Small Steps: Habit Tracker

A habit tracker that never punishes you for a bad day.

Most habit apps run on pressure: an unbroken streak, a red warning, a number that holds every human week against you. Small Steps is built on the opposite idea — showing up in a small way is still showing up.

It is made for the ordinary daily and weekly routines you are trying to keep up: stretching, reading, drinking water, a walk, a few lines in a journal.

HOW A DAY WORKS
Tap the mark beside a habit and the day is recorded at your full goal. Tap the row instead, and you pick the level that matches the day you actually had. That is the whole interaction — and it is written straight to your phone, so there is nothing to wait for.

THREE LEVELS FOR EVERY HABIT
Set a full goal, a small goal and a minimal goal. On a good day you reach the full one. On a hard day the minimal one still counts as a yes, and your history records it as one. Two minutes of stretching on the worst day of the week is not a failure.

A DELIBERATE PAUSE IS NOT A FAILURE
Travelling, ill, or simply in need of a rest? Mark the day as a deliberate pause. It is not a missed day, it is not counted against your consistency, and nothing in the app scolds you for it.

A HISTORY THAT IS HONEST, NOT LOUD
Week and month views show the days you planned, the days you completed, how your levels were distributed, and a consistency figure that leaves out the days you deliberately paused. Gaps stay visible, because the point is to see your real pattern rather than a polished one. There is no "streak lost" message anywhere in this app — and when you come back after a gap, it says so.

CHANGE THE PLAN WITHOUT REWRITING THE PAST
Move a habit from every day to three weekdays and your earlier months stay exactly as they were: every day is judged by the schedule that was really in force on it. Archive a habit and its history stays with it.

QUIET REMINDERS
Optional reminders per habit, at the times and on the days you choose. They are created on your device. Notification permission is only requested when you switch a reminder on, never on first launch.

WORKS OFFLINE
Everything is kept in a local database on your phone. No sync to wait for, no connection needed for everyday use, and nothing to set up before you start.

YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS
Export everything to one readable JSON file and import it again on another device. Exporting and importing cost nothing and never will — your own data is never held behind a payment.

BUILT TO BE LIVED WITH
• Light and dark mode, following your system
• Respects your system text size and your "reduce motion" setting
• Screen reader labels throughout
• Laid out for tablets rather than stretched across them
• German and English, following your system language
• Undo right after you record a day

PROBABLY NOT FOR YOU IF
you want points, badges, leaderboards, a social feed, or a coach telling you to push harder. There is none of that here, and there will not be.

WHAT IT COSTS
The app is complete as it stands and keeps five habits active at a time. A single optional payment, made once, removes that limit and adds extra designs and an app lock. There is no subscription and there never will be.

NO TRACKING, NO ACCOUNT
No analytics, no advertising, no account to create and no server of ours to talk to. There is nowhere for the app to send anything about you.