Answers to common questions about how Routine Habit works, what Habit Pro unlocks, and how to reach us directly.
The basics
Tap the + button on the Home tab to create a habit — give it a name, an icon, and a schedule (every day, specific weekdays, or a number of times per week). Tap a habit on Home to log it complete for today, or open its detail view to log a specific count for quantified habits (like "8 glasses of water").
Life happens. Each habit forgives one missed scheduled day per rolling 7-day window — your streak carries through instead of resetting to zero. You can see which days were grace days in the habit's history grid.
Reminders adapt as a habit matures: a fixed daily time for your first two weeks, then shortly before when you actually tend to log it, then three a week once the habit feels automatic. A late-day nudge (Settings ▸ Urgency alerts) appears only if you haven't logged yet. You can set reminder times or turn reminders off per habit.
Habit Pro
Routine Habit is free for up to 3 habits. Habit Pro removes that limit — choose whichever plan fits you, and switch any time from Settings.
Billed every month. Cancel any time from your Apple ID (iPhone) or Google Play (Android) subscription settings.
Billed once a year, at a lower effective monthly cost than the Monthly plan.
One-time purchase. Pay once, keep Habit Pro forever — no renewal, ever.
FAQ
If it's your first missed scheduled day in the last 7 days, it's automatically covered by your grace day and your streak continues. If you've already used your grace day this week, the streak resets — but your longest streak and full history are always preserved.
Yes. Routine Habit is fully on-device — there's no account, no server, and no analytics. If you turn on iCloud sync (iPhone) or use Android's device backup, your data goes only to your own iCloud or Google account, never through a server we operate. See our Privacy Policy for details.
No — the Apple Watch and Wear OS apps and complications are entirely optional. Everything works fully on your phone alone; the watch companion just adds a faster way to log habits and see today's progress from your wrist.
Subscriptions are managed entirely by the store you bought from, not inside Routine Habit. iPhone: open the Settings app → your name → Subscriptions → Routine Habit, and cancel or change your plan there. Android: open the Google Play Store app → your profile icon → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions → Routine Habit. You can also tap "Manage or Cancel Subscription" from Routine Habit's Change Plan screen, which opens the same system settings.
Routine Habit's design is grounded in peer-reviewed research, the same references shown in-app under Settings → Acknowledgements:
Building habits
Habit formation timeline (~66 days)
Lally, P., van Jaarsveld, C. H. M., Potts, H. W. W., & Wardle, J. (2010). How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40(6), 998–1009. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.674
Implementation intentions
Gollwitzer, P. M. (1999). Implementation intentions: Strong effects of simple plans. American Psychologist, 54(7), 493–503. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1999-05760-004
Implementation intentions meta-analysis
Gollwitzer, P. M., & Sheeran, P. (2006). Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 69–119. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(06)38002-1
Behavior model & habit stacking
Fogg, B. J. (2009). A behavior model for persuasive design. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Article 40. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1541948.1541999
Temptation bundling
Milkman, K. L., Minson, J. A., & Volpp, K. G. M. (2014). Holding the Hunger Games hostage at the gym: An evaluation of temptation bundling. Management Science, 60(2), 283–299. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2013.1784
Breaking habits
Self-monitoring & competing response
Azrin, N. H., & Nunn, R. G. (1973). Habit-reversal: A method of eliminating nervous habits and tics. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 11(4), 619–628. https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-7967(73)90119-8
Implementation intentions for breaking habits
Adriaanse, M. A., Gollwitzer, P. M., De Ridder, D. T. D., de Wit, J. B. F., & Kroese, F. M. (2011). Breaking habits with implementation intentions: A test of underlying processes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37(4), 502–513. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167211399102
Disrupting the cue, not the willpower
Verplanken, B., & Wood, W. (2006). Interventions to break and create consumer habits. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 25(1), 90–103. https://doi.org/10.1509/jppm.25.1.90
Urge surfing & the abstinence violation effect
Larimer, M. E., Palmer, R. S., & Marlatt, G. A. (1999). Relapse prevention: An overview of Marlatt's cognitive-behavioral model. Alcohol Research & Health, 23(2), 151–160. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6760427/
Relapse risk resolves early in a quit attempt
Hughes, J. R., Keely, J., & Naud, S. (2004). Shape of the relapse curve and long-term abstinence among untreated smokers. Addiction, 99(1), 29–38. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2004.00540.x
Abstinence curve shape (power law)
Jackson, S. E., McGowan, J. A., Ubhi, H. K., Proudfoot, H., Shahab, L., Brown, J., & West, R. (2019). Modelling continuous abstinence rates over time from clinical trials of pharmacological interventions for smoking cessation. Addiction, 114(5), 787–797. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14549
