How to Track Habits Online and Keep a Streak (Free, No Sign-Up)

The short answer

Open the free Habit Tracker, type a habit such as "Read 10 pages", pick a colour and press + Add (or Enter). Each habit gets a row of 14 boxes, one for each of the last 14 days. Tap a box to tick it, and the 🔥 number shows your current streak: how many days in a row you have done the habit, counting back from today.

There is no account. Your habits are saved in your browser on that device, which keeps things private but means you need to use the same browser to see them again.

Setting up your habits

Type the habit in the box at the top. Make it something you can clearly tick or not tick, like "Walk 20 minutes" rather than "Be healthier".

Pick one of the eight colours. The colour fills the ticked boxes and the streak number, so give related habits similar colours if that helps you scan the grid.

Press + Add or the Enter key. The habit appears as a new row.

Repeat for each habit. Start with a small number; a grid of three habits you actually do is more useful than ten you ignore.

To delete a habit, click the × at the end of its row. There is no confirmation step and no undo, so the habit and its history disappear immediately. Be careful on a phone, where it is easy to tap by mistake.

Reading the grid

The columns show the last 14 days, oldest on the left and today on the right. Today's column is highlighted, with the day letter (S, M, T, W, T, F, S) above the date number.

• A filled box with a tick means you did the habit that day.
• An empty box means it is not ticked.
• Tap any box in the 14-day window to tick or untick it.

You can fill in missed days. If you went for a walk yesterday but forgot to tick it, tap yesterday's box. You cannot go back further than 14 days, because older dates are not shown.

How the streak is counted

This is the part that confuses people. The streak counts consecutive ticked days ending today:

Last few days	Today	Streak shown
Ticked Mon, Tue, Wed	Thu ticked	🔥4
Ticked Mon, Tue, Wed	Thu not ticked yet	—
Ticked Mon, Tue, missed Wed	Thu ticked	🔥1
Ticked every day for 10 days	Today ticked	🔥10

So in the morning, before you have done the habit, your streak shows a dash even if you kept it going for weeks. Nothing has been lost. Once you tick today, the streak counts back through every consecutive ticked day and the full number returns.

A gap breaks the streak. If you missed Wednesday, the count restarts from Thursday. If you did the habit on Wednesday and just forgot to tick it, tick Wednesday and the longer streak comes back.

A note on early-morning ticks in India

The tracker works out dates in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). India is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC, so between midnight and 5:30 am IST the tracker still treats the previous day as "today". If you tick a habit at 1 am, it lands in the previous day's column. If you are a night owl, either tick before midnight or tick after 5:30 am. Users in other time zones may see the day change at a different hour for the same reason.

Where your habit data is stored

Your habits are saved in your browser's local storage on that device. Nothing is sent to a server and you do not need to sign in. That has practical consequences:

• Use the same browser and device. Habits you add on your laptop will not appear on your phone.
• Private or incognito windows usually clear local storage when they close, so your habits will be gone next time.
• Clearing browsing data for the site, or using a cleaning app, deletes your habits.
• There is no export or sync. If your history matters to you, take a screenshot of the grid at the end of each fortnight, since only 14 days are visible at a time.

Bookmark the tracker in the browser you will use every day, or add it to your phone's home screen from the browser menu, so you always open the same copy.

Making the tracker actually work for you

A tracker only records what you do. These habits of tracking make it more useful:

Tick at a fixed moment. Tie it to something you already do, such as after brushing your teeth at night. A fixed moment stops the "did I tick yesterday?" problem.

Make each habit small and binary. "10 push-ups" is easy to judge; "exercise more" is not. You can raise the target later.

Keep the list short. Three to five habits fit on one screen without scrolling sideways, especially on a phone.

Use the 14-day view as a weekly review. Once a week, look across the rows. A habit that is mostly empty may be too big, badly timed or not that important to you. Change it rather than feeling bad about it.

Do not chase the streak at any cost. A missed day is information, not failure. Restart the next day and judge yourself by how many of the last 14 boxes are filled, not only by the 🔥 number.

Habit ideas that are easy to track

• Read 10 pages
• Drink water with every meal
• 20-minute walk
• No phone for the first 30 minutes after waking
• Practise a language for 10 minutes
• Write three lines in a journal
• Sleep by a fixed time
• Revise one chapter (for exam preparation)

Troubleshooting

My habits disappeared. You are probably in a different browser, a private window, or site data was cleared. If none of those apply, check that you are on the same device.

My tick went into the wrong day. If it was between midnight and 5:30 am IST, see the UTC note above. Untick the box and tick the correct one once that day's column is showing.

The streak shows a dash even though I did it yesterday. Tick today's box. The streak only counts runs that include today.

The grid is cut off on my phone. Scroll the grid sideways; the 14 day columns are wider than most phone screens.

Related tools

Pair the tracker with the Pomodoro Timer for focused work sessions, keep a daily to-do list with the Checklist Maker, or jot down notes in the Online Notepad. If you study in Pomodoro blocks, read the Pomodoro timer guide.