Group habit tracker: one list, a few people, no feed

What a group sees each day

Everyone's habits, and how far through today each person is. That is the Group tab: one screen, one row per person, the whole squad's day at a glance. You know who is having a rough week on Wednesday afternoon rather than the following Monday, without anybody having to announce it.

Tap a person and you get their day up close - which habits are done, which are still open. From there you can send a nudge, or leave kudos on a day they earned. Those are deliberately the only two moves. A nudge is a tap that says somebody noticed, not a lecture, and nothing in the app shames a miss.

Your habits stay yours throughout. A group is a lens on your list, never an owner of it, so four people in one squad can be tracking four unrelated things - two gym days a week, ten pages a night, a 9 pm phone-down. The view is shared. The habits are not.

If two friends both want to read five pages, each can add that action to their own list and check it off only after doing it. One friend's tap does not complete the other's day. Pick a shared definition before you start, but keep separate records if your schedules or results differ. If you would rather manage the checkboxes yourselves, our two-person spreadsheet guide shows the same one-row-per-person rule.

Groups have no end date. Challenges do.

A regular squad runs as long as you want it to, with no finish line built in. That is the deliberate difference from the 75-day app this one grew out of: a deadline gives everybody a legitimate day to stop, and they take it.

A challenge is the time-boxed version: one habit, one crew, a set number of days. Plank for thirty days, run three times a week for a month, whatever you can talk people into. It gets its own group, countdown and invite link, and when it ends you get a recap with everyone's final count.

Challenge members see only the challenge habit and your count in it. Your regular squad sees it inline with the rest of your list, badged with the count. One check-off, two views, no duplicate habit to keep in step.

The squad room

Every group has a room, and the day runs through it. Chat and photos, except that when somebody closes their day it appears in the conversation in order, next to what people were saying at the time. Scroll back a week and you are reading the week, not a log.

Reply to a message, react to it, pin the one everybody needs to read. That is the whole room, and a photo posted there goes nowhere else.

The collective streak, and the freezes

A group builds its own streak, so the number on screen is a team number rather than only yours. 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 and nobody gets a broken streak on a rest day.

For the days life genuinely takes, there are freezes, and they are for daily habits. The wallet holds two. Spend one on a day you missed and the chain holds. A spent freeze grows back after four consecutive fully-kept weeks, so a bad fortnight in year two does not mark the account forever - and two is still the ceiling.

Every check-off also puts a root down. Your level runs from Seed and Sapling through Strong Tree and Ancient Tree to The Oak, and it does not reset when you take three weeks off.

Why there is no public feed and no global ranking

Because the product is a private room for a handful of people, and an audience breaks it. There is no public feed, no follower count, and nothing you log leaves the group. You are not ranked against strangers and there is no global table to climb.

A challenge group does show everyone's count, because the count is the thing you all agreed to do and hiding it would make the challenge pointless. That number stays in that group. A feed of strangers is very good at producing likes and very bad at producing the question "did you do it?"

How to start a group

Three steps, and the first one is the one people skip.

1. Install it alone. Get it on the App Store or Google Play, with a web app if you are at a laptop. The download page has the steps end to end.
2. Add your habits first. Set each one to daily or to the number of days a week you will actually keep. Three runs a week that survive a hard Thursday beat seven that end on the second one.
3. Invite by link. Paste it into a chat you already use. It works for somebody who has never opened the app - they tap it and it walks them into your group. Send it to one person today rather than waiting until you have four.

One witness is enough to change the arithmetic; the group grows out of that. The habit tracker with friends has the mechanics in full, and at two people the habit tracker for couples is the same thing at that size.

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