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BeHabitual

A free habit tracker that fits a month on one screen

Habits down the left, days across the top, one box per day. You click the box when you did the thing, and that is the entire interaction. Everything else on the page exists to make that click cheap or to tell you what the clicks add up to.

Start trackingSee what is free

Free while in early access. No card, and nothing to install.

Good for

  • Things you want to do on most days, not once
  • Seeing a whole month at a glance rather than one day at a time
  • People who abandoned a tracker because logging took longer than the habit
  • Anyone who wants their data out again as a spreadsheet

Not for

  • One-off to-dos with a due date
  • Anything that needs a calendar or a time of day
  • Team or shared tracking, which does not exist here
  • Phone reminders, because there are none

Why the grid, and not a checklist

Most trackers show you today. Today is the least useful view there is, because a single day tells you nothing about whether a habit is holding. A month tells you immediately. You see the gap where last week went wrong without clicking into anything, and you see it as a shape rather than a number.

That shape is the whole argument for this layout. Four empty boxes in a row is a fact you cannot argue with. A completion percentage of 71% is a number you can rationalise all day.

What gets calculated for you

Every number updates the moment you click, before the save has finished. If the save fails, the box goes back and the page tells you why.

  • Current streak, counted to today, which does not break until you miss a full day
  • Longest unbroken run inside the month
  • Completion against the monthly goal you set per habit
  • A consistency rate measured against days that have actually happened, so a month in progress is not scored against its own future
  • Perfect days, meaning every habit ticked
  • Which day of the week you drop off most

Goals per habit, because not everything is daily

A gym habit at five days a week is a success at 20 out of 31. Scored against 31 it looks like failure, and a target you miss every single week stops meaning anything within a fortnight.

So each habit carries its own monthly goal. The progress bar and the percentage measure against that goal, not against the length of the month. Set it honestly. Twenty is a real number and thirty usually is not.

The free plan, and what that costs us

Free means free, with no card and no trial timer. That is possible because of how the data is stored: a day you did not complete stores nothing at all, so a year of nine habits is a few thousand small rows. The storage bill for a heavy user is close to zero.

What you give up is anything that needs a support team. There is no uptime guarantee and no service commitment while this is in early access. Export your data if it matters to you, and do not make this the only record of something important.

Step by step

How to start tracking habits

Set up a habit tracker you will still be using in a month, in about five minutes.

  1. 01

    Pick three habits

    One physical, one for your head, and one thing you stop doing. Three is small enough to hold in your head without checking the app, which is the state you want.

  2. 02

    Set an honest monthly goal for each

    Five days a week is 20 to 22 days in a month, not 30. A goal you miss every week stops carrying information.

  3. 03

    Tick boxes for ten seconds a day

    Open the grid, click today's column, close the tab. Backfill a day you forgot by clicking its box. Future days are locked.

  4. 04

    Read the month at the end of it

    Look at the weekday breakdown before the total. A habit that only fails on Saturdays is a scheduling problem, not a willpower problem.

Questions people ask

Is this habit tracker actually free?
Yes. No card, no trial countdown, and no feature held back behind an upgrade prompt. Everything described on this page works on the free plan, including all 30 habit slots, the analytics, and CSV export.
Do I need to install an app?
No. It runs in a browser on a phone, tablet, or laptop. There is nothing in an app store, and nothing to update.
Can I fill in a day I forgot to log?
Yes. Click any past day and it fills in. Future days are locked, because a habit tracker you can pre-fill is just a to-do list.
How many habits can I track?
Up to 30 at once. That ceiling exists for people who have been doing this for a year and have twenty things that run themselves. If you are starting out, three is a better number and the limit is irrelevant to you.
What happens to a habit I stop doing?
Archive it. It leaves your daily grid and every day you logged against it is kept, so your past months still read correctly. Deleting is separate, permanent, and takes a two-step confirm.
Can I get my data out?
Yes, as a CSV from the settings page. One row per day, one column per habit, with a 1 for done and a 0 for not done. Days before a habit existed are left blank rather than counted as misses.

Read next

Going deeper

Longer pieces on the parts of this that people get wrong.

Start with three habits and one month

You will know by the end of it whether this is the tracker that sticks. That is a shorter test than most things you have tried.

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