Launching today
Notch
Track progress, not habit.
3 followers
Track progress, not habit.
3 followers
Notch helps you track your growth, your progress, and your wins, dot by dot. Set a goal. Pick how many steps it takes. Tap every time you move forward, and as your progress grows, so do your dots; it helps you visualize what you've achieved so far. No streaks. No daily rules. No reset when you miss a day. Notch doesn't care if you show up every morning or once a week; it just keeps counting what you've actually done. Every goal has a finish line. Notch helps you see how close you are.
Hey PH! I'm Ekky, and I built Notch because I kept confusing "building something" with "keeping a streak."
Every habit tracker I tried asked the same question: "did you show up today?"
But most of my actual goals, like lose 10 pounds of weight, read 30 book this year, save $1,000 for my next road trip; they don't care about daily consistency. They care about whether I finish.
I built Notch around a different idea: pick something you want to complete, not maintain. Set a goal. Decide how many steps it takes. Tap a dot every time you make progress. That dot represents something real, a run session, a book chapter, a $100 bill. Whether you notch 5 times today or once next week, every win stays on the record. As your progress grows, so do your dots; it helps you visualize what you've achieved so far.
A few things I'm proud of:
- "Notch every win". That's the actual button label in the app. Not "log habit," not "check in." A win.
- No account, ever. Your data lives on your phone. Pro users sync through their own iCloud, never my servers.
- Like what you see and want to access more features? $9.99 once, yours forever. No subscription. No recurring charge. I genuinely dislike what subscriptions do to simple utility apps.
Notch is live on the App Store today. Would love to hear from anyone who's tried habit trackers and bounced, and what broke for you?