Before you start

• See what it will keep and what it will cut, with the reason for each, before you press Start
• Change the finish time, start partway through, or swipe a step aside for today
• Your list of routines shows the time you need to start by to finish on time
• Start a routine by voice: say "Hey Siri, in Perseid, start Morning", or let a Shortcuts automation start it when you stop your alarm

While it runs

• Says what it cut, and why, out loud
• Shortens every step a little first, and cuts whole steps only when that isn't enough, in the order you chose
• Skip a step, and whatever depends on it goes too. It tells you what else will go before you confirm
• Win back time, and the steps it cut come back
• Steps you mark as must-do are never cut
• Tells you when it can't fit, instead of pretending
• Your own reminders, spoken at the moment you choose inside a step
• A step can move on by itself when its time is up, or wait for you to say you're done
• Choose how often it talks, and which of your iPhone's voices it uses
• Keeps talking with the phone locked across the room, and turns your music down while it speaks rather than stopping it
• Plans change mid-run too: tap the top of the run screen to move the finish time, or set steps ahead aside or put them back, and see the new plan before you apply it
• Moved on too soon? Not yet takes you back to the step you were still doing, with the time you'd already spent on it
• Pause, and when you come back it tells you what changed while you were away
• If your phone closes the app mid-run, it offers the run back where you left off
• Works without looking at the screen. If you have ADHD or tend to lose track of time, hearing where you are without checking a clock may help

Making routines

• For each step, set how long it takes, the shortest it can be, whether it's a must, and what it depends on
• Put the steps in the order they should go when time is short
• Steps can be seconds long, not just minutes
• Or describe your routine to the AI assistant you already use: Perseid copies the instructions it needs, and you paste back what it writes. If something's wrong, Perseid writes the request to fix it
• A sample morning routine is there to try on day one

Yours to keep

• Your routines and history stay in your own iCloud Drive. There are no Perseid servers
• Nothing is collected: no analytics, no tracking, no account with us
• Stop subscribing and you keep every routine and every run
• A Mac app that edits and runs the same routines comes after the iPhone

The iPhone beta is open. Here's how to join.