Touchward

You did the thing. Now tap the button.

Touchward is a sensory reward button. Finish a task, open the app, tap the big glowing button, and your phone answers with a buzz you chose and a ripple of light. That is the whole idea, and it is surprisingly satisfying.

Most things end without a signal. The meeting is over, the email is sent, the dishes are done, and nothing marks it. Touchward gives you a small physical "done" that you control. A tiny ritual for closing a task, marking a win, or just giving yourself a moment.

TAP IT, OR HOLD IT
Tap for a quick reward. Or press and hold: a timer traces the outline of the button while you press, and when it completes you get a bigger one. Choose tap only, hold only, or both.

KEEP SCORE
Every tap counts. A big counter at the top of the screen shows today's taps and how many are left until the next milestone. Every 500 taps, all time, the button goes berserk: for a few seconds your phone buzzes like crazy while the button shakes, pops, and runs through random colors and ripples. Then it settles down and the countdown starts again. Sign in to Google Play Games under Customize, More, and your milestones can follow your Google account.

MAKE IT YOURS

- Shapes: circle, the icon's wavy ring, squircle, square, hexagon, star, heart, or blob. Every shape glows, and the hold timer follows its outline.
- Ripples: each tap sends a ripple out from the button. Pick its outline, its thickness, how long it lingers, and how many rings can stack at once.
- Reward modes: Original, Ripple, Soft, Spark, Deep, Double, and Wave. Each sets the motion and the vibration together.
- Colors: a full color picker with a hue wheel, brightness slider, and hex entry for the button, its reward colors, the ripple colors, and the background. Save the colors you like.
- Feel: five vibration strengths, from Gentle to Max, and on phones with a rich haptic motor a library of over 150 haptic presets for the tap and the timer.
- Random: one press builds a whole new look. Save the ones you love to your library and bring them back any time.

NUDGES THAT FIT YOUR DAY

- Calendar nudges: with calendar access, Touchward notices when each event ends and sends a notification to tap, right away or a few minutes after. The meeting is over, the workout is done, come tap.
- Reminders: a schedule you set, so many hours apart, between the hours you choose.
- Each nudge has an "I did it" button that counts the tap for you.

TAP FROM ANYWHERE

- Volume buttons: while the app is open, either volume button counts as a tap.
- A link, touchward://reward, fires a tap when it opens the app. Wire it to Quick Tap or a button remapper for a one gesture reward.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account of its own and nothing you have to sign in to. Your settings and your counter stay on your phone; Google Play Games sign-in is optional and shares only your player name and avatar with the app. Calendar events are read only to schedule nudges and are never stored or sent anywhere. The app never asks for your name or email. If the app crashes, an anonymous report helps us fix it, and you can turn that off in settings.

FREE, WITH ONE PURCHASE
Touchward is free: 100 rewards a day with the default look, and no ads. Touchward Full is one in-app purchase of 0.49, once: no daily limit, and every shape, ripple, reward mode, vibration strength and preset, color and background in Customize. No subscription. If you bought the earlier unlock, you already have Full.

A NOTE FROM THE MAKER
Hi, I'm Olivia. I built this app for my partner Robert and me. I hope you are having as enjoyable a time tap tap tapping away as we are.

Touchward is a small pleasure, not a medical device, and it makes no health claims. It is for anyone who wants a little buzz for having done the thing: people building habits, people with ADHD who find finishing anticlimactic, students, and anyone who just likes the feel of a good button.

Support and privacy policy: touchward-dopamine.com/support