8 · 8 · 8

Eight to work.
Eight to sleep.
Eight to live.

A calm tracker for the 8/8/8 day. No tasks, no streaks, no guilt — just an honest look at where your 24 hours went.

Coming to the App Store · iPhone & Apple Watch · iOS 17+

The Eight app on iPhone: today's balance scores 96, with eight hours of work, seven and a half of sleep and eight and a half of life.
Eight on Apple Watch: today's balance ring and score of 96.
No account No ads, no feed Nothing leaves your iCloud

The day has 24 hours.
It always has.

Eight for work, eight for rest, eight for what's yours — an idea nearly a century old. Not a rule to obey. A compass to check.

8·8·8 HOURS, EACH
  • 00 — 08 · Sleep

    The foundation, not the leftovers

    Sleep is not the time that's left after everything else. It's what holds the other two blocks up.

  • 08 — 16 · Work

    A third of the day, not the day

    Work matters. But when it spills into the other two blocks, one of them quietly pays for it.

  • 16 — 24 · Life

    People, rest, nothing at all

    Life doesn't only happen in the hours nobody claimed. It gets a full third, every single day.

Check-in

Twenty seconds. Then close the app.

Work fills in from your calendar, sleep from Apple Health — most days the third number is the only one left to type. No lists, no projects, no notifications begging you back. Eight is designed to be closed.

  • Work drawn from your calendar hours — adjust it if the day ran long
  • One gentle reminder, at the hour you pick
  • Skip a week and nothing breaks — there's no streak to lose
Trends

One day means nothing. A month tells the truth.

The heatmap is where the pattern shows up: the weeks work ate, the Sundays that finally breathed, the sleep debt you've been rolling over since March.

  • A month at a glance, coloured by balance
  • Weekly review with your monthly averages
  • Insights by weekday — the day that always slips
Everywhere else

On your wrist. On your lock screen. Out of your way.

A native Apple Watch app with complications, home-screen and lock-screen widgets, and a quick-log control. Work arrives from your calendar and sleep from Apple Health — with your permission, and nothing else read.

  • Check in from the Watch — it syncs back to the phone
  • Work from your calendar, sleep from Apple Health — filled before you look
  • Widgets that show today's balance without opening anything
The score

One number. And it doesn't flatter you.

Each block is measured against your goal. The score is what's left after the misses. Working past your goal counts one and a half times — and past 1h30 of overtime, the day simply can't score as balanced, no matter how good the rest looked.

70+
40–69
0–39
score = 100 − weighted miss

work  9h30 vs 8h → over, ×1.5
sleep 6h40 vs 8h → under
life  5h20 vs 8h → under

= 78 · balanced — barely

overtime > 1h30 → never balanced

No tasks. No streaks.
No subscription.

The daily check-in and your score are free, forever. Pay once — never again — to open the history and the patterns. An app about sustainable rhythm shouldn't bill you every month.

Eight
Free

No account, no card, no trial to expire.

  • Daily check-in and balance score
  • Work from your calendar, sleep from Apple Health
  • The 8/8/8 ring and your last 7 days
  • Apple Watch app, widgets and lock screen
  • Private storage on device and iCloud
Eight Pro
$4.99 once. Yours forever.

See the whole truth about your time.

  • Unlimited history and the month heatmap
  • Weekly insights and monthly averages
  • Backfill and edit any past day
  • Custom goals — your day may not be 8/8/8
$4.99one-timeNo renewal, ever

Price in US dollars; the App Store shows your local currency. One payment, no subscription to cancel — you own it, including future updates.

Questions, answered plainly.

My day is never 8/8/8. Is that a problem?

No. Nobody's day is. 8/8/8 is the reference the score is measured against, not a verdict — and in Pro you can move the goals to whatever your life actually looks like.

Does Eight track me in the background?

No. Eight reads your calendar hours for work and sleep from Apple Health, and only for the sources you turn on. It reads event times, not titles or details — and everything is adjustable by hand.

Where does my data live?

On your device and in your own private iCloud. There are no Eight servers, no analytics, no third parties. If you delete the app, you've deleted the data.

What happens if I miss a few days?

Nothing. There is no streak, no red badge and no catch-up screen. Log the days you want, leave the rest blank, and the trends simply skip them.

Do I need an Apple Watch?

No — the Watch app and complications are there if you own one, but everything works from the iPhone alone.

Is this a productivity app?

It's the opposite. There are no tasks, projects, goals to hit or people to compare yourself to. Eight shows you where 24 hours went, and then gets out of the way.

Why no subscription?

Because an app that argues for a sustainable rhythm has no business charging you rent every month. Eight is one payment, and the free version has no expiry date — use it forever without paying, if that's what fits.

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