Spintop · Stillcraft

What's inside

Everything Spintop does.

Tell it in the dark

At waking, a dim red screen you can use half asleep. Type or say the dream aloud; pause too long and the words pale, the way a dream does. Then one question: did you know it was a dream?

Your dream signs

School and exams, running late, lights that won't turn on, a childhood home, water: the app finds what keeps happening in your dreams by itself. Nothing to tag. Add a sign of your own in your own words.

Reality checks

A few times a day, at moments you can't guess, “Are you dreaming?” with one check that dreams get wrong: count your fingers, read a line twice, pinch your nose and breathe. One tap on “Checked”.

The ritual before sleep

Two minutes of MILD, the best-tested way into lucid dreams: recall your last dream, look at tonight's sign, and hold the top spinning while you repeat the intention. Then the lamp goes down.

The top keeps count

Dreams remembered, checks and rituals wind it up, glimmers and lucid dreams most of all. A missed day loosens it a little, nothing more. Each lucid dream adds a brass ring; the morning after one, it glows and doesn't fall all day.

Quiet and private

Warm walnut and lamplight, dim enough for bed. Dreams stay on the phone: no account, no internet, no tracking.

Screens

Captured in Spintop.

Spintop: The desk — **The desk**The top, the day, tonight's sign.

Spintop: After a lucid dream — **After a lucid dream**It glows and doesn't fall.

Spintop: At waking — **At waking**Dim enough to tell it half asleep.

Spintop: One question — **One question**And the signs in that dream.

Spintop: Dream signs — **Dream signs**Found in your journal by themselves.

Spintop: Are you dreaming? — **Are you dreaming?**A check, and a line to read twice.

Spintop: Before sleep — **Before sleep**Recall, the sign, the top.

Spintop: The journal — **The journal**Brass rings for lucid dreams.

Three moments a day

	What you do	Why it helps
Morning	Tell the dream, say how clear it was	Remembered dreams are the ones you can wake up in
Day	A few reality checks	The question becomes a habit and turns up in sleep
Night	Recall, tonight's sign, the intention	You fall asleep expecting to notice

Get it

Get Spintop.

Install

Version: v1.0.0
File: Spintop.apk
Requires: Android 9.0 (API 28) or newer. No Google services needed.
Permissions: Notifications and vibration. No internet; telling a dream aloud uses your phone's own speech recognition.
License: MIT

Download the APK on your phone.
Open it and allow installs from this source when Android asks.
Pick when you go to bed and wake, and spin the top.

Download APK All releases

Build from source

JDK 17+ (Android Studio's bundled JBR works) and the Android SDK. Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room, DataStore; the desk, the lamp and the spinning top are drawn in code.

git clone https://github.com/bigdevwhale/slumber.git
cd slumber
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest             # signs, the wind-up, the top's spin
./gradlew assembleDebug                 # app.slumber.dev, installs next to a release
./gradlew assembleDebug -Pdemo          # app.slumber.demo with three weeks of practice

Good to know

Questions people ask.

Does it actually work?

Reality checks, a dream journal and MILD are the techniques with the best evidence behind them, and the app puts all three into one small daily routine. Most people need a few weeks of practice; a first glimmer of “wait, is this a dream?” usually comes before the first fully lucid dream.

I don't remember my dreams

Start with the morning: tell anything, even one word or a feeling, before you sit up. Recall grows within days of doing this, and the signs appear once a few dreams are in.

What does it keep?

Your dreams, checks and rituals, on the phone only: no account, no ads, no internet permission at all.