Outcomes hold the goal.Paths are the route.Tasks do the work.Knowledge is the fuel.
Pathstory turns your ambitions into adaptive, four-layer paths — and uses real AI to design them around how you actually live. The goals companion that turns intention into a story you'll finish.
Launching on the App Store · Free to start · 7-day free trial on paid plans
Outcomes Pathstory's AI designs in real time
📚 Become deeply knowledgeable about French literature
↓ Clio designs the four-layer path
Stage 1Foundation reading · 20 pages/day · note 1 quote/week · brief: "where to start with the canon"
18
Life personas
360
Curated outcomes
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Layers · Outcomes→Knowledge + Tasklists
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Streaks · no shame
A quick tour
Everything Pathstory does, in a minute.
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The structure
Goals become a path.
Outcome → Path → Tasks → Knowledge. Every goal is broken into a route you can actually walk — not a wall of to-dos with no idea why they exist.
The model
02 / 07
Who it's for
Start from who you are.
18 personas, 360 ready-made outcomes — from couch-to-5K to first startup. Pick the version of you this goal belongs to, and the catalog is already yours.
18 personas · 360 outcomes
03 / 07
The path
See the whole route before day one.
Sequenced stages, this week's tasks and a 60-second brief for every stage — what it's about, why it works, what trips people up.
Knowledge built in
04 / 07
Clio AI
Tell Clio. Watch it build.
Describe the goal in your own words. Clio asks what she needs to know, drafts the path, suggests tasks that fit your week, builds lists from one sentence and reads a photographed list back to you.
Everything editable
05 / 07
Tasklists
Tasklists, with brains.
Doing lists finish, Bucket lists remember. Build one with Clio from a sentence, scan a paper list with the camera, share any list for free — and attach it to an outcome.
Shared · free forever
06 / 07
The work
Eight ways to track.
"Did I exercise?" and "how many pages?" aren't the same task. One-off, count, duration, check, avoid, band, trend, cumulative — each charted honestly, none of them with a streak.
Charts, not shame
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Outcome first
No more tasks that achieve nothing.
Every task on a path belongs to an outcome. Tick a box, move a goal — and read how far you've come in your own story so far.
The philosophy
The Pathstory Model
One simple idea, four enabling layers.
Most goal apps collapse everything into a wall of tasks. Pathstory separates them — so the meaning lives on top, the route lives below it, the work lives under that, and the knowledge to actually do it sits at the foundation. The whole product hangs on this idea.
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Layer 1 · Outcome
The destination — what you want to become true
The why, the horizon, the meaning. One per goal — never fragmented into more than one. Private by default; share it to a community and others can follow your approach.
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Layer 2 · Stages (the Path)
The route
An AI-designed sequence of stages toward the outcome. Fully editable. Sequential or parallel. When life changes, the plan bends — replan from today or keep your finish date, and the plan you had is kept.
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Layer 3 · Tasks
The work
Eight task shapes — one-off, count, duration, positive check, avoid, band, trend, cumulative — so the system charts your progress honestly without shaming. Mix freely inside each stage.
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Layer 4 · Knowledge
The fuel
Curated context that travels with every outcome — 60-second stage briefs (what / why / heads-up / pitfalls) and a hand-picked library of books, podcasts, tools, people, and communities. Your goal sits inside real expertise, not just app screens.
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The horizontal sidekick
Tasklists
Reusable lists that cross-cut outcomes. Bucket lists hold things to keep track of — restaurants, books, places, people; Doing lists hold tasks with due dates, reminders, subtasks, and assignees. Group related lists into Themes (Home · Travel · Work) or leave them stand-alone. Attach any list to any outcome. Seed a new list from 60 list ideas — or tap ✨ Build with Clio, describe what you're collecting, and Clio suggests items you keep, drop or refine.
Outcomes · the point of it all
You don't want more tasks done. You want something to become true.
An outcome is one sentence about what you want — "Write the book I've had in my mind for years." Everything in Pathstory exists to make that sentence true.
360
Pick one of 360 curated outcomes
18 personas × 20 outcomes each. Path drafted, tasks set, briefs and library included. Tap, adjust, go.
or
✨
Write your own with Clio
Say it in your own words. Clio asks what "done" means and what's in the way, and drafts the path.
Route
The whole path before day one. Stages, this week's tasks, a 60-second brief for each.
Move
Every tick moves the outcome. "42% of the way" — not "17 tasks done".
Bend
Life changes, the outcome doesn't. Pause it, give a stage more weeks, or replan from today. The plan you had is kept, with Undo.
Read
Your outcome writes its own story. Open "Story so far" and read how far you've come.
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The because stays on top
Your why sits at the top of the outcome, above every stage — the sentence the path was planned from.
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On pace, or catching up
The Timeline shows the plan as agreed, where you are and whether the finish has moved. Never a red deadline.
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Lists that serve the outcome
Attach a tasklist to an outcome and its tasks sit on Home beside the path.
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Pausing is allowed
Nothing expires, nothing piles up. Come back and the route is where you left it.
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What comes after
A reached outcome is told back as its pathstory — and shared as story cards, if you want.
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Private by default
Turn Share on and its community sees your stages and tasks — never your logs.
Read my pathstory
Your goals, told as a story you'll finish.
When an outcome is reached, Pathstory writes it back to you — chapter by chapter, from your own logs and notes. Nothing invented, nothing scored.
"Twelve weeks, 18 tasks. The plan bent once and you finished anyway."The closing line of a pathstory
Cover
Your why from day one, the route you took and the dates it ran.
Chapters
A chapter a stage, with its week grid — done, partly, lighter, rest. Never red.
Moments
The first time you hit a target, with the note you logged that day.
Ending
The final log and four numbers — the last of them "0 streaks", on purpose.
Clio
One note, the only part she writes: what you did, and the outcome she'd suggest next.
Five story cards — the cover, your why, a moment, the week that bent, the finish — to share as images, if you want to. Still under way? Read your story so far: the chapters begun, the rest still to be written.
Clio · Pathstory's AI
Not a chatbot. A goals agent that thinks in your direction.
Clio doesn't wait for prompts. She shapes the outcome with you, designs the path, builds your lists, reads your paper lists — and when your outcome is reached, writes the one note at the end of its story. Everything she makes is editable, and every Clio action shows its credit cost before it runs (see Pricing).
✨ Shape an outcome with Clio
It asks, you answer, it designs.
Instead of a blank form, Clio runs a short, intelligent conversation — then synthesizes an outcome, a sequence of stages, the right task shapes and a starter knowledge library. Every piece is yours to keep, edit or throw away.
✨ Clio
What does "knowing French literature" look like for you — reading the classics, reading them in French, or writing about them?
Reading the big novels, and one day in French. I loved them in my twenties.
✨ Clio
Then let's make it "Become deeply knowledgeable about French literature," over 12 months in four stages: foundation reading, a deep dive into Proust, reading in the original French, then discussing and writing. Twenty pages a day to start. Want a first pick for your reading list?
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Shape the outcome
Say the goal in your own words. Clio asks what she needs — your time, where you start, what stopped you before — and gives the outcome a short name, with the why kept on top.
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Design the path
Sequential or parallel stages, tasks in the right shapes, a 60-second brief per stage. The whole route before day one.
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Fill a stage of your own
Add a stage and Clio writes its first two or three tasks, in the shapes that chart them honestly.
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Build a list in one sentence
"Books on Stoicism." "Everything for a week in Crete with kids." Clio asks what matters, then suggests ten at a time; you keep what you like, then Get 10 more.
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Scan a list
Photograph a paper list — the fridge note, the recipe, your own handwriting. Clio reads it into a clean list, grouped by aisle, crossed-out lines marked done.
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Suggest more, in any list
Open a list and tap Suggest more: Clio reads what's already on it, offers a few directions and never suggests what's there.
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Library suggestions
Fresh picks for the outcome you're on — books, podcasts, tools, people — beside the curated library.
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A note at the end of your story
When an outcome is reached, Clio writes one note at the end of its pathstory — and names the outcome she'd suggest next.
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Clio noticed
Once a week she may spot something worth knowing — "7 to 9 pm is your hour." Never a fall, never a nag.
Tasklists · the horizontal sidekick
Lists that serve a goal — or just get the groceries done.
Not everything is an outcome. Tasklists are the everyday layer: reusable, shareable, built in a sentence or scanned from paper — and, when you want, attached to an outcome so their tasks sit on Home next to your path.
Doing list
Things to finish
Tasks with due dates, reminders, subtasks and an owner. Packing, a weekly reset, the renovation, Saturday chores. Repeating lists reset on schedule; assign a task on a shared list to whoever's doing it.
🧳 Crete packing
🧹 Weekly reset
🎂 Mum's 70th
🏠 Move house
Bucket list
Things to remember
No deadlines. Books to read, places to eat, films, people to call, ideas. Group lists into Themes — Home, Travel, Work — and fold away what you don't need this month.
📚 Books
🎧 Listen
🍽 Restaurants · Zürich
💡 Someday
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Build with Clio
Tell Clio what the list is for — "books on Stoicism", "a 4-day Lisbon trip with a toddler" — and it fills in as she writes, with a book's cover or a place's photo where one exists. Keep what fits, Get 10 more, done.
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Scan a listNew
Point the camera at a paper list — even handwriting — and Clio reads every line into a Doing list, grouped by aisle, with what was crossed out marked done. Included with Base and Premium.
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Share it — equal, quiet, free
Invite by link or email. Everyone on the list adds and ticks off, and what someone else added is marked with their name until you've seen it. Sharing is free forever.
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Shop mode
Open a shopping list in Shop mode: items by aisle, a tap into the trolley, a swipe for not found — it comes back on the next trip. The screen stays awake while you shop.
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Attach to an outcome
A list can serve a goal. Attach "Half-marathon kit" to Run a half marathon and its tasks sit on Home beside your path — one place, every step.
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60 list ideas, ready to go
Packing, a weekly reset, gift ideas, baby prep — rename one and it's yours. Save any list of your own as a template for next time.
Build with ClioScan a listA shared list
For who you actually are
18 personas. Find yourself in one — or several.
Pathstory doesn't sort people by demographics. It sorts by the kind of life outcome they pursue. Most people see themselves in two or three — tap any persona to see what's inside.
Eight ways to track
8 shapes of tasks — because not all tasks are the same.
Most apps give you one checkbox for everything. Pathstory has eight task shapes, each charted the way it actually behaves — so progress is honest, and an off day is a quieter chart, never a red one. Tap a shape to see how it's tracked.
Every chart is drawn from the very entries you logged — tap a bar and the logs behind it are listed underneath. Only ever you, compared to you.
Notifications that pull, never nag
Every nudge says what moved. Never what you missed.
Pathstory's notifications are news from your path — written to make you curious about the next step, not anxious about the last one.
19:41
Wednesday 4 November
7 to 9 pm is your hour.now
Clio noticed · Run a 5K
5 of this week's 6 logs landed there. Your reminder is already at 19:30.
Stage 2 is in the books.Tue
Run a 5K
Build endurance opens Monday · 4 new tasks. Peek before it does.
Peek at stage 3Later
Two logs from Stage 3.Mon
Run a 5K · Stage 2
Two more logs, and Build endurance opens with 4 new tasks.
11 of 14 this week.Sun
Your week's shape
Up from 8 last week · 2 outcomes moved. Tomorrow's first task is on Home already.
Your place is kept.Sat
Learn the guitar · Stage 1
Nothing expired. Practice 20 min, and Stage 1 is moving again.
It leads with what changed
A stage about to open, the shape of your week, a list someone added to. Never what you missed, never a guilt-trip.
Two a day, at most
Beyond the reminders you set yourself, Pathstory sends two a day at most. Quiet hours are kept in your own time zone, and every kind has its own switch.
Buttons that do the thing
Log 20 ✓, Done ✓, On track ✓ or Snooze 1 h, right on the reminder. The app opens already knowing what you meant.
Coming to Apple Watch
Your lists, on your wrist.
The phone and iPad are where you plan. The watch is where you'll act — a calm, glance-and-tap companion for moving paths and lists forward while you're out in the world. In design now; here is where it's heading.
Today, at a glanceEvery outcome's tasks for the day. Tick, log, move on.
Log with a turnPages read, minutes moved — dial the number with the crown.
Lists on your wristBucket lists to remember, Doing lists to finish.
Groceries, togetherShared lists stay in step, with who added what.
Tell Clio. Hands free.Say it out loud; Clio files it in the right list.
Tap. Tick. Done.One tap checks it off — no phone, no menus.
In practice
Here's what it actually looks like.
A real outcome from a real persona, walked through all four layers. Outcomes hold the goal. Paths are the route. Tasks do the work. Knowledge is the fuel.
📚 Lifelong Learner · worked example
Become deeply knowledgeable about French literature
"Reconnect with what brought me joy in my 20s — and live in the language I love."
↓ Clio's four-layer path · 4 stages · 12 months
Stage 1
Foundation reading
Months 1–3
Stage 2
Deep dive into Proust
Months 4–6
Stage 3
Read in original French
Months 7–10
Stage 4
Discuss & write
Months 10–12
↓ Tasks inside Stage 1 — mix one-off and repeatable
8 task shapes · mix freely
Read 20 pages/day · count
Buy a French dictionary · one-off
Note 1 quote/week · count
Watch a French film weekly · check
↓ Knowledge that travels with the outcome
Stage brief + curated library
📖 Stage 1 brief: "Where to start with the canon without drowning — and the three traps beginners fall into." 📚 Library: Madame Bovary · A Lover's Discourse · the Karamazov podcast · WordReference · r/literature · a Paris reading meetup.
What we refuse to do
No streaks. No leaderboards. No shame.
The category is full of apps that punish your off days. We built Pathstory as the opposite — because the system that survives a hard month is the one that actually changes your life.
Other apps
Punish missed days with broken streaks and red badges
Gamify everything with points, levels, leaderboards
Treat consistency as the goal instead of the means
Amplify shame when willpower runs out
Reward the visible — what looks good in screenshots
The Pathstory way
Replan calmly when life intervenes — no broken streaks
Honor outcomes — what becomes true in your life
Treat consistency as a means to the outcome, never the trophy
Restart without shame — the system holds when you can't
Reward the real — actual movement toward what matters
Groups · without the feed · optional
When you want company: groups, on your own terms.
No chat. No posts. No accounts to perform for. Just communities around outcomes, time-bounded challenges to join, and the choice of how present you want to be — starting fully private.
DiscoverCommunities around outcomes, browsed by persona. See how others shaped the same goal.
ChallengesTime-bounded shared outcomes. Joined · Open · Past.
🔒 Private by default
Your outcomes stay private when you join a community. Nothing about them is visible to other members — until you decide.
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Just joinBe a quiet member. You don't share your outcome. This is the default.
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Turn on ShareOne switch on the outcome: other members of its community can see its stages and tasks.
🌟 What gets shared, what doesn't
Sharing only ever exposes the structure of an outcome — the stages and tasks you set up. Your day-to-day always stays private.
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Visible to community membersStages, tasks and the why-it-matters note of any outcome you've turned Share on for.
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Never visible to anyoneWhat you do day to day — your check-ins, when you logged a task, what you skipped. That's yours alone.
🔒 Private by default🌟 Share is always opt-in
🎯 Challenges — time-bounded outcomes you join with others
Pick a finish line. Follow a shared path. See how the group's doing as you go. When the timer's up, you keep the path that worked — whether you finished or not.
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Read 4 books in November312 joined · 18 days left · 73% on track
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Run 30 km in November187 joined · 18 days left · 61% on track
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30 days of morning mobility78 joined · opens Dec 1
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Save €1,000 by year-end241 joined · 60 days · weekly transfer
Examples shown. No leaderboards: progress is shown collectively ("73% of joiners on track at this point"), never as a ranking.
The Pathstory blog
Short pieces on why goals die — and how to keep yours alive.
The thinking behind the app, three minutes at a time. No productivity hacks, no streaks, no shame.
Free to start. Credits when you want Clio to build for you.
Start from 360 ready-made paths for free, forever — and sharing lists is always free. Base and Premium add Clio AI generation on a clear monthly credit allowance. No surprises: every price below is the price you'll pay.
Free
€0/ forever
Everything you need to start
Start outcomes from 360 curated ready-made paths
Community paths — join and clone
Up to 2 active outcomes
3 core task types
Daily tracking
Shared tasklists — invite anyone, always free
Clio AI generation (new paths, replans, Build with Clio)
Unlimited active outcomes · all 18 personas · all 8 task types
7-day free trial, then €4.99/month. 50 credits during the trial, 100 every month after. One trial per Apple ID. Renews automatically unless cancelled. Prices include VAT.
7-day free trial, then €49 per year, billed annually. 50 credits during the trial, 100 every month after. One trial per Apple ID. Renews automatically unless cancelled. Prices include VAT.
Premium
€9.99/ month
€99/ year
Free for 7 days, then €9.99/month
Free for 7 days, then €99/year · €8.25/month
250 credits every month for Clio
Everything in Base — same features, same Clio
2.5× the credits — more AI usage and outcomes each month
7-day free trial, then €9.99/month. 50 credits during the trial, 250 every month after. One trial per Apple ID. Renews automatically unless cancelled. Prices include VAT.
7-day free trial, then €99 per year, billed annually. 50 credits during the trial, 250 every month after. One trial per Apple ID. Renews automatically unless cancelled. Prices include VAT.
How credits work
One balance for everything Clio generates. Each action has a fixed, visible cost — you always see it before you tap.
Create a new outcome (full path, stages, tasks, knowledge)
25 credits
Replan or extend a path
10 credits
Build with Clio — generate a tasklist
5 credits
Read my pathstory — Clio's narrative review
3 credits
Library suggestions
2 credits
Scan & Tidy with Clio
Free on paid plans
Monthly credits reset at the start of each billing month — 100 on Base, 250 on Premium. Unused monthly credits don't carry over.
Pack credits never expire. They're used only after your monthly credits run out, so nothing is wasted.
Free plan has no credits — you build from ready-made and community paths. Upgrade whenever you want Clio to design one for you.
Credit packs
Need more this month? Buy a pack in the app. Available on Base and Premium; pack credits never expire.
100 credits€2.99≈ 4 outcomes
300 credits€6.99≈ 12 outcomes · 22% less per credit
1,000 credits€19.99≈ 40 outcomes · 33% less per credit
One-time purchases, no renewal. Prices include VAT.
Questions
Frequently asked
Pricing
What are credits?
Credits are how Clio's AI generation is metered. One balance covers everything Clio creates for you: a new outcome path costs 25, a replan or extension 10, a tasklist via Build with Clio 5, Read my pathstory 3, Library suggestions 2. Scan & Tidy is free on paid plans. Base includes 100 credits a month, Premium 250. You always see the cost before you confirm.
What happens if I run out?
Everything you've already built keeps working — tracking, tasks, sharing, insights. Clio simply won't generate anything new until your monthly credits reset or you buy a pack (100 for €2.99, 300 for €6.99, 1,000 for €19.99). Pack credits are used after your monthly ones and never expire.
Do credits roll over?
Monthly credits don't roll over — they reset at the start of each billing month. Pack credits never expire and are only spent once your monthly credits are gone, so a pack you buy today is still there in six months.
How does the free trial work?
Base and Premium both start with a 7-day free trial that includes 50 Clio credits — enough for a full new outcome plus a replan and a few list builds. When the trial ends you're charged for the plan you chose and your full monthly credits (100 on Base, 250 on Premium) are added. Cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends and you pay nothing. One trial per Apple ID.
Can I cancel?
Yes, any time, from your Apple ID subscription settings. Your plan stays active until the end of the period you've paid for, and you keep whatever pack credits you bought. There's no cancellation fee and no questions asked.
About Pathstory
When can I use it?
Pathstory is in beta on iPhone and lands on the App Store soon. Join the waitlist and your download link arrives in your inbox on launch day, before it goes anywhere else.
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone and iPad first. Apple Watch is in design, and Android comes later.
Will it ever use streaks?
No. A missed day makes a chart quieter, never redder, and nothing you do resets to zero. The pathstory you read at the end even counts them: 0 streaks, on purpose.
What does Clio see, and is my data used for training?
Clio reads only what the action in front of her needs. Nothing you log is used to train anyone's model, and Pathstory never sells your data.
Stop reacting.Start writing your pathstory.
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