1% Better - Visualise the compounding effect of your daily habits
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The only habit tracker built around the mathematics of compounding. If you're 1% better every day for a year, you are 37x better than today.
The app simplifies habit tracking to just one question: "Were you 1% better today?"
Just respond with Yes / No and watch your graph grow exponentially.
It's designed to be minimal, privacy-first and encourages you to stick to your habits. Because habit tracking shouldn't feel like a data-entry job.
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Hey Product Hunters 👋🏼
I'm Jugal, maker of 1% Better app.
This came out of a personal need. I tried 20+ habit tracking apps but eventually gave up on all of them in under a week. Main problem was that they feel like data entry job. So I made a clean minimal non-intrusive version of a habit tracker.
And here's the kicker: What most people don't realise about streaks is that it compounds. And compounding isn't intuitive. If you got just 1% better every day, in a year you'd be 37x better than today.
That's the math: 1.01^365 = 37.78x 🚀
This app helps you visualise the compounding effect of your progress.
Practice your music, go to the gym, have a calorie deficit day or an alcohol free day, you now have a simple way to track whether you were just 1% better today and watch those tiny wins stack into exponential results over time.
In Premium version you can:
✅ Add multiple trackers and answer "Were you 1% better today?" for each habit you want to track
✅ Set custom notifications at pre-defined time of the day for each of your trackers
✅ iCloud backup & sync
✅ Export your data to CSV (in bulk and for individual trackers)
I wanted a simple app that takes <3 seconds a day, is clutter-free and works on the concept of compounding your habits rather than a static streak.
I'm planning to do more with the data-crunching to help you understand your progress better, will be releasing cool new updates soon. Would love to hear your feedback after you've tried it for yourself.
Thank you.
App link: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6761054951?pt=128677803&ct=producthunt&mt=8
Website: https://1better.today
@holy_photon As someone chasing small daily wins in content creation, how did visualizing the compounding curve shift your own motivation compared to plain streaks?
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@swati_paliwal the biggest shift was to understand that the standard streak model doesn't always fit the use case. It disregards all your previous compounded growth.
So when you start tracking progress in this manner, it simply rewires your mind and you value the long term outlook towards your growth instead of chasing streaks.
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Thanks everyone for the upvotes.
In case you missed it, there's an exclusive Product Hunt deal:
80% off on Lifetime Premium
Redeem with code: PH80 inside the app.
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@mrsanjeevs Thanks for the kind words Sanjeev. I have fixed the error, the same code PH80 should show you the 80% discounted price for you.
@holy_photon Thanks Jugal, the same code worked!
Love the concept.
I’ve been using this for over a week and I can say this has been the only one that doesn't overwhelm me.
I track my workouts and meditation with it and the compound math thing actually keeps me coming back.
Most tracking apps I download, use for a week, and forget. This one stuck because the daily check in takes like 3 seconds and watching the curve grow is oddly satisfying.
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@thecarabiner Thanks, let me know what all trackers do you have right now
Simple idea, I like the focus. Are people actually sticking with the yes/no approach, or do they start wanting more detail over time?
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@becky_gaskell Yes, from my early testers as well as data from posthog suggests people are sticking to a quick yes/no every day. The app usage is less than 10 seconds per open but that's the whole idea of it. Will know long term data as time passes.
@holy_photon That’s interesting, keeping it that quick is probably the whole point. Will be interesting to see if that holds as usage builds over time.
Someone a James Clear fan huh? Love the build here. The dark + neon UI is refreshing. The compounding line graphs here are a powerful visual! Will be following this one
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@derek_curtis1 Yes, been seeing James Clear's graph everywhere but the intuitive disconnect is real. That was the inspiration behind this app.
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Counter-Intuitive Math About Progress Tracking
Compounding isn't intuitive to human mind. Especially when it comes to tracking personal progress - be it a skill you're trying to learn or a habit you're trying to form.
This is about the counterintuitive math about habits.
I'm sure you've seen this baseline equation:
If you get 1% better every single day for a year: 1.01^365 = 37.78x
If you get 1% worse every single day: 0.99^365 = 0.03
James Clear covered this in his book Atomic Habits
Same tiny 1% daily difference. A 1,200x gap in outcomes. Most people have seen this before, nodded, and moved on. But the real insights show up when you look at what happens between perfect and imperfect.
Nobody is perfect. That's where it gets interesting.
Let's say you show up and improve 90% of days. The other 10% you stay flat. After a year you're at 14.6x. That's not 90% of the perfect 37.78x result. It's only about 39% of it.
Now take someone who shows up 70% of days. Still pretty consistent by most people's standards. They end up at 4.8x after a year.
The difference between 70% and 90% consistency feels small in daily effort. You're talking about two or three extra good days per month. But the outcome is a 3x gap. That's compounding punishing you in a way that your brain can't feel in the moment.
Why streaks are a bad proxy for this:
Most habit trackers use streaks as the core metric. You either kept your streak alive or you didn't. But streaks are binary. They can't tell you any of this.
A 30 day streak broken on day 31 and restarted feels like a failure. But mathematically that person is at 1.35x and climbing. Their trajectory is fine. The streak model made them feel like they're back at zero when they're not even close to zero.
On the flip side, someone who checks in every other day has a "streak" of one forever. But if they're consistently hitting 50% over six months, they're still compounding upward. The streak says they're failing. The math says otherwise.
Streaks measure the wrong thing. They measure continuity when they should be measuring trajectory.
The gap between "good enough" and "great" consistency is much larger than it feels. Your brain can't tell the difference in the moment but the math can.
This is what I wanted to make visible. That's what 1% Better is built for.