PointBook: Habit Tracker

PointBook is a habit tracker with rewards: every routine or goal you check off earns you points. You put them toward treats you pick, like an hour of gaming or takeout on a Friday. Say a 30-minute workout is worth 200 points and takeout costs 3,000. Both numbers are up to you.

Points aren't real money, so you can't turn them into cash or gift cards. Think of it as a reward chart for adults.

Day to day, you'll mostly use the Today tab. It lists your routines for the day, each with its current streak and the days it repeats. When you finish one, tap it and its points are added to your total. Tap it again if that was a mistake. You have until midnight to undo it, as long as you haven't used those points yet.

Goals get their own card, just below your routines. They're for one-time things, like finishing a book or renewing your passport. A deadline is optional, and the goal stays on your list even after the date passes.

The Rewards tab lists your rewards by cost, lowest first. The ones you're still saving up for get a progress bar showing how far you have to go. Your next reward also appears on the Today tab, with a Redeem button once you have enough. Before you confirm, PointBook tells you what you'll have left, and you can undo a redemption until midnight. Rewards stay on the list after you redeem them, so takeout can be next Friday's treat too.

To add a routine or a goal, tap the + button. A routine can repeat every day, on weekdays, on weekends, or on the days you choose. Each routine can have its own reminder time, and you won't get the reminder on days off or once you've checked the routine off for the day.

Only scheduled days count toward a streak, so a day off can't break one. If you miss one scheduled day, the streak keeps going, and the Missions tab tells you which day that was. Two misses in a row and it starts over. You don't lose points for missing a day.

On the Missions tab, each routine has a row of dots for this week, with a colored dot for every day you did it. Tap History at the bottom for charts of your completions and points over the last 7, 30, or 90 days, or all time. There's also a calendar and a heatmap of the past year, and on the calendar you can pick any day to see what you did.

The home screen widget lists the routines you still have to do today, up to four depending on how tall you make it. Tap one to check it off without opening PointBook. The widget also shows how many you've done and your longest current streak.

You don't need an account, and there are no ads or subscriptions. Your routines, goals, points, and rewards are saved on your phone, and you can use PointBook offline. There's no cloud sync, so if you get a new phone, export a backup file in Settings first and import it on the new one.

PointBook follows your phone's light or dark setting unless you pick one in Settings. It comes in 12 languages: English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, and Indonesian.

If you're just starting out, pick one or two routines and one reward you really want. When you first open PointBook, you can also start from a few sample routines and edit them.