ReEnchanted

Same commute. Same gray hours. Another day slipping past unnoticed - nothing that felt worth remembering. Your life isn't actually that forgettable…

A living book for ordinary days

Real Life,
ReEnchanted

Play with Pages. Keep Some. Read Your Story.

A free, private iPhone journal that turns the day you actually lived - weather, walks, moods, music, the people who pass through - into pages you can keep. Local-first and open source, it lets you keep what's true, let the rest wait, and watch your choices braid into a story only you could write.

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  • Free
  • Open source
  • Private
  • Local - No Cloud
  • No Accounts
  • iPhone & iPad

"A free iPhone app that turns your ordinary life into a fantasy book."

Play with it

Open the book. Keep what's true.

A web-sized taste, this is just to give you the idea; turn the pages, keep the ones that catch a real edge, let the others wait - then bind your choices into a Book of You.

The First Door

The cover opens.

You open the app. The first word lifts from the screen and turns to look at you. Then the sentence breaks its spine. Ink blooms under the glass, cold as rainwater and impossibly wet, and climbs over your fingers. The room tips. Stories rush past in layers: green sea-salt, dragonfire underfoot, a train brake screaming somewhere in another ending. There's no down. Only chapters.

First-run onboarding · the fall

Get your hands into the page

The screen is becoming a doorway. Choose the one thing you do as the Book pulls you through.

Choose one way through. The Book only needs one true gesture.

ReEnchanted screen Kept

Tip: keep a few, let some wait - your choices change the ending.

How it works

Three honest steps.

01

Pages arrive. Play with them.

The day shows up as little doors: weather, body signals, places, music, questions, one-sentence souvenirs, photos. No blank page, no streak to defend.

02

You keep some

Keep a page when it catches a real edge. Let the rest wait. The Book is built on consent and taste - you choose what becomes part of the story.

03

It braids

Each night the Book weaves your real day into a fairy tale - your kept pages, what you noticed, what you ate, your one-sentence check-ins, the weather - braided together with the choices you made in the game. That's your Book of You: one story a day, gathering into monthly and annual volumes you can hold.

The braid is real

Your kept pages become a Book of You.

After enough real pages gather, the local Book brain braids them into a readable entry: the small true things you kept, the bargains you made, the weather outside, and the fictional choices that answered back.

It's not a recap feed. It's the day rewritten as something you can return to, share, and eventually bind into an edition.

A Book of You page showing a braided daily entry
A real Book of You entry, braided from kept pages and on-device context.

Bound for keeps

Publish your own editions.

Your kept pages don't just scroll away. When enough of them gather, the Book can bind them into real, shareable PDF volumes you publish for yourself - composed and rendered entirely on device. Or, send your Book of You off to the printers from the app to have it professionally bound.

The Monthly Edition

At each month's turn, the Book gathers that month's kept pages - braids, one-sentence souvenirs, letters, the things it noticed - and binds them into a chaptered PDF with its own theme, cover, and a foreword the Book writes about the month you just lived.

The Annual Volume

A whole year becomes one bound book: twelve monthly chapters, each in its own palette, wrapped in a year-long foreword, your constellations, and a closing. A year of ordinary life, made into a fairy tale you can hold.

No two months bind alike - each picks its own palette, cover, and ornament. A mockup; yours fills in as you keep pages.

The whole point

The best-written chapter in the entire book - the most sensory, the most alive - is your own ordinary life.

Everything else is rails and atmosphere. You're the text.

Table of contents

The Book goes deeper.

One scroll can't hold all of it. Open the chapters that call to you - each one unfolds right here.

Inside the Book

Attention, given a shape.

Spells and Enchantments screen

Spells & Glow

A steady belief state, gently luminous. Open , a noticing game, or an and let an ordinary subject speak.

Wonder Compass screen

Reframe familiar streets and routines until they're legible again. Walk. Notice. Record. Return.

ReEnchanted Radio screen

Radio

Music, broadcasts, and world effects become weather in the stacks - atmosphere you can keep.

Included free - no packs required

Over 50 kinds of page.

Every day, the Book offers you a deck of different page types to play with and keep. They ship in the base game, free forever - from quiet logs to playful little games. Here are a few of them.

  • Book Jumping

    At the Academy, students learn to physically jump into books and live them as if they were real. Step into a public-domain classic - The Wizard of Oz, Dracula - and explore it from the inside, one controlled beat at a time. Bring back a souvenir sentence. Just don't go too deep.

  • Quips

    A tiny odd fact that tilts the day toward wonder, no work required. "An octopus is what happens when curiosity gets eight hands." "Rust is iron remembering it used to be in the ground." Keep the ones that land.

  • Playful Missions

    One tiny sensory dare - the South = Sense step of a Compass Run, surfaced on its own. "Find the oldest thing near you and smell it. What does age smell like here?" or "Count every blue thing you can see without moving your feet." Done in under three minutes; keep one proof line.

  • Illuminated Photos

    Choose a photo from your day - or let Penny find one - and the Book illuminates it, noticing the objects, light, mood, and small jokes already inside, then lettering it like a manuscript page you can keep.

    An illuminated photo of a sleeping cat's paw, framed with parchment field notes
    An ordinary photo of Ron the cat, illuminated.

  • Inner Weather

    How the day actually felt, in your own words and rendered as weather - so a hard afternoon reads as a passing storm and a good one as clear skies. It's the smallest honest check-in there is.

  • One-Sentence Souvenir

    The whole day, distilled into a single line worth keeping - a color, a sound, a tiny mercy - caught before your brain files it under ordinary. The smallest page in the deck.

  • Cast an Enchantment

    Take a photo, pick one of 14 spells, and the Book transforms both the image and its main subject. Everything Speaks lets the object answer in its own voice; Everything's a Haiku distills it to three lines; Mirror, Mirror reads a selfie for insight; Everything's Roasted aims a comic burn. Keep the illuminated result.

  • Gossip

    What moved while you were elsewhere. The Academy's cast keep scheming, falling out, and warming to one another off-page - and this is the word that reaches you about it.

  • Letters

    A character who has been watching what you keep writes to you through the margins - a researched, hand-written note that answers something from your real days, addressed to you by name.

  • A Fae Bargain

    One of the Book Fae gave you something first - and now a small sensory return is owed. Pay it in the real world and the Book shifts in your favor; leave it, and the debt quietly waits.

  • Today's Sky

    The Book reads the night actually overhead - the Moon's real phase and sign, the Sun's sign, and the nearest reason to look up tonight - and keeps it as a page.

  • The Bleed

    Penny Blackletter's pocket newspaper, where the outside world leaks into the margins - odd headlines, an almanac, and an interest column that genuinely reaches out to the live web for what's stirring today.

…and dozens more - Diary, Lore, Story Pages, Cast Members, Outer Stacks rooms, Classes & Clubs, the Book of You, and the rest of the deck, all in the base game.

The book remembers

Systems that make it feel alive.

Underneath the pages, three quiet mechanics decide what returns, what looms, and what the Book keeps. They run on device, on real life.

Anchoring a real place in ReEnchanted

Watch the loop

Anchor a place. The Book grows it a room.

Stand somewhere real, name what it holds, and choose how it points. The Book opens that spot its own room in the - the of ReEnchanted - with a story already waiting inside. It's a fairy-tale answer to Pokémon Go: instead of catching things, you grow places. Every time you come back, the room deepens - remembering the weather, , and that corner of the world has been teaching you.

  1. Stand somewhere real and open an anchor
  2. Point it - Notice, Embark, Sense, Write, Rest
  3. Name what it holds, in your own words
  4. It rises into today's margins, on device
  5. The Book opens its Outer Stacks room, with its own story
  6. Return, and the room grows and changes with you

Anchoring & the Outer Stacks

Bind a real place - a blue mailbox, a back stair, a shoreline - as an you Notice, Embark, Sense, Write, or Rest at, and the Book grows it a room in the Outer Stacks, ReEnchanted's faerie realm. Anchors are pinned to your real GPS coordinates, so the Book knows when you've truly come back - return in person and each room opens with its own story, growing and changing every visit, remembering the weather, the moon, the season, and the small rule that place taught you.

Belief

A gentle economy, not a score. You can give or take from anything in the Book - a character, an object, a recurring motif, even a single page. Cast members can fight over those Pages too, warming what they love or cooling what they distrust. What you believe in glows: the more Belief a thing holds, the more often it appears, writes to you, and shapes what the Book surfaces next. It's how everyone tells the Book what matters.

Narrative Weight

Some things earn their place by happening, not by being chosen. Every person, place, and motif quietly accrues weight as it shows up in your days, your kept pages, and the stories the Book braids. Heavier things loom larger and return more readily - so your world naturally centers on what you actually keep living with.

Not a chatbot - a world

An entire school, running without you.

Underneath the Book is a narrative simulation: a magical Academy in an infinite library, with classes, clubs, faculty, , a and that keep their own weather - and a headmistress you probably shouldn't fully trust.

The Belief menu - give or take Belief among the cast
Giving Belief to a cast member in ReEnchanted

The cast have personalities, quirks, faults, beliefs, goals, and secrets - and a real interest in the actual places and things in your life. They aren't waiting for a prompt.

They act with or without you:

  • Invest Belief in what they love
  • Give and take Belief from actual Pages
  • Write you letters
  • to real places in your own town, with one clear action to complete
  • Chart your and
  • Keep - and trade -

You can invest Belief right back, take it from Pages or people, take sides, and tip the balance. Or just watch the watch you.

The five Chapters

Five wagers about the story of life.

The Academy calls them Chapters, but they aren't simply Houses, clubs, or teams. Each one is a living philosophy with students, faculty, rivalries, a talisman, and a theory about what your life is doing when no one is explaining it. Their Belief shifts the game board and the stories the Book writes from your days.

Life is authored. You're the protagonist, the pen, and the next door.

Emberheart pushes bold choices, self-authored quests, creative ambition, and scenes where you can decide what happens next.

Life is listened to. Something larger is already writing through the world.

Mossbloom slows the halls, deepens natural details, rewards patience, and turns ordinary noticing into guidance.

Life is a poem, not a story: no plot to solve, only moments to inhabit.

Tidecrest favors spontaneity, sudden weather, lively interruptions, and pages where the present matters more than any arc.

Life is co-written. Every choice adds to a shared narrative.

Riddlewind brings dialogue, collaboration, , letters, and scenes that need more than one hand on the page.

A story without honest conflict is too thin to protect anyone.

Duskthorn introduces friction, boundaries, rival claims, and the uncomfortable truths that make a story refuse erasure.

The are listening. Belief can be given, deepened, or released.

Whichever talisman holds the most Belief becomes ascendant. You can give Belief to a talisman or try to take it away; so can every member of the Cast. Everyone is fighting for what's real in the Book. That Chapter colors both the game and the narrative: what scenes surface, how characters act, what kind of choices glow, and the tone the Labyrinth takes when it writes back.

You don't pick a Chapter from a quiz. Eventually the Binding reads the evidence: the Pages you kept, the Belief you gave, and the small things you preserved. Then it recognizes where you belong in a surprising one-time page of its own.

An illustrated dossier of Professor Lydia Boggle from inside ReEnchanted's Academy
Every figure, place, and object is - the Academy keeps its own almanac of your world.

Story Pages

A scene from your day, with choices inside it.

A Story Page reads the real signals around you - weather, music, sleep, places, moods, and the cast currently moving through the Academy - then turns them into playable fiction. You read the page, choose how it turns, and the choice becomes part of what the Book remembers.

  • Slice of Life keeps the scene grounded in texture.
  • Arc moves a thread forward.
  • Surprise lets the present interrupt the plot.
A Story Page prose scene titled Weather in the Stacks
A Story Page showing choices for how the page turns

Story Pages

Playable scenes the Book braids from your real day and the choices you make inside it. Your real world bleeds into the fiction: your step count sets how lively the Academy halls are, a poor night's sleep quiets the world and offers gentler, low-energy play, and the weather outside your window is the weather in . Characters read the pages you keep, comment on them, and remember what you do - warming or cooling toward you over time. Real world, fictional choices.

Fae Bargains

Pages with another hand in them. The have read every description of the world but never touched it - so they never want Belief. They want noticing. The price is a sensory field report: what does the oldest thing in the room feel like? Which sound can you hear but not name? Pay in true attention and the bargain moves - but it's never quite free, and it remembers.

Parleys

Not every meeting is a bargain. Six kinds of Book Fae haunt the margins - , , , , and among them - each with its own voice and its own hunger. A parley is a real conversation: omens stir, the Fae make an offer, and you answer with choices. But they speak in , not manners - they reply with rules that bend the world, and the rules tend to stick.

Story Pages weave your ordinary life with your fictional choices until the whole thing reads like a - not the Disney kind, but the older, more dangerous one, where the woods keep what you promise them.

ReEnchanted Radio

Dial in. Let the signal color the day.

An analog station page for Academy broadcasts, music packs, and world effects. Turn the dial, find a frequency, and go on air.

88.3 FM Fae-Fi

The signal arrives giggling, tasting of clover honey and warm afternoons.

Sun-dappled beats and dandelion synths from faeries who have plainly had too much nectar.

World effect · Wonder Compass +8 · Souvenir +8 · Festival +6

    Included free

    Feeling ?

    Routine got you bored? Lonely? Have a dentist appointment?

    The full Wonder Compass ebook comes with the app - free. Twenty-six chapters on how to live in wonder again, woven right into the shelves so it's there the moment the day goes flat.

    • 26chapters
    • Freewith the app
    • Offlineread anywhere
    The complete Wonder
    Compass     Twenty-six ways back into wonder ✦ The Wonder Compass - A Practical Field Guide to Finding Magic in the Mess

    The shelf keeps growing

    Content packs: new everything.

    Themed expansions that drop a whole world into the Book at once - and the Academy itself shifts week to week. The base game stays whole; packs are for when you want more to keep.

    • Themes
    • Music & radio stations
    • Illustrations
    • Cast members
    • Lore
    • Festivals
    • Playful missions
    • I-Wonder prompts
    • Photo marginalia
    • Events

    A living Academy.

    New happenings arrive week to week and month to month - visiting faculty, festivals, weather in the stacks, bargains that tap at the glass. Open the Book on a Tuesday and something is different.

    • This week Gossip Pages come more often - you've been listening to Thornwave again on the radio.
    • New moon The Goblin Market sets up in the lower stacks.
    • This month The Dictionary Rebellion begins; words lift off the page and refuse their meanings. Chaos.
    • Season turn Another chapter is ready to bind into your editions.

    Real device magic

    Your save is yours.

    The most personal app on your phone shouldn't feel like a surveillance product. ReEnchanted uses explicit doorways for body, weather, location, calendar, and sources. It runs entirely on a local brain, on device - and you can export your continuity whenever you want the shelves in your own hands.

    • Open-source code (MPL-2.0) - read, audit, or fork the engine
    • Local-first memory - private material stays on device
    • Explicit, revocable permissions for every source
    • Export your archive any time
    Local brain and privacy settings in ReEnchanted

    And the code is open source (MPL-2.0) - read it, audit it, fork it.

    The engine is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0: you're free to read, audit, and build on it, and any changes to those files stay open. The art, audio, and paid content packs are ours - proprietary, so a fork can't resell the Book out from under us. Your saves, of course, are yours alone.

    * The only thing the Book ever surfaces is our own BookShop - optional content packs we make ourselves, shown quietly inside the covers. Nothing else: no outside vendors, no third-party ads, no analytics, no selling your attention. The only shop in here is ours.

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    The margin is already listening

    Open the Book.

    Play with pages. Keep some. Read your story.

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