Barakah Games
One Step Closer

The app is here first.

Free, and it takes both of you. It is a beta, so expect rough edges. Open this page on your iPhone to install it.

You will need Apple's TestFlight app to install it, and places are limited.

Before you start

It takes both of you.

There is no solo mode. The year belongs to the two of you, so the setup does too.

i

One of you installs the app and starts the year.

ii

They send a link. You open it, or type the four characters by hand.

iii

That is the whole setup. Roll the die tonight.

What it does

It keeps the year. Nothing else.

The cards are the game. The app holds what the year leaves behind.

The nightly card.
Mark the night kept. The die stays in your hands — the app never rolls it.
One photograph.
A single frame each night, sealed the moment you take it.
Encrypted.
Sealed before it leaves your phone. Even we cannot read them.
Unseen.
No gallery, no thumbnail, not even the one you took a moment ago.
Your year, filling in.
One mark a night, in the colour of the deck the die landed on.
A reminder, once.
One a night, at a time you choose. Never more than that.
Nights kept.
Not days elapsed. Missing one costs nothing.
Paired, not solo.
Two phones, every night. Both of you or neither.
Your year

This is the year, filling in.

Every night you keep adds one mark, in the colour of the deck the die landed on. You will not see a photograph here until the year is finished.

Every dot is a night kept, and a photograph still sealed.

Your year

The shape of it, so far.

214Together
200 / 365Kept
165To go

Night three hundred and sixty-five

On the last night, the seals open.

Every photograph you took, in order, for the first time. Neither of you has seen a single one of them — not the one from last night, not the one from the night you started.

Film

The montage, playing

Three hundred and sixty-five frames. One for every night you kept.

Screens

Quiet, on purpose.

No badges, no streak fire, no percentage of anything. One card, one night, one mark.

Screen

Tonight's card

Screen

The year

Screen

Sealing a photograph

Privacy

We hold the photographs. We cannot read them.

Each one is encrypted on your phone before it is uploaded, with a key held by you and your partner. There is one brief exception while you are pairing, and the privacy policy explains it plainly rather than burying it.

Something not working, or the code will not take?

Write to us — we reply within two business days.