Legacy
Habit Tracker — the file outlives the vendor
On Habit Tracker —
Keep a habit tracker for a few years and it becomes a quiet autobiography — the seasons you held a routine, the ones you did not, the slow bend of a life toward better. That record should not vanish because an app got acquired or a subscription lapsed.
The graveyard of habit apps
The habit-app category is full of tombstones: tools that launched, gathered years of people's daily check-ins, then shut down, pivoted, or paywalled the export. Every time, the history someone built goes with it. That is the ordinary fate of a record you kept on someone else's server.
A file on your disk has no acquisition to survive.
A years-long self-portrait
One file, a long run of days. Not a marketing asset — a personal document, the record of what you were working on and when. You can look back on it in five years, or hand your future self a clear picture of a stretch you barely remember.
Try recovering that from a subscription you cancelled.
No permission required
There is no account to lapse and no server that must stay online for your history to remain readable. The file keeps its record whether or not anyone is still selling the app that made it.
Long-term durability
- Standard HTML/JS.Runs on anything with a browser, now and later.
- JSON export.Plain text, readable in any editor, forever.
- No expiry.The file does not need our permission to keep working.
- No login lapse.There is no account to be locked out of.
Questions people ask
What happens to my history if the app 'shuts down'?
Nothing — there is nothing to shut down. The Tracker is a file on your disk, not a service. Its continued existence does not depend on ours.
Can I read my data without the tool?
Yes. Export to JSON and it is plain, human-readable text you can open in any editor, independent of the Tracker entirely.
Will it still open years from now?
It is ordinary HTML and JavaScript, the most durable pairing in computing. If a browser can open a web page, it can open your record.
A record of years should not end because a company had a bad quarter.