Momentum
One score for how you're really doing, and it keeps growing with you.
Momentum is a single number from 0 to 100. It grows every time you show up and cools down gently when life gets in the way. Take a break and it eases down gently; come back and it climbs right back.
The idea
Streaks count days. Momentum counts everything you do.
A streak only knows whether today happened. Momentum measures everything you have done recently: completed habits, logged progress and finished goals all add to it, older progress gradually counts less, and staying active keeps the line up.
- No inactivity penalty. Nothing is ever subtracted for a day you missed. Positive contributions simply expire.
- Rewards action, not app-opening. You cannot keep a high score by opening the app and doing nothing.
- Not a currency. There is nothing to spend and no XP to grind. It is a reading, like a pulse.
Strong
Up 19 this week · 3 habits left today. Keep it going!
- Restarting 0–19
- Building 20–39
- Steady 40–59
- Strong 60–79
- High 80–94
- Peak 95–100
The formula
What earns Momentum, and how fast it fades.
Every action writes a small event with a value and a lifetime. Your score on any day is the sum of every event's value, scaled down linearly by how much of its lifetime has passed, capped at 100.
| Action | Momentum | Fades out over |
|---|---|---|
| First check-in of the day | +1 | 3 days |
| A habit completed | +2 | 10 days |
| A perfect day (every planned habit done) | +2 | 7 days |
| Progress logged on a goal | +3 | 14 days |
| A goal completed | +10 | 30 days |
| A comeback after 3+ quiet days | +4 | 7 days |
| Streak milestone: 3 / 7 / 14 / 30 days | +1 / +2 / +3 / +5 | 7 / 14 / 21 / 30 days |
| Finishing the guided setup (once, ever) | +20 | 10 days |
A daily cap on habits
Habit completions add at most +8 per day. Ticking twenty tiny habits doesn't beat finishing a goal.
Back-filling earns nothing
Checking off a past day fixes your history but adds no Momentum. The score measures what you are doing now.
Surplus is banked
The display stops at 100, the maths doesn't. A peak week leaves headroom, so the score doesn't collapse the moment old events expire.
Where you see it
On your Today screen, in a widget, and in an occasional nudge.
Momentum leads the Today screen and has its own widget. Tap it for a 7- or 30-day chart and a feed of exactly what moved it.
- The Today card shows your score, level and change this week.
- The detail screen lists every event that moved the score, day by day.
- An evening nudge arrives only when Momentum is cooling: at most one a day, two a week.
- The Momentum widget keeps the gauge on your home screen, free.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
What happens to Momentum after a week off?
Can I game the score?
What is Momentum?
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