User Guide

Last updated: 11 August 2026


Thank you for using Sabiowl 🪶

This page walks through each screen with a short video and step-by-step instructions. Pick the screen you want from the contents below.

For anything not covered here, please write to us from Settings → Contact us in the app.

Where things are

This page refers to two entry points. It is worth knowing where they are before you read on 🪶

What we call it Where it is What it opens
The bottom menu The tabs along the bottom Home / Challenge / Guild / Calendar
The menu (☰) The icon at the top right of Home Help Guide / Sleeping World / Stats / Change Character / Achievements / Gacha / Friends / Buy Diamonds / Notifications / Settings

Contents


🏠 Home

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Home is the centre of your day. The frame at the top shows the scene you are working on, and below it sit today’s habits, to-dos and events.

What you can do here

  1. Look at the frame and take in today's scene
  2. Tap "+1" on a habit card to mark today's step
  3. Check the day ahead on the timeline

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📝 Adding tasks, events and habits

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Sabiowl has three kinds of entry: habits, to-dos and events.

Kind What it is for Examples
Habit Something you repeat A morning walk, reading, strength training
To-do A task you finish once A bank errand, submitting a form
Event Something at a set time A meeting, an appointment, a plan with someone

How to add one (the same for all three)

  1. Tap the "+" button at the bottom right of Home
  2. Choose "Add habit", "Add to-do" or "Add event"
  3. Enter a title (you can also pick from suggestions for common ones)
  4. Set the category, frequency, time of day and so on
  5. Tap "Save". It appears on Home right away

If you have Quick Notes turned on, the button at the bottom right becomes a note field instead (see “Quick Notes” below).

When a completion is recorded

The moment you tap, it is recorded. If you complete something more than once in a day, the count is recorded too.

Three ways to record

Type When to use it How you record
Count When you want to count repetitions, like “30 push-ups” Tap “+1” to add to the count
Checklist When there are several items to work through, like “five things before leaving” Tap the checkbox on each item
To-do When it finishes in one go, like a bank errand Tap the completion mark once

Pick whichever fits the shape of the habit 🪶

Protecting a streak

Go to Settings → Streak Protection and turn on “Protect streaks automatically”. While you have stones in stock, one is spent automatically the moment a streak would break, and the streak is kept.

Streak protection stones are available in the shop for 💎 30 each. If you fall ill partway through, this quietly protects what you have built 🪶

Quick Notes

Somewhere to write things down before you decide what they are. For anything you have thought of but not yet made into an event, a to-do or a habit: write it down now and sort it out later 🪶

Getting started

  1. Turn on "Settings → Quick Notes"
  2. The button at the bottom right of Home becomes a note field
  3. Write down whatever came to mind
  4. Later, tap the note and choose "Save as Event", "Save as To-Do" or "Save as Habit"

Writing by voice

Tap the microphone in the input field and what you say becomes text. The transcription is done by your device’s operating system: the audio itself is never sent to our servers. See Article 2 of the Privacy Policy for details.

Finding and restoring

If you would rather not use Quick Notes, you can turn it off again under Settings → Quick Notes. While it is off, the button at the bottom right of Home works as “+” (add) as usual.

Archive vs. Trash

Swipe a habit card left or right for two ways to tidy up:

Action What happens Recovery
Archive (swipe right) Temporarily removed from the list Restore at any time
Trash (swipe left) Scheduled for deletion Restore within 30 days; deleted permanently after that

Both show a confirmation dialog first, so you cannot do either by accident. Open Archive from the filter bar above the habit list on Home: it has two tabs, Archive and Trash, and you can review and restore from either.

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🌙 The sleeping world

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The sleeping world is where what you build up day by day takes shape as a scene. Each habit you complete gathers a fragment, and when a scene is whole, it begins to move.

How fragments are gathered

  1. Your first completed habit of the day creates one outline fragment (grey)
  2. Winning a battle that day turns it into a colour fragment
  3. When every fragment has colour, the scene is complete and starts to move

Once a scene is complete, you can choose the next one from the scene selection screen. Finished scenes stay in the frame on Home 🪶

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🎯 Challenges

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A challenge is a shared monthly goal that every user works toward together. There is nothing special to do — completing a habit in the target category adds your contribution automatically.

How to take part

  1. Open "Challenge" from the bottom menu
  2. Check this month's target categories, such as Fitness or Learning
  3. Complete a matching habit (one contribution counted per day)
  4. Pass the three tiers — 🥉 Bronze, 🥈 Silver, 🥇 Gold — to earn EXP rewards

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⚔️ Guild (battles)

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At the guild, Lilia at the desk introduces you to opponents. Winning earns EXP, coins, weapons and colour fragments.

How a battle goes

  1. Open "Guild" from the bottom menu
  2. Pick an opponent from the board (one near your own level is a good place to start)
  3. Tap "Take on" to begin
  4. When the ATB gauge fills, tap to attack or use a skill
  5. Win, and your rewards and fragments arrive

Battle speed

From the app bar on the battle screen you can switch between 1x, 1.5x, 2x and 3x. Speed it up when you are in a hurry, or keep it at 1x when you want to watch it play out 🪶

Battle tickets

Setting out from the guild costs 3 battle tickets. You earn one ticket for every habit you complete (up to 30, which is ten battles’ worth).

In other words, what you need in order to fight comes from what you have built up that day. Each small step is also preparation 🪶

The guild icon in the bottom menu shows where you stand:

Badge What it means
✓ × N You can set out (N is how many battles you have left today)
🔒 You have reached today’s battle limit
No badge You do not have 3 tickets yet

The guild screen also tells you how far off you are: “Complete N more habits to deploy.”

How many battles a day

Separately from tickets, there is a daily limit — 10 by default. You can also expand it by up to 5 more slots from the shop.

If you see “No more challenges today”, the count resets when the date changes at midnight.

Enemy weaknesses and resistances

Weakness and resistance information appears only for enemies you have beaten at least once. We want the first attempt to keep the tension of not knowing quite what you are facing.

Once you have beaten an opponent, we will show you the hints — which elements it is weak to and which it resists — from then on 🪶

Using recovery potions

Set how many you plan to use (0–3) on the sheet before the battle, and one is used automatically whenever your HP drops to 30% or below.

There is no need to judge the timing mid-fight, so you can stay with the rhythm of the attacks. Recovery potions are available in the shop for 💎.

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📅 Calendar

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The calendar shows a month at a time, so you can look back over what you have built. You can review past records and statistics, and add upcoming events.

What you can do here

  1. Open "Calendar" from the bottom menu
  2. Tap a day to see that day's record
  3. Open "30-day statistics" to see how far you have come, as a graph
  4. Tap "+" at the top right to add an event

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🦉 Characters

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In Sabiowl you pick one character to travel with. Each has a way of fighting that suits them — their job — and your own growth becomes their strength.

What you can do here

  1. Open the menu (☰) → "Change Character" to see the ones you own
  2. Choose one you like and tap "Use" to travel with them instead
  3. The stats screen shows how your six abilities are growing
  4. You can also assign stat points by hand when you level up

Where characters come from

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🎰 Gacha

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The gacha is designed as a small reward for what you build up day by day.

Three kinds

Kind How you get tickets Main rewards
Daily Logging in and completing habits Experience, XP boosts, weapons
Weekly Completing weekly missions Diamonds, XP boosts, weapons, an SSR character (0.5%)
Monthly Guaranteed SSR for 21 days completed this month A guaranteed unowned SSR character

How to draw

  1. Open the menu (☰) → "Gacha"
  2. Tap "Draw" for whichever tickets you have
  3. After the animation, your reward is added (you can check the history at any time)

About the 21-day guaranteed SSR ticket

The moment your completed days this month reach 21 — and they do not have to be consecutive — we send you one guaranteed SSR gacha ticket.

Using it on the gacha screen gets you one SSR character you do not yet own, guaranteed. It arrives when you reach 21 days rather than at the end of the month, so it lands naturally as a reward for what you have been doing 🪶

Where SSR characters come from, in summary

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💎 Buying diamonds (premium)

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Diamonds are the in-app currency, used for buying characters, expanding slots and so on. There is plenty to enjoy without spending anything, but if you would like to support the app, you can buy diamonds as well.

Three diamond packs

Product Price Contents
120 Diamonds ¥120 120
660 Diamonds ¥600 660 (+10% bonus)
1,440 Diamonds ¥1,200 1,440 (+20% bonus)

How to buy

  1. Open the menu (☰) → "Buy Diamonds"
  2. Choose the pack you want
  3. Authenticate with your Apple ID
  4. Once the purchase completes, the diamonds are added automatically

Before you buy

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More

If anything is unclear, please write to us from Settings → Contact Us in the app. We will do our best to help you enjoy Sabiowl at your own pace 🪶

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