Prism · Stillcraft

What's inside

Everything Prism does.

22 spheres and your own

Home, partner, children, parents, work, leading, money, body, meaning, conflict, hard times, life online and more. Add your own sphere with a name, an icon and a colour.

A library of 71 good roles

Quiet Harbor, Safe Base, Calm Mountain, Friend to Myself… Each has a voice, three things it does, two it never does, a posture, a motto and a daily practice. Add one and rewrite it your way.

18 shadows

The Prosecutor, the Sulking Teen, the Workaholic, the Endless Feed. What sets each one off, what it's protecting, how to spot it early and which role answers it.

The threshold

A minute between roles: breathe out the last scene, then step into the next as its colour, motto and posture fade in. Schedule it for the way home or before work.

Practices for hard moments

The Mountain for anger, a rehearsal before a hard conversation, a council of roles for a hard choice, letters from a role, meeting a shadow, an anchor and three-week acts.

The prism of your week

One coloured ray per role: wide when the role came up often, bright when you came close to it. The journal adds the balance of spheres and what charges or drains you.

Screens

Captured in Prism.

Prism: Prism — **Prism**This week's light and today's role.

Prism: Roles — **Roles**The core and the spheres of life.

Prism: A role — **A role**Motto, cut, voice and actions.

Prism: Library — **Library**71 roles and 18 shadows.

Prism: A shadow — **A shadow**What it protects and what answers it.

Prism: Threshold — **Threshold**Stepping into a role.

Prism: Evening review — **Evening review**How close you came today.

Prism: Practices — **Practices**Every day, hard moments and deeper.

Prism: Journal — **Journal**The balance of spheres.

A good role and the shadow it answers

Sphere	A good role	Shadow
Home & family	Quiet Harbor: home feels safe because you are calm in it	The Grumbler
Partner	Ally: whatever happens, you are on the same side	The Prosecutor
Parents	Grateful Grown-up: an adult beside them, not a child again	Child Again
Conflict & anger	Calm Mountain: storms pass over you	The Volcano
Rest & play	Master of Rest: rest properly, without guilt	The Workaholic
Online	Feed Gardener: you decide what grows in your attention	The Endless Feed
Alone with yourself	Friend to Myself: the kindness you give to people you love	The Inner Critic

Get it

Get Prism.

Install

Version: v1.0.0
File: Prism.apk
Requires: Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer. No Google services needed.
Permissions: Notifications for the morning choice, the evening review and scheduled thresholds. No internet.
License: MIT

Download the APK on your phone.
Open it and allow installs from this source when Android asks.
Name your core, pick your spheres and take a first role from the library.

On Xiaomi (MIUI / HyperOS), Huawei and some other phones, allow Autostart for Prism and remove battery limits so the morning choice, the evening review and thresholds arrive on time.

Download APK All releases

Build from source

JDK 17+ (Android Studio's bundled JBR works) and the Android SDK.

git clone https://github.com/bigdevwhale/prism.git
cd prism
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest     # unit tests, including the library check
./gradlew assembleDebug         # debug APK
./gradlew installDebug -Pdemo   # app.prism.demo with a made-up month of roles

Good to know

Questions people ask.

Isn't playing roles fake?

You already play them; the question is whether you choose them. Every role in Prism grows out of the same core values, so it's still you, just the version you want to be in that place.

What is a shadow?

The version of you that takes over when you're tired, hurt or scared: the Prosecutor, the Ghost, the Martyr. Prism treats each one as a part trying to help clumsily, and helps you notice it early and answer it with a role.

Do I have to use the library?

No. Write your own roles and shadows from scratch, or add one from the library and rewrite it in your own words. Spheres can be your own too.

What if I change phones?

Settings → Backup saves every role, scene, letter and council into one JSON file. Restore it on the new phone.