The simplest goal tracker: one question a day
Compound is a simple goal tracker for iPhone, built around exactly one question a day: did you get closer to your goal today? There are no categories to configure, no dashboards to build, and no setup beyond naming what you’re working toward. One tap — ↑ Closer, → Same, or ↓ Further — becomes a visible trajectory over time. Free on the App Store.
Why most goal trackers are more complex than they need to be
Many goal trackers ask you to define metrics, set up categories, and configure a dashboard before you’ve tracked a single day — by the time the setup is done, the motivation that brought you there has often faded. Compound skips all of it: name your goal in one sentence, and the daily question starts the same evening.
Complexity feels productive during setup and becomes friction during daily use — exactly backwards for a habit that needs to survive hundreds of days, not one enthusiastic first session.
The simplest version of goal tracking that actually works is a single honest question, answered daily. Compound is built around that idea and deliberately adds nothing else.
How Compound stays simple
Name your goal in a sentence — or skip that step entirely — and answer one question each evening: did you get closer today? That single tap is the entire daily interaction. The chart accumulates your answers into a trajectory automatically; there’s nothing else to configure.
- A good day toward the goal → ↑ Closer
- An ordinary day, held ground → → Same
- A day that moved the wrong direction → ↓ Further — noted, nothing more required
Even the optional parts — notes, Pulse reflections — stay opt-in. The core experience is, and stays, one question and one tap.
What a bad day requires in Compound
One tap on ↓ Further. No form to fill, no explanation required, no dashboard to update. The chart shows a single honest dip, and tomorrow’s question arrives exactly the same as it would after a great day.
Complex trackers often demand the most effort on the hardest days — logging what went wrong, adjusting plans, updating categories — right when effort is scarcest.
Compound asks the same three-second question regardless of how the day went, which is what makes it sustainable specifically on the days simplicity matters most.
Pulse adds insight without adding complexity
Pulse, part of Compound Pro, reads your recent days and reflects back the pattern — an optional layer of insight that never changes the one-question, one-tap core experience.
“Your last two weeks lean steadily toward ‘Closer.’ Whatever changed after the slow start in week one, it’s working.”
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