Ewenn

Ewenn is a cozy Pomodoro app for iPhone and iPad, with a penguin who focuses alongside you.
Plan a goal, break it into tiny steps, then sit down and press start. Your penguin focuses with you.
Keep your streak warm, earn coins for the work you do, dress up your penguin and collect 23 badges.
Stay on track with friends, and keep your penguin on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Free on the App Store.
Home: your penguin's winter world, with today's focus time, streak, coins and goals.
Add Goal: break a big goal into small checklist steps, or let Ewenn draft them for you.
Focus session: a calm timer with today's checklist. Tick off steps as you go.
Statistics: your streak calendar, coins earned and focus history at a glance.
Shop: spend the coins you earn on cozy hats and scarves for your penguin.
Friends: add friends, follow their streaks and cheer each other on.
Achievements: unlock badges as you focus and show your favourite on your profile.
The Ewenn app icon.

Inspiration

Most productivity apps help you organise. Better lists, better tags, better folders. But I don't think that's where most people get stuck. You usually know exactly what you need to do. The hard part is sitting down and starting, and a tidy list of things you haven't started doesn't help with that at all.

I wanted to build something for that moment, the gap between "I should really do this" and actually doing it. I also wanted it to be something you'd want to open. Duolingo and Finch showed that a little character and a streak will bring people back every day, while serious productivity software tends to feel like homework.

Ewenn is that idea, with a penguin in it.

What it does

Write a goal, and Ewenn breaks it into a few small steps.
Start a session. The timer runs, your penguin keeps you company, and you tick steps off as you go.
Every step earns coins, even if you don't finish. Showing up is what counts.
Spend coins on hats, scarves and goggles for your penguin.
Keep a daily streak, and take on challenges with friends.

Rewenn, the optional subscription, gives you more goals and challenges, smarter step suggestions, and an exclusive hat. If you cancel, you keep everything.

How we built it

This took us about six weeks to build.

SwiftUI for the app, with Live Activities and widgets so your timer and streak are visible outside it.
Rive for the penguin's animations.
Firebase for accounts, sync and the backend.
RevenueCat for the Rewenn subscription, tied to your account so it follows you to any device.
Apple Intelligence writes checklist steps on-device, with Gemini as a fallback.

Challenges we ran into

Making the penguin feel alive and not just decorative.
Keeping the coin economy fair so nobody can game it.
Shipping to the App Store for the first time, on a deadline.
We submitted the app for review just 5 days before the hackathon ends

Accomplishments that we're proud of

A focus app that feels cozy instead of stressful.
A reward system that rewards starting, not just finishing.
A subscription that never takes anything away when you cancel.
Works beautifully on iPhone, iPad, and iPhone Duo, with the same polished design and animations everywhere.