Introducing SelfScoop
Why we're building a suite of offline-first, own-your-data apps for the quantified self — and what ships today.
Most of the apps that track our lives treat our data as their asset. Your reading habits, your spending, your heart rate at 3am — all of it flows to a server you don’t control, to be analysed, monetised, and occasionally leaked.
SelfScoop is the opposite bet. It’s a suite of small, focused apps that keep the most personal data where it belongs: on your devices, under your control, working whether or not you’re online.
What’s shipping
Four apps are live today, and each does one thing well:
- Feeds — an elfeed-inspired RSS reader whose single filter line does everything: tags, dates, feeds and regex in one string.
- Finance — personal spending that categorises itself the moment the transaction SMS lands on your phone.
- Fitness — every health metric on one pulse: steps, sleep, heart rate, HRV, blood oxygen, workouts.
- Tasks — an offline-first task manager with a schedule timeline that shows what you meant to do, when, and whether it happened.
A Diary is next, with more to follow.
The shared principles
Every app in the suite holds to the same four rules:
- Offline-first. The network is an enhancement, never a requirement.
- You own your data. Sync is optional and config-only — the content itself never leaves your devices.
- Built for power users. Keyboard-driven, dense, and fast.
- One suite, one soul. A shared core and design language, so learning one app teaches you the rest.
We’ll use this blog to share the build notes — the design decisions, the trade-offs, and the releases as they land. Welcome. Let’s get the scoop on ourselves.