A read that does not flatter
Fourteen questions, six areas of your life, a score out of 100. Nobody gets 100: there is always road left ahead, and it is a number.
The problem is not a lack of information.
You have read the advice, watched the videos, downloaded the trackers. What is missing is not knowing what to do: it is a reason to do it today, and something to lose if you do not.
What ARDENT does
Three challenges a day
One easy, one medium, one hard. Drawn against the goal you picked, from a catalogue of four hundred. Some run several days in a row.
An avatar that looks like you
It changes shape as you level up, and its state follows your consistency. Thirty days of nothing and only a skeleton is left.
What you watch move
A hexagon of your six areas, filling in challenge by challenge. And a grid of the days you held across twelve months: the gaps show, and that is the point.
What ARDENT does not do
- No promise of results. The ninety-day projection is a projection of habits, and says so.
- No medical advice, no diagnosis. We measure habits you declare yourself.
- No advertising, no trackers, no data sold. Your account has no email, no password and no name.
What is ARDENT, exactly?
ARDENT is an iPhone discipline app for 16-25 year olds. It starts with a fourteen-question read across six areas — body, focus, mind, lifestyle, relationships, money — then gives three challenges a day: one easy, one medium, one hard. An avatar changes shape as you level up and fades when you stop. The first three days are free; after that it is a subscription.
Questions
- Is ARDENT free?
- The first three days are free and complete, with no card required at install. After that access is by subscription, handled by Apple and cancellable at any time from your iPhone settings.
- What is the minimum age?
- Sixteen. The app checks it on the very first question, and the App Store listing is rated accordingly: some of the subjects it covers are not for anyone younger.
- What happens if I stop for a while?
- Your streak drops to zero and your avatar fades day by day. But an absence never costs you more than one level, however long it lasts, and your records stay on screen. After thirty days you retake the diagnostic and choose whether to keep your level or start from where you actually are.
- Are my answers private?
- They are stored in the European Union, attached to an anonymous account created without an email or a password. Some questions touch on intimate subjects: what you declare is up to you, and you can delete your account and all your data from inside the app, in two taps.
- Is there an Android version?
- Not for now. ARDENT is built for iPhone only.
Three days to see if it holds.
The diagnostic takes six minutes. The rest is on you.