftUI, SwiftData, HealthKit
- Data
- On the device. No account, no server.
- Status
- In development. TestFlight, autumn 2026.
- More
- The app, screen by screen
Vigil is not a medical, psychological or crisis service. It is a daily practice, kept by the man who keeps it.
03How we build
Four rules
Rules we build to, not slogans we put on the box.
On the device, by default
Our apps work without an account and keep what they know on the phone. Nothing is sent anywhere unless the product cannot exist without it, and then we say so.
Content is data
Words, tasks, lessons and goals live in files an editor can change without a rebuild. The people who write the product are not blocked by the people who compile it.
Nothing for sale that changes progress
No boosts, no unlocks, no cosmetics. What a person earns in one of our apps is theirs, and it cannot be bought by someone else.
Three notifications, at most
The day's plan at the hour you set, a verification landing, a milestone reached. Nothing ever fires because you have been away.
04Company
Wyoming, USA
Valid Ventures LLC
A Wyoming limited liability company that builds and publishes its own software. We design, write, engineer and support our products ourselves, and we publish them under our own name on the App Store.
We are small on purpose. The work is app development: product design, native iOS engineering, and the long, unglamorous business of keeping something running once real people rely on it.
For anything about our apps, the company, or a review of the legal pages below, write to us. A person reads the mailbox.
Sheridan, WY 82801
United States