🎉 Better Habits 2.0 & Premium

Three years ago, I set out on a mission to create the best habit forming app in the world. One that was backed by science, one that was intelligent, flexible, encouraging and most of all, one that would hold you accountable when you needed it. I created the app Better Habits and people loved it.

Better Habits is loved by tens of thousands of people worldwide. It has been ranked #1 in the App Store in over 25 countries. Many users have reported life changing experiences from using the app. Hundreds of thousands of positive habits have been recorded using the app. Better Habits also offers full accessibility support, so people of all needs can enjoy it.

Download it in the  App Store

An awesome gift of having so many people using the app is the tremendous amount of feedback I received. Not everybody loved the app, many thought it could be better, and many users simply wanted more of what they’ve already been enjoying. I listened to, considered, and safely filed away EVERY SINGLE request I received. After thousands of emails, the writing was on the wall for how to make Better Habits even better. I rolled up my sleeves and set out to create it. Six months later, here we are…

Welcome to Better Habits Premium, available July 2018

• Unlimited Habits
• Multiple Actions per Day
• Advanced Reminders

Premium starts at just $1.67 per month and includes a two week free trial.

Unlimited habits:

By far the most requested feature has been to allow users to have as many habits as they want. When I initially chose to only allow users a maximum of three active habits at one time, it was a risk. I was basing it off of scientific study and expert advice. Some users loved that they could only set 3 habits, but so many others screamed they wanted more. While I would still advise people to consider a focused approach to habit formation, I have to be honest and say that I have felt liberated having more than three habits at a time. Now you can have all of the stats, streaks, attempts and overall progress graphs on as many habits as you want! Unlimited habits, unlimited potential!

Multiple actions per day:

I don’t understand why many apps don’t offer this. The majority of the ones that do are too complex for people who want a simple habit tracker. With Better Habits it’s easy, select how many times you want to perform the action each day, then tap and fill the circle with proportional slices, like a pizza. This is super useful for habits like drinking eight glasses of water a day, and SUPER powerful when combined with advanced reminders.

Advanced reminders:

This is one of the most, if not the most robust reminders systems inside of a habit tracking app available today. There’s just no other way to put it. There’s three main chunks:

• Multiple reminders per day
• Nag alerts
• Custom snooze times

While multiple reminders per day is pretty straightforward, nag and snooze are a bit more complex. Nag is a reminder with a bit of an attitude. When you select nag, you will get repeated notifications until you complete the daily action for the habit or select ‘stop nagging’ from the smart notification. Snooze allows you to set a custom snooze time for each reminder. For example, “Drink water” might be a snooze of 10 minutes, while “Do yoga” might be an hour.

Combining Nag and Snooze can be really powerful. Let’s say for example you want to be reminded to drink water. You set up multiple reminders throughout the day. You know that at 10am and 2pm you will likely be pretty distracted, so you tell Better Habits to nag you every 5 minutes. You also know that at 2pm, you may not be able to get away, so you set a Snooze time of 30 minutes. Got the scenario in your head? Cool…

So 10:00 am rolls around, you get a notification and sure enough you’re distracted and miss it. You get another one at 10:05, still distracted. You get the third one at 10:10, and for this one you see it and drink some water. Later that day at 2:00 pm you get a notification, you see it, but you’re in a meeting. Knowing you’ll be in the meeting for a while and don’t want to be nagged, you hit snooze. It’s 2:30 and you’re just wrapping up the meeting, you get a notification and miss it. All is lost right? Nope, you get another one at 2:35 because Better Habits knows to nag you. You see it, you drink water, you feel hydrated, you feel supported, you feel happy.

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So why premium? Why not just include these features in the app for free? The honest answer is because I love improving this app and I want to continue doing it. Giving away features for free or at a fixed price is not sustainable and is the main reason why so many apps stop updating and improving. I’m determined to build the best damn habit app the world has ever seen. In order to do that, there needs to be a trade of value to sustain the app’s development.

It’s been a hell of a ride and in a lot of ways, it feels like I’m just getting started. All in all, I’m just grateful that I get to do what I love while helping others reach their goals and work towards what they want. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been moved by a person’s experience using my app. My goal is simply to continue to improve the app and share it with others. This release is a major step forward in that direction. Thank you to everyone who has supported me, everyone who has shared their stories with me and the community, and everyone who is committed to making themselves and the world around them better.

Cheers,

Jared Collett | Better Habits Founder and Developer

Download the app today via the  App Store