Changelog

Every update to Zen - Habit Tracker, newest first.

Version 1.3.2

Challenge streak charts, drag to reorder, Lock Screen timers, and notifications that know who did what.

  • Get a notification when someone in a Challenge completes their day, even when the app is closed.
  • Onboarding now explains what notifications are for before asking permission.
  • Joining a Challenge creates a habit that matches the original: same goal, same schedule.
  • Start a Challenge straight from a habit, without picking the habit again.
  • Challenge hosts can rename a Challenge or change when it ends.
  • A running habit timer now continues on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and keeps counting when you leave the screen.
  • Use the timer and counter on past days, so a day you forgot to log can still be filled in.
  • Set a start date while creating a habit.
  • Creating a habit moves step by step, and you can swipe back to change an answer.
  • Adjust goals, Challenge targets, and Challenge duration with plus and minus, and hold either to move in bigger jumps.
  • Tap a marked day again to clear it.
  • Every habit action now lives in one menu on the habit screen.
  • Swipe a progress card to look back through earlier weeks and months.
  • The streak strip ends on today instead of starting on Monday, so a fresh week is no longer empty.
  • Progress charts show every day, with a diagonal line marking the ones you skipped.
  • Expanding rows like the date picker now open and close with the same motion.
  • The inline calendar matches the app's colors instead of system blue.
  • Empty screens are plain text instead of placeholder cards that looked like loading.
  • Reorder your habits by holding a card and dragging it where you want.
  • Hold a habit card for quick actions without opening the habit.
  • Today's card shows how far along a running timer or counter is.
  • Control a running timer from the app icon.
  • The Lock Screen timer is built around a progress ring, and a session can be restarted from the habit screen.
  • A Challenge now charts every participant's streak across the whole challenge, so you can see the runs, the breaks, and how much time is left.
  • Each participant keeps one color across the Challenge chart and the standings.
  • Open a Challenge's habit from the Challenge, and the Challenge from the habit.
  • Challenge activity shows timer and counter progress, with a burst of taps kept to a single line.
  • Challenge notifications name who completed, and no longer say it is your turn when you already finished your day.
  • Reorder your Challenges the same way as habits.
  • Fixed: joining a Challenge now keeps the original habit's goal.
  • Fixed: editing a Challenge opens with its current settings.
  • Fixed: a habit that fails to be created when joining a Challenge now says so instead of failing quietly.

Version 1.3.1

Reliable Challenge invites, native menus, and iPad fixes.

  • Leave a Challenge and rejoin later from a valid invite. Your personal habit stays put either way.
  • Challenge invites and sharing now work reliably on iOS 26.
  • Menus across the app are now native controls, with clearer icons and status colors.
  • Expanded progress views now fit properly on iPad.

Version 1.3.0

Apple Watch, opt-in Challenges, meaningful habit strength, and deeper progress.

  • Apple Watch app: view today's scheduled habits and complete them from your wrist.
  • Challenges: share an iCloud invite, connect your own habit, and follow participant progress and activity without a Zen account.
  • Habit strength is now a 0-100 estimate based on completion history, with gradual gains, gentle decay, neutral skips, and milestone notifications.
  • Open focused strength, streak, and history views, including a strength trend and full-year calendars.
  • Add notes to individual days and tap activity entries to return to the date they describe.
  • Reminders now stay aligned with habit titles, schedules, end dates, global pauses, archives, and iCloud changes.
  • Zen now adapts to iPad, with refined habit editing, clearer template browsing, flatter controls, and direct feedback from Settings.

Version 1.2.0

Home-screen widgets, skip days without breaking your streak, optional iCloud sync, and a deeper dark theme.

  • Home-screen widgets: a selected habit's history grid, a checklist to tick off today's habits right from the Home Screen, weekly progress bars, and current streaks with a flame.
  • Mark a day as skipped, a neutral status that neither counts nor breaks your streak.
  • Turn on iCloud sync to keep the same habits across your Apple devices, or leave it off to keep each device separate. Off by default, no account required.
  • A deeper dark theme, plus refined design and smoother interactions throughout.

Version 1.1.0

Count goals, end dates, dozens more habits, and a smoother, glassier feel.

  • Set count goals up to 1000 and track them with a simple counter (great for drinking water).
  • Give a habit an end date so its schedule stops on the day you choose.
  • Dozens more habits to start from, including Padel, popular sports, and Apple Fitness workouts.
  • The segmented control and tab bar now glide a thumb between options, and you can press and drag to pick.
  • Refreshed tab bar with a translucent glass pill that stays crisp in light and dark.
  • Tap a quick button in the header to jump back to today whenever you're viewing another day.
  • A redesigned welcome that shows you how each feature works as you get started.
  • Refined design and smoother interactions throughout.

Version 1.0.0

The first release of Zen, a calm, on-device habit tracker.

  • Track habits on a daily, weekday, or fully custom schedule.
  • Create a habit in one guided flow, start from a popular template or from scratch.
  • Mark each day done, failed, or skipped.
  • Set time goals and finish them with a hold-to-complete timer.
  • Watch each habit grow from starting to established, and keep your streaks alive.
  • Switch your progress view between habit strength, streaks, and a year-long history grid.
  • Add private notes and review a full activity log for every habit.
  • Pull the date bar down to open a full-screen calendar and revisit any day.
  • Get local reminders that follow each habit's schedule and greet you by name.
  • Pause all reminders anytime, or auto-mark missed days to keep your history honest.
  • Personalize the app with your name during a quick welcome.
  • Private by design: everything stays on your device and syncs over iCloud. No accounts, no servers, no ads.