Features
Everything in Habit Pocket.
Plainly.
The landing page is the short version. This is the full list, in the order you would meet each piece if you signed up today. No marketing words for things that don't exist yet.
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01 · The grid
Your home screen, on every device.
Rows and columns. Habits across one axis, days across the other. Click a cell to log. Streak colors deepen as the days add up. Two layouts of the same data: Timeline puts habits down and days across, Overview puts days down and habits across. Switch any time from the topbar.
Use cases
- Timeline on a laptop: habits as rows, days marching left to right, today at the right edge.
- Overview when you think in days: today on top, every habit across.
- Blank cell = missed day. Diagonal half-fill = skip (pauses the streak instead of breaking it).
- Excluded weekdays don’t count either way, so "Pilates, weekdays only" doesn’t ding you on Saturday.
Best for seeing all your habits at once, the way a calendar shows all your days at once.
02 · Four habit types
Check, count, clock, or pick.
Most trackers give you one type: a checkbox. Habit Pocket gives you four, because 'did I do it?' is not the same as 'how much?', 'when?', or 'which one?'. Time-of-day records 07:15 as a real time, not a number you have to translate. Select lets you pick from a list you define, like a mood or a workout type, color-coded, one choice or several.
Use cases
- Yes / No — one click. Meditate, read, take medication.
- Numeric — a number with an optional unit and target. 5,000 steps, 8 glasses, 76.4 kg.
- Time-of-day — an actual time, with a target time. Wake at 07:15, wind down at 22:30.
- Select — pick from a list you define, color-coded, one choice or several. Mood, energy, workout type.
- Per habit you can set color, description, unit, section, excluded weekdays, daily target, and time target.
Best for anyone who has ever tried to track sleep onset, weight, wake time, or mood and felt the checkbox was the wrong tool.
03 · Skips & rest days
A rest day doesn’t cost you the streak.
Click a cell once for done, twice for a skip. A skip passes straight through the streak: the run joins up on both sides and keeps its color, and the cell shows a diagonal half-fill so the history stays honest. Weekdays you exclude for a habit work the same way and never count as misses.
Use cases
- Ill, traveling or a planned rest day: mark it a skip, not a miss.
- Weekday-only habits: exclude Saturday and Sunday once and those cells read "Excluded".
- A third click clears the cell if you change your mind.
Best for anyone who quit a tracker the first time one bad day wiped a long streak.
04 · Goals
Goals decide what counts.
A number habit can have a daily goal with an operator: at least, exactly, or at most. A time habit can aim to be after, at, or before a time. The streak counts only the days that meet the goal, so the same coffee log is a broken run as 'at least 2' and a clean week as 'at most 2'.
Use cases
- At least — 8 glasses of water, 10,000 steps.
- At most — 2 coffees, 1 hour of social apps.
- Exactly — one multivitamin.
- Time goals — lights out before 23:00, up at 07:00.
Best for limits as well as targets: the things you want less of count too.
05 · Color bands
Numbers that color themselves.
Turn on 'Color days by their value' for a number habit and set bands: under 5,000 steps red, up to 7,000 amber, and so on. Every logged day paints its own cell, so a slow week shows up before you read a single number. Time habits get bands too, such as before and after 23:00.
Use cases
- Steps, sleep hours, water: the classic red, amber, green.
- As many bands as you need, each with its own color.
- Move a threshold and the past repaints. Nothing to re-log.
Best for reading a month of numbers at a glance.
06 · Habit pages
A page for every habit.
Every habit gets its own page of stats on the web: the streak, the rate, a heatmap of up to a year and the charts that fit the habit. Free shows the stat cards for the last 30 days and a 60-day heatmap.
Use cases
- Yes / No habits: current streak, completion, times done, every day, by weekday, by month.
- Number habits: average, best day, days on goal, the trend, by weekday.
- Time habits: average time, consistency, earliest, every day.
- Switch the window: 30 days, 90 days or 12 months.
Best for the question 'how am I actually doing at this one?'
07 · Charts
Charts you build yourself.
On the Dashboard you add only what you want. Start from the question, such as 'how consistent I've been' or 'which day of the week is weak', and the builder draws a live preview from your data. Summary and Habit cards are free, and Pro adds every chart type, including the candle chart, which we haven't seen in any other tracker.
Use cases
- Line — trends and correlations. Stack two metrics to look for patterns.
- Heatmap — one square per day for yes/no habits. Color depth grows with the streak.
- Summary — one number: an average, a total, a streak, days on goal. On Pro it can compare the days you did another habit with the days you didn't.
- Candle — paired times on one axis with an optional numeric overlay. The differentiator.
- Ranges: 30d, 60d, 90d, 180d, 365d, year-to-date. Free is capped at 60d; Pro unlocks the rest.
Best for turning a grid into a story. For the type-by-type guide on when to pick each chart, see the deep page.
08 · Ask AI
Ask AI about your grid.
Connect Claude or ChatGPT to your account over MCP. The assistant reads your history to answer in plain words, and it can write back: log a day, create a habit, build a chart. Part of Pro.
Use cases
- Ask how a habit went this month, or which days your sleep was best.
- Log by chat: "8 glasses of water today."
- Fifteen tools: read entries and stats, log days, create habits and charts.
Best for people who would rather ask a question than read a chart.
09 · Sync
One database, every device.
Real-time across iOS and the web. Mark a habit on your phone, see it on your laptop before you set the phone down. Offline-first on mobile, so your phone holds the data locally and pushes the moment it reconnects. Last-write-wins with a device-id tiebreaker, and no conflict modals.
- Cross-device users who live on a laptop most of the day and a phone the rest.
- Anyone who has lost an entry to a flaky sync layer in another tracker.
- Trips with no signal. Log in the woods, sync when you’re back.
10 · Apple Health
The habits your phone already tracks for you.
On iPhone, a numeric habit can connect to Apple Health and fill itself in every day. Steps and weight are easy to log for a fortnight and impossible to log for a year, and this is what makes the long record exist at all. Pro, and iPhone only.
Read-only, always
Habit Pocket asks Health for read access and never for write access, so nothing it does can change what your watch, scale or food app put there.
One metric at a time
Permission is asked for the moment you pick a metric, not in one sweeping request up front. Connect steps without handing over your heart rate.
Your edits win
Auto-fill may only create a missing entry or replace one it wrote itself. A value you typed is never overwritten by a later refresh.
A rolling 30 days
Every refresh re-reads the last 30 days, which quietly fixes days you never opened the app and watch data that synced late.
Sleep from Apple Health is not supported yet, so without a Garmin, wake-up and bedtime are still typed in by hand. Garmin connects directly (beta, Pro, from the day you connect): sleep, sleep score, bedtime, wake-up, steps, stress and HRV fill in after each watch sync. There is no direct Whoop or Oura integration: if your device writes into Apple Health, this reads it, and if it does not, this will not see it. All 53 metrics, and how each one is used.
11 · Organization & daily life
The small things you only notice once they’re missing.
The grid stays clean because these knobs handle the edge cases for you.
Sections
Group habits under headings like Health, Sleep, Growth. Reorder sections in the reorder screen, and drag habits between them.
Excluded weekdays
Set per habit. Pilates on weekdays only, journaling on Sundays only. Excluded days don’t count as misses or breaks.
Skips, not misses
Mark a day as a skip and the streak pauses instead of resetting. The cell shows a diagonal half-fill so the history stays honest.
Archive & restore
Done with a habit? Archive it. The history stays, the daily view stays clean, and you can restore at any time.
Hand-ordered habits
Inside a section, habits are sorted by hand. No alphabetical surprises, no automatic re-rank when you log.
Per-habit color and description
Pick a color for the streak fill, write a one-line description so future-you remembers why this habit is on the list.
12 · Accounts & data
Your account, your data, your call.
Plain authentication. Plain settings. Plain export. Plain delete.
Sign in your way
Email and password, Google OAuth, or Sign in with Apple on mobile (web rollout in progress). Reset flow built in.
Sensible session lengths
7-day sessions by default, 60 days if you tick "Remember me." Mobile tokens live in the system keychain.
Timezone & week-start
Picked up automatically on sign-up. Override either one from settings. Week starts on Monday or Sunday, your call.
12-hour or 24-hour time
The time-of-day type and the candle chart both follow your format preference. No mixing on the same screen.
Dark mode
Live on mobile today, coming to web later. Matches your system setting by default.
CSV export
One click from settings, gets you every habit and every entry. JSON export including chart configs is on the roadmap.
Account deletion
One click wipes refresh tokens and erases user-owned data in a single transaction. No 30-day soft-delete purgatory.
No ads, no tracking pixels
Sentry for crash diagnostics, the standard auth provider analytics, nothing else. Read the full statement on the privacy page.
13 · What Habit Pocket won’t do
The absences are the product, too.
Habit Pocket has decided to be small in three specific ways. These are positions, not roadmap delays.
No nagging
A daily nag drives short-term opens at the cost of long-term trust. Push reminders are on the roadmap, but they’ll be opt-in and quiet, never a guilt-trip. Until then, a calendar event will outlast any habit app.
No gamification
No XP, no points, no levels, no party quests, no avatars, no unlockable cosmetics. The reward for tracking a habit is seeing the data accumulate.
No social layer
No feed, no friends list, no leaderboards. If you want accountability, share the link to a chart with one specific person.
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