Private beta
Your testing booklet.
Thank you for testing Visible Needs with your household. Everything you need is on this page. It takes about five minutes to read, and you can come back to it any time.
- How long
- Two weeks
- How much time
- A few minutes a day, plus 20 minutes at the end of each week
- Who
- You and the person you live with — both of you
- Cost
- Nothing, now or later
Installing
You will have received a separate invitation from Apple or Google. Open it on the phone you will actually use.
iPhone or iPad
- Install TestFlight from the App Store — it is Apple’s app for testing apps.
- Open the invitation email from Apple on your phone and tap the link.
- TestFlight opens and shows Visible Needs. Tap Install.
- From then on, updates arrive through TestFlight.
Android
- Open the invitation email from Google on your phone.
- Tap the link and accept the invitation to become a tester.
- Tap the Play Store link on the same page and install as normal.
- It may take a few minutes after accepting before the app appears.
What to do
Please use it as a household rather than testing features one by one. If you only do one thing, make it the conversation at the end of week one.
- Day 1
- One of you creates the household and invites the other. Both complete the short setup — in your own language if you prefer; you can change it on the very first screen.
- Days 1–3
- Each of you adds three needs. Include one you would not normally say out loud.
- Every few days
- Answer the capacity check-in when the app asks. It is two taps and it is not homework.
- Day 7
- Sit down together for twenty minutes, in the same room. Look at the balance map, then open one need you both care about and turn it into an agreement — something small and specific that one of you will actually do.
- Days 8–13
- Carry on normally. If the agreement actually happened, open Agreements and tap “Mark kept”. If it did not, leave it alone — that is a real answer too, and day 14 will show it as still carried.
- Day 14
- Open Reflection together. It shows how your agreements landed and asks what would help your family most next. Save it, then we will send you a short survey.
The day-7 conversation is the part we most want to hear about. Turning something unsaid into an agreement is the whole point of the product, and the part we are least sure about.
Telling us something
Anything at all — broken, confusing, annoying, or simply wrong for your family.
- In the app: Settings → Support → Give feedback.
- By email: beta@visibleneeds.site — a reply always reaches a person.
What helps most: what you were trying to do, what happened instead, and roughly when. A screenshot is worth a paragraph. “I do not know why but I stopped opening it on Thursday” is a genuinely useful report — please send that one too.
Your data
This is a real app holding real information about your household, so it is treated that way. Your needs are yours: what you mark private stays private, including from the person you live with. You can export or delete everything at any time, and deleting means deleted.
Questions
Write to beta@visibleneeds.site. There is no wrong question during a beta, and “I did not understand what this screen wanted” is one of the most useful things you can send.
When it ends
After two weeks we will ask a few short questions and you can keep the app, delete your data, or both. Nothing continues without you choosing it, and there is no charge at any point.