Streaks 4+

I found this at just the right time. I tried it a while ago but didn’t really get into it. Now, combined with a genuine desire to create better habits, this app is really coming into its own. The only thing which I would like to see done differently is I would like an option to have more than 12 on the go at one time. This may be controversial, and I can see the reasons behind having only 12. So, perhaps a compromise add functionality without tempting the user to create too many habits at once could be the ability to group clusters of related habits together. For example, I am trying to develop a reading habit for both fiction and non-fiction and so I have both of these as habits to track. If I could, for example, click on “reading“ and have two connected habits open up as options, that would be really cool. At the moment, one can create clusters of habits by, for example, calling the habit “read fiction, read non-fiction“ and just putting the habit as two sessions per day, but that is crude and unwieldy and doesn’t show if you missed one and not the other. Habit clusters would be awesome. Anyway, that would be the improvement I would really like to see, and that would make the tracker even more useful than it already is.

I appreciate the ideal of focusing on only 12 habits and can see that some UI currently hinges on the two screens. But it feels arbitrary to not have the option to add additional screens if I need them, and the option would do no harm to anyone that can manage with the default two screens.

Alongside other habits, I wanted to track weekly streaks for running, cycling and swimming targets, but tracking their streaks individually uses up a quarter of all my slots. Why should someone that runs three days a week have more other habit slots to track with than someone that does three different exercises per week? I also wanted to track sleep as when I go to bed and when I wake up, rather than just overall time so I can see where I’m missing my targets. I find that habits work for me when I can focus on specific details, but I’m having to generalise or cut other things out to make space.

I really like the way the app works in general, and to be honest I’d pay for additional screens or a second instance of the same app just to track what I want. Compromising on what details I can track is a real frustration though, and I do regret paying for it at the moment rather than finding an app with no limits. I’ve already spent time setting up shortcuts and some habits so I’ll cross my fingers for an improvement while I test out other apps for a secondary/replacement tracker.