Way of Life - Habit Tracker

Way of Life is a habit log that asks for one decision per habit per day: did it happen or not. Each answer is a green or red block, and the blocks stack into a grid that gets harder to argue with as the weeks pass. It has been around since 2010, which in this category counts as old.

The free tier covers a few habits and includes almost every feature. Paying only raises the habit cap. Chains, charts, a scoreboard, notes, tags, reminders, widgets, Siri and Shortcuts support, Face ID locking and CSV, Excel or JSON export are all part of the base app.

A typical evening takes well under a minute. The app pings you at a time you set, with a message you wrote yourself if you bothered to. You open it, tap green or red down the list, maybe attach a note to a day that went sideways, and close it.

The payoff comes later. After a few weeks the chains show which habits hold and which keep snapping, the pie and bar charts put a trend line on it, and the weekly and monthly scoreboard tells you whether this month beat the last one. Tags keep a long habit list sorted into sleep, food, exercise or whatever you choose.

People search for it because other trackers ask too much. A binary yes-or-no is faster than logging minutes or quantities, and the two-colour grid is readable at a glance. The 4.8 rating from about a thousand reviews suggests the people who use it are happy with the restraint, and the generous free tier gets it recommended in habit-tracking threads as a low-commitment starting point.

Expect grids of coloured blocks, not illustrations. The five App Store screenshots will most likely show the daily list, the chain view and a chart or two. Themes include Dark, Light, Rose and a Retro C64 option that is clearly a joke the developer enjoys, and there is a colour-blind mode so the green-red system still works for everyone.