Glossary

Habitify uses a handful of words with a specific meaning inside the app. This page groups them by topic, with a link to the full guide where there is one.

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Habits and goals

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Habit

Something you track in Habitify, either to build it or to quit it. Every habit is either a Good habit or a Bad habit.

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Good habit

A habit you want to build, like reading or running. It has a Goal, and it’s complete when you reach it. See Good habits.

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Bad habit

A habit you want to reduce or quit, like smoking or too much screen time. You log it the same way as any other habit, but success means staying within your Limit or not doing it at all. See Bad habits.

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Goal

The target a good habit needs to reach in a period, for example 1 time per day, 4 times per week or 2 times per month. A habit can have a goal per day, week, month or year. See Good habits.

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Limit

The maximum you allow yourself for a Bad habit. Staying at or under it counts as success. A Limit works in the opposite direction from a Goal.

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Log

A recorded entry of your progress on a habit for a day, such as “1 time” or “20 min”. Logging means adding one. You can add, edit and delete logs.

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Checklist

Small steps inside a habit that repeat every day. You tick them off daily, and they reset for the next day. For a one-time item, use a Task.

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Task

A one-time to-do item inside a habit. You do it once and it’s finished. For something that repeats every day, use a Checklist. See Task.

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Note

Text you attach to a habit on a day. It’s different from the daily note in Reflection, which belongs to the whole day. See Note.

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Statuses

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Complete

The status you give a habit when you’ve reached its goal for the day. It counts toward your Streak and your Completion rate.

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Skip

The status you give a habit when you choose not to do it that day, for example when you’re resting, traveling or ill. A skipped day doesn’t break your Streak and doesn’t count as a Fail.

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Fail

The status for a missed or broken habit. For a good habit, it means you marked the day as missed. For a bad habit, it means you did the habit you want to quit, or went over the limit you set. A failed day is counted in your progress break-down. For bad habits, it also resets your Streak.

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Organizing your day

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Area

A folder that groups your habits by part of life, such as Health or Work. An Area is not a place or location. The Morning, Afternoon and Evening tab next to All Habits is a special Area that can’t be deleted. See Area.

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Time of Day

A named block of the day, such as Morning, Afternoon, Evening or one you create yourself like “Night” or “Deep Work”. In Journal, it filters your habit list to the habits assigned to it. See Area.

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Screens and features

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Journal

The main tab. It shows your habit list for the day or week, and it’s where you check in progress of your habits. See Journal.

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Progress

The overview of all your habits. It shows average completion rates by week, month and year, your daily score, heatmaps and patterns, with separate reports for good and bad habits. For one habit, see Single progress. See Progress.

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Single progress

The dashboard for one habit. Tap a habit to see its current streak, calendar, completion rate, trend chart and how many days were completed, skipped and failed. For all habits together, see Progress. See Single progress.

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Reflection

An end-of-day check-in made of a mood emoji and a daily note. See Reflection.

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Reminder

A notification that prompts you to do a habit. A reminder can be based on time (Time reminder), on location (Location reminder), or on another habit (Habit stacking). See Reminder.

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Time reminder

A Reminder that notifies you at a specific time you set. If you connect a calendar, a habit’s time reminders are also what create its events in the calendar. See Reminder.

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Location reminder

A Reminder that notifies you when you arrive at or leave a place. You choose the place by setting a location pin. See Reminder.

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Habit stacking

A Reminder type that prompts your next habit as soon as you complete another one. See Reminder.

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Timer

A tool that counts the time you spend on a habit directly in Habitify. It’s available for habits whose goal uses a duration unit, such as minutes or hours. It has three modes: Countdown, Stopwatch and Pomodoro. See Timer.

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Countdown

A Timer mode that counts down from the time you set.

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Stopwatch

A Timer mode that counts up from zero.

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Pomodoro

A Timer mode that works in cycles of focus time and breaks.

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Widget

A display of your habits on your home screen or desktop, so you can see them without opening the app. See Widget.

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Off Mode

A feature for long breaks, like a vacation or a business trip. You pre-schedule a Time Off period. When it begins, your habits disappear from the Journal, which shows an Off status, and they’re marked as Skipped for the whole period. “Off” means paused, not switched off. See Off Mode.

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Time Off

The period you schedule for Off Mode.

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Status Update

An automation that checks in habits as Skipped or Failed in bulk at a time you choose. It only runs on daily good habits that have no logged progress that day. It never marks a habit Complete. See Status Update.

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Habit Gate

A feature that blocks chosen apps and links until you complete a habit and verify it with one of these methods : Photo, Location, Screen Time, Health Connect or NFC. See Habit Gate.

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Progress and stats

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Streak

How many periods in a row you’ve reached a habit’s goal. For a daily goal, it counts days. For a weekly goal, it counts weeks. For a monthly goal, it counts months. See your current streak and all streaks you’ve got with a habit in Single progress.

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Daily score

The percentage of your goal that you reached over a day. It applies to habits with a daily goal.

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Weekly score

The percentage of your goal that you reached over a week. It applies to habits with a weekly goa.

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Monthly score

The percentage of your goal that you reached over a month. It applies to habits with a monthly goal.

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Yearly score

The percentage of your goal that you reached over a year. It applies to habits with a yearly goal.

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Community

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Circle

A private, ongoing space where invited people share habits with each other. It has no end date. See Circle.

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Challenge

A time-boxed goal you take on with other people, with a leaderboard, streaks and optional scoring. A Challenge has a start and an end. For something ongoing, use a Circle. See Challenge.

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AI features

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Habi AI

The assistant built into the app. It knows the screen you’re on, and it can log habits, edit them and answer how-to questions. You can open it from Journal, Progress and Single progress. It has a weekly usage limit. See Habi AI.

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Habitify MCP

A connection that lets AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT work with your habits. It can list habits for a date, add logs, set a status and clear a day’s progress. See Habitify MCP.

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Siri AI

Siri with Apple Intelligence. It lets you log habits, ask about your progress and update habits by voice. It needs a compatible device and is turned on in your Apple settings. See Siri AI.

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Plans

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Free

The plan that costs nothing. See Plans & Payments for what each plan includes.

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Plus

A paid plan with unlimited habits and reminders and custom Areas. See Plans & Payments.

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Pro

A paid plan that includes everything in Plus, plus more habit features and tools, automation and third-party integrations. See Plans & Payments.

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Lifetime

A one-time purchase that gives you Pro for good. Lifetime is available on Pro only. See Plans & Payments.

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Health and fitness apps

Integrations are included with Pro. See Plans & Payments.

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Apple Health

Apple’s app for health and fitness data. It collects steps, workouts, sleep and more from a user’s iPhone, Apple Watch and other apps. When users create a habit and choose to let it Sync with Apple Health, Habitify reads the matching data and logs it automatically, and the habit completes when its goal is reached. SeeApple Health.

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Health Connect

The health data platform on Android. It gathers steps, sleep and workouts from a user’s phone, watch and fitness apps in one place. When users create a habit from the Health Connect tab and pick an activity such as Steps, Habitify reads the matching data and logs it automatically, and the habit completes when its goal is reached. See Health Connect.

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Google Health (Fitbit)

Fitbit tracks steps, sleep, calories and workouts from its wearables and app. When users create a habit from the Fitbit section and allow access, Habitify reads the matching Fitbit data and logs it automatically, and the habit completes when its goal is reached. See Google Health (Fitbit).

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Strava

A social fitness network where runners, cyclists and other athletes record and share activities. When users connect Strava and create a habit that uses it as the source, Habitify reads the matching activities and logs them automatically, and the habit completes when its goal is reached. See Strava.

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Screen and computer time

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Screen Time

The usage data on a user’s phone that shows how long they spend in each app. When a habit tracks selected apps, Habitify reads that usage and logs it automatically. See Screen Time.

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RescueTime

A service that tracks the time a user spends on apps and websites on their computer. When users link their RescueTime account, Habitify syncs the matching time and logs it automatically. See Rescue Time.

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Calendars

Calendar sync goes from Habitify to a user’s calendar: their habits appear as events, so they can see them next to their meetings.

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Google Calendar

Google’s calendar for scheduling events and getting reminders. When users connect it, Habitify creates a separate calendar named Habitify and adds their habits to it as events, built from the habits’ time-based reminders. See Google Calendar.

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Outlook Calendar

Microsoft’s calendar, used for work and personal schedules. When users connect their Outlook account, Habitify adds their habits as calendar events, based on the habits’ time-based reminders. See Outlook Calendar.

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Apple Calendar

The calendar built into iPhone, iPad and Mac. When users turn on sync, Habitify creates a calendar named Habitify V2 in Apple Calendar and puts their habit events there. See Apple Calendar.

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Automation and developer tools

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Zapier

A no-code platform that connects thousands of apps. Users build a “Zap” in which something happens in one app (a trigger) and something follows in another (an action). With Habitify, a new habit status, mood, log or note can trigger a Zap, and a Zap can create a log, mood or note or update a habit’s status, for example logging a habit when a user completes a Todoist task. See Zapier.

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IFTTT

An automation service that works with “If this, then that” rules called Applets. It offers the same triggers and actions as Zapier with Habitify, for example logging a Strava workout as a habit log. See IFTTT.

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Shortcuts

Apple’s app for building automations on iPhone, iPad and Mac, which users can run with a tap, with Siri or on a schedule. Habitify adds actions so users can track habits from a shortcut. See Shortcuts.

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NFC tags

Small, inexpensive chips that trigger an action when a user’s phone scans them. Users link a tag to a habit in Habitify’s NFC settings and place it where the habit happens, such as a gym bag or a water bottle, so scanning it starts their check-in. See NFC Tags.

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API

The Habitify developer API, a way for software to talk to Habitify directly. Developers can read and manage habits, logs, notes and Areas from their own tools and scripts, for example to build a custom dashboard or sync data from a service Habitify doesn’t connect to yet. See the API reference in this API documentation site.