Tick: Habits & Journal

Daily routine, without noise

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Say it instead of typing it. Tick keeps the recording with the entry and writes out what you said, on the device. No ads, no tracking, no engagement mechanics. Tick is a daily loop, not a habit list. You start by naming who you want to be in ten years — that becomes a small set of daily habits, a journal, and a Today tab that keeps the loop visible. It's built for people who've tried digital minimalism, deleted the apps, and come back. Tick doesn't compete for your attention. No streak flames, no reward colours — colour is for facts, not rewards. No ads, no tracking, no notifications engineered to pull you back in. Just what you need to see today. What it does: Habits you check off and graduate over time, so the list doesn't grow forever. A calendar shows which days you showed up, and lets you fill in a missed day within three. A journal with a science-backed prompt each day, analyzed on your device and never sent anywhere. Search everything you've written by word, place or date. Optional city on an entry, when you ask. Mark up to three standout entries a month, so the mark still means something. Stats built from your real entries: streaks, weekly completion, mood trends. Not fake wellness numbers. Reminders run on your terms. Set the time and the weekdays yourself, or leave them off. Everything stays on your phone. There's no account server, no sync, no way for anyone but you to read what you write. Sign in with Apple or skip it entirely — Tick works the same either way. And it's yours to take with you. Export everything to a single dated file you can open and read for yourself, then restore it on another phone — merged into what's already there, or as an exact replace. Nothing is uploaded to make it work. Tick is yours for 14 days. After that it's one payment, not a subscription. Decide not to pay and nothing you've written disappears: your journal stays readable and export keeps working. Only new writing stops.

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Speak an entry. Tap Dictate while you write, say what's on your mind, and stop when you're done. Tick keeps the recording with the entry and adds what you said to the text, below anything you'd already typed. On the entry, switch between Listen and Read: both halves stay. The words are recognised on the device, not on a server. If your phone can't transcribe a language yet, or you'd rather not allow speech recognition, the recording is saved anyway, so nothing you said is lost. Tick asks for the microphone the first time you tap Dictate, not before.

The developer, Marius Stellberger, 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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    Seller
    • Marius Stellberger
    Size
    • 3.7 MB
    Category
    • Health & Fitness
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 26.5 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 26.5 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 26.5 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 26.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 26.5 or later.
    Languages
    English and 9 more
    • English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
    Age Rating
    9+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Dualshade