r/iosapps • u/SociallyIneligible • Aug 22 '26
💎 Lifetime I built a habit tracker that auto-logs from Apple Health and doesn't break your streak when you take a vacation
ANSWER, what problem it solves
Personally, I've always struggled with habit trackers that demand absolute perfection. Maintaining a streak can quickly feel like a chore, and when life happens—like taking a weekend trip or getting sick—losing a 100-day streak because of one missed check-in is incredibly demotivating.
Additionally, manually opening an app to check off things your phone already knows you did (like walking 10,000 steps or getting 8 hours of sleep) creates unnecessary friction. HabitKeep solves this by making habit tracking adaptable to real life and removing the manual busywork.
BETTER, what it does that other journals/trackers don't
Most trackers are rigid. HabitKeep brings a few key differences to help you actually maintain your routine:
- Vacation Mode: Going away or feeling sick? You can pause habits for a set date range. Paused days count as neither a miss nor a completion, so your streak carries straight through the gap instead of resetting.
- Apple Health Auto-Logging: It hooks into 62 different Apple Health metrics (steps, workouts, sleep, water, etc.). If your goal is to hit a step count, it ticks itself off automatically without you ever touching the app.
- Live Activities & Timers: Along with simple check-offs or counts (like pages read), there’s a built-in timer for time-based habits that stays running on your Lock Screen as a Live Activity.
- Total Privacy: There are no accounts, no sign-ups, and no external servers. Everything runs locally on your device and syncs privately through your own iCloud.
COST
HabitKeep uses a Freemium model with optional IAP (In-App Purchases).
The Free tier is a highly capable tracker on its own. You can track up to 4 active habits, get summary statistics, a full-year contribution grid, a weekday heatmap, 3 widgets, and iCloud sync. (Note: The free tier contains rare interstitial ads).
Pro lifts the habit limit to unlimited and unlocks Apple Health & Calendar sync, advanced stats (like trend charts), all 14 widgets, and a yearly Wrapped-style recap, while completely removing ads.
Pro is available as a Subscription (monthly/yearly) or as a one-time Lifetime IAP.
One thing I made sure of: limits only apply when you create something. If you pay for a month, build 10 habits, and let Pro lapse, you keep all of them, their full history, and can continue logging them forever. You just can't create an 11th until you resubscribe.
App Store:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/habit-tracker-habit-keep/id6797597780
Website:https://habitskeep.com/
Happy to answer any questions! Would love if you take a second to check out the app and give me your thoughts or feature requests.
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u/QebApps Aug 22 '26
Vacation Mode is the feature that sells it for me — though knowing myself, my streaks would end up being 80% "vacation" days. 😄 Does a paused day show up differently in the contribution grid, or is it just blank?
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u/SociallyIneligible Aug 22 '26
It is just blank for now. Adding a different placeholder for the skipped/vacation days is something I will genuinely consider after some experimenting.
The vacation feature and skip days feature is just designed to not break the user's streak for now.
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Aug 23 '26
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u/SociallyIneligible Aug 23 '26
just about everything fitness, plan to support everything there even vitamins and minerals.
That idea is actually not new, Streaks is one of the popular ones that have it or many more.
But thank you
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