Pilot

Welcome to Bouncy Buddies

Your personalised buddy who sits with you while you do the boring stuff, and cheers you on when you finish each step.

  • Body doubling in your pocketYour buddy keeps you company while you work, so starting and carrying on feel easier.
  • Cheering you on, one step at a timeYour buddy helps you break up your jobs into achievable steps.
  • Self-care modeYour buddy can remind you to drink water, have a snack, eat lunch, stretch and breathe. The reminders come when you finish a step or task, never in the middle of focus. You choose what to switch on.
How it works
  1. Design your own buddy: shape, colours and the way it cheers you on.
  2. Add the tasks you have been putting off, and give yourself a time for each one.
  3. Every finished task earns a gold star. Spend your stars in the Buddy shop to treat your buddy: a milkshake, a crown, a car or a rocket ship.
  4. Start the race against the clock. Your buddy stays with you, changing colour as time passes. Tap your buddy when you finish each step, it cheers you on, and then helps you set up the next step.
  5. Finish early to bank free time and earn medals and trophies. A trophy means you've banked 20 minutes to treat yourself, guilt-free. You did the work first, so the rest is yours.

Made by Brain Buddies® in Bristol, for bouncy brains. Nothing to sign up for. Your buddy and tasks stay on your own device.

Thank you for testing. When you have had a go, tap Feedback and tell me what you think, including any ideas for making it better.

Design your buddy

Pick a shape
Add something extra

All optional. Change as many as you like.

Choose a start and an end colour

Your buddy starts in the first colour and slowly turns into the second colour as the timer runs. Tap an end colour to watch the change.

Start colour

End colour

StartEnd

How should they cheer?

Tap your buddy at the top to test the cheer.

Encouragement sound

Tap one to hear it.

Name your buddy

Your buddy says your name when they cheer.

Specs

Sound
Self-care mode

When you're deep in a task it's easy to forget to drink, eat, move or sometimes breathe. Switch this on and your buddy checks in when you finish a step or a task, never in the middle of focus.

Choose what to be prompted about

Water about every 25 minutes, snacks every couple of hours and a stretch every 45 minutes.

Breathing style

Prompt me for lunch between

and

Within this time frame, I'll ask if you want lunch after each task ends. The final prompt comes at the end time, so lunch doesn't get skipped.

Want to begin again? This clears your buddy, tasks, stars, treats and settings on this device.

Tasks

Pilot version. Thank you for testing. Tap Feedback at the top, or the button at the bottom, to send your thoughts.

Quick add: Tap a regular task to put it on the board

Tap a task on the board to start it

Set up your race, then start

Task you chose

Tap a task on the board first.

How long for this race?
Free time bank

Finish a task before its timer ends and the minutes you saved go in the bank. When the bank reaches your goal you earn a break. The break lasts as long as the time you saved.

Break goal: saved minutes needed for a break
Medals, trophies and treats

Every 5 minutes you save earns a prize: bronze medal, silver medal, gold medal, then a trophy at 20 minutes. Then it starts again.

Each trophy earns you a 20 minute treat.

10:00

Step 1

Pilot feedback

Thank you for testing. Answer what you like, then copy it and paste it into a message to the person who shared this with you.

How did it feel?
Who is it for?
Did the buddy help you stay on a task?
How easy was it to get going?
How much cheering felt right?
Which cheer style do you like most?
Does it feel like your buddy?
Would you use it again?
Were the self-care prompts (water, snacks, lunch, stretch) useful?
What worked for you?

Finished
Race result
Time saved
Free time bank
Steps done
Done today
zzZ
15:00

Go and do something cool. Your buddy is having a nap.

Breathe with me

Follow your buddy. Make the breath out longer than the breath in.

Pick a breathing exercise
Breathing pace
QuickerSlower

Easy. Slide to the right to slow your breathing down.

 

Press Start when you are ready.

Treats

Quick add: Tap a regular treat to put it on a cloud

Tick "Keep this treat for next time" for treats you can have again and again, like a cup of tea. They stay on the board after you use them. Leave it unticked for a one-off treat, which is used up.

Choose your treat

You earned this. Enjoy it, no guilt.

All buddy scenes

Every scene plays on a loop. Tap a buddy to see how its scene reacts.

Cheer styles

Same buddy, three ways to cheer. Tap each buddy to hear a cheer.

Buddy shop

Task Tally