Build habits that stick — measured by how automatic they become, not how many days you’ve performed for an app.
habito measures the real outcome: automaticity. One honest signal for habits you define entirely in your own words. No streaks to defend, no points to chase — the reward is the result in your life.
Most apps optimise for the metric that shows up, not the one that matters.
Streaks punish a single missed day.
A streak that resets to zero on one miss amplifies all-or-nothing thinking — the what-the-hell effect — where one slip becomes a reason to abandon the whole effort. A missed day doesn't break a habit.
Badges and points crowd out the real reward.
Extrinsic rewards can erode the intrinsic motivation that actually sustains a habit over years — the overjustification effect. Once the habit clicks, you feel it.
Performing for an app is not habit formation.
Logging an action to keep a number alive is a different psychological act from doing it because you no longer decide to. Most habit apps measure the first and report it as the second.
Four principles, held quietly.
Automaticity over streaks
Your progress is a single automaticity signal computed over a trailing window — a curve that rises quickly, then flattens as the behaviour stops requiring a decision. Nothing about it resets.
Bands, not day-counts
Forming, strengthening, established — derived from that signal, never from a day-count. A band is earned slowly and a missed day never drops you out of one.
Never miss twice
One miss is normal: habito quietly offers the minimum version tomorrow. Two consecutive misses is the only thing it flags, and it flags it as attention, not failure.
Planned rest is not failure
Days outside your chosen cadence are not misses and never appear as gaps. A weekday habit owes you nothing on Sunday.
A small loop, repeated until it becomes automatic.
Define the habit in your own words.
A name and a cadence is enough. A cue, a minimum version, a target, an area — all optional, all yours to phrase. habito ships blank by design: no strict templates or complex taxonomy to fit into.
Tap once to mark it done.
The tap is the whole interaction. A measurement, a part of day, an optional note and mood check — you can add them, and none of them can block the tap. One tap is always a complete log.
Read it back, occasionally.
The band matures, the calendar fills in, and Progress shows you what your own data says. When you want it, a reflection reads your own data back to you.
Habits don’t form on a schedule. They form through compound repetition that survives missed days.
18–254days for a behaviour to become automatic in a real-world study — the range, not an average. There is no magic universal twenty-one-day finish line.
We show a maturing band, not a countdown, because the honest answer is it depends on you and the behaviour. A range that wide cannot be turned into a progress bar without lying about it. You decide when a habit is finished or archived — we just organise your data.
An honest filter. This is not the right app for everyone.
habito is for
- People who want a real change in their life.
- People who tried streak-and-badge apps and want something quieter, less dopamine.
- People who care about the science behind habit formation and human behaviour.
- People who'd rather see a maturing curve and simple analytics than a counter or a streak.
habito is not for
- People who want gamification, leaderboards, or daily celebrations.
- People who want a dopamine hit from the app itself.
- People who just measure progress in points.
- People who want an app that coaches or prescribes — our AI reflection reads your data back, it doesn't advise.
If you’re in the second list, that’s fine — and probably a sign you’ll be happier elsewhere.
You can start free or hire our tiny agent to take notes of your activity for you.
Premium buys interpretation, not access to your own data. Your habits, your history and your export are free, and always will be.
Free
EUR 0
forever
- Unlimited habits.
- Full history.
- Every metric.
- Export and delete any time.
Premium
EUR 1.49 / week
EUR 4.99 / month, or EUR 39.99 / year — the yearly price is 33% less than paying monthly.
- AI reflection: a written retrospective of your own data. Not shipped yet — it is what Premium will include.
The objection to subscriptions was never that paying is wrong. It was that subscriptions farming your engagement and gating your own history are wrong. A cheap one that never touches your data is a different thing.
Habits, measured honestly.
No marketing drip. Just product updates and feedback requests.