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Zero Float has no accounts and no servers, so there is very little that can go wrong remotely — and the few things that do are usually fixable in a minute.
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Report a bug or ask a question
Because every board is generated from the date, a report only needs three things to be reproducible exactly: which puzzle, which date, and what you expected. A screenshot of the sheet is ideal. Please include your iOS version and device if the app crashed.
This is a one-person project, so replies are best-effort rather than same-day. Bugs that affect a puzzle's answer are treated as urgent.
Things worth trying first
- My progress vanished after reinstalling. Progress is mirrored into your own iCloud key-value store. Check that you are signed in to iCloud on the device and that iCloud Drive is on, then relaunch — the app merges rather than overwrites, so nothing is lost by opening it on a second device first.
- Two devices disagree. Open the app on both and leave it in the foreground for a few seconds. Sync is a union: sheets one device has never seen are added, never replaced.
- Today's sheet did not change. The day rolls over at your device's local midnight, not UTC. If the phone's clock or time zone is set manually, that is what the app follows.
- Reminders are not arriving. Check Settings › Notifications › Zero Float. The app schedules nothing before 07:00 or after 21:00 whatever you pick, drops the day's brief once you have already played, and drops to weekly on its own after five untouched days.
- Game Center is not showing scores. Sign in through Settings › Game Center. Declining it restricts nothing else in the app.
Accessibility
The app follows the system text size, works with VoiceOver, respects Reduce Motion, and ships a light and a dark theme drawn separately rather than one inverted. If something is unusable with an assistive technology, that is a bug and worth reporting.
Frequently asked
Do I need to be a planner to play?
No. Every sheet is self-contained and states its own rules, and the working is explained in full whether you get it right or wrong — so the ones you miss are the ones that teach you something. Knowing the trade makes you faster, not admitted.
Does everyone get the same puzzle?
Yes. The board is generated from the date itself, not from a server, so every player on a given day is handed the identical sheet. That is what makes a score worth comparing — and the share card carries the solved board underneath the score, so a claim can be checked rather than taken on trust.
How long does a sheet take?
About five minutes for the daily. Each puzzle has a par time it measures you against; the clock pauses the moment you leave the sheet, so putting your phone down mid-solve costs you nothing.
What happens when I get one wrong?
You see the whole working. The critical path picked out with the float on every other task, the earned value arithmetic line by line, the validation rule applied row by row. Most puzzle apps mark you and move on; the point of this one is the days you get it wrong.
What are the nineteen puzzles?
Seven on schedule, three on cost and value, six on reporting and data, two on risk, and one general. They are listed with their subjects on the overview.
Do I get all nineteen straight away?
Five are open from the first launch — one from each discipline. The rest unlock as you solve daily sheets, so the library opens up rather than landing on you all at once. The one exception is the day's headline sheet: it is always playable, unlocked or not, so you are never shut out of the puzzle everybody else is doing today.
What are the five difficulty levels?
Intro through Expert, in practice mode. The levels are genuinely different rather than cosmetic: bigger networks (an Expert Critical Path deals twelve tasks, larger than any daily), fewer tries, tighter par times, and working aids that show at Intro and Easy and disappear above them. The app recommends a level from how you have actually been scoring, not from what you tell it.
What is the difference between grade and currency?
Grade is what you reached and it never decays — you did not get worse at cost forecasting because you had a busy fortnight. Currency is whether you are still sharp, and it does decay, on a window that differs by discipline. One sheet restores it. Holding grade and currency in all five disciplines at once is Zero Float, which is the only thing in the app you can actually lose.
What is float, and what happens if I miss a day?
Float is slack in your own schedule. You bank one day for every five clear days, up to three in hand, and a missed day spends float instead of resetting your streak. You can also book leave, which freezes every currency window — nobody should lose their standing to a holiday.
What does “run your month like a project” mean?
Set a baseline of sheets for the calendar month, earn against it as you solve, and watch your own schedule performance index. There is an S-curve of earned against plan and a close-out report when the month ends. It is the same arithmetic you would run on a real project, pointed at your own habit.
Does my progress survive a new phone, or deleting the app?
Yes, if you are signed in to iCloud. Progress is stored on the device and mirrored into your own iCloud key-value store, so a reinstall or a new phone picks it back up and two devices merge rather than overwrite each other. It is your iCloud container, not a server of ours — there is no account to make.
Does it work offline?
Completely. The puzzles are generated on the device from the date, so there is nothing to download and the app makes no network requests of its own. A plane, the Underground and a site with no signal all work identically.
Is Game Center required?
No. Leaderboards and achievements go through Game Center if you are signed in, and declining it restricts nothing — every puzzle, level and progress screen works the same either way.
What data do you collect?
None. No sign-up, no advertising, no analytics, no tracking SDKs, and no backend to send anything to. The full detail is on the privacy page.
Does this count towards CPD?
It is self-directed practice, so it counts wherever your institution accepts informal or self-directed learning — which APM and PMI both do, within their own rules. The app does not issue certificates or hours, and does not claim accreditation from anybody; what it can give you is a dated record of what you practised and how you scored, which is usually what a CPD log actually wants.
Is it useful for APM or PMP revision?
It is practice rather than a syllabus. The mechanics behind the sheets — critical path and float, earned value and variance, forecasting, risk response value, reporting and data assurance — are the mechanics those exams test, and doing them under a clock beats re-reading them. It is not a substitute for the study guide.
Is there an Android or web version?
Not today. The engine started as a web build and the iOS app is a bit-exact port of it — same puzzle from the same date on either — so the groundwork exists, but there is nothing to announce.
Does it run on iPad?
Yes, natively and full-screen, laid out for the larger canvas rather than stretched.
Where do the Outturn projects come from?
Real, publicly documented projects and their published approved budgets and final outturns. It is the one puzzle where the answer was set by the world rather than by a generator.
Can I play a previous day's sheet?
The daily is the daily — once the date turns, a new one is dealt, and yesterday's closes. Practice mode is unlimited in the meantime and never repeats a board you have already been served.
How much does it cost?
There are no in-app purchases, no subscription and no advertising in this release.
Something is wrong. How do I report it?
Email [email protected]. Say which puzzle, which date and what you expected — because the board is generated from the date, that is enough to reproduce exactly what you saw.