Habit Garden: Offline Tracker

Habit Garden is a quiet daily habit tracker on warm paper. Days grow blooms as you tend them — bigger when you did more.

Everything you log stays on your phone, in one file. No account, no sign-up, no sync, no ads, no analytics. The app makes no network requests at all: it works on a plane, in a tunnel, and on a phone that has never once been online.

Most habit trackers are built to make you anxious. Red squares, broken chains, a number that shames you for taking a Sunday off. This is a habit tracker built to be looked at rather than obeyed — a month of your days, each one flowering a little, and a few honest numbers underneath if you want them.


The month

A calendar where every logged day grows a bloom: one mark per habit, sized against that habit's own best day, so three glasses of water and a forty-five minute walk read at the same strength. Tap any day to log it. Swipe, or use the arrows, to change month. The chips under the calendar filter the garden down to a single habit. If blooms are too much, one small dot per habit is a setting away.


Logging a day

One row per habit, in the shape that habit is actually measured:

- Yes or no — did I do it today?
- Quantity — how many, in a unit you name yourself
- Duration — how long, in minutes
- A few words — for the habits a number cannot hold

Underneath them, a note for the day: a line of journal for whatever the numbers missed. And when yesterday holds something today is still missing, "Same as yesterday" fills in only the gaps, in one tap. The whole daily routine takes about a minute.


The numbers, quietly

One habit at a time. Your current streak. How consistent you have been across the last thirty days, and whether that is drifting up or down against the thirty before it. Which weekday keeps breaking the run. A history chart you can read by week or by month — progress you can see without being scored on it. Nothing here is ranked against anybody.


One gentle nudge, if you want one

A single daily reminder, on the weekdays you choose, at the time you choose, in one of three voices: gentle, plain or playful. After a while the app notices roughly when you actually tend to log, and offers you that hour instead. Nothing else will ever buzz. Turn it off and the app is completely silent.


Planting and pulling out

Give a habit a name, a colour from fifteen, and the way it should be measured. Rename it, recolour it or pull it out for good later. Pulling one out takes its history with it, and the app says so plainly before it does.


What is not here

No account, and no email address asked for. No cloud, no sync, no server. No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscription. No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising ID, no third-party tracking of any kind. No feed, no leaderboard, no friends to be compared against. No permission to read your location, your contacts, your photos or your files. And no permission to use the internet — that one is stripped out of the release build, so Play's own permission list for this app has no internet line in it.


Privacy, plainly

Habit Garden collects nothing, because there is nowhere for it to send anything. Your habits, your entries and your notes are written to a single SQLite database in the app's own private storage on your device. Android's automatic cloud backup is switched off for this app, so that file is not copied to Google Drive either. There is nothing to delete from a server, because nothing was ever sent to one.

The honest cost of that: there is no export and no backup. If you uninstall the app, or lose the phone, the garden goes with it.


Made carefully

Warm paper and beige, hand-drawn shapes, corners that are never quite circles. Reduce Motion is honoured, every control is labelled for screen readers, and the calendar was designed to be legible before it was designed to be pretty.