Creative mode & Shift
Choose a frame, set the view, decorate with plants, lanterns, critters and doodles, and tune the light — whatever reflects your headspace. Tap Shift to try on a perspective you wouldn't have picked.
Shift how you see your day.
Perspexa is a window you decorate. Put your to-do list, your photo, or your mood behind the glass, choose a frame, and see it differently.
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How Perspexa works
Change the frame, change the view
Almost any situation has something useful in it, if you can shift how you're looking at it. The window frame is your perspective. The scene behind it is your day. Change the frame and the same day looks different.
Your to-do list, but it's the view
Every task becomes an object in the window. Check it off and it leaves. When the list is done, you're left with the view. Progress you can see, and then quiet.
Put anything behind the glass
Your kitchen at 7am. The museum you visited. The thing you're dreading. Drop a photo into the pane, pinch to place it, and frame it. A small act of reframing.
Private by design. Everything you make stays on your iPhone or iPad. We don't collect your data, and we never see your windows.
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Every window is an invitation.
Joyful Window is a small independent studio built on a simple belief: the frame you look through shapes what you see. Change the frame, and the same room, the same day, the same to-do list can look entirely different.
We make calm, human tools and honest writing for anyone who wants to shift their view — to notice the opportunity that was there all along. Perspexa is our first app.
“Perspective is everything, and opportunity is everywhere.”
Ritual packs · available now
A ritual, delivered
Ready-made checklist scenes: a window, a view, and three small things to do, already placed in the glass. They're in the app today: a Beginner's Ritual for anyone starting at zero, and a Daily Astrology ritual for anyone who follows the sky. Get Perspexa on the App Store. Sign up to hear when new packs arrive, plus the occasional ritual note and Perspexa news. No spam.