Vana: Forgiving Habits
Habits that survive bad days
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Pay once, own it forever. No accounts, no ads, no subscription — and a missed day is just a dip, not a defeat.
Every habit tracker fails the same way: miss one day and your streak resets to zero, and the number that motivated you yesterday now mocks you. Vana is built on a single idea the market keeps getting wrong — a missed day is a dip, not a defeat.
Instead of a brittle streak, every habit carries a continuous habit-strength score that rises a little each time you show up and eases off gently when life gets in the way. It never slams to zero. Miss a day and your strength barely dips; the very next time you complete it, you're visibly back on track — climbing through five calm growth tiers, from Planted to Thriving.
WHY VANA IS DIFFERENT
• Forgiving by design — habit strength, not all-or-nothing streaks. No red failure marks, ever.
• Skip & Freeze — a deliberate rest day, or a monthly Freeze, bridges your progress instead of breaking it. A missed day is simply absent — never recorded as failure.
• Pay once — Vana Premium is a single purchase. No subscription, no auto-renew, nothing to cancel.
• Private by design — no account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking, no analytics. Works fully offline; your data lives on your iPhone.
• Sub-5-second logging — a deliberate long-press, a satisfying haptic, a calm filling ring.
• Smart auto-fill — start typing a habit's name and Vana suggests its icon, goal, unit and color, entirely on your device.
MEET SPROUT — NEW
A calm little companion lives at the top of your Today screen. Sprout reacts to your day — quietly celebrating when you finish, resting when you rest, and welcoming you back after time away. Beside Sprout grows a plant that reflects your overall habit strength: it grows the moment you get stronger, and coming back after a break never shrinks it. Sprout is never disappointed in you. Comes with its own home-screen widget, speaks in your chosen coaching tone, and can be turned off anytime. Free for everyone.
START FREE
Up to three active habits (earn your way to six by keeping them strong), the full strength model, Skip & Freeze, consistency and momentum, habits grouped into Goals, graduation, quantity habits with partial credit, flexible day / weekday / every-N scheduling, calm reminders, CSV and JSON export, dark mode, accent colors and full accessibility — free, with no ads and no nagging on the core loop.
VANA PREMIUM — a one-time purchase
• Unlimited habits.
• Reduce or quit a habit, framed as days clean — never as failure.
• Advanced goals: timed durations, at-most / exactly targets, and per-week or per-month quotas.
• Apple Health auto-tracking — link a habit to steps, distance, exercise minutes, workouts, sleep, mindful minutes and more, and let it complete itself.
• Insights — gentle, on-device patterns drawn from your mood, energy and Health signals, plus a Weekly Review.
• On-device coaching — calm recovery nudges written entirely on your iPhone. No server, no cloud AI.
• iCloud sync across your devices, through your own private iCloud.
ALSO INCLUDED
Interactive home-screen widgets, Lock Screen and Control Center controls, and Siri & Shortcuts — complete a habit by voice without opening the app. Fully bilingual: English and Swedish.
Own your habits and your data — pay once, no subscription, no account, and a missed day is a dip, not a defeat.
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Meet Sprout, your new habit companion.
• Sprout now lives at the top of your Today screen, reacting to your day — quietly celebrating when you finish, resting when you rest, and waving you welcome back after time away.
• Beside Sprout grows a little plant that reflects your overall habit strength. It grows the moment you get stronger — and coming back after a break never shrinks it. Sprout is never disappointed in you.
• New Sprout widget for your home screen, in two sizes.
• Sprout speaks in your chosen coaching tone, in English and Swedish.
• Prefer a quieter Today screen? Turn Sprout off anytime in Settings → Appearance.
Free for everyone, plus small fixes and polish throughout.
The developer, Lodehed Labs AB, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Lodehed Labs AB
- Size
- 17.6 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Swedish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Vana Premium $14.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Lodehed Labs