A privacy-first habit tracker for iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad.

Non-binary habit score · Offline-first · Open source (MIT) · No account, no subscription, no telemetry.

getkado.app

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What is Kadō?

Kadō is an iOS habit tracker with three commitments:

1. A score, not a streak. The habit score — inspired by Loop Habit Tracker on Android — is a non-binary exponential moving average of your completions. One missed day doesn't wipe your progress. You see a trend, not a fragile chain.
2. Your data stays yours. No account, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. Storage is local (SwiftData), sync is optional through your own iCloud (CloudKit private database). Export is lossless, in JSON or CSV, whenever you want it. See PRIVACY.md.
3. Native to Apple. SwiftUI, @Observable, SwiftData, CloudKit, WidgetKit, App Intents — no cross-platform layer, no third-party dependencies.

Why another habit tracker? The market gap is spelled out in docs/PRODUCT.md: the reference open-source tracker (Loop) is Android-only; the reference iOS tracker (Streaks) is closed source and uses a binary streak; the most visible modern iOS open source attempt (Teymia) is freemium. Kadō takes Loop's algorithm to native iOS — MIT, free, no account, no subscription.

Screenshots

iPhone and iPhone Duo

iPad — the habit list and the habit you pick, side by side

Features

• Today view — habits due today, tap to complete, long-press for partial / note / timer, drag to reorder (the order syncs via iCloud). Counter and timer rows show the day's total between − and +, with a haptic tick on every tap; "Log specific value…" opens a number pad with today's value selected. Finish the day and Kadō throws confetti (just a caption under Reduce Motion).
• Habit detail — monthly calendar with month-by-month navigation, current streak, best streak, habit score with an info popover explaining the math. Edit any past day straight from the calendar, including days before the habit existed (the calendar says when that makes it the new start date). Long-press a History entry to delete it.
• Side by side on iPad and iPhone Duo — in regular width, Today shows the habit list and the habit you pick next to each other: score, streak, calendar and history beside the list, which keeps logging. On iPhone Duo that's the unfolded layout; folded, it's the iPhone app.
• Per-day notes — a short note on any day's completion, carried through export and import.
• Overview — habits × days matrix with score-shaded cells, the Loop / Way of Life pattern with Kadō's score DNA. Tap a day to mark a habit completed right from the popover. Completions logged off-schedule show up too, instead of hiding as rest days.
• Flexible schedules — daily, N days per week, specific weekdays, every N days (the cycle re-anchors on each completion, so finishing early never costs you a day). Binary, counter, or timer habit types.
• Day starts at — move the day rollover to any hour, so late-night logging (or a night-shift schedule) lands on the day you mean. Changing it never re-buckets history.
• Week starts where you do — calendars and week grids follow your region's first day of the week, or the one you pick in Settings.
• Archived habits — Settings lists them; unarchive one with its history intact, or delete it for good.
• Widgets — Home Screen (small / medium / large), each showing the habits you pick in Edit Widget (up to 5 or 8, in your order), and Lock Screen (rectangular / circular / inline, plus a Daily Progress ring). Quick-complete via AppIntent; widgets roll over to the new day on their own and stay legible under the Clear and Tinted Home Screen appearances.
• Siri and Shortcuts — complete a habit, log a value, or ask for a score and streak, hands-free. Also available as Home Screen actions and Shortcuts automations.
• Reminders — per-habit local notifications with recurring schedules and check / skip quick actions.
• iCloud sync — optional, opt-in, goes only through the user's private CloudKit database. Settings shows live sync state, including when sync isn't working.
• JSON and CSV export / import — lossless backup of your data, in both formats, round-trip tested. Open a CSV backup in Numbers or Excel, edit it, bring it back in.
• Appearance — choose the colours your habits wear: Kadō or Classic for free, and four more palettes (Muted, Vivid, Autumn, Monochrome sage) plus seven alternate app icons with the Supporter pack. Widgets follow the palette.
• Supporter pack and Tip Jar — a one-time, Family Sharing-enabled purchase that unlocks the extra palettes and icons, and a Tip Jar that unlocks nothing. Both are optional: every feature that tracks a habit stays free, with no ads, no subscription, and no tracking.
• Accessibility — Dynamic Type up to XXXL, VoiceOver labels on every surface, full Dark Mode.
• Localization — English and native French (not machine-translated).

Status

Shipping on the App Store — current version 1.14.

Version	Highlights
1.0	First public release — score, Today / Overview / Detail, widgets, iCloud sync, reminders, JSON export, EN + FR
1.1	Siri and Shortcuts; edit past days from the calendar
1.2	Per-day notes; backdated completions; month navigation
1.3	Drag to reorder habits; a gentle, one-time review prompt
1.4	iCloud sync reliability — iPad crash fix, honest sync status
1.5	Tip Jar (StoreKit 2), optional and unlocking nothing
1.6	"Day starts at" hour; days-per-week scoring fix; off-schedule completions in Overview
1.7	CSV export / import round-trip; "every N days" re-anchors on completion
1.8	Week starts on your region's first day; widgets legible under Clear and Tinted
1.9	Confetti for a finished day; Daily Progress Lock Screen ring; redrawn habit colours; widgets roll over on their own
1.10	Pick each widget's habits; archived habits list; number-pad value entry; "Day starts at" any hour; complete from the Overview
1.11	Settings › Appearance with habit colour palettes; Supporter pack with extra palettes and alternate app icons; Siri finds "Kado"
1.12	iOS 27 fix: the habit screen follows every tap again
1.13	A calendar day's note saves however the popover closes
1.14	Side by side: list and habit detail together on iPad and the unfolded iPhone Duo

Not planned. A native Apple Watch app and HealthKit auto-completion were scoped for v0.3 and have been descoped — no user has asked for either since launch. Both stay listed in docs/ROADMAP.md under "Descoped", and would be reconsidered on real demand.

Next — Live Activities and Dynamic Island for timer habits, then the remaining v1.x polish (biometrics, categories, backup files). Full roadmap in docs/ROADMAP.md.

Tech stack

• SwiftUI with @Observable (iOS 17+) for state — no Combine.
• SwiftData for local persistence, with VersionedSchema + SchemaMigrationPlan wired from day one.
• CloudKit via SwiftData (cloudKitDatabase: .private(...)) for multi-device sync.
• WidgetKit + an App Group JSON snapshot for extension surfaces (the widget process never opens SwiftData — see CLAUDE.md for why).
• App Intents for widget quick-complete, Siri, and Shortcuts.
• StoreKit 2 for the Tip Jar and the Supporter pack.
• Swift Testing for unit tests, XCTest for UI tests and for the App Store screenshot run.
• Zero third-party dependencies.

Target: iOS 18.0+, Xcode 16.0+, Swift 5.10+.

Architecture notes, conventions, and toolchain quirks (SwiftData edge cases, CloudKit-shape rules, concurrency under Swift 6, etc.) are documented in CLAUDE.md.

Repository layout

Kado/                       # Main iOS app target
Packages/KadoCore/          # Shared Swift package — @Model types,
                            #   domain types, calculators, intents,
                            #   widget snapshot types
KadoWidgets/                # Widget extension target (reads an
                            #   App Group JSON snapshot)
KadoTests/                  # Unit tests (Swift Testing)
KadoUITests/                # UI tests (XCTest) + the App Store
                            #   screenshot run
Scripts/                    # Screenshot capture, framing, and the
                            #   dependency-free App Store Connect client
site/                       # getkado.app — static marketing site
branding/                   # SVG marks and wordmarks
docs/
├── PRODUCT.md              # Product vision, competitive analysis
├── ROADMAP.md              # Versioned feature roadmap
├── habit-score.md          # Score algorithm spec
├── streak.md               # Streak algorithm spec
├── app-store/              # Listing copy, captures, framed images,
│                           #   and how they are pushed
├── app-store-connect.md    # Store metadata, copy, checklists
├── plans/                  # Per-feature research / plan / compound
│                           #   artifacts from the conductor workflow
└── screenshots/site/       # iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad shots (EN +
                            #   FR), resized from the App Store
                            #   captures for the site and this README
PRIVACY.md                  # Privacy policy (repo-hosted)

Development

Requirements

• macOS 14.5+
• Xcode 16.x+
• An Apple Developer account is only needed to build to a physical device or TestFlight; the simulator does not require one.

Build and run

git clone https://github.com/scastiel/kado.git
cd kado
open Kado.xcodeproj

Select the Kado scheme and an iOS 18 simulator (iPhone 17 Pro is the project's practical default on Xcode 26 toolchains).

Tests

From Xcode: ⌘U on the Kado scheme.

From the command line, the Makefile wraps the common loops:

make test    # unit suite (Swift Testing) — a couple of seconds
make e2e     # UI suite (XCUITest), minus the screenshot run
make build   # compile the app for the simulator

make help lists the rest, including the App Store targets (make screenshots, make frames, make listing) documented in docs/app-store/README.md.

If you use Claude Code with the XcodeBuildMCP server, prefer test_sim / build_sim over shell xcodebuild — see the "Tooling" section of CLAUDE.md.

Dev mode

Settings has a hidden dev-mode toggle that swaps the SwiftData container for a seeded local sandbox. Useful for playing with historical score / streak behavior without affecting your real data. See docs/plans/2026-04/dev-mode/ for the design notes.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. A few notes:

• Read CLAUDE.md first — it is the project's working agreement (architecture, conventions, testing expectations, toolchain quirks). It is written for Claude Code but applies equally to human contributors.
• Business logic (score, streak, frequency, import/export) is test-first. New behavior needs a test; regressions need a test that would have caught them.
• One PR per feature or logical fix. Commit message format follows a lightweight Conventional Commits convention — feat(scope): description, fix(scope): …, etc.
• No third-party dependencies. The Tip Jar and Supporter pack are built directly on StoreKit 2, and the App Store Connect client in Scripts/ signs its own JWT with openssl, precisely so that stays true.

Privacy

Kadō collects nothing. No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporter. iCloud sync is optional and goes through the user's own private CloudKit database.

Full policy in PRIVACY.md.

License

MIT © 2026 Sébastien Castiel.

Acknowledgements

• Loop Habit Tracker (Álinson S. Xavier, GPLv3) — the source of the non-binary habit score algorithm. Kadō reimplements the idea natively in Swift; no Loop code was copied.
• Streaks (Crunchy Bagel) — the iOS UX reference for how this kind of app should feel.
• Teymia Habit (MIT) — reference point for a modern SwiftUI + SwiftData + CloudKit + WidgetKit stack on iOS.
• XcodeBuildMCP (getsentry, MIT) — the MCP server that makes an autonomous build / test / screenshot loop possible with Claude Code.