Routine: Habits & Streaks

Routine asks what you want to do today, and then gets out of the way.

You set up a routine, say when it happens, and tick it off. Each one gets the button that fits it: a check for "call Mum", a +1 for eight glasses of water, round amounts like +250 for 2,000 steps, and play for twenty minutes of reading.

HEALTH CONNECT

Turn it on once and linked routines fill themselves in: steps, distance, floors climbed, exercise and mindfulness minutes, water, sleep, and workouts by kind, such as a run, a walk, a swim, yoga or strength. It keeps checking in the background, so a walk counts before you open the app. Routine only reads from Health Connect. It never writes to it.

SCHEDULES

Every day, or certain days of the week, or certain days of the month. Gym on Tuesday and Thursday. Sheets on the first. Going away? Take a break, and the days off don't count against you.

STREAKS THAT ARE HONEST

Every routine keeps its own. One missed day is shielded, and the card tells you so. When a day gets away from you there is a rescue: do the two-minute version and the streak survives. A rescued day is not counted as a day you met, and it stays in your history looking like what it was.

LOOKING BACK

A calendar and a heat map for each routine, your longest runs, the times of day that work, and the places things tend to slip. Log a mood with the day. Once a week a short review suggests at most two changes to your plan, each one a single tap.

CIRCLES AND CHALLENGES

Make a circle, share the six-character code, and up to 25 people share a leaderboard. Send a cheer or a nudge with one tap. Take a challenge from the catalog and it sets up the routines it needs. Everyone keeps their own routines and their own streaks.

THE ASSISTANT

Ask it to plan a week, or to fix the routine you keep missing. It works from how your week actually went.

Also: dark mode, English and Polish, works offline and catches up later, and you can export everything.

FREE FOREVER

Doing today's routines is never paywalled. Completing, timing, skipping, moods, streaks, breaks and reminders are free for good. Routine Pro adds room for more than ten routines, weekly and monthly schedules, your whole history, unlimited streak rescues, an early reminder and more assistant messages.

PRIVACY

Your routines are yours. Other people only ever see your name, avatar, points and streak, and only inside a circle you chose to join. Sign in with Google or Apple, or try it as a guest first.

Questions? routineaiapp@gmail.com