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Loop Habit Tracker for Android is the only thing that has ever worked for me for tracking goals -- and sticking to them.

https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits

Simple interface where you set your "habits" and how frequently per week you expect to do them. (E.g. exercise 4x per week, eat healthy 6x per week). Then you simply check off each day whether it happened. The analytics makes it clear if you are doing the right thing. Really good.

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I'm putting together https://habitrabb.it as an alternative to Loop but addressing some of the issues people in Play store were complaining about. Still a WIP but Android version will come out soon and I'm currently in the process of majorly reworking the UX.

Essentially the difference is people sometimes complained of losing a lot of data because no cloud backups and no iOS version hence i'm doing web+android+ios. Also a lot of people wanted to be able to track doing habits multiple times per day or track some specific metric (30x pushups) which I've chosen to implement. Small things like that but they add up.

I was interested in comparing what you are building to the loop habit tracker that was linked in the parent but all you site has is a text description and a sign up link (at least on mobile). I'd recommend adding some images so people know what they are signing up for since we all have more accounts then we are aware of anyways...

This app changed my life. It's the only one that's actually worked.

Knowing quantitatively that I'm improving in a certain area is a huge motivator (as is knowing that I've stalled).

In the past, when I forget to exercise for a few days I would get down and think that exercising was to changing, time consuming, etc.

Now, I can see that those periods of inactivity are just small dips in an overall positive trend of exercising more.

So people don't think we are raving lunatics, here is the screenshot of the analytics from the app:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BlOsJsDFgCd/

So, in this case, over the course of 5 weeks I built up a habit strength of 4x weekly exercise by watching this graph move up and trying to keep my streak. Basically, the app puts hard data behind your daily commitments and helps you see -- quickly -- when you are failing. And ack'ing the success/failure of a commitment is just a single checkbox on a single screen, and it can remind you (with notifications) daily.

I actually switched to this a couple months ago, mainly because I was using other habit-tracking apps that only allows a certain number of habits available for free.

I didn't even know about the statistics, as I just wanted a way to check yes or no and see the past week to see if I needed to change things from week to week. Knowing I can see the trends changes everything... I think I'm going to need to add a few more things to this because this could be extremely helpful for me with several things. It was helpful enough just seeing week to week at a glance, but being able to see trends and long-term progress is great.

is there any ios alternatives? I found an app called Loop - Habbit Tracker (by Qinzen Xu) on appstore but I think that's not the one that on github.

A friend of mine, upon seeing my setup, said the recently launched product Habitify was similar (iOS & MacOS), but I haven't tried it:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/habitify-for-macos

hey thanks, I will definitely check it out!

I tried a lot and Productive (http://productiveapp.io/) worked the best for me but if you look around in the app store there are a few that are well designed.

I use Today on iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/today-habit-tracker/id105529...

It can back up its DB to Dropbox, which I've used in a few small automation projects

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