Linism

For the autistic community · iPhone, Watch, Android, Wear OS

Tools for autonomy in a loud world.

Linism follows your social battery, gives you a head start before overload, and holds your routines one step at a time. On your phone, on your wrist, and nowhere else.

No ads. No analytics. No servers.

Linism on iPhone: the dashboard with its brand band, day spine and mood check-in

One day, start to finish

This is what a Tuesday looks like with it.

Linism is not a dashboard you visit. It sits alongside the day and speaks up just a few times, quietly, when it can actually help.

Morning

Getting up is a project.

Your routine lives on the phone and plays on your wrist, one step at a time. Not the list. The step. Finish it and you get a single soft tap, then the next one appears. Nothing counts down at you and nothing turns red if you are slow.

Steps sync to the watch, so the phone can stay in another room.

The Linism calendar showing a day laid out as routines and anchors.
The day view. Routines, anchors and what the day actually cost.
Midday

The battery is not a metaphor.

Set where you are on the scale and Linism holds it. Underneath it reads heart rate, variability, respiration and sleep from Apple Health or Health Connect, and it learns what your normal looks like rather than a textbook's.

A watch complication means checking costs one glance, not an unlock.

The loud part

Before, not after.

When the room gets loud or your body starts to climb, your wrist buzzes once. Early enough that you can still leave, or reach for headphones, or say nothing at all and step outside.

A watch alert: Linux looks worried, the stress reading is 61 percent, and the advice is to find a safe, quiet space now.
The number, and one thing to do. Nothing to read twice.
Evening

Hold up your wrist. That is the whole sentence.

Your level sits on the watch face in plain language. Show it to someone you trust and the conversation is finished before it starts. No script, no explaining, no masking.

Nobody has to learn a system to read it.

An Apple Watch screen stating the wearer's current social battery level.
Right now the answer is yes. On a harder day the same glance says no.
Night

The day, written down for you.

What the day contained is already recorded: what you did, how loud it was, when you slept. You do not have to journal it. If tomorrow needs to be lighter, you can see why.

This is Linux.
He does not need anything from you,
and he leaves if you ask him to.

A small thing that matters

How are you?

Five faces, so a rough day still has something warm to press. Try one. If you would rather have plain emoji, you can have those instead.

Privacy

Nothing leaves the device.

There is no Linism server to leak. Your routines, your battery, your health signals and your notes are encrypted on the phone with a key the hardware holds, and the only copy is yours. Deleting the app is a complete deletion.

  • Local onlyNo cloud, no required account, no sync you did not ask for.
  • No trackersNo analytics, no advertising identifiers, no third-party SDKs.
  • Health dataRead on the device, used on the device, never transmitted.
  • GDPRBuilt in Germany. Delete performs a cryptographic erasure of the key.

Research collaboration

Research ready.

Nearly everything is adjustable: which biometric and environmental signals are watched, the thresholds, the routines, the wording. That, plus a strictly on-device architecture, makes controlled studies with autistic and neurodivergent participants practical.

If your department is interested in a study or a longer collaboration, write with a short outline of your work.

Benjamin Tokgöz
hello@linism.app