Wave 4 Live: Routine Flow Player & Resilient Habit Scores
Traditional habit trackers break your heart: miss one day out of fifty and your streak crashes to zero. ProperHabit is the anti-punishment habit operating system. Schedule-aware streaks, Loop-style resilient habit scores that survive bad days, voice & haptic routine flows, and automated progressive overload. 6 habits free forever, zero accounts, and 100% open data portability.
Built natively for iOS 18 with SwiftData and haptics. No server ever touches your data.
The Anti-Punishment Manifesto
Traditional trackers treat humans like linear machines. Miss one day out of 50 and they hit you with a big fat zero. That punishment design triggers shame spirals and leads 92% of people to abandon the app. ProperHabit is built around human resilience.
You executed for 25 straight days. On day 26, you get sick or have an emergency. The app resets your counter to zero.
Day 26 Missed
0 DAYS
Result: Your brain concludes "I ruined it anyway", dopamine crashes, and you delete the app. Exactly what ADHD and neurodivergent power users hate most.
ProperHabit uses non-linear decay (Loop algorithm). 25/26 completed days is not failure: it is 92% habit mastery.
Resilience Score
92% STRENGTH
Result: Grace Days absorb life slips. Your identity stays intact as someone who keeps going. You never look at a demotivating zero again.
Interactive Innovation
Try the four breakthrough engines that make ProperHabit impossible to abandon.
Zero Decision Fatigue
Routinery charges $60/year for this. ProperHabit builds it right into your habit OS. Stack your morning or evening rituals into sequential steps. As soon as you finish one, audio and haptic cues guide you directly into the next.
CURRENT HABIT
Morning Hydration (500ml)
The Gold Standard (Loop Algorithm)
Instead of a fragile single-number streak that shatters, ProperHabit computes an exponentially weighted moving resilience score. Every completion increases habit automaticity; a rest day gently decays it, but months of dedication remain preserved.
"83% consistency over a month is a triumph, not an abject failure."
HABIT AUTOMATICITY
89%
Resilient Strength · UnbreakableCalculated on-device: 2 misses in 30 days reduces score by only 4%, keeping momentum alive.
Quantitative Level-Up
Most trackers only understand "done or not done". ProperHabit analyzes your numerical output (reps, ounces of water, minutes of meditation). When you consistently crush your baseline, it prompts you to level up.
ENGINE SUGGESTION
10 reps → 12 reps (+15%)
Consistency reached 93% over the last 14 days. Tap to adopt new target.
Zero Prying Eyes
Interactive widgets are the #1 way people track habits, but you don't always want colleagues, family, or strangers on the subway seeing your therapy sessions, antidepressant doses, or addiction recovery goals. Stealth Mode masks sensitive items with neutral labels.
Try toggling the switch on the right to see the widget transform in real time.
The Complete Toolkit
Everything you need to master your days, with zero dark patterns and zero data capture.
Power users hated that competitors didn't let you group exercises or morning steps. ProperHabit lets you attach checklists inside any habit (e.g. Exercise: Pull-ups, Push-ups, Squats) and check them off in one single screen.
Quitting vaping, impulse takeouts, or alcohol? ProperHabit tracks negative habits with a real-time money-saved ticker so you can see financial freedom compound day by day.
$842 Saved · 45 Days Clean
GitHub-style year grid. Tap any past day to inspect, edit, or backfill completions without disrupting your streak calculation.
Premium. Real-time background observer queries auto-complete steps, mindfulness, sleep, and workouts the instant Apple Health records them. Read-only on device.
Drinking water at 9:00, 12:00, 15:00, and 18:00? Set multiple customizable alerts per habit with interactive action buttons right in the iOS notification banner.
Your habit history is your life. We never hold your data hostage behind a subscription paywall. Export and import full CSV, JSON, and SQLite backups in the free tier anytime.
Market Reality
We analyzed 20 top trackers and hundreds of 1-star reviews. Here is how we stack up against the market leaders.
| Feature | ProperHabit | Streaks | Loop Tracker | Habitify | Routinery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Habit Limit | 6 Habits Free | Paid only ($5.99) | Unlimited | Paywalled at 3 | Paywalled at 2 |
| Anti-Punishment Score | ✓ Resilient Loop | ✕ Zero reset | ✓ Habit score | ✕ Zero reset | ✕ Linear |
| Routine Flow Player | ✓ Included (Timers + Auto-Next) | ✕ No flow | ✕ No flow | ✕ No timers | ✓ $5.00 / month |
| Quantitative Progression | ✓ Automated +15% | ✕ None | ✕ None | ✕ None | ✕ None |
| Subtasks in Habits | ✓ Included Free | ✕ No subtasks | ✕ No subtasks | ✕ Premium only | ✕ Flat routines |
| Privacy Stealth Widgets | ✓ Included Free | ✕ None | ✕ None | ✕ None | ✕ None |
| 2-Way Data Export / Import | ✓ 100% Free (CSV, JSON, SQLite) | ✕ Limited | ✓ Free CSV/SQLite | ✕ Paywalled | ✕ Paywalled |
| No Account / Zero Tracking | ✓ 100% Local-First | ✓ Local | ✓ Open Source | ✕ Cloud Account | ✕ Cloud Account |
Fair Economics
We hate greedy $10/mo paywalls that hold your 3-habit streak hostage. ProperHabit is built on transparent, fair pricing.
$0forever
Not a trial. No account required. Generous and functional forever.
No credit card · Zero data capture
$19.99/year
Includes 7-day free trial ($1.67/mo equivalent). Cancel anytime.
Billed yearly by Apple StoreKit · Cancel anytime
$34.99once
Zero subscriptions. Pay once, enjoy all current and future Pro features forever.
One-time purchase handled securely by Apple
What happens if you cancel Pro? Nothing is ever deleted. You keep every single habit, completion record, and streak. If you have more than 6 habits, they all remain 100% tickable and exportable; you simply cannot add a new one until you are below six.
Real Feedback
Here is why users who abandoned other trackers finally stick with ProperHabit.
"Every other habit tracker sent me into a depressive shame spiral the moment I missed a day due to work travel. ProperHabit's resilient scoring and grace days actually treat me like a human being. It saved my consistency."
"Routine Flow replaces a $60/yr Routinery subscription, and having unencrypted SQLite/CSV export in the free tier proves the developers actually care about data ownership. No accounts, no telemetry. 10/10."
"Stealth mode on widgets is genius. I track my sobriety and therapy homework without my coworkers peeking at my phone during meetings. The auto +15% progression overload makes my workouts addictive."
Traditional trackers punish you: miss one day out of fifty and your streak drops to zero. That punishment design triggers shame spirals and leads people to delete the app. ProperHabit uses schedule-aware streaks, grace days, and a Loop-style resilient habit score that measures consistency rather than perfection. 25 out of 26 days completed gives you a 92% strength score, not a zero.
Routine Flow is a sequential habit player that guides you step-by-step through a morning, evening, or workout routine. It features haptic and audio cues, active countdown timers, a 2-minute rule toggle for low-energy days, and auto-advances to the next habit upon completion. It eliminates decision fatigue.
Never. Unlike competitors that hold your history hostage behind a monthly subscription, ProperHabit gives 100% free two-way data portability. You can export and import your entire database in CSV, JSON, or SQLite formats anytime in the free tier.
No. ProperHabit is 100% local-first: no sign-up, no email, no password, and no tracking servers. Your habits live in a local SQLite database on your iPhone. Even optional iCloud sync uses your own private Apple account that nobody else can access.
Quantitative Progression brings the athletic concept of progressive overload to daily habits. When your consistency score exceeds 80% over 14 days, the engine automatically recommends a 15% increase in repetitions or 5 extra minutes of focus, preventing plateaus.
Some habits are deeply private: medication, therapy, sobriety, or sensitive routines. Stealth Mode allows you to toggle sensitive habit titles on widgets and Lock Screen into neutral labels like Personal Goal, preventing onlookers from seeing your private life.
Schedule-aware streaks only count the weekdays you selected for that habit: if you run Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, your rest days on Tuesday and Thursday never break the streak. Furthermore, a Grace Day automatically protects your streak if an unplanned emergency causes you to miss a scheduled day.
Yes. ProperHabit can auto-complete habits based on real-time Apple Health queries for steps, workouts, mindful minutes, and sleep. It is read-only and runs strictly on your device without transmitting data anywhere.
Yes. Avoid habits include a live money-saved counter. Enter what you spend on cigarettes, alcohol, or impulse delivery, and ProperHabit tracks your consecutive clean days alongside the cumulative money saved in your local currency.
A habit can contain multiple subtasks. For example, a Morning Routine can include Drink 500ml water, Take vitamins, and 5-min stretch. You can check off individual steps or complete the entire habit at once.
The free tier includes up to 6 active habits forever with all 6 habit types, schedule-aware streaks, grace days, resilient habit scores, subtasks, stealth mode widgets, negative habit money tracking, free iCloud sync, and full CSV/JSON/SQLite export and import. Premium unlocks unlimited habits, the Routine Flow Player, Quantitative Progression Engine, and Apple Health real-time sync.
Nothing is ever deleted. All your habits, streaks, completions, and exports remain 100% accessible and tickable. The app simply stops you from adding a 7th habit until you are below the free threshold of 6 habits, and advanced player features pause.
