# Zen: Habits & Accountability

> Build good ones, quit bad ones

Set a habit and choose when it repeats. Run a timer, count reps, or work rounds. Or name something you are quitting and count the urges you let pass. No accounts.

[Download on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760182618) for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

## At a glance

- Local-first
- No accounts
- No tracking
- No subscriptions
- Dark Mode
- Live Activities
- Own your data

## What is in it

- **Your month on iPad, day by day.** The iPad calendar lists every habit on each day with how it went. Tap one to open it on that day.
- **A new device picks up where you are.** With sync on, a new iPhone or iPad offers to restore your habits from iCloud the first time it opens.
- **Take a week off without losing it.** Set yourself to Vacation, Sick or Break. Reminders stop, and the days you are away are skipped rather than missed, so your streak waits for you instead of ending.
- **Quitting is a habit too.** Name something you are stopping and the day is yours unless you say you slipped. Every urge you let pass is one tap, counting up all day, and a day with no urges still counts.
- **Work through it, round by round.** Build a routine from timed and counted rounds. Put them in order, then finish each one in turn.
- **Run a timer or count reps.** Set a duration or a target. Hit the goal and the day completes itself.
- **Apple Watch runs the work.** Run timers, count reps, and check off rounds from your wrist, not just the final habit. Today's tally sits on your watch face.
- **Ask Siri, or one tap on Home.** Say it and Siri marks the habit done. On Home, hold a habit for the actions you reach for most.
- **Not just a score. A trajectory.** Zen weighs your schedule and every recorded day to estimate consistency now and plot how it changed. Gains slow, misses fade it gently, a day that fell short counts for part of one, and skips stay neutral.
- **Six widgets. Your data at a glance.** Six widgets carry today, weekly progress, strength, streak, history, and your running Challenges onto your Home Screen.
- **Invite friends. Nothing public.** Share a Challenge over iCloud. Everyone keeps a personal habit, with no profiles or public feed.
- **Your data, ready for you or AI.** Export readable JSONL whenever you want, or keep a copy updating in your private iCloud Drive for an AI assistant you choose.
- **Buy it once. Keep every update.** No subscriptions, ads, or upsells. Future updates are included. EU purchases have a 14-day withdrawal period under Apple's terms.
- **Local first. iCloud if you choose.** Zen works from its on-device database. Optional iCloud sync is off until you turn it on.
- **See what's due. Complete your day.** One list shows what is due today. Tap to complete, or hold for the actions you use most.
- **Move through any day.** Open the calendar, revisit any date, then return to today in one tap. It reopens where you left it.
- **Put everything in your order.** Arrange your habits from the menu on Home. Hold and drag Challenges into the order that works for you.
- **Choose what Zen shows you.** Choose which optional tabs stay in the bar, whether Progress lays its habits out as a grid or a list, and which chart each habit shows.
- **Keep the timer outside the app.** A running timer stays on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with controls on the app icon.
- **Strength, streaks, and a full year.** See the current pattern, then open focused trends and a full year of history.
- **Trace every day.** Every completion, timer, and change stays in an activity log beside the note you wrote for that day.
- **A nudge, nothing more.** Pick a local reminder for the days a habit repeats. Pause every reminder whenever you want.
- **Your tally on the watch face.** A complication carries today's count on your watch face, and Siri marks a habit done without opening the app.
- **A skip is not a miss.** Mark a day done, missed, or skipped. A skip stays neutral instead of breaking the pattern.

## Where your data lives

Every habit, completion, note, and reminder is written to a database on the device. The app works with no network. Personal sync across your own Apple devices is optional and runs through your iCloud; Challenges are opt-in and run over Apple CloudKit sharing. There are no accounts, no analytics, and no Donado Labs server holding any of it.

## Habit library

236 habits to start from, across Sports, Learning, Focus, ADHD, Break Habits, Diet, Mindfulness, Sleep, Relationships, Cardio, Finance, Self-care, Home, Strength, Mobility, Healthy AI Use.

## Pages

- [Home](/)
- [About](/about)
- [Changelog](/changelog)
- [Exporting your data](/export)
- [Terms & Privacy](/terms)
- [Contact](/contact)