New: Cloud backup is now free for everyone, plus a new frequency distribution chart to help you spot patterns in your habits.
Build good habits and break bad ones — in less than a minute a day.
Way of Life is the simple, beautiful habit tracker trusted since 2010 and featured in The New York Times, Forbes, and The Guardian. Mark each day green or red, keep your chains going, and watch your progress over weeks, months, and years.
WHY IT WORKS
Changing habits is hard. Seeing them clearly makes it easier. A few taps a day, and patterns start to appear:
• Am I exercising as much as I think?
• Am I drinking less alcohol or soda?
• Am I getting enough sleep?
• Am I eating more fruits and vegetables?
• Am I cutting back on sugar?
Track anything that matters to you — good habits and bad.
FEATURES
• Chains: challenge yourself not to break a streak
• Charts: pie charts, bar graphs with trend lines, and frequency distribution
• Scoreboard: instant weekly and monthly feedback
• Notes: jot down what went well, or what didn't
• Reminders with flexible schedules and custom messages
• Tags to organize your habits
• Widgets, Siri, and Shortcuts
• URL schemes for working with other apps
• Themes: Dark, Light, Rose, Serenity, Retro C64, and more
• Color-blind mode
• Interactive walk-through to get you started
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Way of Life doesn't pry into, sell, or share your data. Lock the app with a passcode, Face ID, or Touch ID. Back up to your preferred cloud storage provider, and export your data anytime as CSV, Excel, or JSON.
SIMPLE PREMIUM
No maze of paywalls. Everything above is included. Premium simply unlocks unlimited habits.
AS SEEN IN
The New York Times, Forbes, The Guardian, Fast Company, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Lifehacker, Marie Claire, and Healthline.
"The ultimate habit building app." — AppAdvice
Featured on the Tim Ferriss podcast with Kevin Rose.
Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
great app, if you start using this, your productivity and well being really will improve. Great that you only pay once to switch to premium, and not a monthly or yearly subscription. Some other people have complained you cant set a frequency for a habit (eg no junk food for 5 out of 7 days). Instead you just put the number in the title (eg exercise 4 days this week), then you just put 'skip' for the days when you don't exercise. It's up to you to put an (X) for a day when you have broken the chain: eg exercise for 4 days might be : Y-Y--YX .. because you got to the end of the week and hadn't exercised 4 times. At first I was also looking for the option for x per week or x per month on a task, but this way is actually much more flexible and easier. Just thought I'd mention that as it's not in any tutorial/instructions!
Developer Response
Thanks!Good point on the frequency issue. Should include that in the walk-through!
Honestly indispensable
Andi Masca
Ever since a friend turned me on to this app, it’s part of my daily routine to map my habits. It’s been so so transformative to do this and knowing when you’re doing well and maybe struggling over the years is extremely powerful personally. I love this app and hope to use many years to come. I gave it 4/5 just for one reason. It’s an improvement, not something that is bad per se. One thing is I’d like to monitor some habits that, when I don’t do them, it’s not a negative. I’d like these to just “add to the green” as opposed to adding grey to my overall. Another thing: it would be great to have integrations with exercise apps to bring in the fact that you’ve exercised without the need to tap it in. Tapping in everyday however is still so so easy and useful so this a nice to have that I think longer term can really power up the app. Thanks for the amazing work!
Developer Response
Thank you so much for sharing this with us! It's great to hear the app is helping you to improve and you find it so easy and straightforward to use! We are grateful for your feedback as well, and it's for sure something we will look more into in the next upcoming years! Stay tuned and happy tracking!
Very good app, could use improvements
kahboom
I use both this app and Daylio, this one for much longer than Daylio (at least a year). The app is very easy to use and I really like the developer. I also love that you can add unlimited tags and notes, the free (and affordable premium) themes. Daylio charges for the ability to add more tags, and Way of Life doesn’t. Some things could be improved, like have neutral categories (sometimes I just want to track habits that are not necessarily bad or good, to be able to compare), maybe reporting could be improved as well to be more human-readable, like “you tend to do this a lot” or “you haven’t been doing much of this lately”. I think neither Way of Life nor Daylio replace one another, they are just different with a similar concept. Overall I highly recommend the app, it’s very useful! :)
One day at a time
Mental about maths!
Today marks day 7 of using the app, I immediately signed up for Premium- amazing value for money. I recently saw the doctor regarding my mental health. I am due to start some CBT this coming week. I needed something to help me stay motivated for the little things that help me as a human being. This app for me is like a speedy version of a bullet journal without the stress of carrying a book and pens with it, everywhere I go. The simplicity of two colours makes it very easy to monitor progress. I love that you can update yesterday. Thank you for creating such a user friendly app. I know that it is going to play a big part in my road to recovery! My only request would be to be able to sort the habits into an order that makes sense for my fault schedule rather than scrolling to find the habit to update.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your kind review and best of luck with your recovery - glad the Way of Life is able to play a positive role in that!As for reordering, please tap “Edit” top-left on the Journals page. Then reorder items by dragging the handles next to each item. All best.
Faster than ever
• Way of Life now launches much faster.
• Scrolling is smoother, the app uses the disk less, and it's easier on your battery.
New: Frequency Distribution chart
See your greens and reds by day of the week. Find out which days are your strongest and which could use a little extra attention.
Smarter charts
• New auto-scale option: the y-axis can fit the largest value in the chart, so small differences are easier to see.
• New Trend pill: see at a glance which habits need a closer look. Swipe the chart up to see the full list.
• You can now share pie charts and Frequency Distribution charts.
More ways to use your data
• Export your journal as JSON.
Siri & Shortcuts
• Siri works reliably again.
• New shortcut: update your habits by color with a single phrase.
Polish
• Small theme refinements.
• Bug fixes. (Where do they keep coming from?)
Version 4.6.0
The developer, Way of Life ApS, 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
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Supported Features
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Sufficient Contrast
Reduced Motion
Information
Provider
Way of Life ApS
Size
33.7 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
