Kintsugi was built for adults doing the ordinary work of rebuilding, in whatever form that has taken for them. It is not aimed at people optimising an already-working life.
People whose attention does not obey them
Diagnosed with ADHD, waiting years for an assessment, or fairly sure and never pursued it. The common experience is not laziness, it is a gap between intention and action that other people seem not to have — you know exactly what to do, you meant to do it, and the day went somewhere else. Most planners make this worse by handing you a longer list and a red badge for the parts you did not reach.
People staying off something
Alcohol, drugs, gambling, or a habit with no name that has cost you more than it gave. Early days, years in, or back at the start again after a stretch that did not hold. What this group needs from software is a place to be honest, which rules out most of what software normally does with this data.
People in the wreckage of something
A relationship ended, someone died, a job went, health changed. The stage where the acute part has passed and everyone assumes you are fine, but the structure of your week is gone and nothing has grown back yet. Not a mental illness — just a life that needs rebuilding piece by piece, and no obvious service for that.
People carrying something older
Trauma, whether or not it has ever been named as that, showing up now as sleep that will not come, a temper that arrives too fast, or a distance you cannot close. Kintsugi does not treat this. What it can do is hold the ordinary scaffolding — sleep, movement, food, something to look forward to — while the real work happens somewhere it belongs, with a person.
People who have bounced off this kind of app before
Downloaded something, used it for eleven days, broke the streak, felt worse than before you started, deleted it. That experience is the reason this app exists, and the design brief was largely written by subtracting the things that caused it.
Where Kintsugi is not the answer
Short version, because it matters more than a feature list: if you need somebody tonight, use the support page rather than an app. Those lines are free, they are answered by people, and they are better at this than we are.
Kintsugi is also not treatment. It sits alongside a GP, a therapist or a fellowship rather than instead of one, and it will point you at all three without hesitating. If your relationship with food is fraught, the food log is the one part worth leaving switched off — it starts off anyway.
Everything else in it is yours to use as much or as little as you like.