RIPEN: Habit Tracker

You do not track who you want to become. You grow into it. RIPEN is a habit tracker built on a single picture: you are a tree, and everything you keep doing is what it grows into. A leaf is a day you lived it. Not a percentage, not points — one day, one leaf. Seven days is seven leaves. A year is three hundred sixty-five. A fruit is a habit that took hold. Every day you keep it moves a count one step forward; every day you miss pulls that count back — one step, then two, then three — but never below zero. The fruit sets green when the count reaches sixty-six, and turns gold the day you root the habit and stop marking it. Once it is there, it stays. The tree is black and white, and color in it means one thing only: today’s leaf is green while the day is still open, and the fruit keeps its color for good. A fallen leaf is a day you missed. It drops to the ground and stays there. The app does not hide the days you missed, and it does not punish you for them: the branch keeps growing. A cut branch is a habit you ended on purpose. It leaves a stub, not a hole — that was part of the way you came. And when a habit is no longer something you have to remember, you root it: the branch stays on the tree, mature, and the daily marking stops. You do not have to track for the rest of your life what has already become you. The tree is drawn from scratch for you and no one else, and it keeps its shape: tomorrow it is the same tree with one more leaf. It grows with time — a month in it is small, a year in it no longer fits on the screen. WHAT IS NOT HERE No account. No sign-up, no email, no password: the tree lives on your phone. No percentages, no experience points, no levels, no confetti. There is one sheet of plain numbers if you ever want them, and nothing counts them at you. No ads, and no third party watching you. You can share your tree with a link if you want to, and turn it off whenever you like. Five things can leave the phone in all, and four of them only when you ask: that page, a picture or a film when you share one, a problem report, and ideas and feedback. The fifth is the backup that moves your tree to a new phone, and it is made by itself. MOVING TO A NEW PHONE Ten words. They are the key: the copy on the server is encrypted on your phone before it goes anywhere, and the key is those words. We cannot read your tree, and we cannot restore it for you if the words are gone. WHAT COSTS MONEY The app is free, and everything above works without paying. RIPEN Pro is bought once: up to four identities instead of one, each growing from the trunk; the time machine that runs the day at fifty, five hundred, fifteen hundred times its speed; sound that keeps playing after you leave the app; and pictures and films without the RIPEN watermark. Two more things are sold separately and bought once: a different shape for the tree, and sweeping the fallen leaves into the soil. Nothing is a subscription. Nothing expires. Grow what matters. One day at a time.