The problem worth solving
Most habit trackers optimize for the chart, not the person. Break a streak, lose your progress, feel worse than before you started — so people abandon them by week two. The design question we set ourselves: what does a habit tracker look like if it's built for adults with real, irregular lives?
The craft decisions
- Flexible schedules over rigid streaks. Habits fit the user's actual week — a three-times-a-week habit isn't "broken" on a rest day. Progress reads as momentum you can feel, not a chain you can snap.
- Calm by design. Reminders are smart rather than insistent, and every screen was decided by a person asking whether it respects the user's attention. Nothing in the app is designed to capture time — only to return it.
- Localization as a first-class feature. The full interface ships in 13 languages, each reviewed rather than machine-dumped — because a habit companion you half-understand is one you quietly stop opening.
- Programs, routines, and mood check-ins connect the habits to how the person actually feels, so progress is read as a whole picture rather than a single number.
What shipped
My Life Habit is live on the App Store today — privacy-first, iPhone-native, and updated continuously. It's the studio's reference for what "made by hand" means in practice: a category crowded with mass-produced trackers, entered with something deliberately quieter.
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