The chores return.
Push them gladly.
The dishes come back. The inbox refills. Sisyphus is the gentle recurring-chores app that takes the laborer’s side — name your boulders, push them up a living mountain each day, and watch them roll back down by morning. That’s not failure. That’s the rhythm.
Download on the App StoreThe gods condemned Sisyphus to roll a boulder uphill forever. Camus looked closer and found a free man. “One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
A scene that lives
The sky follows your real clock — dawn breaks, dusk burns, stars come out. Seasons follow the calendar: snow in January, wildflowers in April, drifting leaves in October. Your progress is a man and his rock, exactly as far up the slope as your day has gone.
Effort you can feel
You don’t tap a checkbox — you hold the stone. A ring fills, a rumble builds under your finger, stone grinds until the push lands with a thud. Finish the day and he stands at the summit, arms raised. It rolls back at midnight. Good. You’d miss it.
The mountain remembers you
Every forty pushes raises a stone cairn beside the trail. The path itself wears deeper over your first two months. A year in, your mountain looks lived-on — and nobody else’s looks like yours.
Rhythm, not guilt
No streak-shaming. Declare a rest day and the mountain rests with you — Sisyphus sits down beside his rock, nothing is due, and your rhythm holds. Deliberate rest is part of the practice, not a break in it.
Philosophy, earned
Sixteen short musings on the myth, Camus, the Stoics, and Nietzsche — unlocked one per three pushes, the honest way. Each shares as a postcard of the mountain at dusk. At year’s end, see your whole Year on the Mountain.
Widgets, lock screen, Siri
Push boulders straight from an interactive home-screen widget. Keep the mountain on your lock screen and in StandBy. Or just say “Push the dishes in Sisyphus.”