Free for 30 days. Then $5 a month.

Steps is a journal that texts you first, in iMessage. The first 30 days are free, and we don't ask for a credit card. After that it's up to you: a paper notebook, another app, or keep Steps texting you.

Your first 30 daysNo credit card

Free — all of it

Nothing to cancel, and no charge when it ends

—Steps texts you first, on the mornings you pick

—Prompts based on Benjamin Franklin's, Marcus Aurelius's and Oprah Winfrey's — or your own

—One to seven mornings a week, at the time you choose

—If you write nothing all morning, one quiet follow-up text after lunch — never a guilt trip

—Back to a paper notebook after your 30 days? Fine by us. Come back whenever

Start free

After your first 30 daysOptional

$5 a month

Only if you switch it on · cancel anytime

—The morning texts keep coming, and everything you wrote stays

—Your $5 pays the bills for running it — nothing else

—Private: never sold, never analyzed, never used to train AI

—Stop paying and keep every word — free, forever

No button here, on purpose — you subscribe from your account on the web, whenever you're ready.

Why charge at all? I built Steps for myself, and every morning text costs money to send — servers, and the AI that writes it. $5 a month keeps it running: about 17¢ a morning. — Tiago

The templates, and who kept each one →

Free for 30 days. Then $5 a month.

Benjamin Franklin asked himself one question every morning. So can you.