Enhancing Finch for Goal-Driven Users: Balancing Playfulness with Progress Tracking
I appreciate the playful approach Finch takes in supporting personal growth, and I’d love to make it my go-to app for self-betterment. However, I find that the current goals system limits how meaningfully I can track my progress over time. For example, I’d love the option to complete a goal early rather than waiting until the set date, as well as a way to click on a goal and view my consistency over time. For goals like going to the gym four times a week, daily reminders can be overwhelming, even with snooze options, as it’s hard to rearrange flexibly.
Being a Type A person, I’m motivated to analyze my data for self-improvement. However, the structure currently incentivizes completing smaller, less meaningful tasks just to level up, rather than focusing on goals that are truly important to me. Whether I complete five quick tasks or aim for eighteen ambitious ones, the rewards are the same, making it feel like there’s less value in tackling long-term goals.
While the app is visually engaging and light-hearted, some of my goals—like health—are lifelong commitments. They’re serious, and I’d love the app to reflect that by offering more nuanced ways to track and celebrate real progress. If Finch could add more flexibility and recognition for high-impact goals, it would create an ideal balance between playfulness and depth for users who want to see more than just their birb level up.
Being a Type A person, I’m motivated to analyze my data for self-improvement. However, the structure currently incentivizes completing smaller, less meaningful tasks just to level up, rather than focusing on goals that are truly important to me. Whether I complete five quick tasks or aim for eighteen ambitious ones, the rewards are the same, making it feel like there’s less value in tackling long-term goals.
While the app is visually engaging and light-hearted, some of my goals—like health—are lifelong commitments. They’re serious, and I’d love the app to reflect that by offering more nuanced ways to track and celebrate real progress. If Finch could add more flexibility and recognition for high-impact goals, it would create an ideal balance between playfulness and depth for users who want to see more than just their birb level up.
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Helpful good fun
Overall I enjoy this app, though I find the pressure to maintain a streak encourages perfectionism, which is anti-self-care, imo. Also it gives me anxiety. Everything else is great, though!
Love my fuzzy friend
I love this app so much and it is so great.
I was diagnosed with an immune disease so mentally and physically I was not well.. so I got this little buddy to cheer me up and I feel so much better about myself and the little guy makes me know that sometimes life is just the way it is. My fuzzy friend sends me kind and cheerful notifications that helps me get through the day.
I am in love💗
I was diagnosed with an immune disease so mentally and physically I was not well.. so I got this little buddy to cheer me up and I feel so much better about myself and the little guy makes me know that sometimes life is just the way it is. My fuzzy friend sends me kind and cheerful notifications that helps me get through the day.
I am in love💗
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Amazing App
This app is amazing for your own mental health. After reading Atomic Habits, it helps to build little micro habits one at a time. I also have ADHD, so it helps me to remember the tasks I’ve always wanted to create as habits. The way it also makes you more self aware of your thoughts and feelings to understand yourself so you can be a healthier version of yourself is truly amazing. I use this app daily and will continue to use regularly with my friends to help with mental health and personal growth!
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Life changing app
I’ve been using this app for 120 days now and it has truly made a difference in my life. I don’t use mine so much for self-care but for motivation to complete boring household chores. For years I have been overwhelmed by the state of my house, never sure where to start and just letting mess and dirt pile up because I couldn't seem to get my act together. I started by just putting some small daily tasks on the app (such as cleaning the sinks, wiping the kitchen sides, cleaning the toilet, removing old food from the fridge etc) and I have never been this consistent in my life. As time has gone on I’ve added bigger weekly tasks such as reorganising my cupboards or deep cleaning a room and my house has gone from being somewhere I’m ashamed to invite people round to, to somewhere that I know people could drop in to at any moment and I can feel a sense of pride. All because of a little virtual bird.
Genuinely brilliant app with endless opportunities for someone to improve their lives. I wish I’d discovered it sooner.
Genuinely brilliant app with endless opportunities for someone to improve their lives. I wish I’d discovered it sooner.
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Great app and suggestion
Love the app, wish there was a way to add multiple users on one app or have separate sign ins for kids who don’t have their own device.
Loving it
Im loving the app and how I can join my friends on their journey of self care as well <3
ADHD must have.
My son and I struggle with our ADHD on a daily basis and this app had helped out tremendously. However the price or cost for this app is outrageous. 200.00 CAD a year for us both to enjoy the help we need to survive is a lot of money. I wish ADHD apps would be more mindful of how much we struggle. And struggling includes the price for self help apps for adhd. I wish I could afford but it’s just so much.
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The best journaling/self care app EVER!!
When I first started using finch I loved it but I realized with finch plus you get access to a lot of cool things, such as outfits for your finch or decorations for your finch’s room. I couldn’t afford it at the time and I didn’t think it was worth it to buy a subscription. One day I was rewarded finch plus for a month and I loved it!! There’s so much more to it than just the outfits and the decor. You can also set your own custom goals and so much more!! I decided to buy a year subscription of it, and it was very helpful. However, after my subscription expired I couldn’t afford it and looked to the sponsors in hopes of being able to access finch plus again. If you are sponsored, someone pays for your subscription. My sponsor paid for a month of Finch Plus! I was so grateful, but unfortunately my Finch Plus ran out, but after Finch notified me it ran out they gave me the option to pay for a cheaper version of the Finch Plus! I still however can’t afford it at the moment and there was an option to choose to say that you still can’t afford it and they rewarded it to me for free. I’m so grateful! All they ask for in return of the free finch is that you pay it back in the future when you can afford it. And I know I definitely will!! The finch app is so giving and caring. You can tell they really care about their app users. I wish more apps were like this app.
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First self-care app I’ve used more than a week!
As someone with ADHD, I’ve tried many, MANY different apps in the past that gamify creating routines, but all of them have lasted about 5-10 days before I stopped using them altogether when the novelty wore off.
I would never have tried Finch, had my best friend who swore by the app not bugged me into using
I’m now at a 70 day streak. I wasn’t even really intending to keep using it. I’ve been trying to figure out what made this app work when so many others failed, and I think it came down to:
- the sensory-friendly, simplistic UI and interactions with your birb
- the friend feature (I can’t tell you the joy I get every day seeing my friend’s little birb join mine on an adventure 🥹)
-the extra tools that suggested really simple, achieveavle goals (like “survive the day”, or “leave the house”)
Even just the fact the app is completely useable free, with the premium-only features mainly limited to cosmetic things like guaranteed outfits and extra slots in the shop.
Whatever the case, the app has done wonders for motivating me every day, and helping me feel accomplished completing the little things on days where that was really, really hard.
In short, thank you to the devs for this wonderful lil’ app!!
(P.S I’d love to see New Zealand or Australia added as a travel destination 👀🇦🇺🦘)
I would never have tried Finch, had my best friend who swore by the app not bugged me into using
I’m now at a 70 day streak. I wasn’t even really intending to keep using it. I’ve been trying to figure out what made this app work when so many others failed, and I think it came down to:
- the sensory-friendly, simplistic UI and interactions with your birb
- the friend feature (I can’t tell you the joy I get every day seeing my friend’s little birb join mine on an adventure 🥹)
-the extra tools that suggested really simple, achieveavle goals (like “survive the day”, or “leave the house”)
Even just the fact the app is completely useable free, with the premium-only features mainly limited to cosmetic things like guaranteed outfits and extra slots in the shop.
Whatever the case, the app has done wonders for motivating me every day, and helping me feel accomplished completing the little things on days where that was really, really hard.
In short, thank you to the devs for this wonderful lil’ app!!
(P.S I’d love to see New Zealand or Australia added as a travel destination 👀🇦🇺🦘)
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