The little friend who keeps your boundaries for you.
For everyone with a family member who makes their chest go tight when the phone buzzes.
Open Steady 🌱 Free · No signup · Everything you save stays on your deviceYou know the moment.
Heart pounding. Thumbs hovering. Every reply feels wrong.
That's the moment Steady is for.
Tap what happened
Who it was, and what they did. Guilt trip? Fake apology? "Last attempt"? It's all buttons. No typing needed.
See it clearly
Steady names the trick they're pulling — because the old tricks are old — and tells you if this even deserves a reply.
Answer on your terms
Ready-to-send replies matched to how YOU chose to handle this person. Short, calm, and safe to be screenshotted.
Why does it look like this?
Because you have probably already sat in the beige room.
Neutral walls, neutral art, a box of tissues placed just so. A place built to look like nothing at all. Plenty of us have been processed in a room like that. It rarely felt like being helped.
And a lot of us never really got a childhood. There was always a mood to read, a crisis to manage, an adult who needed handling. You were in business mode by nine years old, and nobody ever asked whether that was alright.
So this isn't another quiet office. It's green and round and a little bit silly, and a seedling talks to you like someone worth being gentle with. Not because your situation isn't serious — it is, and Sprout will tell you the plain truth about what's happening. But because nobody ever gave you somewhere soft to stand while you worked it out.
That's the whole idea. You can have the soft place now, and the clear answer at the same time.
A whole toolbox, disguised as a friend
The little book of old tricks
Nineteen family-drama scenarios, decoded and answered — instantly, free, even with the internet off. Because the guilt trip your brother sends is the same one everyone's brother sends.
Sprout holds your angry words
Wrote a furious reply? Don't send it hot. Sprout keeps it safe for a few hours. Words that don't get sent can never be used against you.
Weather reports
Save what happens, and Steady learns their pattern — their favorite plays, and when the next wave is due. When it arrives on schedule, you'll know: it's the weather, not you.
Practice before the family thing
A wedding, a funeral, a holiday? Rehearse their usual moves with your lines ready — plus an exit plan, before you walk in.
Your values, your lanterns
Protect-me-first, faith & grace, peace & letting go, repair when possible — and more. Pick the hearts you walk by. Steady honors them all, on one rule: being hurt is never your fault.
A friend, not a form
Sprout asks how your heart is doing first — and answers extra gently when it's hurting. Breathes with you while it thinks. Celebrates when you do a hard thing.
🔒 Your family's mess is not our data.
Everything you save lives on your device — your people, your book, your held words. No account. No cloud copy of your life. The tap-button answers never touch the internet at all, and there's an "erase everything" button that actually works.
Other apps send every message to their servers. Steady was built so there's nothing to leak.