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Changelog

What is new in HabitForge, latest first. These notes mirror the app's release notes, so what you read here matches what shipped.

Web — 2026-10-29 — card only, a clearer privacy policy, and HabitForge on Google Play​

Plans are paid for by card on the plans page; the other way to pay is gone. The privacy policy now names OpenAI, which writes the AI drafts when our Anthropic credit is used up. A keyboard shows where it is on every control again, the help page speaks for the HabitForge team, and the feed lists the latest releases. The Android app is on Google Play, and these pages now say so. The appearance panel lists nine choices: the pointer is the browser's own again.

Web — 2026-10-25 — page tours, and How HabitForge works​

Nine pages now have a short tour behind the signpost button in the header, and a new page, How HabitForge works, explains the whole app in six steps. A first visit shows one quiet line at the bottom about the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service, which leaves by itself. Details: Page tours and How HabitForge works.

Web — 2026-10-13 — AI drafts, a weekly read-back, and Speak​

A new habit can be drafted with AI: the cue, routine, reward, craving and investment, from its name. The dashboard reads your last seven finished days back with one suggestion, and the community board can help word a post you wrote. Speak listens to what you did and what you want to start, then suggests check-ins, a new habit or a post for you to check. Nothing is saved until you press Save. Each plan has a monthly AI allowance, and the levels are Spark, Pulse and Surge. Details: AI and Speak. The Android app's microphone permission arrives with its next release.

Web — 2026-10-02 — pay for a plan by card​

Pro and Family can now be paid for by card on the plans page. The card is entered on a page run by Polar, the payment provider; the app never sees it. The plan starts when the payment is confirmed, usually within a minute, and the same page shows the subscription with its renewal date, a way to cancel or resume it, and, for Family, a way to change the number of seats. Paying another way still works and is still granted by hand. Web only: the Android app sells nothing.

Web — 2026-09-05 — bring somebody with you: the referral programme​

Every member now has a link. When somebody creates an account from it and verifies their email, the member earns points and a badge, and a plan month once enough people have joined — the numbers are set from the admin's own screen rather than fixed in the app. The page shows a count and a state, never who joined, and it produces a link and nothing else.

The person who accepts an invitation is told so on the sign-up page, and is never named to the inviter.

Web — 2026-09-03 — promotions for the developer's other apps, and a share card for pricing​

Two small panels now show one of the developer's own other apps: on today's entry and under the community board. No advertising network is involved, HabitForge never promotes itself, and the words are edited from the admin's own screen. Sharing the pricing page now produces a card that names the plans. Web only: the Android build of that day was unchanged, and its store answer for ads stays "No" until a build carries the panels.

1.0.0 — 2026-08-31 — the first public release​

About the numbering

The versions listed below this one — 1.2.0, 1.1.0 and 1.0 — are the development history of the earlier app this one replaced. None of them was ever published, so no one is being asked to move backwards: this is the first HabitForge release to reach a store, and it starts the version line at 1.0.0.

HabitForge was rebuilt from the ground up. Same idea, same rope, new foundations — a new stack, a new backend, and a lot of things the 1.x app could not do.

  • Feature — Habits gain real schedules, and pauses that keep your history while the run starts again from zero on resume.
  • Feature — Check-ins work offline. They queue on your device and sync when you reconnect.
  • Feature — Challenges are scored. Participants are ranked against the target, ties are joint wins, and a challenge can be bound to a habit each person chooses for themselves.
  • Feature — Plans, and a free tier that is genuinely generous. Free carries 30 habits, 30 challenges a month and up to 500 friends — the things that cost nothing to run are not the things worth rationing. Pro and a Family household whose members inherit the plan sit above it. See pricing, which reads its numbers from the live plan table rather than from a page somebody has to remember to update.
  • Feature — A notification bell for what happened while you were away.
  • Feature — Reminders raised by your own device. A daily one at a time you choose, and a reminder per habit, on the days that habit is actually due. Both are scheduled on your phone rather than sent from a server, so they are right across a time-zone change and work with no connection at all.
  • Feature — A third kind of habit: Maintain, beside Build and Break — for the things you are keeping up rather than starting or stopping.
  • Feature — Your longest streak ever, on the dashboard and on the leaderboard, kept separately from the one you are running now so a broken streak no longer erases what you did.
  • Feature — A line on your dashboard about the people you know — who kept what today.
  • Feature — Export everything you have, or delete your account, from inside the app.
  • Improvement — The theme customiser grows from a handful of options to ten settings, applied before the first paint so there is no flash of the wrong theme.
  • Improvement — Every screen was rebuilt for keyboard and screen-reader use.
  • Improvement — The household screens. If you own a Family plan you get a roster, a seat meter, an invitation list and a way to hand the household over; if you are a member you get a plain account of what you inherit and one way out.
  • Improvement — Deleting your account now tells you it worked before signing you out, instead of the app simply disappearing.
  • Improvement — Every link that leaves HabitForge opens in a new tab.
  • Removed — Profile photos. Profiles now carry a handle and a display name.

Android: the native app is built, signed and uploaded to Google Play for testing, the first step before the public track. The web app installs to your home screen in the meantime.

1.2.0 — 2026-07-23​

  • Feature — Upload a profile photo, shown on the leaderboard and community posts.
  • Feature — In-app contact form on the Help page, so you do not need a mail app.
  • Improvement — Automatic in-app updates so fixes arrive without waiting for a store update.
  • Improvement — Faster startup and lighter pages through code-splitting and lazy loading.
  • Improvement — Groundwork for more reliable error handling and analytics.
  • Fixes — Data, reliability, and UI polish throughout.

1.1.0 — 2026-07-08​

  • Feature — Share your streaks, achievements, and the app with friends.
  • Improvement — In-app Privacy, Terms, and Account-deletion pages.
  • Improvement — Android App Links and a habitforge:// deep link, so shared links open straight in the app.
  • Improvement — Brand and app-icon refresh.
  • Fixes — Stability and polish.

1.0 — initial release​

  • Feature — Create and track habits with the cue, routine, and reward loop.
  • Feature — Daily check-ins with streaks and points.
  • Feature — Rope-strength visualisation that grows with your consistency.
  • Feature — Weekly analytics and charts.
  • Feature — Optional community: posts, comments, challenges, friends, and a leaderboard.
  • Feature — Achievements with celebration moments.
  • Feature — Light and dark themes with a theme customiser.
  • Feature — Offline support so tracking works without a connection.

Where to next​