The things you are
trying to start
Half of this app is about what you stopped. This is the other half, and it works the same way: nothing is held against you for a day you could not do.
Three ways to set one
- Every day. Reading, water, a walk. The simplest kind and the one most trackers only do.
- Chosen days. Monday, Wednesday, Friday — and nothing is owed on the days you did not pick.
- A number of times a week. Three trips to the gym, whenever they happen. The week is the unit, so a Tuesday you skipped is not a failure — it is a Tuesday.
There is also a fourth, for the things you live by rather than do: counts itself. Every day counts unless you mark it. Useful for "vegetarian" or "no phone in bed", where there is nothing to tick and ticking it would be the app inviting you to claim something.
What the screen actually shows you
- The streak — in days, or in weeks for an X-a-week habit, because counting a weekly habit in days would call every Tuesday a break.
- Your best ever. It survives everything. Nothing you have already done can be taken off you.
- Days kept, as a percentage, with the days you could not left out of both halves of the sum.
- Extra days. If you said three times a week and went five, the streak still counts one week — but the two extra trips are counted and shown. Most trackers throw that away.
The badges, and what they actually mean
A badge is 7 days of an unbroken run. That is the whole rule; there is nothing to unlock and nothing to buy. They stack into spans people recognise rather than one rung each — one badge is a week, 2 badges is a fortnight, 4 badges is a month, 8 badges is two months, and on up to five years.
A run is not broken by a day you marked couldn't. That day is removed from the sum entirely, as though the habit was never scheduled then — it cannot end a run and it cannot drag down a percentage.
The part that matters most
Forgetting to open the app never costs you a streak.
Every past day stays editable, for ever. A week later or a year later makes no difference: tap the day and put it right. Most trackers quietly turn a day you did not log into a day you failed, and that is the reason this app exists.
Days Strong counts what you started as carefully as what you stopped. No account, no server, and it all stays on your phone.