An account of your everyday returns.
Your days,
in the long view.
How you spend your time shapes your life, one choice at a time. Self Ticker puts a record and numbers around those choices, so you can see how your days took shape, analyse the patterns, and follow what compounds over weeks, months, and years.
Spend a minute with a sample week
“Hey, welcome in! Each tab opens a different part of the app. I’d start with the sample week.”
Fictional entries and notes throughout. Nothing you try here is saved.
A week to look back on.
31 August to 6 September 2026 · Fictional entries & notes
Your personal index
Index starts at 100 Choose a day to open its record
Wednesday
2 September−0.90% daily return
- slept 5 hours−0.30%
- screen time 5 hours−0.60%
Stayed up talking to an old friend. Tired today, but so glad we caught up.
Add a note when there is something you want to remember. A lower return can still belong to a day you are glad you had.
“Oh, that Wednesday.
Good thing we wrote it down.”
Look back with a little more understanding
What went into your week?
A portfolio manager looks behind the total. Self Ticker brings that way of thinking to your everyday life: which activities contributed, how the days varied, and where a dip began.
The contributors
Choose a category to see the entries behind it.
Log-return points make category contributions additive. They describe the app's scoring, rather than the proportion of your time.
Sleep
- Week's return
- +5.22%
- The change across these seven days.
- Daily volatility
- 1.28%
- How much the daily returns varied.
- Maximum drawdown
- −1.22%
- The largest fall from an earlier peak.
Read the calculation behind this week
Each day's return is calculated from its entries using the app's scoring rules. Daily returns compound into the index. Category attribution uses log-return points so contributions can be added, including daily scoring limits. Volatility is the standard deviation of the daily returns; maximum drawdown measures the greatest percentage fall from a previous peak.
Seven days illustrate the tools. A longer history gives more context. The index reflects what was recorded under the app's rules; it does not measure your health, worth, or everything that happened in your life.
It begins with a few words
What have you been up to?
Record an activity in plain language and see how it affects your daily return. If there is an event or reason you want to remember, leave an optional note alongside it.
Try these three sample entries. You'll see the same scoring used in the app.
Review your entries · Add custom words · Save a backup · Share a weekly recap
Wanna try a day together? Pick a sample log above. We're exploring the app's scores, not measuring your worth or health.
Sample entries only. This website does not save a personal record.
For the financially curious
A small desk.
A lot to discover.
Your personal index also becomes the setting for simulated bills, futures, and options. Build a strategy, write down your thesis, and return at expiry to see what played out.
Premiums, margin, and payoff structures become easier to understand when you can move the pieces yourself. Roger is there for the questions along the way.
An optional part of the app. All balances and instruments are fictional. Some instruments unlock as your history grows.
Two directions.
One idea.
“A change of routine ahead. I expect a bigger move, but I'm unsure which way.”
An illustrative long straddle. Premiums create a loss around the strike; a sufficiently large move in either direction can produce a profit.
“I'll bring
the charts.”
Roger The Rootward Messenger
Meet Roger. A curious otter, a willing guide, and the proud owner of some occasionally overdramatic glasses.
He'll introduce a new view, celebrate a discovery, or sit with you while you make sense of a result. The lab coat is his. The story is yours.
“Hey, what have you been up to? I'd love to hear! A walk, a few pages, some time to learn... let's keep track together and see how your days add up. I'll bring the charts. I get a little excited about those.”
A page from our sketchbook
Some stories
grow roots.
Another way to inhabit the same record.
In Roger's story, he once carried messages along a world tree, tending its roots between journeys. We are imagining a visual theme that returns him to that world.
Inspired by Yggdrasil, your recorded days would appear as a growing tree. The same history and calculations would continue underneath, ready when you return to the index.
About this future theme
Planned as an optional paid cosmetic theme. Not available in the current beta. The name, visuals, price, and timing are still being explored. Roger's backstory is original fiction inspired by Norse mythology.
Self Ticker is in iPhone beta
Make room
for your days.
We'd love to hear what you discover in yours.
Ask to join the betaOpens your email app, or write to support@selfticker.com. Invitations are managed personally.
A few things before you begin
Do I need to know finance?
You can start by recording your day. Roger introduces the terms as you encounter them, and you can reopen his explanations any time.
Where does my record live?
Your entries and notes stay on your device. Logging and scoring work offline, and we do not receive your activity logs. No account is required.
Can I take it to a new phone?
Yes. Export a backup, keep it somewhere safe, and import it on the new phone. Import replaces that device's app data after confirmation. Automatic account sync is not available; without a backup, we cannot recover lost records.
What does the number mean?
Your index reflects entries under published app rules. It is a tool for reflection, not a measure of your worth or a medical assessment. The Trading Desk is a simulation with fictional money.
Is the app available yet?
Self Ticker is being tested on iPhone through TestFlight. Contact us to ask about participating. A public App Store release has not launched yet.