EK Diary's habit tracker is free and built into your daily journal — track any habit with daily streaks, weekly heatmaps, and progress bars, right alongside what you write.
EK Diary's habit tracker is a free daily habit tracker built directly into your journal — set any habit (water, reading, exercise, meditation), check it off each day, and watch your streak grow. There's no separate app to juggle: your habits, your journal entry, and your day planner all live on the same dashboard.
Add a habit with a name, an icon, and (optionally) a target — daily, a few times a week, or a weekly count. Each day you tick it off, EK Diary extends your streak and fills in that day on a weekly heatmap so you can see your consistency at a glance instead of digging through a calendar.
Every habit shows a live streak count with a 🔥 badge once you've gone a few days in a row. Miss a day and the streak resets — which is exactly the small, visible stake that makes people come back the next morning rather than quietly letting a habit fade out.
Most habit trackers live in isolation from your journal, so you end up writing about your habits in one app and tracking them in another. In EK Diary, your daily entry and your habit checklist sit on the same screen — write a line about why today's run was hard, then tick it off, without switching apps.
EK Diary's habit tracker is free to use with unlimited habits — there's no cap forcing you to upgrade once you're tracking more than two or three things. It also works in Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Punjabi, and other Indian languages, so habit names and notes can be written the way you actually think.
A dedicated habit-tracking app is fine on its own, but most people who journal also want to plan their day and reflect on their mood — EK Diary's habit tracker sits next to the day planner and mood tracker, so a missed habit, a rough mood day, and a rescheduled task all show up in the same weekly review instead of three separate apps.
A tracker only helps if the habit itself is realistic. Three things consistently make the difference: starting smaller than feels necessary (two minutes of reading beats a "30 minutes daily" goal you'll skip on a busy day), attaching the habit to something you already do (journal, then check off your habits, in the same sitting), and letting a visible streak do some of the motivational work — EK Diary's 🔥 streak badge and weekly heatmap exist specifically so you have a reason not to break the chain. None of that requires willpower to be perfect, just a system that makes showing up slightly easier than not showing up.
Yes — unlimited habits, streaks, and weekly heatmaps, with no paywall on the core tracker. Some premium themes and sections are optional upgrades, but habit tracking itself isn't gated.
Yes, there's no limit on how many habits you run at once — most people track somewhere between 3 and 8 habits across health, learning, and mindfulness categories.
Your streak resets for that habit, but your history isn't deleted — you can see the full pattern over weeks and months, including the misses, which is often more useful than a streak that only ever shows perfect weeks.
See how habit tracking fits alongside goal tracking, mood tracking, and a time-blocked day planner — or jump to the full FAQ for pricing, privacy, and language support.