A New Year resolution tracker built to last
Compound is a New Year resolution tracker for iPhone that asks one question a day: did you get closer to your goal today? Whatever the resolution — fitness, saving money, a new habit — a single honest tap turns into a trajectory chart that can survive well past the usual mid-January drop-off. Free on the App Store.
Why most resolutions don’t survive January
Most resolutions die from one missed day, not from lack of motivation — an all-or-nothing streak breaks, the app’s counter resets to zero, and starting over from scratch feels worse than never having started. Compound tracks a trend instead of a chain, so a missed day is a dip, not a reason to quit the resolution entirely.
The classic resolution-tracking pattern is ambition in week one, a missed day in week two, and abandonment by week three — because the tracker itself made the missed day feel like the end.
A resolution is a months-long goal, not a perfect streak. Compound is built around the trend a resolution actually needs to survive: visible momentum that one bad day can’t erase.
How Compound tracks a New Year resolution
Name your resolution — whatever it is this year — and answer one honest question every evening: did you get closer today? The chart turns those daily answers into a visible trajectory across the months ahead, well past the point most resolution trackers get abandoned.
- Did the resolution thing, even in a small way → ↑ Closer
- Busy day, held ground → → Same
- Skipped it entirely → ↓ Further — honest data, not a failed year
If your resolution evolves partway through the year — a different goal, a new focus — close the chapter and start the next one. The chart keeps working either way.
What missing a day looks like in Compound
A single visible dip, and the next evening the same calm question returns — no reset counter, no “you broke your streak” message, no reason to write off the whole year. One missed day stays exactly the size it actually is: one day.
Resolution trackers built around unbroken streaks turn the first missed day into the last day the app gets opened — which is exactly backwards for a goal meant to last twelve months.
Compound’s chart absorbs a missed day without drama, because a resolution that’s meant to last a year has to be able to survive an ordinary bad day in February.
Pulse sees how your resolution is really going
Pulse, part of Compound Pro, reads your recent days and reflects back the honest trend — including whether the resolution is actually holding up months after January.
“Three gaps since March, but the trend since then is steadily upward. Whatever slowed you down in February didn’t stick — the resolution is holding.”
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See you tomorrow.
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