Words used in Futurecast
You do not need to learn this list before using the app.
You do not need to learn this list before using the app. Look up a word when you need it.
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| Future | A short statement you save and practice. It can include an image and voice audio. |
| Board | A group of futures, often about one part of your life. |
| Board intention | A description of what you want a board to be about. It helps Futurecast suggest new futures for that board. |
| Writing style | The way you want new suggested futures to sound. |
| Practice | Time spent viewing or listening to your futures. |
| Daily ritual | The set of futures you choose for daily practice. |
| Custom Ritual | A daily ritual made from individual futures you choose. |
| Focused on | The board or custom set your daily ritual is using. |
| Text card | A future shown with its words as the main part of the card. An image is not required. |
| Vision | An image for a future. In your Visions balance, it also means one unit of allowance used to create or edit an AI image. |
| Visions balance | Your allowance for making or changing images with AI. AI means artificial intelligence. |
| Vision Pack | A one-time purchase that adds to your image allowance. |
| Futurecast+ | Futurecast's paid membership. The purchase screen explains the current plan and what it includes. |
| Voice recording | Audio you record yourself. |
| Voice Clone | An AI version of your voice, made from a sample you record. Futurecast can use it to read new futures aloud. |
| My Likeness | The part of Profile for your reference images and voice settings. Likeness means how you look or sound. |
| Reference Images | Photos of you that help guide AI images. These are different from images already saved on futures. |
| People & Pets | Saved people or pets you can choose for an AI image. |
| Featuring | The choice of who should appear in an AI image. |
| Reflect | A quiet pause during practice. |
| Reps | Repetitions. How many times a future's voice plays before moving on. |
| Loop | The futures included when you play a board. Add to Loop includes a future. Pause from Loop leaves it out without deleting it. In playback settings, looping means playing again. |
| Repeat | Play a future or group again. This changes playback, not which boards contain the future. |
| Ambient sound | Background sound, such as music or nature sounds. |
| Audio Focus | How Futurecast's audio works alongside sound from other apps. |
| Mini player | The small playback bar near the bottom of the app. |
| Pinned board | A board marked for easier access. Pinning it does not choose your daily ritual. |
| Collage | The small group of images or text cards that forms a board's cover. |
| Declaration | Your future's words. You may see this term when saving an image with the words included. |
| Recently Deleted | A place to recover deleted futures and boards before they are removed for good. |
| Backup | A saved file containing a copy of your Futurecast data and the media included in that export. |
| iCloud Sync | Keeping Futurecast content up to date across devices through Apple's iCloud service. |
| Restore Purchases | Ask Apple and Futurecast to check a past purchase. This is different from importing your library from a backup. |
| Account ID | The identifier support can use to find your Futurecast account. It is not a password or an email sign-in. |
| Connected Agents | Outside AI assistants you have given permission to access Futurecast. You choose their access and can disconnect them. |
| Connector | A connection that lets an AI assistant work with another app. Some services call it an app or plugin. |
| MCP | The standard an assistant uses to find and use Futurecast's tools. |
| CLI | Command-line interface. A tool you control by typing commands on your computer. |
| Queued | A requested change is waiting for your phone to apply it. |
| Daily cut or your cut | A selected set of futures on the website. A daily cut is provided for you. Your cut contains the futures you pick. |