THE OUTCOME — VERIFIABLE
Live
on the App Store — download and judge it yourself
14
languages, fully localized interface — not machine-dumped
Native
iOS, with Apple Health sync and mood check-ins
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 14 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, with Apple Health sync so the picture stays whole.
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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