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Apologies if this is uncouth, but if anyone wants the opposite of this product, check out Pixelist on the App Store: it’s a 100% free and private, extremely minimalist habit tracker. I’m terrible at marketing (my Show HN had zero response) but it’s had a growing organic user base that seems to love it.

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Thank you; finding a habit tracker on IOS that isn't juiced to the gills with social and/or subscription features is impossible.

Thanks! Hope it sticks for you. To replace my paper bullet journal, I wanted to stay far away from social, subscriptions, notifications, etc etc.

Really nice looking, wonderfully intentioned app. Thanks for being uncouth else I would not have found it.

It looks really nice! I'm looking for an app to replace my current tracking system.

If I may give some feedback: when editing the name of the habit, could you please insert the habit name string into the text field? Completely retyping it is a bit cumbersome.

Wow, thank you! It’s been years since I’ve touched the app, and I would’ve sworn it already did that. Will dust it off!

I noticed that if you drag a habit to the last position, but a little bit too far, the app crashes. Excellent app otherwise, I really like the simplicity! :)

Awesome!! Thanks for finding that, I was wondering where the (very few) daily crashes are coming from. And thanks, hope it’s useful for you!

I would love to see the source code of this application, but even if you can't or don't want to open-source it, it's a fun application.

One thing that may help is standing up a simple product landing page to describe what the product is and linking off to the app store.

When I tried to search just for "Pixelist" on DDG I didn't see the app on the first page. Once I added iOS then it was findable.

Your app seems really neat. It reminds me of the everyday calendar that Simone Giertz made.

Thanks so much - you’re right, I think it’s about time to finally create a product page. Also thanks for the pointer, the everyday calendar looks great!

I am definitely a ghost user of hacker news, but I had to comment on this. What a great app. Great work and thank you!

Thanks! Really appreciate it <3

Very couth. Opened the comments only to see referrals to minimal alternatives.

Everything what my ADD brain needs. Nothing my ADD brain doesn’t need. And perfect alignment with libre ideals! May I suggest that you make a tiny update, just so that the App Store can tout your impeccable privacy policy!

:D So happy to hear! It’s definitely built for the no-distractions mindset. Great idea to update for PNLs!

Kudos on the app. It looks and feels great.

May I suggest to add a ‘long press’ on the theme to lock it?

Thank you!! Is the problem that it's too easy to tap Theme, and it's annoying to then cycle through all?

Yes, exactly. And there is no indication of wether it actually cycles through or is generating at random. So I wasn’t even sure I could get it back. It’s small stuff though.

Tickmate was something I used for a long time, but Google says it's too old for my Android. =(

https://github.com/lordi/tickmate

No Android version?

Try Loop Habit Tracker.

+1 to this. Simple, no gimmicks and gets the job done.

+1, I’ve heard great things and I don’t think I should try to compete

Not yet :( But maybe with GPT4!

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for on so many levels. +1 user.

Looks cool but what do the different colors mean? Hard to follow.

100% up to you. All of my habits are different, but usually for me it’s something like “I did it / I did it well / I did it great”.

Does it have a URL scheme to note execution of habits?

It doesn’t, but that’s a clever idea!

Tough to use this without a way to export data.

I’ve had several requests for this. If/when I pick it up, it’s on the shortlist :)

no intel mac support? :(

The app's size is 25mb,seems a bit much for minimalist app. what did you use to build it.

Hm, I’m not sure what adds up to 25MB but overall it’s very lean on dependencies - essentially just RxSwift. It might also be the Swift runtime, which used to be bundled into binaries before ABI stability.

Microsoft Todo is 127mb.

This is among the lightest Todo app on the app store.

not a todo app, but a minimalist time tracker that i use.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hourly-time-and-task-manager/i...

its around 18mb for my phone, i was comparing both in my head, so was curious about what was used to build it.

but it seems its smaller because of device specific packaging.

P.S. i do like the OP's app.

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