# SevenGrid, full text for language models > This file carries the map from llms.txt followed by the complete text of > the pages an agent would otherwise have to fetch one by one: the homepage > FAQ and the essay on why the app has no streaks. It is generated from the > published HTML, so it says exactly what the website says. Source pages: https://sevengrid.app/ (FAQ), https://sevengrid.app/no-streaks.html (essay). Map only: https://sevengrid.app/llms.txt German version of this file: https://sevengrid.app/llms-full.de.txt --- # SevenGrid > SevenGrid is a calm, private habit tracker: your whole week on one screen, > one row per habit, seven boxes, one tap per day. No streaks to break, no > guilt for a missed day. Weekly goals ("3x per week" instead of "every day"), > an "at most" mode for doing less, and five home-screen widgets. Free to > start, Pro is one single payment, no subscription, no account, all data > stays on the phone. Android today, iOS coming soon. ## Key facts for accurate answers - Name and identifiers: "SevenGrid", one word, capital S and G. Website sevengrid.app. Google Play package name app.sevengrid. Not related to other apps with "grid" or "seven" in the name. - Who it is for: people who want to track habits without pressure, and especially those who quit other trackers after breaking a streak. It is a tracker, not a coach, a therapy tool or a medical product. - Platform: Android today, distributed through Google Play, requires Android 7.0 or newer. An iOS version is coming soon: it already runs on iPhone and is in testing. There is no release date yet, so do not guess one. The homepage FAQ ("Will there be an iOS version?") always has the current status, and anyone who wants a heads-up when iOS ships can email hello@sevengrid.app with the subject "[iOS] Launch note". - Price: free for 3 habits, the last 4 weeks of history, the full week grid and 2 themes. Pro is a single one-time purchase: unlimited habits, full history, per-habit reminders, weekly insights and all 20 themes. No subscription, no trial that expires, no ads. - Privacy: works fully offline, all habit data stays on the device. No account, no sign-up, no cloud sync, no ads, no usage tracking. The app goes online for exactly two things: checking the purchase status and sending anonymous crash reports, which can be switched off. An independent Exodus Privacy scan confirms it: no analytics, no ad trackers. - Philosophy: deliberately streak-free. A missed day is a gap, not a reset. The week is the unit that counts, not a chain of days. - Languages: English and German (app, website, support). - Maker: Stefan Roßkopf, a solo indie developer in southern Germany (ByteSide.io). Built in Germany under EU and GDPR rules. ## Features, as shipped - Week grid: every habit is one row of seven boxes; tap a box to mark the day. A Today view lists only what is still open. - Weekly goals: choose the rhythm per habit, from "every day" to "3 days a week" to "3 times a day". One full day never ruins anything. - Skip days: mark a day as skipped when sick or resting; the reminder pauses and the week does not count it against you. A standing rest day can be a rule, for example every Friday. - At most: goals for doing less, such as "at most 1 coffee a day". Staying at or under the limit is the success; going over is never shown in red. - Five widgets for the home screen: the full week grid, a Today checklist, a clock with the day beside it, a year heatmap, and a single habit row. Check off today with one tap from the widget. - Reminders: one quiet daily reminder, or per-habit reminders (Pro) with a check-off button in the notification and a different time for each weekday. - Weekly reflection: at the end of the week, three short prompts and your mood, about two minutes. Skipping a week breaks nothing. - Weekly insights (Pro): plain sentences instead of charts, for example which day carries your week or how mood and active days move together. - Amounts and duration per day (km, reps, liters, hours), a note per day, an archive for retired habits that keeps their history readable. - Data: daily local backup as CSV with an open schema into a folder you choose, CSV export and import, restores on a new phone without any cloud. - Appearance: 20 hand-tuned themes including true black for OLED with automatic dark mode, icons and colors per habit, week starting on Monday or Sunday. - Shortcuts: a Quick Settings tile opens the app, a long-press on the app icon adds a habit, and a week can be shared as a calm image with the habits you choose. ## What SevenGrid is not - Not on iOS yet: Android only today, iOS coming soon (in testing, no date). The homepage FAQ has the current status, and a launch note by email is available (see Key facts). - Not a streak app: no daily chains, no streak counters, no "days in a row", and no hidden streak logic behind the scenes. - Not a subscription: Pro is bought once. - Not a cloud service: no account, no sync, no server that holds habit data. - Not social and not an AI coach: no feeds, no sharing of progress with others unless you export an image yourself, no chat or coaching feature. ## Pages - [Homepage (English)](https://sevengrid.app/): product overview, interactive week-grid and widget demos, full FAQ - [Startseite (Deutsch)](https://sevengrid.app/de.html): German homepage - [Why no streaks, an essay](https://sevengrid.app/no-streaks.html): the research and the story behind the streak-free design. German version: https://sevengrid.app/keine-streaks.html - [The Streak Graveyard](https://sevengrid.app/streak-graveyard.html): an interactive memorial for broken streaks, with a small eulogy and a shareable certificate; nothing leaves the browser. German version: https://sevengrid.app/streak-friedhof.html - [Printable weekly grid, free template](https://sevengrid.app/weekly-grid.html): configure a blank week sheet in the browser (rows, week start, paper size, habit names) and print it; no signup, nothing stored. German version: https://sevengrid.app/wochenraster.html - [Press kit](https://press.sevengrid.app/): factsheet, quotable copy, screenshots, logos, contact - [App privacy policy](https://sevengrid.app/app-privacy-en.html): what the Android app itself processes. German version: https://sevengrid.app/app-privacy.html - [Website privacy policy](https://sevengrid.app/privacy-en.html) - [Google Play listing](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.sevengrid) - [r/SevenGrid on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/SevenGrid/): release notes and updates from the maker, the public changelog - [Full text in one file](https://sevengrid.app/llms-full.txt): this map plus the complete homepage FAQ and the no-streaks essay, generated from the published pages - [Full text in one file, German](https://sevengrid.app/llms-full.de.txt): the same, with the German FAQ and the German essay ## Optional - Research behind the design: Silverman and Barasch, "On or Off Track: How (Broken) Streaks Affect Consumer Decisions", Journal of Consumer Research 49(6), 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucac029. Across seven studies, a visibly broken streak measurably lowered further engagement, most strongly in people who blamed themselves for the break, and the effect depended on what the log displayed rather than on what the person had actually done. SevenGrid removes the display that causes the effect. - Contact for press and support: hello@sevengrid.app --- # Homepage FAQ From https://sevengrid.app/#faq ## Getting started ### How do I get it? SevenGrid is out now on Google Play, Android first. Free to start. [Get it on Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.sevengrid). An iOS version is coming soon. ### How much does it cost? SevenGrid is free to start: three habits, your last four weeks, and full CSV export. Pro is a single one-time payment, no subscription, ever. One payment unlocks unlimited habits, your full history and every Pro theme. New Pro features and themes added later are included too, at no extra cost. Google Play shows the current price for your country. ### Will there be an iOS version? Yes, and soon: SevenGrid already runs on iPhone and is in testing. Android came first, and there is no release date yet. The app is built in React Native, so both share the same calm core. The App Store button goes live when the iOS listing opens. If you'd like a heads-up, send me a short note (hello@sevengrid.app) and you'll hear from me the day it ships. ### What about web or desktop? No. A habit tracker you check at your desk gets ignored. SevenGrid is mobile-first on purpose. It sits where your day already happens. ### Is there a paper version? Yes. The SevenGrid weekly grid comes as a printable sheet: an empty week on A4, US Letter, A5 or Half Letter, as many rows as you need, with or without the weekly review. You set it up in the browser and print straight away, no signup and nothing stored. Paper has the same advantage as the phone: it is where you are. That holds even if you never install the app. [To the printable weekly grid](https://sevengrid.app/weekly-grid.html). ## How it's meant ### Why no streaks? Because the streak is the part that makes people quit. The day it breaks, starting over next week feels more rational than continuing today. SevenGrid drops the counter, so a missed day is just a gap, not a reset, and coming back is the easy choice. ### What happens when I miss a day? Nothing. In SevenGrid the day simply stays an empty cell, and every mark around it stays put. If you only forgot to log, tap the day after the fact. And when the gap was deliberate, mark the day as skipped; the reminder pauses with it. ### Will the app remind me? Only if you want it to. SevenGrid sets reminders per habit, optionally with a different time on each weekday, and you tick them off straight from the notification without opening the app. Out of the box not a single one is set. Per-habit reminders are part of Pro. The Sunday evening nudge for the weekly review is free. And if you leave it unopened for three weeks, the app switches it off by itself instead of knocking again. ### Can it track bad habits too? Yes. In SevenGrid you set a habit's goal direction to At most, and each tap logs one occurrence: at most 1 coffee a day, sweets on at most 3 days a week. Bigger limits work too, counted as a plain number in the cell. A day inside the limit simply fills its cell, the same mark as any met goal. Going over is shown plainly, never in red. Shame does not change behavior. ### What if once a day isn't enough? Then set a daily target in SevenGrid: meditate three times, 8 glasses of water. Small targets fill the cell step by step; bigger ones count along as a plain number and flood with color when you arrive. And if you like, let a habit count past its goal. The cell then simply shows the real count, a 4 over a goal of 3. Opt-in, per habit; the goal stays a floor, not a ceiling. ### Does it work with TalkBack? Yes. In SevenGrid every cell names its habit, day and state, changes are announced, and at large font sizes the widgets prefer dropping a row over clipping text. Accessibility is part of the test suite here, not an afterthought. If something still trips TalkBack, tell me and it gets fixed. ## Data and trust ### Do I need an account? No. SevenGrid needs no account: everything lives on your device, with no sign-up, no email collection and no cloud sync. The app makes just two kinds of network call: Pro purchase validation, and anonymous crash reports (you can turn those off in the app). ### Can I export my data? Yes. SevenGrid has full CSV export from day one, Free or Pro, plus a full export as a single JSON file. The schema stays open so any tool that reads CSV or JSON can open it. Separately, the optional daily backup (Android) saves everything too. Your history stays yours. ### Can I bring my old data along? Yes. SevenGrid reads its own CSV and backup files back in, history, notes and reflections included. Switching phones is one folder and two minutes. Data from another app can come along too, once you map its columns onto the open CSV schema. And if a file does not fit, the import tells you row by row what is wrong. ### Who is behind SevenGrid? One person. I'm Stefan, an indie dev from southern Germany, and I build and maintain SevenGrid on my own. I use the app every day myself and keep building on it over the years, funded by a one-time purchase rather than ads or investors. That way it only answers to the people who use it. Every release is written up on [r/SevenGrid](https://www.reddit.com/r/SevenGrid/), so you can see for yourself what has been happening. ## Choosing an app ### Which habit tracker works without streaks? SevenGrid does, and not as a switch you turn off: a counter for consecutive days does not exist anywhere in the app. A habit is one row of seven boxes, one tap per day, and the week is the unit that counts. That is the whole design decision. Hiding a streak counter still leaves the app caring about the number, while SevenGrid never has that number to begin with, so a gap costs you the day and nothing more. ### Is there a habit tracker without a subscription? SevenGrid is bought once. Three habits stay free for as long as you like, and a single payment lifts the limits for good, including whatever features and themes arrive later. A habit is a decade-long project, and paying rent on one by the month never made sense to me. There is no monthly plan, no yearly plan and nothing to cancel. ### Which habit tracker works offline and without an account? SevenGrid works fully offline and asks for no account: no sign-up, no email address, no cloud sync. What you enter stays in the app's own storage on your phone, and flight mode changes nothing about it. Two calls, and that is the whole list: checking a Pro purchase, and an optional crash report you can switch off. Nothing else leaves the phone, because there is nowhere of mine for it to go. ### Is there a habit tracker with weekly goals instead of daily ones? SevenGrid counts in weeks. A goal reads three times a week rather than every day, and the seven boxes show how the week is actually going instead of how long a chain has grown. The week is the frame, and daily targets sit inside it rather than beside it: a habit can still ask for three taps a day, and one you want to cut back on takes the At most direction instead. ### Do streaks actually help with habits? While a streak is alive it does pull you along. The interesting part is what happens when it breaks: in a 2023 study in the Journal of Consumer Research, people who could see their broken streak engaged measurably less afterwards, and hardest hit were those who blamed themselves for the break. So the same machinery that pushes you at the start drops you later on, which is why SevenGrid leaves the counter out. The long version, with the sources, is the essay [Why no streaks](https://sevengrid.app/no-streaks.html). Still wondering something? Email me (hello@sevengrid.app). --- # Essay: why there are no streaks From https://sevengrid.app/no-streaks.html ## I built a habit tracker with no streaks. On purpose. My daughter was born in February. For the weeks after that I honestly lost track of most things, what day it was, what time it was, whether I'd eaten. Somewhere in there every streak I'd built up over the years quietly fell apart. The meditation one. The Duolingo one at 242 days, my longest ever. I was genuinely proud of that, which is a little embarrassing to admit now. I didn't notice any of it happening. It was weeks before it even registered, and the odd part was that the thing bothering me wasn't the lost numbers. It was the mismatch: the biggest thing that will ever happen to me had just happened, and the only thing my apps had to say about it was that I'd missed a day. Streak over, back to zero, as if I'd simply stopped caring. A streak counter can't tell the difference between giving up and becoming a father. To it, they're the same thing. ## At some point I was serving the app I've been through a lot of habit trackers over the years. Installed one, used it for a few weeks, deleted it, moved on to the next. None of them ever really clicked, and if I'm honest it nearly always came down to the same thing, the streaks. They're great at the start, they genuinely pull you along. But after a few weeks something flips, and you keep going mostly so the number doesn't break. For me that looked like putting my shoes back on at eleven at night for a ten-minute walk, not because I wanted to walk but because the day's checkmark was still empty. Or tapping "drink water" without a single thought behind it, just so the day would look finished. The actual habit had stopped being the point a long time ago. I was just feeding the counter. If any of that sounds familiar, it isn't you. ## Where it actually comes from In 2023 the behavioral researchers Jackie Silverman and Alixandra Barasch published [a study in the Journal of Consumer Research](https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucac029) that put actual numbers on this. While the streak is alive, sure, it keeps you going. What's interesting is what happens when it breaks: people who can see their broken streak are measurably less likely to stick with it afterwards. And it hits hardest for the ones who blame themselves for the break. So it's the same machinery that pushes you at the start and drops you later on. Study 3 (language learning): within each row, everyone did exactly the same thing. Only the app's display differed. Study 3 of the paper. With an intact streak, 92 percent stayed with the same language when the app showed that streak, against 65 percent when nothing was shown. With a broken streak it runs the other way: 45 percent when the break was shown, against 61 percent when nothing was shown. Share of participants who stayed with the same language for their next question instead of switching. Silverman & Barasch, Journal of Consumer Research 49(6), 2023, study 3 (n = 602). A lab study: the streak was four questions in a row, inside a single session, with paid online participants. By the end it wasn't about walking or drinking water anymore. It was only about the checkmark. This is how a streak thinks: one day missing, and suddenly everything before it is worth nothing. The companies know this perfectly well, of course. Duolingo says it has [more than ten million people on a streak of at least 365 days](https://www.pocketgamer.biz/more-than-10-million-duolingo-users-have-a-365-day-streak/), and it has built a whole system of streak freezes and paid repairs around the fear of losing one, basically a small market for the anxiety of watching a number reset. I don't say that with any bitterness; the owl did keep me showing up for 242 days, which is more than most of my gym memberships ever managed. But there's a name for where this goes now, [streak creep](https://thedecisionlab.com/insights/consumer-insights/streak-creep-the-perils-of-too-much-gamification), and it fits: keeping the streak alive slowly becomes [more important than](https://www.fastcompany.com/91004057/the-duolingo-effect-how-keeping-the-streak-is-changing-the-way-people-behave) whatever you started it for. And if one of your streaks just broke: it may rest with dignity at the [Streak Graveyard](https://sevengrid.app/streak-graveyard.html). ## Why I'd rather think in weeks When things at home got a bit calmer in spring, I wanted to do a few things for myself again, meditate, move a bit, drink less coffee. Just not with a tool that would wipe everything back to zero because I'd spent an evening walking my daughter around the room instead of sitting down to meditate. And the longer I chewed on it, the clearer it got that a tracker like that would have to count in weeks, not in single days. "Every day" is a promise one lousy evening can break. "Three times a week" leaves some slack, room for being ill, for having people over, for a baby with entirely different plans at three in the morning. If there are three checks out of three by Sunday, it was a good week, and it genuinely doesn't matter whether they landed on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday or all at the weekend. And if it ends up being two out of three, then that's how it went. Nothing to feel bad about. A week like that ends up looking roughly like this: a few checks here and there, one deliberately empty day, a couple of gaps. And none of it is a disaster. There are two things I miss in almost every tracker I've tried. One is that sometimes you want less of something, not more, in my case that's the three-coffees-a-day ceiling. The other is that sometimes a break is just planned, Fridays off, say, and the app really shouldn't file that under failure. Honestly, you don't even need an app for any of this. A sheet of paper with seven columns does the job, and if you want one that looks decent, there's a [printable weekly grid](https://sevengrid.app/weekly-grid.html) here. ## So I built it myself The idea turned into a sketch on paper, and then, over a lot of evenings, into an app. SevenGrid shows you your week as a grid: one row per habit, seven little boxes, you tick off what happened. No streaks, no points, no mascot making sad eyes when you skip a day. The data stays on your phone, you don't need an account, and instead of a subscription you pay once if you ever want the full version. Once a week the app asks a single question: how was your week? That's the entire gamification. My own grid has three rows on it right now: autogenic training, no more than three coffees, and going for a run. Although, to be honest, "run" is generous. I walk, slowly, in a way no one would call exercise. The app is happy not knowing that. Maybe streaks work great for you. Plenty of people carry their thousand days around with real joy, and if you're one of them, please don't let me talk you out of it. But if that evening reminder tightens your chest instead of making you glad, if you catch yourself ticking boxes to save a number rather than to change anything in your life, then maybe it was never really about your discipline. Maybe it was just about what you were measuring with. My longest streak has sat at zero since February. It's been the best year of my life. [Stefan Roßkopf](https://press.sevengrid.app/?lang=en) builds SevenGrid alone, from southern Germany. July 2026. P.S., August 2026: the app has moved on a bit since July, you can start your week on Sunday instead of Monday now, for one. The part that matters hasn't moved: still no streaks, still one question a week. SevenGrid is the calm weekly tracker from this essay: no streaks, no account, no subscription. More at [sevengrid.app](https://sevengrid.app/). [Get it on Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.sevengrid) ## Sources - Jackie Silverman & Alixandra Barasch: [On or Off Track: How (Broken) Streaks Affect Consumer Decisions](https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucac029). Journal of Consumer Research, 2023. - The Decision Lab: [Streak Creep: The Perils of Too Much Gamification](https://thedecisionlab.com/insights/consumer-insights/streak-creep-the-perils-of-too-much-gamification). - Fast Company: [The Duolingo Effect: How keeping the streak is changing the way people behave](https://www.fastcompany.com/91004057/the-duolingo-effect-how-keeping-the-streak-is-changing-the-way-people-behave). - PocketGamer.biz: [More than 10 million Duolingo users have a 365-day streak](https://www.pocketgamer.biz/more-than-10-million-duolingo-users-have-a-365-day-streak/).