Productivity
Habitat - Daily Habit Tracker
Don't-break-the-chain habit tracker with a home screen widget and a full Apple Watch app.
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- Developer
- Nikola Kirev
- Score
- 4.6
- Downloads
- 339 ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Version
- 6.1
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Habitat is a small habit tracker built on the don't-break-the-chain idea: enter an activity, set which days of the week it applies, and mark it done. After a few days the marks form a chain, and the longer the chain grows, the harder it becomes to let it lapse. That's the whole premise, and the app doesn't try to be more than that. An overview screen lists all activities, a home screen widget gives quick access, and custom notifications prompt for each task and allow marking progress from the alert. Stats are kept per habit, and entries for earlier days can be filled in retroactively. The Apple Watch app is fuller than most: it lists every habit, allows marking entries from the wrist, and shows daily progress in a glance screen. Habitat Pro removes the habit limit and adds seven extra colour themes.
Habitat - Daily Habit Tracker: the full guide
What the app is
Don't break the chain is the entire idea behind Habitat. Enter an activity, pick its days, mark it done; a chain forms, and the longer it gets the less you want to break it. Nikola Kirev, an independent developer, hasn't tried to make the app more than that.
What it does have is a thorough Apple Watch app, listing every habit, allowing marks from the wrist and showing daily progress in a glance. An overview screen, a home screen widget, notifications that accept a mark from the alert, per-habit stats and retroactive entry round it out. Habitat Pro removes the habit cap and adds seven colour themes.
How it works day to day
A notification arrives asking about today's reading. You mark it from the alert without opening the app. On the Watch, the day's habits sit in a list, and a glance shows how many are done. The chain on each habit grows a square at a time.
If yesterday's walk went unlogged, you fill it in retroactively so the chain holds. That's the full daily rhythm. There are no reports beyond per-habit stats, no social features and no coaching, which is either exactly right or not enough.
Why people look for it
Apple Watch users search for a habit tracker that works properly on the wrist, and Habitat's Watch app is fuller than most. The second group wants the chain method and nothing else. With a few hundred ratings, it surfaces for specific queries rather than generic ones.
Look and feel
Five screenshots are listed, and the chain view, a row of filled days, is the natural subject, probably with the Watch app shown alongside. The look should be minimal and native, with the Pro colour themes as the main customisation. The input doesn't describe typography or layout beyond that.
