A habit tracker with no account, no subscription and no ads
What “free” trackers quietly cost you, and how to get 1 that just counts your days.
Leanfinit · 4 min read
A habit tracker is 3 fields: the habit, today, done. It is one of the simplest tools a person can want. And yet the first 5 results in any store will ask for your email before you tap a single box, then show a “7-day free trial” screen a week later.
What you’re actually paying with
None of this is evil; it’s how a free app funds a team of 12. But “sobriety, day 41” or “anxiety meds taken” should not be a row in someone else’s database. For personal habits, the right amount of data to leave your phone is none.
The 3 fields a habit tracker needs
- 1HabitA short name. Walk. Read. No sugar.
- 2Today1 tap marks it done.
- 3HistoryA grid of days, so you can see the chain.
Keeping your streak on your device
An app with no server has nothing to sync, nothing to leak and nothing to subscribe to. It opens instantly, works on a plane, and the only person who can see day 41 is you. Describe the tracker — your habits, your reminder time — and that is what you get.
“Habit tracker for 3 habits: morning walk, 20 pages, no sugar. 1 tap per habit per day, a year-long heatmap per habit, current streak and best streak. Remind me at 20:00 if anything is unticked. No account.”
Make it yours afterwards: colour per habit, notes on hard days, a weekly target instead of daily. Say it, and it changes.
Describe your own app →
Takes a few sentences. Private, yours.