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: daily at a fixed time for your first two weeks, then shifting to when you actually tend to log it, then fading to a light, occasional nudge once the habit feels automatic. You control reminder times and can turn them off per habit in the habit's settings.
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 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 in Settings, your data syncs through your own iCloud account, never through a server we operate. See our Privacy Policy for details.
No — the Watch app and complications are entirely optional. Everything works fully on iPhone alone; the Watch companion just adds a faster way to log habits and see today's progress from your wrist.
Subscriptions are managed entirely through your Apple ID, not inside Routine Habit. Open the Settings app on your iPhone → your name → Subscriptions → Routine Habit, and cancel or change your plan there. You can also tap "Manage or Cancel Subscription" from Routine Habit's Change Plan screen, which opens the same Apple system settings.
Routine Habit's design is grounded in peer-reviewed research, the same references shown in-app under Settings → Acknowledgements:
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
