Daily habits. Together.
Pick your habits. Check them off every day - with people who notice when you don't.
Built to keep you in it
Squads
Your crew sees every check. Nobody folds alone.
Levels
Every check-off puts a root down. Grow from Seed to Oak - and it never resets.
Streaks
One streak for the whole squad - plus freezes for a day you plan to sit out.
Share
One tap to WhatsApp - photos, day stamps, story cards.
How it works
- 1Pick your habitsCopy a friend's set or build your own - water, workouts, reading, whatever you want to hold.
- 2Check off each dayA simple daily list built from your rules. Watch your roots go down.
- 3Bring your friendsJoin a squad, see each other's progress, chat, send a nudge.
A habit tracker with friends, not a feed
Rootmates is a habit tracker you share with friends. You pick your own habits. You open one short list each day and tap what you did - about fifteen seconds. The handful of people in your squad see that same list, so showing up is visible to someone who cares and nothing else has to be said about it.
What your squad sees: your habits and how far through today you are, which is how you know who is having a rough week before they say anything. Tap a mate to see their day up close, send a nudge, leave kudos. What stays out of it: everything else. No public feed, no follower count, nothing that leaves the group.
Your habits are yours, not the group's. Set one to daily, or to a number of days a week when that is the honest target - four days of gym a week counts as kept, and there is no broken streak on the third rest day. Every squad also has a room: chat, photos, and each closed day appearing in the conversation in order, next to what people were saying at the time.
Challenges are the time-boxed version - one habit, one crew, a set number of days, shared by an invite link that works for people who have never used the app. It ends with a recap of everyone's final count.
And it is built for real weeks. Freezes cover the day life genuinely takes: the wallet holds two, you spend one, the chain holds. Every check-off puts a root down, and your level runs from Seed and Sapling through Strong Tree and Ancient Tree to The Oak without ever resetting - so coming back after a bad month puts you back at the depth you earned.
If you have started the same habit five times already, the page for that is restarting habits after you quit. If you came looking for an accountability app with friends, that page says what this does day to day - and what it deliberately does not do.
Questions
- Where can I use Rootmates?
- Rootmates is on the App Store. There is also a web app at root-mates.com that runs in any browser, with the same account and the same data.
- Do my friends have to install it?
- To be in your squad, yes - but you do not need them to start. Install it alone, set up your habits, then send one person an invite link. The link drops into a normal chat and works for someone who has never opened the app.
- What do my friends see?
- Your habits and how far through today you are. A challenge group sees only the one challenge habit and your count in it. There is no public feed and no follower count, and nothing you log leaves the group.
- What happens when I miss a day?
- A day counts when that day's habits are done, so a habit set to four days a week is kept on the other three. For a daily habit you genuinely missed there are freezes: the wallet holds two, you spend one and the chain holds. A spent freeze grows back after four fully-kept weeks in a row.
- Is there an Android app?
- Android is coming. The listing is not public yet, so there is nothing to link to today. The web app works in an Android browser in the meantime.
- How is it different from HabitShare or Habitica?
- Rootmates is built around a small private squad that sees the same daily list you do, a room where each closed day lands in the conversation, time-boxed challenges shared by invite link, and a level built from every check-off you have ever made that never resets. The app-by-app comparisons live on their own pages.
More: who builds Rootmates and how to download it.