Built for the part after you decide to start.

Morning anchors, focus blocks, wind-downs, postpartum resets, founder's dawn, cold plunges, fire rituals. All clonable — make it yours, rename, rearrange, ship.

A blank field is the easiest place to give up. A real starting point breaks that.

Morning, Evening, Focus, Workout, Recovery, Mindfulness, Health, Creativity, Learning, Household, Family, Weekend, Travel — and Wild, for rage release, dance breaks, silent retreats, and dopamine-detox hours.

Most apps stop at Fitness and Productivity. Life isn't that.

Building a new routine? Pick from 110+ proven steps grouped by category. You still decide order, duration, and whether they fit — the ideas are just the blanks filled in.

You can't write a routine about cold exposure if you've never done it. A library of named steps is the scaffolding.

Pick from real recorded loops on each timer step: rain, stream, ocean waves, wind, crackling fire, Tibetan bowl, low drone, spring birds. Preview each one while building so you actually know what you're picking.

A five-minute deep-breath step isn't the same with silence vs. rain vs. a drone. The routine should let you pick.

M/W/F routines don't ding you on off days. Streaks count scheduled days, not calendar days.

The metric has to respect the schedule you set. Anything else punishes you for your own plan.

Start building, hit save, come back tomorrow. Half-finished routines sit in your library until you're ready to publish them.

Most routines aren't built in one sitting. The app shouldn't assume they are.

On the Routines tab, drag any active routine up or down. The order mirrors onto Home's Ready-to-Run list — what you see at 6am is the order you set.

Your priority stack shifts over time. The list should follow.

One step at a time. Big timer, clear name, notes underneath. The Home tab and navigation all disappear — you're not reading a list, you're running the routine.

A list of 12 steps is overwhelming at 6am. The current step is the only one that matters.

Pre-run tips, mid-routine nudges, completion messages — all contextual. If you're showing up consistently but half-assing the routines, you'll hear that. If you're showing up strong on Tuesdays and flaky on Sundays, you'll hear that too.

Generic motivational one-liners get tuned out in a week. Responsive coaching doesn't.

Selected sound plays while the step runs, fades in and out, doesn't stack across steps. Switch ambient tone between steps (drone for breathwork, waves for focus, silent for journaling).

A routine is a sequence of moods. The soundtrack should respect that.

Wake lock keeps the display on through the full sequence — no black screen during a 10-minute stretch. On Android, step transitions also buzz the phone; iOS haptics come with the native apps.

The more you can run a routine without holding a phone, the more it actually becomes a habit.

Skip a step to come back to later, end the routine early when life interrupts — both save as completed runs, so your streak stays intact. You can also pause the timer any time.

Real life happens during routines. A doorbell doesn't mean you fail the whole morning.

Short, gentle two-tone bell when a step ends. Final-seconds tick during long timers so you know it's wrapping up without looking.

Audio cues are how you run a routine without staring at a countdown.

One rolling 0-100 number: unique days you showed up in the last 30. Adapts to account age so new users don't see a misleading 10% from a perfect streak.

A single honest number you can watch move. Goes on a phone wallpaper, gets shared in a group chat. That's by design.

GitHub-style grid. Each cell is a day, darker = more routines completed. Gaps show up immediately — last Tuesday you did four, the following week you did none.

Numbers tell you how. Grids tell you when.

When during the day you actually run routines. Maybe you're a 7am person. Maybe you're secretly a 10pm person and should stop fighting it.

Design your routines around when you actually show up, not when you think you should.

Completion rate by weekday. The bar that reliably shows you skipping Sundays is useful information — either build a Sunday-friendly routine or accept Sunday as a rest day and stop feeling bad about it.

Actionable self-knowledge, not a guilt trip.

8-week inline chart of average completion time per routine. “Getting faster” means automaticity is working. “Getting slower” means something's off. “Steady” is a win too.

Most habit apps stop at counts and streaks. This is how you see the actual skill of showing up compound.

Which step in each routine you skip most. Which one takes longest. If “journal for 10 minutes” is the one you always drop, you learn that — and can rethink the step instead of just retrying the whole routine.

The routine isn't the level of resolution that matters. The steps are.

Save-as-PDF with a clean cover, your consistency score, calendar, heatmap, per-routine table, and step insights. On-brand cream background with logo.

Coaches, therapists, physical therapists — some people want something printable to bring to a conversation. This makes it clean.

Flip a public toggle, your routine shows up on the Community tab for anyone to browse. Keep it private by default; publish specific ones when you think they'd help someone.

Your routines are private unless you choose otherwise. Not the Instagram default.

See a routine you like, clone it into your library, rename it, strip the steps you don't want, add the ones you do. The original creator still gets attribution on the clone.

Nobody's starting from scratch anymore. Remixing is how routines get better.

Add friends by handle. Friend list shows their last 7 days of routine completion as small pills — no feed, no likes, no scrolling. Just ambient awareness that the other people in your life are also showing up.

Social pressure belongs in a feed. Accountability belongs in a handful of friends.

Unlock badges for activity (First Run, Perfect Run, Thirty Days, Fifty Down), loyalty (Week One, One Month, One Year, Five Years), and community (The Collector, First Friend, Inner Ring). Some blur until earned — higher tiers have to be hunted.

Achievements as small celebrations, not as the reason you show up.

For the people publishing routines that are genuinely useful to others — a badge next to your name on the community surface. Request review from your profile; we check your public routines and reach out.

If verified creator programs turn into status games, we kill it. For now: a light signal of 'this person's work is worth a look.'

Warm walnut + cream, not generic cool gray. The whole visual system stays on-brand after dark — every screen, every toast, every modal. Auto switches with your OS if you want.

Apps that do dark mode as “invert all the colors” look like apps. This one reads as a different time of day.

Download everything at any time — routines, runs, comments, votes, profile, friends — as a single file. One click, no friction.

Your data is yours. If we're not holding up our end, leaving should be a button, not a support ticket.

Three clear destructive options in Settings, gentlest to nuclear. Reset kills runs but keeps routines (clean metrics, same setup). Clean slate kills routines + runs, keeps profile + friends. Delete everything removes your account entirely.

The destructive buttons most apps bury on purpose. We put them in one place and labeled them plainly.

We don't run ads. We don't sell your data. We don't send you “we miss you” pings to pull you back. Notifications, when they arrive, are about the commitments you set — accountability, not engagement.

If the business model requires harvesting your attention, the product ends up harvesting your attention. Ours doesn't.

Wrapping the existing web app with Capacitor. Unlocks native push notifications, lockscreen controls during routines, offline mode, and widgets.

The web preview is the full app today. The native wrap is what makes a 7am reminder actually reach your phone.

Native push when a routine's scheduled window opens. Gentle, not nagging. Opt-in per routine, off by default.

Reminders are accountability or nagging — depends on whether they serve your commitments or the app's metrics. Ours will serve yours.

“Build me a 15-minute morning routine for a dad with a toddler” → drafted routine you can edit. Natural-language interview, few questions, real draft.

Blank-canvas is hard. Templates help. A routine written from your actual context helps more.

Snap a routine from another app, a handwritten note, a photo of a protocol you read about. AI extracts the steps and imports them into Routine OS format.

Retyping routines from another app is the single biggest switching cost. Kills it.

A small dedicated device that runs routines one step at a time. Phone-free execution — no notifications, no scroll, no apps. Just the current step. More to share when we're closer.

Your routines shouldn't require the device that most disrupts them. The hardware path takes the phone out of the loop.