Stillcraft / Apps / Cellar
An impulse buy feels urgent for about a week. Cellar stands between “I want it” and “I bought it” and asks only for time. Lay every wish down as a bottle in a candlelit cellar; the price picks the bottle and how long it ages. When it's ripe, go down to the tasting: still want it? Open it, no guilt, it passed the test of time. Faded? Pour it into the barrel with your real dream chalked on it. Free, no ads, no account, no internet, no bank.
Android 9.0+ · Free · English & Русский
Type the wish in, or press “Share” in any shop's app and pick Cellar: the name and the link come in by themselves, and the price too when the shop sends it. Then one honest question: why right now? Need, boredom, feeling low, an ad, “everyone has it”, a sale.
A vial ages three days, a bottle two weeks, a magnum a month, a cask three months, or choose your own; the prices and the ageing of every bottle can be changed in the settings. On the rack the dust settles on the shoulders, a cobweb grows to the shelf above and the label yellows.
Ripe bottles glow by candlelight and send one quiet notification. Take one in your hands: open it (the cork pops), pour it into the barrel (the bottle tips and empties), or give it another week.
Every poured bottle's price flows into the barrel with your real dream on it: Japan, a safety cushion, a bicycle. A glass gauge shows the level; a full barrel is sealed with wax and an empty one rolled in. Saying no to one thing becomes getting closer to another.
A month after you open a bottle, it asks how the purchase turned out: a fine vintage, so-so, or vinegar. Over time you learn what actually brings joy.
By month, year or all time: what was laid, opened and poured, and the cellarman's notes on your reasons, like “7 of the 9 bottles you poured were laid out of boredom” or “a sale gives the most vinegar”.
On 11.11, Black Friday to Cyber Monday, 12.12 and 6.18 a storm rages in the cellar's little window, and whatever is laid down then ages twice as long.
Ideas for presents wait on the top shelf with a ribbon round the neck, and the cellar tells you when someone's day is near.
Nine seals for things that happen once: the first pour, patience, a bottle half a year on the rack, a full barrel, a hundred bottles' worth let go.
| Bottle | Price | Ages |
|---|---|---|
| Vial | under $15 / 1 000 ₽ | 3 days |
| Bottle | from $15 / 1 000 ₽ | 2 weeks |
| Magnum | from $120 / 10 000 ₽ | a month |
| Cask | from $600 / 50 000 ₽ | 3 months |
On Xiaomi (MIUI / HyperOS), Huawei and some other phones, allow Autostart for Cellar so the “ripe” notification arrives on time.
JDK 17+ (Android Studio's bundled JBR works) and the Android SDK. Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room, DataStore, WorkManager; the cellar, the candles, every bottle, the dust, the cobwebs and the barrel are drawn in code.
git clone https://github.com/bigdevwhale/cellar.git cd cellar ./gradlew assembleDebug # app.cellar.dev ./gradlew assembleDebug -Pdemo # app.cellar.demo: a cellar half a year in ./gradlew testDebugUnitTest # rules: ageing, storms, seals, the ledger, shop links ./gradlew testDebugUnitTest -Prender && python tools/shots.py # screenshots
No. You can open any bottle early; the ledger just remembers it. The cellar only adds time between the urge and the purchase. What still matters after a month, you buy without guilt.
No money moves anywhere. The barrel shows what the poured wishes would have cost, next to the dream you'd rather spend it on. If you like, move that sum to savings yourself.
Neither. The app has no internet permission and never sees your bank. Only what you bring down yourself is in the cellar.
Any app with a “Share” button: Ozon, Wildberries, Yandex Market, AliExpress, Amazon, a browser. The name and link come in; if the shop puts the price into the shared text, that comes in too.
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