FAQ

HabitHeat is a minimal habit tracker that turns small daily entries into a long-term visual history.

Instead of focusing only on today’s checkmark or a single streak number, HabitHeat helps you see how your habits develop over weeks, months, and years. Each habit becomes a heatmap, so you can look back and recognize patterns, phases, gaps, strong periods, quiet weeks, and the rhythm behind your routines.

You can use HabitHeat to track simple done/not-done habits, numbers, options, timed sessions, and notes. Over time, your entries build up into a personal record of what you keep coming back to.

If you want to see how the app looks in practice, you can visit the screenshots page. For a broader overview of what HabitHeat can do, see the features page.

HabitHeat is for people who want to understand their habits over time, not just complete a daily checklist.

It can be useful if you track things like meditation, reading, exercise, studying, writing, sleep, mood, health routines, creative work, or anything else you want to observe consistently. It is especially helpful for habits where the long-term pattern matters more than one perfect day.

HabitHeat is also a good fit if you like visual tracking, personal data, quantified self, journaling, or GitHub-style heatmaps. The app is designed to feel calm and minimal, so it does not push you with aggressive reminders, streak pressure, or gamified rewards.

It is not meant to force you into a perfect routine. It is meant to help you see what actually happens.

The easiest way to start is to create one habit you genuinely care about and track it for a few days.

You do not need to build a complete system on day one. In fact, HabitHeat usually works better if you start small. Choose one to three habits that already matter to you, such as meditation, reading, exercise, writing, or going outside. Then log them honestly whenever they happen.

A simple starting point could be:

• one habit you already do sometimes
• one habit you want to do more consistently
• one habit you want to understand better

For example, you could start with “Meditation” as a timer habit, “Reading” as a number-based habit for pages or minutes, or “Exercise” as a checkbox habit.

The goal is not to create a perfect dashboard immediately. The goal is to let your history grow. After a few weeks, your heatmap will already start showing useful patterns.

A more detailed getting started guide is planned for the blog. Until then, the best advice is: start with fewer habits than you think, track honestly, and let the data become useful over time.

Start with something simple, personal, and easy to log.

A good first habit is usually something that already appears in your life, even if it is inconsistent. This makes it easier to build a useful history without adding too much pressure. Examples are meditation, reading, workouts, studying, writing, walking, drinking water, sleep routines, or practicing a skill.

If you are unsure what habit type to choose:

• Use a checkbox habit for things that are simply done or not done.
• Use a number-based habit for pages, minutes, repetitions, words, or counts.
• Use a timer habit for sessions like meditation, deep work, reading, or exercise.
• Use an options habit for things like mood, energy, quality, or custom categories.

For your first habit, simple is usually better. You can always add more habits later once HabitHeat becomes part of your routine.

If you want examples of different habit types, visit the features page.

No. You do not need to use HabitHeat perfectly every day.

HabitHeat is designed around long-term patterns, not daily perfection. Missing a day does not ruin your habit history. In many cases, gaps are part of the story. They can show busy weeks, low-energy phases, travel, stress, recovery, or simply changing priorities.

Of course, HabitHeat becomes more useful the more consistently you track. But “consistent” does not have to mean “perfect.” Even a few entries per week can become meaningful over time, especially for habits like reading, exercise, meditation, writing, or studying.

The important thing is to log honestly. A realistic history is more useful than a perfect-looking one.

Yes. HabitHeat is built to be used without pressure.

The app can show streaks because they can be useful for some people, but streaks are not the main point of HabitHeat. A streak only tells you one narrow thing: how many days something happened in a row. HabitHeat is more interested in the bigger picture.

A heatmap can show much more than a streak. It can show how often you returned to a habit, which months were stronger, which weekdays worked best, when you had gaps, and how your routine changed over time.

This means a missed day is not treated as a failure. It simply becomes part of the pattern.

HabitHeat works best when you use it as a calm tracking tool, not as a system that judges you.

Yes. HabitHeat can be used by beginners, especially if you start small.

You do not need to understand analytics, habit systems, or quantified self to use HabitHeat. You can begin with one habit, log it when it happens, and slowly build a visual history. The heatmap becomes more useful naturally as you add entries.

For beginners, the best approach is not to track everything at once. Start with one or two habits and keep the setup simple. Once you understand how HabitHeat fits into your day, you can add more habit types, notes, analytics, colors, or custom options.

HabitHeat is simple at the start, but it becomes more valuable the longer you use it.

HabitHeat currently supports four habit types: checkbox habits, number-based habits, options habits, and timer habits.

These types are meant to cover different ways of tracking real habits. Some habits are simple yes/no actions, like “Did I meditate today?” Others are better tracked with a number, like minutes, pages, repetitions, steps, or glasses of water. Some habits are more about categories or states, such as mood, energy, sleep quality, or focus level. And some habits happen as sessions, where a timer makes more sense.

The supported habit types are:

• Checkbox habits for simple done/not-done tracking
• Number-based habits for counts, minutes, pages, repetitions, or other values
• Options habits for selecting from custom options like mood, quality, or intensity
• Timer habits for tracking sessions with a start and stop timer

This makes HabitHeat flexible enough for many different routines without making the app feel complicated. You can keep your setup very simple, or use different habit types for different parts of your life.

You can see examples of the different habit types on the features page.

A checkbox habit is the simplest type of habit in HabitHeat. It tracks whether something happened or did not happen on a given day.

This works well for habits where the exact amount does not matter as much as showing up. For example, you might use a checkbox habit for “Exercise,” “No alcohol,” “Go outside,” “Write,” “Study,” “Take vitamins,” or “Clean apartment.”

A checkbox habit is useful when you want a clear yes/no signal. You either did the habit or you did not. Over time, the heatmap shows how often you came back to it, which weeks were consistent, and where there were gaps.

Checkbox habits are usually the best place to start if you are new to HabitHeat. They are quick to log and easy to understand.

A number-based habit lets you track a value instead of just a yes/no entry.

This is useful when the amount matters. For example, you can track minutes meditated, pages read, words written, kilometers walked, push-ups completed, glasses of water, study minutes, calories, weight, sleep duration, or anything else that can be represented as a number.

Number-based habits make your heatmap more expressive because the intensity can reflect how much you did. A day with 5 minutes and a day with 60 minutes are both entries, but they do not have to mean the same thing visually.

This type is especially useful for habits where progress is not only about whether something happened, but how much of it happened.

Examples:

Reading: pages or minutes
Meditation: minutes
Exercise: repetitions, sets, or duration
Writing: words
Studying: minutes or sessions
Sleep: hours
Walking: steps or distance

If you are unsure whether to use a checkbox or number-based habit, ask yourself: “Do I care about the amount?” If yes, a number-based habit is probably better.

An options habit lets you choose from a set of custom options instead of entering a number or checking something off.

This works well for habits or personal states that are not naturally numeric. For example, you could track mood, energy, sleep quality, focus level, workout intensity, pain level, productivity quality, or how a day felt overall.

Instead of forcing everything into numbers, options habits let you define your own categories. For example:

Mood: Great, Good, Okay, Low
Energy: High, Medium, Low
Sleep quality: Good, Average, Bad
Workout intensity: Light, Moderate, Hard
Focus: Deep, Normal, Distracted

Options habits are useful when you want to notice patterns, but do not want to over-measure everything. They can help you understand context around your routines without turning every part of your life into a precise metric.

For example, you might notice that your meditation habit looks different on low-energy days, or that your reading habit is stronger when your sleep quality is better.

A timer habit lets you track sessions by starting and stopping a timer.

This is useful for habits where duration matters and you do not want to manually enter the time afterwards. For example, you can use timer habits for meditation, deep work, reading, studying, workouts, stretching, practicing an instrument, coding, writing, or focused creative work.

Timer habits are especially helpful when the habit itself is a session. Instead of only logging “done,” you can record how long you spent on it. Over time, HabitHeat can show not only whether you returned to the habit, but also how much time you actually invested.

For example, a meditation habit might show short sessions on busy days, longer sessions on calm weekends, and changes in your rhythm over months.

Timer habits are not about optimizing every minute. They are simply a practical way to capture time-based habits more accurately.

Yes. HabitHeat can be used for habits that are not daily.

Not every habit needs to happen every day. Some routines are weekly, occasional, seasonal, or flexible. For example, you might only go to the gym three times per week, write on weekends, do a longer review every Sunday, or track a health routine only when it happens.

HabitHeat does not require every heatmap to be perfectly filled. A sparse heatmap can still be meaningful. It can show frequency, rhythm, gaps, and recurring patterns, even if the habit is not daily.

This is one of the reasons HabitHeat focuses on long-term visual history instead of only streaks. A streak often makes non-daily habits feel broken, even when they are working exactly as intended. A heatmap gives you more context.

For non-daily habits, it can help to name the habit clearly. For example:

• “Gym”
• “Weekly Review”
• “Long Walk”
• “Deep Clean”
• “Call Family”
• “Therapy Reflection”
• “Meal Prep”

The goal is not to force every habit into a daily routine. The goal is to track what actually matters to you.

Yes. You can use HabitHeat to track things you want to reduce, understand, or become more aware of.

These are sometimes called negative habits, anti-habits, or avoidance habits. Examples could include smoking, alcohol, junk food, social media, late-night scrolling, skipped workouts, headaches, anxiety episodes, low-energy days, or anything else you want to observe more clearly.

There are different ways to do this depending on what you want to understand:

• Use a checkbox habit if you simply want to mark whether something happened.
• Use a number-based habit if you want to track how often or how much it happened.
• Use an options habit if you want to track intensity, quality, mood, or context.
• Use journal notes if you want to write down why it happened or what was going on that day.

HabitHeat does not judge the entry. It just gives you a visual history. This can make it easier to notice patterns without turning the habit into a source of shame.

For example, instead of only thinking “I failed again,” you might notice that a certain habit appears more often on stressful weekdays, after poor sleep, or during specific phases. That kind of pattern can be more useful than a simple streak reset.

Yes, HabitHeat is designed to support editing and backfilling entries.

This is important because real tracking is not always perfect. Sometimes you forget to log something on the same day. Sometimes you enter the wrong value. Sometimes you remember later that you did meditate, read, exercise, or complete a habit.

Backfilling lets you add entries for previous dates, so your habit history can stay accurate. Editing lets you correct entries when something was logged incorrectly.

This fits the way HabitHeat is meant to be used. The goal is not to punish you for missing a logging moment. The goal is to build a useful long-term history. If you know what actually happened, it makes sense to record it.

Backfilling is especially useful for habits like workouts, reading, meditation, sleep, studying, or anything you might remember later.

Yes. HabitHeat includes journal entries so you can add context around your habits.

A heatmap can show what happened, but sometimes you also want to remember why it happened. Journal notes are useful for explaining unusual days, strong weeks, missed habits, changes in motivation, health issues, travel, stress, progress, or anything else that gives meaning to your habit data.

For example, you might add a note like:

• “Short meditation today, but I still showed up.”
• “Skipped workout because I felt sick.”
• “Read a lot more this week because I started a new book.”
• “Low energy today, but sleep was bad.”
• “Good focus session after turning off my phone.”

Journal entries make HabitHeat more than a checklist. They help connect your habit data with the real context of your life.

You do not need to write notes every day. They are most useful when something feels worth remembering.

HabitHeat turns your habit entries into calendar-style heatmaps.

Each day becomes a small cell in the heatmap. When you log a habit, that day becomes visible as part of your habit history. Over time, these small entries form a visual timeline that makes it easier to see consistency, gaps, strong periods, quiet phases, and changes in your routine.

The heatmap is not only about whether a day was “perfect.” It is about showing what actually happened over time. A single missed day does not erase your progress. It simply becomes part of the pattern.

Depending on the habit type, a heatmap can represent different kinds of entries. A checkbox habit might show whether something was done. A number-based habit can show different intensities depending on the value you entered. A timer habit can reflect how much time you spent on a session. An options habit can show which option was selected.

This makes HabitHeat useful for both simple tracking and deeper self-observation. You can start with a basic habit and, after a few weeks or months, look back at a visual history of how that habit really developed.

You can see examples of HabitHeat heatmaps on the screenshots page.

HabitHeat gives you different views so you can look at your habits from different distances.

The year view shows the big picture. It helps you see long-term consistency, seasonal changes, strong months, long gaps, and how a habit developed across the year. This view is useful when you want to step back and understand the overall story of a habit.

The month view gives you a closer look at recent patterns. It is useful for noticing how your current month is going, whether a habit is becoming more regular, and how your routine changes from week to week.

The week view is the most detailed view. It helps you focus on the current week and makes daily tracking feel more immediate. This is useful when you want to check in quickly, update recent entries, or understand what happened over the last few days.

Each view shows the same habit history from a different perspective:

• Year view: the long-term pattern
• Month view: the current phase
• Week view: the recent details

You do not have to use every view all the time. Some users mostly enjoy the year view because it shows the full visual history. Others prefer the week or month view for everyday tracking.

Colors help make your habit history easier to read.

In HabitHeat, colors are used to make habits visually distinct and to show activity or intensity in the heatmap. A habit can have its own color, so it becomes easier to recognize at a glance. This is especially useful when you track multiple habits, because each heatmap can develop its own visual identity.

For some habit types, color intensity can also help represent the strength of an entry. For example, a number-based or timer habit can visually show the difference between a small entry and a larger one. A short meditation session and a long meditation session can both be part of the same history, but they do not have to look exactly the same.

The goal is not to make the heatmap complicated. The goal is to make patterns visible. Colors help you quickly see where something happened, where it happened more often, and where your routine changed.

Over time, these colors become part of how you recognize your habits. A reading habit, meditation habit, workout habit, or writing habit can each become visually familiar.

The streak number shows how many days in a row a habit has been completed or logged, depending on the habit type.

Streaks can be motivating for some people because they make consistency visible. They can help you notice when a habit is currently active and when you have been showing up regularly.

However, streaks are not the main focus of HabitHeat.

A streak is only one small signal. It tells you what happened recently, but it does not tell the full story of a habit. For example, someone could have a broken streak but still have a very strong habit over the last six months. Another person could have a current streak but only a short history.

HabitHeat includes streaks where they are useful, but the app is built around the bigger picture. The heatmap, analytics, and long-term views are often more meaningful than a single streak number.

A missed day does not delete your history. It only adds more context to it.

The yearly average gives you a simple summary of how active a habit has been across the year.

Depending on the habit type, this can represent different things. For a checkbox habit, it can help you understand how often the habit was completed. For a number-based or timer habit, it can help summarize the average amount or duration over time.

The yearly average is useful because it gives you a higher-level signal instead of only looking at individual days. It can help you compare different phases, notice whether a habit is becoming more consistent, and understand your overall rhythm.

However, it should not be treated as a perfect score or a judgment. Some habits are not meant to happen every day. For example, a gym habit might be healthy at three times per week. A weekly review might only happen once per week. A lower yearly average does not automatically mean the habit is failing.

The yearly average is best used as context. It helps you ask better questions:

• Is this habit happening as often as I expected?
• Did my routine change over the year?
• Is this habit actually daily, weekly, or occasional?
• Am I tracking this habit in a way that matches real life?

HabitHeat is not trying to reduce your habits to one score. The average is just one signal inside a larger visual history.

HabitHeat includes analytics that help you understand your habits beyond the heatmap.

The exact analytics can depend on the habit type, but HabitHeat can show signals such as totals, averages, monthly activity, weekday patterns, time-of-day trends, session duration, and changes over time.

For example, analytics can help you see:

• how often you logged a habit
• how much time or volume you invested
• which months were stronger or weaker
• which weekdays worked best
• when during the day a habit usually happened
• how your routine changed over time
• whether your current rhythm matches what you expected

This is especially useful for habits like meditation, reading, exercise, studying, writing, deep work, or any routine where the long-term pattern matters.

The goal of analytics in HabitHeat is not to overwhelm you with numbers. The goal is to give you simple signals that make your own behavior easier to understand.

You can see examples of the analytics views on the screenshots page, or learn more about the product on the features page.

Analytics help you see patterns that are hard to notice from memory alone.

When you think about a habit, it is easy to focus on recent days or on how you feel right now. HabitHeat gives you a more objective view of what actually happened over time. This can make your habits easier to understand without relying only on motivation, memory, or guilt.

For example, analytics might show that you meditate more consistently in the morning, read more on weekends, exercise less during stressful months, or write more when you keep sessions short. These patterns can help you adjust your routine in a realistic way.

Analytics can also show when a habit is working better than you thought. Sometimes a habit feels inconsistent because you missed a few recent days, but the long-term view shows that you returned to it many times over the year. That can be more encouraging than a simple streak reset.

The most useful question is not always “Did I succeed today?” Sometimes it is:

• When does this habit naturally fit into my life?
• What conditions make it easier?
• Where do I usually fall off?
• What changed during stronger or weaker periods?
• Is this habit actually important to me?

HabitHeat analytics are meant to support reflection, not pressure. They help you understand your real routine so you can make better decisions.

HabitHeat focuses on long-term patterns because habits are rarely perfectly linear.

Most real habits have phases. You might be consistent for a while, stop during a stressful period, return later, change your routine, experiment with a different time of day, or slowly build something that only becomes visible after months. A simple daily checklist cannot show that full story.

Long-term patterns are useful because they reveal more than single days. They show whether you keep returning to something. They show how your habits change with seasons, work, sleep, stress, motivation, health, and life in general.

This is why HabitHeat uses heatmaps, different time views, analytics, and journal entries. Together, they help turn small daily logs into a larger personal history.

The point is not to be perfect every day. The point is to understand what actually happens over time.

That is also why HabitHeat does not center the whole experience around streak pressure. Streaks can be useful, but they are fragile. A long-term visual history is more forgiving and often more honest.

HabitHeat is built for people who want to observe, reflect, and understand their habits instead of only chasing a number.

Journal entries are notes you can add to your habit history.

They are useful when a simple number, checkbox, timer session, or option is not enough to explain what happened. A heatmap can show that you meditated, exercised, read, studied, or missed a habit. A journal entry can explain the context behind it.

For example, you might use a journal entry to write down why a habit felt easy, why you skipped something, what changed in your routine, how you felt that day, or what you noticed after looking back at your data.

Journal entries are meant to add reflection to your tracking. They help turn your habit history from a simple log into something more personal and meaningful.

You do not need to write journal entries every day. They are most useful when something feels worth remembering.

You should add a journal note whenever the context feels important.

Habit tracking can show what happened, but it does not always show why it happened. Journal notes are useful when a day, week, or habit entry needs a little explanation.

Good moments to add a note could be:

• when you missed a habit and want to remember why
• when a habit felt unusually easy or difficult
• when you changed your routine
• when you noticed a pattern
• when your mood, sleep, stress, travel, or health affected your habits
• when you want to remember a small insight
• when you made progress that is not visible from the heatmap alone

For example, a short note like “low energy today, slept badly” can make your habit data much easier to understand later. Without the note, you might only see an empty day. With the note, you remember the real context.

Journal notes work best when they are honest and lightweight. They do not have to be polished or long. A few words can be enough.

Yes. HabitHeat can be used as a habit journal, especially if you want your reflections to stay connected to your habits.

It is not meant to replace a full diary app for everyone, but it works well for habit-related reflection. You can use it to write about your routines, missed days, progress, motivation, energy, mood, experiments, setbacks, and small observations.

For example, you could use HabitHeat as a journal for:

• meditation reflections
• reading notes
• workout notes
• sleep and energy
• observations
• weekly habit reviews
• mood and routine
• patterns
• progress updates
• reasons behind missed habits

This can be especially useful over time. When you look back at a heatmap, the journal entries can help you understand what was happening during specific phases of your life.

HabitHeat is built around the idea that habits are not just isolated checkmarks. They happen inside real life. Journal entries help capture that context.

Journal entries are designed to give context to your habit tracking.

Depending on how you use HabitHeat, a journal note can help explain a specific day, a specific habit, or a broader phase in your routine. The goal is to make your habit history easier to understand when you look back later.

For example, a heatmap might show that your meditation habit became less consistent for two weeks. A journal entry can explain that you were traveling, sleeping poorly, stressed, sick, or simply changing your routine.

This connection between tracking and reflection is one of the most useful parts of HabitHeat. The data shows the pattern. The journal helps explain the story behind the pattern.

You can use journal entries lightly or deeply. Some users may only add notes for unusual days. Others may use them as a regular reflection tool.

Yes. This is one of the best uses for journal entries.

Missing a habit does not have to be treated as failure. Often, a missed habit contains useful information. Maybe you were tired, busy, traveling, sick, stressed, overwhelmed, or maybe the habit simply did not fit your life that day.

Writing a short note can help you understand missed habits without turning them into guilt.

For example:

• “Skipped workout because I felt sick.”
• “No reading today, too much work.”
• “Meditation felt difficult because I was restless.”
• “Missed my walk, but had a long family day.”
• “Low energy this week. Sleep has been bad.”

These notes can be very useful later. Instead of only seeing gaps in your heatmap, you can understand what was happening around those gaps.

HabitHeat is not designed to punish missed days. It is designed to help you see and understand your real patterns.

Journal entries are part of your private HabitHeat data.

They are not public, not shared with other users, and not sold to third parties. They are stored as part of your account and are only used to operate HabitHeat and provide the journal functionality.

However, it is important to be clear: HabitHeat is not currently end-to-end encrypted. That means journal entries are stored in the app database and are protected by the app’s security rules and infrastructure, but they are not encrypted in a way where only you hold the key.

Journal entries should still be treated as personal data. HabitHeat is built with care around privacy, and user data is not used for advertising or sold to anyone.

In the future, HabitHeat may add encrypted journal storage so journal entries are not stored as plain text in the database. If this is added, it will be explained clearly in the app and on the website.

For more information about data and privacy, please see the privacy policy.

Yes. Your habit data is private to your account.

HabitHeat does not make your habits, entries, journal notes, analytics, or personal tracking history public by default. Your data is stored so the app can show your heatmaps, analytics, journal entries, and habit history when you use HabitHeat.

HabitHeat is built around personal tracking, so privacy matters. Habit data can be sensitive because it may reflect routines, health habits, mood, meditation, exercise, sleep, productivity, or other parts of your life. That data should be treated with care.

HabitHeat does not use your personal habit data for advertising, does not sell it, and does not publish individual user data.

Some technical access may exist for maintenance, debugging, support, security, or development purposes. When public stats or product insights are shared, they are anonymized or aggregated so they do not identify individual users.

For full legal details, please read the privacy policy.

No. HabitHeat does not sell your data.

Your habit data, journal entries, account information, and usage history are not sold, rented, or shared with advertisers. HabitHeat is not built around advertising or user data resale.

The app may use limited technical data to operate, maintain, secure, and improve the product. For example, aggregated or anonymized usage information can help understand which features are useful, where users get stuck, or which parts of the app need improvement.

The goal is to make HabitHeat better, not to monetize your personal data.

Your data is connected to your account and is not visible to other users by default.

As the developer and operator of HabitHeat, I may technically have access to parts of the database and infrastructure when needed for maintenance, debugging, support, security, or product development. This does not mean user data is casually read or used outside the purpose of operating and improving HabitHeat.

HabitHeat is not currently end-to-end encrypted. This means the app infrastructure stores and processes your habit data so it can display your heatmaps, analytics, journal entries, and other features.

The practical goal is to keep access limited, responsible, and only related to operating the product.

For more details, please see the privacy policy.

Journal entries are private to your account, but they are not currently end-to-end encrypted.

This means they are stored as part of your HabitHeat data and protected by the app’s normal security rules and infrastructure, but they are not encrypted in a way where only you hold the key.

Because journal entries can contain more personal context than normal habit entries, encrypted journal storage is planned as a future improvement. The goal would be to store journal entries in a way where they are not saved as plain text in the database.

If this feature is added, HabitHeat will explain clearly what kind of encryption is used and what it does or does not protect against.

Until then, you should treat journal entries as private app data, but not as a place for highly sensitive secrets.

Data export is planned as part of HabitHeat.

The goal is to let you download your own habit data, entries, and journal history in a readable format, such as JSON, CSV, or another practical export format. Your data should not feel trapped inside the app.

At the moment, export options may still be limited or handled manually depending on the current version of HabitHeat. If you need an export, you can contact support and request your data.

In the future, HabitHeat should include a self-service export option directly inside the app.

If your export includes journal entries, those entries may be readable inside the exported file. You should store exports carefully, especially if they contain personal notes.

For support requests, contact: support@habitheat.com

Yes. You can request deletion of your HabitHeat account and data.

At the moment, account deletion may be handled manually. If you want your account and associated data deleted, please contact support from the email address connected to your HabitHeat account.

Contact: support@habitheat.com

A self-service account deletion option is planned for the future so users can delete their account directly inside the app.

After deletion, your account and associated habit data should no longer be available in HabitHeat. Some technical backups, logs, or legal retention periods may apply depending on the infrastructure and operational requirements.

For full details, please see the privacy policy.

If you stop using HabitHeat, your account and habit data will usually remain stored so you can come back later and continue where you left off.

HabitHeat is designed around long-term history, so returning after a break is normal. A pause does not ruin your habit data. It simply becomes part of your timeline.

If you no longer want your data stored, you can request account deletion by contacting support.

Contact: support@habitheat.com

In the future, HabitHeat may add more self-service options for exporting, deleting, or managing your data directly inside the app.

HabitHeat is not currently open source.

It is an independently built and maintained product. The app, infrastructure, and source code are currently not publicly available as an open-source project.

That may change in the future for some parts of HabitHeat, such as small utilities, public components, or technical write-ups, but there is no open-source release planned at the moment.

Even though HabitHeat is not open source, the goal is to be transparent about how the product works, how it is maintained, and how user data is handled. You can follow product updates on the changelog.

Yes. HabitHeat works on mobile devices.

HabitHeat is a web app, so you can open it in your mobile browser and use it on your phone or tablet. The interface is designed to work on smaller screens, so you can create habits, log entries, view heatmaps, check analytics, and use the journal from your mobile device.

HabitHeat is especially useful on mobile because habit tracking often happens during the day. You can quickly open the app, log a habit, add a note, or check your current week without needing a desktop computer.

For the best mobile experience, you can add HabitHeat to your home screen as a Progressive Web App.

HabitHeat is not currently available as a separate app in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

Instead, HabitHeat works as a Progressive Web App, also called a PWA. This means you can use it through your browser and add it to your home screen so it behaves more like a regular app.

Once installed as a PWA, HabitHeat can be opened directly from your home screen, without visiting the website manually each time. It can feel very similar to a native app, but it does not require an app store download.

A native iOS or Android app may be considered in the future, but for now the PWA version is the main mobile experience.

You can install HabitHeat on your phone by adding it to your home screen.

On iPhone or iPad:

• Open app.habitheat.com in Safari
• Tap the Share button
• Choose “Add to Home Screen”
• Confirm by tapping “Add”

On Android:

• Open app.habitheat.com in Chrome
• Tap the menu button
• Choose “Add to Home screen” or “Install app”
• Confirm the installation

After that, HabitHeat will appear on your home screen like a regular app. You can open it directly from there and use it for daily habit tracking.

The exact wording may differ slightly depending on your device, browser, and operating system version.

HabitHeat is mainly designed to be used online.

Because your habits, entries, analytics, and journal data are connected to your account and stored in the app database, HabitHeat usually needs an internet connection to load, sync, and save your data properly.

Some parts of the app may still appear if they were already loaded before, depending on your browser and device. However, HabitHeat should not currently be treated as a fully offline-first habit tracker.

If offline support becomes more reliable in the future, HabitHeat may add better offline logging and syncing. For now, the safest assumption is: use HabitHeat with an internet connection when you want to log or update habit data.

Yes. You can use HabitHeat on multiple devices with the same account.

Because HabitHeat stores your data in your account, you can log in from your desktop, laptop, phone, or tablet and access your habits from different devices. This makes it easier to track habits wherever you are.

For example, you might create and review habits on your desktop, but log quick entries from your phone during the day. Your heatmaps and analytics are connected to your account, so your history is not tied to only one device.

To keep your data consistent, make sure you are logged into the same HabitHeat account on each device.

No. You do not need an Apple App Store or Google Play Store account to use HabitHeat.

HabitHeat runs as a web app, so you can open it directly in your browser at app.habitheat.com. If you want a more app-like experience, you can add it to your home screen as a PWA without downloading it from an app store.

You only need a HabitHeat account to save and sync your habits across devices.

This makes HabitHeat easier to access on different platforms, including desktop, mobile, and tablet.

The HabitHeat Supporter plan is an optional monthly subscription for people who want to support the continued development of HabitHeat.

HabitHeat is built and maintained independently. The Supporter plan helps keep the app running, fund ongoing improvements, and make it possible to continue building HabitHeat without turning it into an aggressive, ad-driven, or heavily paywalled product.

Supporters may receive small extra benefits, such as a supporter badge, early access to selected improvements, or convenience features in the future. But the main idea is simple: if HabitHeat is useful to you and you want to help keep it alive, the Supporter plan is a way to do that.

You do not need to become a Supporter to use HabitHeat.

No. HabitHeat can be used for free.

You can create habits, log entries, view heatmaps, use analytics, and build your habit history without paying. HabitHeat is designed so the core tracking experience remains accessible.

The Supporter plan is optional. It is for users who want to support the product financially or receive small supporter benefits, not for users who simply want to try HabitHeat or use the basic habit tracking features.

The goal is to keep HabitHeat useful without forcing every user into a subscription.

Supporters help fund the independent development of HabitHeat and may receive small benefits as a thank-you.

Current and future supporter benefits may include things like:

• a Supporter badge
• early access to selected improvements
• small quality-of-life features
• convenience features such as easier export options
• possible customization features in the future

The exact supporter benefits may change over time as HabitHeat develops. The plan is not meant to lock the core product behind a paywall. It is meant to reward people who want to support the project while keeping the main tracking experience available.

If new Supporter features are added, they will be shared through the changelog.

HabitHeat has a Supporter plan because independent software still has real costs.

Running and improving HabitHeat takes time, infrastructure, maintenance, design work, bug fixes, support, and ongoing development. The Supporter plan helps make that sustainable without relying on ads, selling user data, or turning the app into something pushy.

HabitHeat is intentionally built to feel calm and low-pressure. The monetization should match that. A Supporter plan is a softer model than aggressive paywalls or dark-pattern subscriptions.

It lets people use HabitHeat for free, while giving regular users a way to support the product if they want it to continue improving.

Yes. You can cancel the HabitHeat Supporter plan anytime.

The Supporter plan is a monthly subscription, so you are not locked into a long-term commitment. If you cancel, your subscription will stop according to the normal billing period handled by the payment provider.

After cancellation, you can continue using HabitHeat as a free user. Your habit data, heatmaps, and core tracking history are not deleted just because you cancel the Supporter plan.

If you have trouble managing your subscription, you can contact support at support@habitheat.com.

The goal is to keep the core HabitHeat tracking experience free.

HabitHeat is built around simple habit tracking, heatmaps, analytics, and long-term habit history. These core ideas should remain accessible, because the product is more useful when people can actually build their history over time.

Some optional supporter benefits, convenience features, or advanced customization features may be added for paying users in the future. But the intention is not to make HabitHeat feel broken or useless unless you pay.

The Supporter plan exists to support continued development, not to punish free users.

If this changes in the future, it will be communicated clearly. The current direction is to keep HabitHeat minimalistic, useful, and free to start.

Yes. HabitHeat is actively maintained.

The app is still being improved with bug fixes, design updates, quality-of-life improvements, and new features. HabitHeat is an independent product, so development may not always happen in large release cycles, but it is actively worked on and shaped by real usage, feedback, and long-term product ideas.

You can follow recent updates in the changelog.

HabitHeat is meant to grow slowly and carefully. The goal is not to add every possible feature as fast as possible, but to keep improving the product without losing its calm and minimal feeling.

You can see recent HabitHeat updates on the changelog page.

The changelog includes product changes, fixes, improvements, design updates, and new features. It is the best place to check whether HabitHeat is still being worked on and what has changed recently.

The changelog also helps show the direction of the product over time. HabitHeat is not meant to be a static app that never changes. It is actively developed based on real usage, feedback, and ideas that fit the long-term vision of the product.

HabitHeat will continue to focus on making long-term habit tracking more useful, calm, and flexible.

Planned or possible future improvements may include things like better export options, more quality-of-life features, improved analytics, better habit organization, more customization, public profiles, embeds, and improvements to the journal experience.

Some ideas may change over time. HabitHeat is developed independently, so the roadmap is intentionally flexible. Features are prioritized based on what feels useful, what users ask for, and what fits the product’s direction.

The main goal is to keep HabitHeat focused: simple daily tracking, visual habit history, useful analytics, and reflection without unnecessary pressure.

For recent changes and shipped improvements, see the changelog.

HabitHeat was rebuilt because the original version had reached its limits.

The first version worked, but over time the codebase, design, and data structure made it harder to keep improving the product. HabitHeat started as a personal habit tracking project, but as more people used it and the product direction became clearer, it needed a stronger foundation.

Version 2 was rebuilt to make HabitHeat cleaner, faster, more flexible, and easier to improve in the long run. The rebuild made it possible to rethink the design, improve the user experience, support better analytics, and create a more stable foundation for future features.

The goal was not just to make HabitHeat look newer. The goal was to build a better long-term version of the product.

You can read more about the rebuild in the blog post Why I rebuilt HabitHeat from scratch.

HabitHeat v1 is the original version of the app.

After HabitHeat v2 was rebuilt, v1 moved into maintenance mode. That means it is no longer the main version of HabitHeat and does not receive new features or active product improvements.

HabitHeat v1 remains available so existing users can still access their old data. It exists mainly as an archive and transition version, not as the future direction of the product.

The current version of HabitHeat is v2, which has a new design, improved structure, better long-term foundation, and a clearer product direction.

You can still access v1 at v1.habitheat.com.

There is currently no automatic migration from HabitHeat v1 to HabitHeat v2.

HabitHeat v2 uses a new database structure and a rebuilt foundation. Because of that, automatically moving old v1 data into v2 is not simple and could create inconsistencies or data issues.

You can still access HabitHeat v1 to view your old data and manually transfer anything important if you want to continue tracking it in v2.

This is not ideal, but it was the safer decision for the rebuild. HabitHeat v2 is meant to be a cleaner long-term foundation rather than a direct continuation of the old technical structure.

If you have important v1 data and need help understanding your options, you can contact me at support@habitheat.com.