Arete: Habit Tracker & RPG
Daily routines, XP & streaks
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Seal your days, earn Ink, draw your Panoply. A weekly boss to wear down, deeds to engrave — your life's character sheet now keeps a record.
You are the protagonist. Your life has a character sheet.
Arete is a life RPG for adults: six real stats — Body, Vitality, Mind, Spirit, Presence, Discipline — drawn as a radar that grows from what you actually do. Complete daily quests, earn XP, level up. No avatar. The character is you.
THE CHARACTER SHEET
One glance answers everything: today's quests, your level, your streak, the last seven days, and the shape of your six stats. When you create your character you sketch who you think you are — the dashed Ghost on the radar. Then your earned self chases it, one quest at a time.
DAILY QUESTS, REAL XP
Every completion is a vote for the person you're becoming. Tap the seal when a quest is done — the ink fills, XP lands, the radar moves. Harder practices earn more, and steady weeks build visible momentum. Mis-tapped? Undo it. Edit any quest.
SEAL THE DAY, EARN INK
Finish today's board and the day is sealed. Every day you show up earns Ink, a sealed day earns more, and it dries overnight — earned by days, not by grinding, and never sold. Spend it in your Panoply: six pieces, one per stat, drawn stage by stage.
A WEEKLY BOSS
Take on one stretch a week. Every day you practise its stat wears it down; doing it once wins a dated Stamp. Leave it and it walks off on Sunday — nothing lost. Deeds and curios fill your Codex, and your two strongest stats name your Archetype.
REMINDERS THAT RESPECT YOU
A short morning note with today's quests, and an evening nudge only on a day you haven't started. Complete, Snooze or Skip from the lock screen. Step away and Arete leaves a single note, then goes quiet.
THE JOURNEY
An append-only ledger of your days and a calendar for every quest — the days you showed up, in ink.
A LIBRARY OF PRACTICES
Adopt a routine in one tap — Better Mornings, Deeper Focus, Stronger Body, Calmer Mind, Clear Skin, The Quiet Quit and more — or author your own.
THE CAMPFIRE
Close the week by the fire: the week's XP stat by stat, and one honest line in your own words. The flame burns brighter the more days you showed up.
BUILT ON MERCY
A hard week never empties your radar. Streaks can be patched with repair tokens earned by showing up. Coming back after time away opens a doorway, never a debt. Mercy is never paywalled.
QUIET BY DESIGN
Warm paper, ink, and a single ember accent. No red badges, no shame mechanics, no appearance scoring — ever.
ARETE PRO
The core loop — quests, XP, the radar, streaks, reminders, the Day Seal, Ink and the Panoply, the Campfire — is free forever, with room for two active quests in every stat. Arete Pro adds unlimited quests, a full year of every quest's calendar, your history as a CSV file, real wake-up alarms that ring through Silent and Focus, extra pattern sets for your Panoply, the whole Library without slot math, and clean Character Card exports. Start with a free trial.
PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
No account, no ads. Your quests and history stay on your iPhone.
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics II.1
Create your character in two minutes. Tonight still counts.
ARETE PRO — SUBSCRIPTION TERMS
Arete Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, offered weekly and yearly. The price and any free-trial length are shown in the app in your local currency before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically at the then-current price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings — deleting the app does not cancel it. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://octo8.app/arete/privacy
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Your days now leave something behind.
• Seal the day: finish today's board and the day is sealed. Showing up earns Ink, which dries overnight.
• Spend Ink in your Panoply — six pieces, one per stat, drawn stage by stage.
• Take on a weekly boss: practice wears it down, doing it wins a Stamp. Swap it, or write your own.
• Deeds, curios and Stamps fill your Codex; your two strongest stats name your Archetype.
• Contact us now opens an email, and Siri's streak answers stay current.
The developer, BULENT TEKBAS, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- BULENT TEKBAS
- Size
- 39.2 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- 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 Turkish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Weekly Subscription $7.99
- Yearly Subscription $39.99
- Copyright
- © Octo8