Daily affirmations,
written for your chart.
Most affirmation apps write one line for everybody. Solara reads your Sun, Moon and Rising, and writes to each of them. You get a line for the day, somewhere to set an intention, and a journal that stays yours.
It isn't a horoscope and it doesn't predict anything. It's a small thing you do each morning.
Three placements, three voices.
Your sun sign is the part a stranger could guess. Solara writes for the rest of the chart as well, so the same day arrives three ways and you take the one you need.
Sun
Who you're becoming. Free, and it stays free.
Moon
What you feel when nobody's watching. The half a sun sign never reaches.
Rising
How you meet a room before you've said anything.
The Sun lane is free. Moon and Rising come with Premium, along with the full chart reading and the extra themes.
Three thousand lines, and none of them shout.
Every affirmation is written and tagged by hand, then matched against your chart and whatever you said you were working on. Three of them:
My boundaries make my warmth feel safer to share.
I trust the pause that keeps my heart from flooding.
My reasons for doing this are quiet, and they hold up fine.
A practice you can see.
Finish two of the day’s three steps and the day is sealed. One star lights in the constellation for the current zodiac season.
Twelve seasons, twelve real constellations, drawn by hand and carrying their real star names: Regulus, Antares, Zubeneschamali. Miss a day and the figure comes out sparser. It's a record of what you did, not a score.
Ninety seconds, most days.
There are three things to do, and you only need two of them for the day to count. The bar is low on purpose. What matters is that you came back, not that you did it properly.
- Affirm
- Read the line written for your chart today.
- Set an intention
- A sentence about how you want to move through the day.
- Reflect
- A prompt, a mood, and room to write it down.
Written down, and kept private.
A prompt each day, a mood, and somewhere to answer it. After a year it's the part of the app you'd least want to lose.
So entries are encrypted on your device, under a key that never leaves your iCloud Keychain. They follow you to a new phone. The server holds text it has no way to read.
On the home screen and the lock screen.
Widgets carry the day’s focus and affirmation, and keep themselves current whether or not you open the app.
Reminders run from one a day up to twenty, inside whatever hours you pick, in whatever timezone you woke up in. There's a quieter one on the new and full moon.
The same ritual, with more room.
Solara is a native app on both, laid out for each. It isn't a phone screen stretched across a tablet.
How it’s built.
Solara is a native iOS app over a Postgres backend, designed and engineered end to end at Helvet Studios LLC.
- 3,000+
- Affirmations
- 36
- Chart lanes
- 12
- Constellations
How lines get matched
Every affirmation carries three tags from a closed vocabulary of sixty-seven words, and each of the thirty-six lanes (twelve signs across three placements) maps to a tag triple. Lines are scored against your chart and against whatever you said you were working on, sorted into tiers, then dealt in mixed batches so the feed never reads like a category page.
Two copies of the same engine
That scoring runs in Swift on the device for the in-app feed, and again in TypeScript on the server for the notification queue, over one shared state table. A line you've already read doesn't turn up as a push an hour later.
Widgets that work offline
The day's affirmation is a pure function of device, date and catalogue, so the widget needs no network and no app launch to be right. It can't repeat a line until the whole catalogue is spent.
What the server can't see
Journal entries are AES-GCM encrypted on device, under a key that never leaves your iCloud Keychain. Accounts are anonymous by default, every table is row-level secured, and deleting yours takes one tap.
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- WidgetKit
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
- Deno
- APNs
- RevenueCat
Solara
An affirmation and reflection app for iOS, made by Helvet Studios LLC. Questions, bug reports and account help all go to support, and we answer within 3–5 business days.