Three Buckets

Most apps like this clap for you. This one interrupts you. Three Buckets scores your life in three parts — Personal, Career, Investments — and enforces the order they go in. Personal is the foundation: your body, your head, the people around you. Career is the bridge. Investments are what the bridge pays for. Get them out of order and the whole thing leaks. TWENTY-THREE QUESTIONS. FOUR MINUTES. Rate three areas of your life one to ten. Get three scores out of 100, broken down by mental health, physical health and relationships, so you can see exactly which part is dragging the rest down. THEN THE PART NOBODY ELSE DOES. If your Career or Investments score ever outruns your Personal score, the app throws a full-screen alarm and locks both of them. Greyed out. Padlocked. You don't get back in until you answer three Personal questions and commit to one thing you'll actually do today. Yes, really. Yes, it's annoying. That's the entire point. You already know what happens when you grind at work while your health quietly falls apart — you've done it before. PLAY THE GAME. Every bucket has a board and a target: points by Sunday night, four times that by the end of the month. You choose how to earn them. Hug your kids for thirty seconds. Call a friend you've let go quiet. Take over the chore they hate without mentioning it. Do something that makes a colleague smile. Cancel the subscription you stopped using. Sixty-odd ways to score, none of them busywork. And the weakest bucket asks the most. Score badly in Investments and Investments demands more of you that week. That is the whole philosophy, made into a number you can chase. BIG GOALS THAT DON'T QUIETLY DIE. Up to three rocks per bucket per quarter, each with its own page, its own deadline, and four honest stages: new idea, plan made, plan in execution, plan complete. Most goals die at "idea with no plan behind it", and this is the app that says so out loud. GETTING SOBER, IF THAT'S THE FIGHT. Tap the days you didn't drink. As the run grows the app tells you what is measurably repairing — and every claim links to a named source, including the NIH and a 2018 BMJ Open study. It is honest that sleep gets worse before it gets better, because it does, and that is the week most people quit. AND THE REST OF IT. An exercise tracker with no reps and no spreadsheet. A calendar you fill in yourself. A journal with no prompts, never read, never analysed. A hundred-day plan built from your own answers. WHAT ISN'T IN HERE No ads. No trackers. No analytics SDK. No subscription. No AI coach with a name. No social feed. No guilt notification at 9pm. Nothing to buy, anywhere. Sign in with Apple, or with an email and a password. Either way your audit, your rocks, your journal and your streak follow you to a new phone instead of dying with the handset. Delete everything in two taps — permanently, no support ticket, no waiting period. Personal first. Everything else cascades.