No need to build another habit tracker app. I open-sourced mine!
Hey everyone,
I’ve been working on a habit tracker mobile app and decided to open source it so makers can ship faster.
If you’re planning to launch a habit tracker (or a similar productivity app), you don’t need to start from zero. You can clone this, customize it, brand it, and ship your own version.
The core features are already done - so you can focus on differentiation, distribution, and monetization instead of rebuilding the basics.
Hope this helps someone ship faster.
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Lovely! shipping is easier when you don’t start from zero. Open-sourcing the basics lets builders focus on what truly matters—differentiation, distribution, and impact. 🌿
exactly!
Love this!
Open-sourcing your habit tracker is such a generous and practical way to help other makers ship faster. The UI already looks great, and giving people a real head-start like this is super inspiring.
Thanks for sharing.
Excited to see what the community builds with it!
thanks for your kind words!
Super clean work 👌
The real differentiator for habit trackers isn’t UI, it’s anti-shame mechanics.
Most people quit after missing 2–3 days because streaks feel like punishment.
Have you considered a “resume without guilt” flow or flexible streak logic?
There is shaming things in my habit tracker app.
The UI is clean and minimal.
I am glad that you found it clean.
Love the open-source approach. This is underrated—shipping fast matters more than perfection.
Similar philosophy here: instead of obsessing over product polish, I shipped 3 AI bots in 48 hours using no-code. The goal was to test market fit quickly with real users, not build a perfect MVP.
Results so far:
- TradeFlow AI (options trading assistant): Testing with traders
- LeadSieve AI (lead qualification): Testing with agencies
- EmailFlow AI (email sequence generator): Testing with e-commerce founders
Open-sourcing is smart for habit trackers (utilities where community matters), but for SaaS I'm taking the monetized route since these solve expensive problems (traders spend hours on analysis, agencies waste time qualifying leads, e-commerce brands can't write copy).
Question for the community: For utilities/tools, does open-sourcing lead to better monetization long-term (ads, premium features), or is it better to charge upfront like SaaS?
Also curious what made you choose to open-source vs monetize directly. Seems like you had traction—was it a deliberate decision?
Great execution on shipping fast though. That's the winning move.
There is no open source habit tracker app out there built with react native. So i thought it would help people clone a habit tracker app fast.
This is a really fascinating take, open-sourcing your habit tracker clone is such a generous move. It’s inspiring to see someone share not just a product, but a learning project that others can study, remix, and build upon.
Projects like this push the community forward because they show the real steps, trade-offs, and decisions behind a working app. Kudos for putting it out there!
Thanks sophia. It means a lot!
A few years back, I recreated a habit tracker and spent probably 60% of my time on things none of the users would notice streak logic, edge cases, sync bugs. ~
In retrospect, I should have chosen something substantial and concentrated on a specific angle. This would have saved me months.
Good move to share this instead of guarding it.
It's great to know that it could save months of your time. Today, i found that a non-tech person is modifying the habit tracker app using AI. It gives me a lot of joy to see that people are finding it useful.
This is generous and practical. So many builders reinvent the same core features and burn out before shipping. Open-sourcing the basics lets people focus on what actually makes their product different. Curious what stack you used and what parts people usually customize first.
I built the app with React Native and for local data storage i used SQLite.
That makes sense — React Native + SQLite is a solid combo for offline-first apps. I’ve seen people struggle most with habit logic and reminders rather than UI. Have you noticed any part that builders usually underestimate?
This looks nicely done. Can/should a subset of this end up npm installable?
How did you decide on the differentiation?
Love that you open-sourced this. Way more valuable than yet another closed-source tracker.
Are you planning to monetize a hosted version or just offering it as a starting point for others? Curious about your strategy here.
This is brilliant! I'm also building a menu bar app (Pacebuddy) and completely agree with your philosophy about open-sourcing.
The differentiation-first approach is exactly right. Instead of re-building the wheel, we can focus on UI/UX and unique features. Your habit tracker UI looks really clean—did you use native iOS components, or build custom UI?
Also curious: how have you managed community contributions? Do you have guidelines for PRs?
Great initiative!
this should definitely help people ship faster
Good job! Smart way to help bootstrappers skip the ideation grind. Congrats on topping the build board!