Streaks 4+

The simplicity, ease of use, straightforwardness and beauty of this app make it an absolutely incredible tool! It’s very rewarding to complete all the tasks you set for yourself in a day and try to get the highest streak in all of them! I’ve been more consistent about doing things like practicing the guitar, reading, working out, stretching and even using the negative task feature to stop myself from playing phone games (which I can be helplessly addicted too). I have recommended this app to so many people already and if you’re reading this take it as a sign to get it for yourself! It costs the same as a coffee and will help you be much more productive and to stay on top of doing the things you know you need to do everyday😊.

Notes for the designers: making this available for the home screen in the form of a widget or wallpaper would be incredible! Also more choices for colors on the gradients would be a nice feature too! Four is pretty good but it would be fun to choose from more. And thank you so much!!!

On my forever hunt for an app that makes medication tracking flexible and seamless, because I will frequently lose track of what time or day it is, and trying to remember which of my medications I have taken that day is a challenge. Enter the idea of using NFC tags to scan medications as I open the bottle! Streaks is compatible with NFC tag scanning by way of co-programming using iPhone’s shortcuts, and as long as you have Streaks open 24/7, everything is great. Alas for me, I constantly close background apps in a quest for decent battery life and reduced visual clutter, and if Streaks is not open, the shortcut will fail to log activity into Streaks 100% of the time. Honestly I’m confused by this as 1. Streaks is more than capable of running reminders and task tracking settings within the Streaks app, with the app being closed, 2. Shortcuts are able to create entries in other apps without them being perpetually open and 3. Shortcuts has steps like “open app” available for programming, which would solve my main issue, except Streaks isn’t an option there.

Glad this app is an one time purchase vs constant subscription fees, but it doesn’t meet my needs for the singular, explicit function I bought it for. I think it’s a good app, just not for me (yet.) Hopeful in the future to see a fix or enhancement that allows an iPhone shortcut to engage with Streaks while it is not actively open.