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A detour is one small, optional adventure for the day — a gentle nudge to step off your usual path. Things like “take the long way home,” “call someone you miss,” “watch the sunset all the way down,” or “do nothing, on purpose, for five minutes.” They take anywhere from five to thirty minutes, and they're suggestions, never assignments. Waylark gives you exactly one a day so there's nothing to decide.

Waylark deliberately picks one detour per day and keeps it steady, so the app never becomes another thing to scroll. If today's doesn't fit, tap Swap for a different one — free users get one swap a day; Pro can swap as often as they like. You can also Skip entirely, which costs you nothing: a skipped day never breaks your streak. Tomorrow brings a fresh detour automatically.

Gently, on purpose. Completing a detour extends your streak by a day. Skipping a day never breaks it — a skip is a neutral bridge, not a failure. If you simply miss days, the streak resets quietly the next time you complete one; there's no shaming, no “you lost your streak!” banner. The point is the wandering, not the number.

Every detour you complete becomes a glowing dot on a single winding route — a quiet map of your adventures, on the Route tab. There are five badges to find, all earned simply by wandering: your first step, a 7-day streak (Wanderer), a 30-day streak (Trailblazer), detours across at least three vibes (Explorer), and 50 detours completed (Wayfarer). Earned badges light up; the rest sit dimmed until you reach them.

Pro unlocks all eight vibes — 55 detours in total — adding Be amazed, Outdoors, Taste, Creativity, Slow down and Type-2 fun to the free Wander and Connection packs. It's a subscription: $2.99 / month or $19.99 / year (with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers), or a one-time $39.99 lifetime purchase. The daily detour, your route, streak, notes, widgets and the share card are all free, forever.

Open the app, go to You → Settings, and tap Restore Purchases while signed into the same Apple ID. Purchases are handled by Apple; manage or cancel a subscription under Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions, and request refunds via reportaproblem.apple.com. If Pro lapses, the app returns to the free packs but never deletes your route or notes.

Your route, completions, notes and photos live only on your device — there is no account and no server, so we have no copy and cannot recover anything remotely. Deleting the app deletes your data, and it's covered by your normal iPhone/iCloud device backup. See the privacy policy.

Yes, completely offline — the daily detour is chosen on-device, with no network needed. Waylark does not use GPS or location, doesn't run in the background, and makes no network requests of its own, so there's nothing to drain your battery or follow you around. Only the App Store purchase flow needs a connection, and Apple handles that.

Yes. Pick your vibes and a difficulty in onboarding or in Settings, and Waylark leans toward shorter, calmer detours. Every vibe includes seated, on-wheels, indoor and low-energy variants, and no prompt assumes you're able-bodied, social or outdoorsy. If a prompt still doesn't fit, Swap or Skip — and tell us at pixeyo@gmail.com so we can keep the writing kind.

There's a single, optional daily reminder at a time you choose, gently worded and easy to turn off in Settings — and the app works perfectly with notifications off entirely. Waylark will never send you a stream of guilt-trip nudges to come back.

Always welcome at pixeyo@gmail.com. One standing boundary: Waylark will stay small and quiet on purpose — no feeds, no social graph, no streak-shaming, no tracking. Suggestions that keep it gentle are exactly what we're listening for.