A PRIVATE HABIT TRACKER
WITH NO ADS AND NO TRACKERS
Field dispatch · you are not the treasure being dug up
Here's an old expedition rule: if you can't see who's profiting from the map, you're probably the thing being mined. A lot of "free" habit apps run exactly that way. The tracker is the front door; the business is behind it — ad networks watching what you tap, analytics toolkits shipping your behavior off to a dozen third parties, and, in the worst cases, a data broker on the far end buying up the whole record of your days. When the app costs nothing, your habits are usually the inventory.
HOW FREE HABIT APPS USUALLY MONETIZE YOU
It's worth naming the machinery, because most of it is invisible from the inside. Banner and interstitial ads pay by showing you more of them, so the app is quietly designed to keep you scrolling. Analytics trackers — often several stacked in one app — record what you open, when, and for how long, then send it to companies you've never heard of. Third-party crash-reporting kits can sweep up more than a stack trace. And ad-tracking identifiers tie all of it back to a profile of you that follows you across other apps. None of that has anything to do with helping you keep a habit. It just happens to be where the money is.
BEWARE THE FREE MAP: If the cartographer isn't charging you, another party is paying to watch where you walk.
WHAT A PRIVATE HABIT TRACKER SHOULD REFUSE TO DO
Sweet Streaks was built to be the opposite of that arrangement, and the cleanest way to prove it is a plain list of what simply isn't there. Sweet Streaks has no ads. It runs no analytics trackers — nothing logging your taps to send off somewhere. It uses no third-party crash-reporting services. It does no ad-tracking and carries no ad-tracking identifiers. And nothing you put into it is ever sold or shared with advertisers. There is no data broker on the far end of this map, because there is no far end.
WHAT IS COLLECTED, AND WHERE IT LIVES
Being private doesn't mean collecting nothing — it means collecting only what the app needs to work, and being straight about it. Signing in uses an email and password. Your habits, points, and streaks live on Supabase servers located in the United States, protected by per-account database access rules so your account's data stays yours. A copy is kept on your own device too, so the app still works when the signal drops on the trail. That's the whole footprint — the stuff required to run a habit tracker you share with one partner, and nothing bolted on to sell.
WHO CAN SEE WHAT: PARTNER VS FRIEND
Privacy isn't only about companies; it's about people, too, and Sweet Streaks draws that line deliberately. Your partner — the one person you pair with — can see your day: the habits you're keeping and how it's going. Your friends see only your streak, a single number, never the habits behind it. Two layers, on purpose: the person on the trail beside you sees the map; everyone else just sees that you're still walking.
VOICE, NOTIFICATIONS, AND A CLEAN EXIT
Two smaller details tend to be where apps quietly overreach, so here's how Sweet Streaks handles them. Voice dictation is optional: if you'd rather speak a goal than type it, it's turned into text using Apple's speech recognition, and the app keeps only the resulting text — not a recording of your voice. Notifications are local, scheduled on your own device rather than pushed from a server that's watching for a reason to ping you.
And the most important handrail of all: you can leave completely. In-app account deletion removes everything — a clean exit, no email chain, no dark-pattern maze of "are you sure" screens designed to keep you. A private habit tracker should make walking away as easy as it made joining.
GLORY AWAITS THE HYDRATED, AND THE UNTRACKED. Your habits are yours to keep, not ours to sell.
THE SHORT VERSION
Sweet Streaks is a cozy pixel-art habit tracker with no ads, no analytics trackers, no third-party crash-reporting, and nothing sold or shared with advertisers. It keeps only what it needs to work, stores it in the United States under per-account rules with a copy on your device, shows your full day to a partner and only a streak to friends, keeps voice as text and notifications local, and lets you delete everything in one tap. Made by Floppy LLC. If you want the full, precise account, the privacy policy spells it all out.