Most daily check-in apps die on day four because the ritual is longer than the insight. This one is deliberately tiny: choose how today was, tick what you took care of, write one line if you feel like it. Ninety seconds, once a day, and the streak graph does the rest.
A check-in is a deliberate pause where you record your state before the day records it for you. Therapists call it mood monitoring; habit people call it a streak; ADHD folks usually call it "the only tracking system that survived the week". The failure mode is always the same — a beautiful journaling habit that takes eleven minutes. If it takes ninety seconds, you can do it on the worst day, and the worst day is exactly the day the data matters.
Your personal page keeps a 28-day heatmap — one square per day, shaded by what happened — plus a mood distribution over the month and fifteen badges that unlock from real behaviour (longest streak, total check-ins, journals written) instead of from a paywall. Because it's a study timer and a check-in in the same tab, "did I focus" and "how did I feel" land in the same record, which is the part a separate habit tracker never gives you.
Thirty days of squares is a habit tracker you can read at a glance — and it's free, browser-based, and exportable.
Check-in and focus feed each other. Finishing a 25 minute timer session earns grain and lifts the bird's mood; abandoning it three times makes the bird visibly sad, and turning on hardcore mode makes an over-five-minute interruption reset the day. If you want the accountability version, the body doubling mode keeps a companion on screen while you work. If you like a check-in that reacts to you rather than a spreadsheet that judges you, that's the same idea the Finch alternative page spells out.
A short, repeated record of your state — usually mood, a few basics (sleep, food, movement, water) and one line of text. Done daily it becomes a habit tracker and a mood log at the same time; the value comes from frequency, not from depth per entry.
Yes — this one runs in the browser at timerbird.com. It works on phone, tablet and school or work laptops where installs are blocked, and you can add it to your home screen so it opens like an app.
No. Check-ins, streaks and the heatmap are stored locally on your device by default. Creating a free account only adds cloud sync so the same bird and the same journal follow you between devices.
The streak counter is a companionship streak, not a punishment counter. The bird notices you're away (it gets quiet, then greets you when you come back), and nothing you earned is taken away. Penalties are opt-in — hardcore mode is a switch you turn on yourself.
Both. Settings has a full JSON export (journal, moods, stats, shop progress) and an import that merges; the personal page has a button that deletes your cloud data.
Both, in one place: mood per day, a tick list of basics, and a streak heatmap. It deliberately isn't a journaling app — the 120-character limit exists so the ritual stays under ninety seconds.