Announcing MiniHab

Screenshot of MiniHab iOS app homescreen and widgets

Available on the App Store ↗

I’m launching my first iOS app in over 5 years today!

MiniHab is a super minimalist habit tracker app. It gives you access to quickly track new habits, a historical heatmap chart of your progress over time, push notifications, a notepad, homescreen widgets, dark/light mode support, iOS 26 liquid glass design (or support for iOS 18 and older operating systems), confetti animations when you complete all of your habits, haptic feedback, a settings page for controlling various aspects of the app, and a SwiftData backed data layer with iCloud sync, so your habits are automatically synced to all of your devices.

The app also revolves around the concept of “streak tracking” - depending on the settings for each habit you must either complete it daily, X number of times per week, or on specific days to keep your streak alive.

Technology

A screenshot of the MiniHab codebase
MiniHab Codebase

I built MiniHab using SwiftUI, this project was a learning opportunity for me to ship a full app using this framework (I am primarily experienced with UIKit).

MiniHab uses Sentry for crash analytics, although I have disabled Sentry’s default “collect PII” (personally identifiable information). This means I am able to use Sentry to receive an automated alert whenever the app crashes (so I can fix it), but I do not see any personal information such as name, IP address, or any information about your habits. It literally just sends me the code stack trace so I can track what part of the code is crashing, without seeing any user data.

Privacy is one of my core values — I hate how modern apps and websites track and sell my data, so all of my apps (including MiniHab) are explicitly designed to avoid any kind of data collection, privacy infringements, or tracking or selling of your data.

MiniHab is launching as a completely free app - this is mostly a portfolio project, so there are no advertisements, in app purchases, or subscriptions.

If you’re interested in checking out the app, you can find it on the App Store

Also, here are links to the terms of service and privacy policy.

Thanks for reading, and if you have any suggestions for the app, or run into any issues feel free to contact me.