How it works
Simple enough for tired days
Focus grows plants, habits grow flowers, and both land in the same little garden, one plot per day.
Focus
Plant a focus session
Pick a plant and a length, from 5 minutes to 3 hours, and tap Plant. It grows while you stay with your work, and when the timer ends it joins today's garden.
The hours you put in unlock new plants: 16 in all, from tomatoes to an orange tree.
Lock, don't leave
Put your phone face down. Your plant keeps growing.
HabitBarn can tell locking your screen from leaving for another app, so the only rule is the one that matters.
- Screen lockedFine. The plant keeps growing and the timer keeps running.
- Switched to another appYou get 10 seconds to come back, then the plant wilts. It stays in your garden anyway.
Habits
Tick a habit, grow a flower
Read, move, sleep on time. Each habit has its own flower, and every one you tick blooms in the same plot as today's focus plants.
Give a habit a focus length (say, deep work for 50 minutes) and finishing that session ticks it for you.
- Read 20 minutesThriving 87
- Drink waterGrowing 64
- Deep workSprouting 35
Momentum
Progress that bends, never breaks
Instead of a streak that resets to zero, every habit has momentum: it rises with each day you keep it and dips gently when you don't. A busy week costs a little, not everything.
One missed day barely matters for building a habit; quitting after it does. HabitBarn is built so a slip never turns into a spiral.
Your garden
Every day, kept
Scroll back through your garden day by day, or open the calendar to see the month at a glance. Forgot to tick yesterday? Tick it, up to a year back.
Sign in with Apple or Google and the same garden is on your iPhone and your iPad.
Stats
See what's working
Focus time per day, plants grown, your success rate, and how each habit is going. Free shows the last 7 days; Plus shows every month and year.
One gentle reminder
A daily nudge at the time you pick, and never once you're done.
Sync with your account
Back up your garden and use it on iPhone and iPad.
No ads, ever
No ads and no selling data. Plus keeps the lights on.
Your data, your call
Export everything as CSV or delete your account in Settings.
Pricing
Free to grow. Plus for the whole garden.
Free
Focus as much as you like and keep a few habits.
- A focus timer that grows a plant
- 3 habits that bloom into flowers
- Momentum instead of streaks that break
- Cloud sync across devices
- No ads. Ever.
HabitBarn Plus
- Unlimited habits (free: 3)
- All 16 plants, 7 of them Plus-only
- Full stats: every month and year
- Support an independent studio
- Yearly7 days free, then $29.99 a year$29.99/yr
- MonthlyCancel anytime$4.99/mo
- LifetimeOne-time purchase, no subscription$59.99
Plus is bought in the app with your Apple ID. Prices are in US dollars; the App Store shows yours in your local currency. Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel in your iPhone or iPad Settings; the 7-day free trial is for new subscribers to the yearly plan.
Questions
Is HabitBarn free?
Yes. The free garden has the full focus timer, 3 habits, nine plants that unlock with focus hours, the last 7 days of stats and sync through your account. There are no ads. Plus adds unlimited habits, seven Plus-only plants and your full history in stats.
Which devices does it run on?
HabitBarn is an app for iPhone and iPad, from the App Store. There is no web version, Android or Mac app. Sign in on both your iPhone and your iPad and the same garden is on each.
I used HabitBarn in the browser. Where did it go?
The browser version is retired; HabitBarn lives on iPhone and iPad now. Sign in to the app with the same account you used on the web and your habits and history move into the new garden.
Will there be an Android version?
Not right now. If you'd like one, email support@habitbarn.com: if enough people ask, we'll build it.
Do I need an account?
No. Start right away and your garden is saved on your device. Sign in with Apple or Google whenever you like to back it up and use it on your other iPhone or iPad.
What happens if I leave the app during a focus session?
Locking your phone is fine: the plant keeps growing. Switching to another app gives you 10 seconds to come back; after that the plant wilts. Wilted plants stay in your garden too, nobody is scolded.
What happens if I miss a day?
Nothing breaks. Instead of a streak that resets to zero, each habit has momentum that dips a little on a missed day and rises again when you're back. You can also tick a day you forgot, up to a year back.
Is my data private?
Your habits and focus sessions are yours. We don't sell data or show ads. You can export everything as a CSV file or delete your account at any time in the app's Settings. The privacy policy has the details.
How do I cancel Plus?
On your iPhone or iPad, open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions, then HabitBarn (the app's Settings has a Manage subscription button that opens the same place). You keep Plus until the end of the period you paid for.
Do you offer refunds?
Purchases are made through the App Store, so Apple handles refunds: request one at reportaproblem.apple.com. If you bought Plus on our website before the app, email support@habitbarn.com within 14 days of that purchase.
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