(Not Boring) Habits

Name: (Not Boring) Habits
Rating: 5.0 (2 reviews)

Turn building better habits into a game

5.0•2 reviews•

33 followers

Turn building better habits into a game

5.0•2 reviews•

33 followers

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Combine the behavioral science of learning habits with a fun, beautiful game to not just track habits but to *build* them. Every day you take a step along a wondrous journey to master a positive habit or slay a bad one.

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Launch tags:iOS•Health & Fitness•Productivity

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Render Sandboxes: a computer for every agentIsolated compute, persistent state and a real filesystem

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(Not Boring) Vibes

Maker

Hey, I made this app because habit trackers never worked for me. Having spent so much time at home over the past 2 years, bad habits have crept into my daily routine. Why not turn it into a game? Why habits? 40-50% of our actions in a day are habits—things well within our control. Big events like getting married or landing a new job tend to fade quickly and what’s left are the small daily routines that occupy our lives. The simplest way to improve your well-being is to improve your daily habits—meditate, walk, draw, write, read, reflect, talk more with friends and family. Or cut out negatives like social media, alcohol. There are thousands of habit tracker apps, and yet none seem to have read anything on the science of behavior change. Most are little more than a daily todo list that utilize guilt or manipulative “gamification” like streaks which becomes a major demotivator once you break it (which is inevitable). It’s like the old video games that couldn’t save your progress and made you start over from the beginning every time—frustrating. We made a “habit builder.” It turns building habits into a fun game with rich visuals, sounds, and haptics. It also embeds the fundamentals of behavior change into an app. It’s pretty simple really. There are three basic techniques to improve your odds at learning a new habit: make it obvious, motivating, and satisfying. So, our app does just that. OBVIOUS : Keep your habit top-of-mind with a one-tap widget for your home screen and daily reminders. SATISFYING : We designed the most satisfying checkbox—yes, we did. MOTIVATING : Every day you take another step along a journey that unfolds over 60 days (which is how long it takes for a typical new habit to stick). There are no broken streaks, no falling behind. Every day you move forward and make progress. Watching your progress grow is the best long-term motivator. Habits is the next app in our (Not Boring) Apps series which now also includes Weather, Timer, & Calculator. The entire app is built like a game using a native game engine (SceneKit). Designed and animated in Blender and then brought into SceneKit for scene lighting, materials, and coding using some of our own tools. Sound design by Thomas Williams. If you try it, I'd love to hear what you think!

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5yr ago

Redflix

10/10. The traditional apps never worked for me too. Should we expect an android version any time soon?

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5yr ago

RAEK

I hate streaks. Inevitably you break them and the larger your streak the less motivated you are to start over once if you break it. It's only a motivator if you're perfect, which is unrealistic. This is dope! I love that it has a widget to keep your habits front and center as well.

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5yr ago

(Not Boring) Vibes

Maker

@dawn_veltri1 Thanks Dawn. Streaks work for some (I hear) but it seems like a losing game to me.

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5yr ago

Gamification is turning a task into a game in order to motivate you to set recurring tasks and one-off tasks, and build good habits.

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5yr ago

xperi.nz

Great time to launch such an app - Starting of the year. Any plan for the android version?

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5yr ago

(Not Boring) Vibes

Maker

@satyendra_sahani No plans. Nothing against Android. It's just not possible for a small team like ours to build such a rich app on both platforms. As is, we're pushing what's possible on iOS.

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5yr ago

xperi.nz

@asallen Agree on that.

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5yr ago