A habit tracker with a spine

Your life is
the main quest.
Start acting like it.

Grind Mode turns your habits, goals and skills into an actual character sheet — day ranks, XP, stats, a journal you'll want to write in. Not another checklist app wearing a game-shaped skin.

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Day Rank
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Savage day
7/8 habits · 91%
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The problem

Every other habit tracker looks like a spreadsheet wearing a hoodie.

What you've tried

Checkboxes. Streak counters. Cute mascots. A dopamine hit that fades in three days because there's nothing underneath it — no system, no stakes, no story. You close the app and forget it exists by Thursday.

What Grind Mode is

A character sheet for your actual life. Every habit feeds a stat. Every day gets graded, D through SSS. Every slip is just data, not a reason to quit the run. It's built for people who already think in game logic — because you do.

The system

Not a to-do list. A build.

Four systems working together, not four separate features bolted on for the App Store screenshots.

01 // STATS

A real skill tree

BODY, DISCIPLINE, MIND, CAREER, SPIRIT — or your own. Every stat is calculated automatically from the habits, tasks and hobbies you actually link to it. No made-up numbers.

02 // RANK

Day ranks, D to SSS

One formula, tuned by you, turns a messy day into a single honest grade. No perfection required — the bar for a clean day is yours to set.

03 // CODEC

A journal that talks back

Log your head-state like you're calling command. Where you lied to yourself, what you decided — timestamped, searchable, yours.

04 // FRIENDS

Run it with people

Add friends, compare progress, keep each other honest. Solo accountability burns out. A party doesn't.

The ladder

Some days you're a D. That's fine. Climb anyway.

Your day rank isn't a punishment — it's a mirror. Miss a target, drop a rank, come back tomorrow.

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Why this exists

"I didn't want another app that made self-improvement feel like filing paperwork. I wanted the thing I already understood instinctively from a hundred JRPGs — stats, ranks, a character worth building — pointed at my actual life instead."

— Grind Mode, built by one person, not a committee
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Stop reading the
quest log. Open it.

Free to start. Your data, your device, your run.

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