SelfStatusBuild a status screen for your own life

In a role-playing game you can open a menu and see exactly what a character is carrying — their gear, their skills, and what each piece actually does for them. Real life has no such screen. You know what you like and what you are good at, but it stays scattered across your head, never laid out in one place where you can look at all of it at once.

SelfStatus gives you that screen. You write your own equipment — a skill, a hobby, a value, a favorite record — give it an icon and a color, describe what it does for you, and equip it onto a Cosmos Orb. There are no scores, no levels, and no quiz that decides who you are. Everything on the screen is there because you put it there. That constraint is the whole point: choosing the words for something you care about, and then deciding where it sits next to everything else, is where the thinking actually happens.

The browser version needs no sign-up and nothing to install — what you write stays on the device you write it on. An iOS version is on the way.

Inside the app

The SelfStatus home screen: a green Cosmos Orb packed with icons, above a list of items grouped under the categories Identity, Habit and Learning, each with a toggle to equip it. — Home. Equipped items pack into the Orb; toggling one off leaves it in the list.

The item editor: a category selector, a chosen icon, a Title field reading Coffee, and a Detail field labelled describe the effect in your own words, holding the line Boosts my focus. — The item editor. The Detail field is where you write what a thing does for you.

The Share Image screen: three layout thumbnails labelled Orb Only, Title and Detail, with a large preview of the selected Title layout below them. — Exporting. Three layouts, previewed before you send or save them.

A loadout for the things you are into

Taste is easy to feel and hard to summarize. "I like this band" flattens years of listening into four words. Equipment gives you more room: each thing gets a name, an icon, a color, and a line about what it does for you.

What tends to work as equipment here:

The series, artists, or games you are following right now
The ones that shaped you and stay permanently equipped
Things you are curious about but have not started yet

Create an Orb and choose the Freeform template. It starts nearly blank instead of handing you preset life categories, which is what you want when the subject is taste rather than biography.
Rename the categories to match how your interests actually divide. "Currently following," "Hall of fame," and "On deck" tend to be more useful than genre labels — you already know the genres.
Add an item for each thing. Search the icon library by keyword, then give each category a distinct color so the gems stay readable once they are packed into the Orb.
In the details, write what it does for you rather than what it is. "Gets me through long train rides" carries more than "indie rock band."
Equip the ones that are current. The icons pack together as you add them, and the Orb's base color shifts with the number you have equipped.

One thing worth knowing before you start writing: the text you put in the Detail field is never drawn into an exported image, in any layout. You can write the sincere version there and still share the picture.

A profile card for social media

A profile picture says how you look. A bio says what you do. Neither says what you are carrying. A status screen does — in one image, without asking anyone to read a wall of text.

There are three export layouts, and they are for different situations:

Orb Only — the sphere and its icons, nothing else. Reads as a graphic and gives away no names at all, which is the right choice when the point is the look.
Title — adds the Orb name above the sphere, plus a count of what is equipped. One word of context is often all a themed Orb needs.
Detail — lists the categories and item names beside the Orb. Best on a profile page where people will actually stop and read. This is the only layout in which your item names leave the app.

Create a second Orb just for the version you intend to show. Orbs do not share categories, items, or equipped state, so the private one stays untouched.
Equip only what you are comfortable having on a timeline. This is easier than editing afterwards, because nothing has to be deleted.
Export in the layout that matches where it is going, and post it.

The gear you actually use

This is the use the metaphor fits most literally. Desk setups, everyday carry, instruments, kitchen tools, camera bodies — things you own, chose deliberately, and would defend. A list of product names says what you have. Equipment says why each one earned its slot.

What tends to be worth an entry:

The things you reach for every single day
The ones you would replace immediately if they broke
Purchases you still think were worth it years later

Make an Orb for your gear, separate from any personal one. It doubles as a record of what you owned and when.
Split the categories by where things live rather than by what they are — "Desk," "Bag," "Kitchen" — because that is how you actually reach for them.
Search the icon library for the closest match. There is no photo of your exact model in there, and it does not matter: the icon is a marker, and the name carries the specifics.
Put the reason in the Detail field. "Replaced a cheaper one that died in a year" is the part you forget, and the part someone asking for a recommendation actually wants.
Unequip anything you have stopped using instead of deleting it. It stays in the list, out of the Orb — which turns the Orb into what you use now, and the list into what you have been through.

Note: SelfStatus is a creative self-expression tool, not a diagnostic or assessment service. It does not analyze, score, or evaluate you — everything shown on your status screen is written by you. It is not intended to provide psychological, medical, career, or any other professional advice.

What else it does

Cosmos Orb	Equipped icons pack into a sphere in a symmetric hexagonal pattern. The cosmic base color shifts with the number of items you have equipped.
Icon library	336 icons across 32 genres, searchable by keyword. All of them ship inside the app, so nothing is loaded from an external source. They are Material Icons, used under the Apache License 2.0 (see Licenses).
Categories	Rename, reorder, add, and delete freely. Each carries a color that shows in the Orb's gems.
Multiple Orbs	Fully independent from each other. Copy an item across when you want to reuse it instead of rewriting it. The web version has no limit on how many you keep; on iOS the first three are free, and each one after that is unlocked by watching a rewarded ad.
Rearranging	Long-press and drag, or use Move to Category in the ⋮ menu for categories that are distant or still empty.
Privacy	No account and no server. Everything stays on your device. Backups are JSON files, and importing one merges instead of overwriting.
Languages	Fifteen, following your device language automatically.
Price	Free. No account and no subscription, and nothing is ever bought with money — past the first three Orbs, iOS asks for a rewarded ad each time instead.

The support page walks through the same steps in more detail, and answers what happens to your data.

The SelfStatus button in the header jumps straight to the Orb. A build for the phone is on its way to the App Store.