NoRush
A faith-centered rest ritual for Christians: once a day, at a surprise moment, everyone in your circle stops together for seven minutes — no feed to chase, just one honest photo of your rest, shared with the people you love.
Thirteen real moments, May to September.
Built in the open, from the first TestFlight build through two rebrands to today — dated straight from the photo library, not staged after the fact.
A rest app is only as good as its community.
Anyone can build a countdown timer. The hard part was the social side: a BeReal-style daily prompt only works if it fires for everyone at once, on their own time zone, and the feed feels alive when they open it.
Client, backend, and the plumbing between them.
- Client: SwiftUI, built on an MVVM architecture.
- Backend: Firebase — Auth, Firestore, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Messaging — plus TypeScript Cloud Functions running the scheduled, timezone-aware daily notification.
- Live activity: a lock-screen countdown via APNs push-to-start ActivityKit Live Activities.
- Real-time: Firestore listeners with optimistic UI, 1:1 and group messaging, and content-moderation security rules.
Live, rated 4.9, and still updating.
NoRush has been live on the App Store since June 2026, currently sitting at a 4.9-star average. It hasn't sat still since launch — version 2.7.1 shipped a reworked verse-navigation flow, fixed a black-bar bug in the Scripture reader, and cleaned up the daily rotation, the kind of small correction that only surfaces once real people are using the app every day.