Onward: Goal & Habit Tracker
Anthony Taurisano Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Onward: Goal & Habit Tracker is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by Anthony Taurisano. Rated 5.0/5 from 3 ratings. Requires iOS 18.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 3 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 6 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 4
- 2026 · v1.5
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About Onward: Goal & Habit Tracker
Onward is a calm, private, local-first way to build habits and reach goals — it keeps everything on your device. Most trackers only do checkboxes. Onward gives you four ways to track, so it fits how you actually think about progress: • Daily Habit — the classic streak. Do it, check it, keep the run alive. Flexible frequencies (a few times a week, monthly, quarterly), specific weekdays, rest days that don't break your streak, and quit-habit tracking that counts the days you stay clean. • Running Total — count something up. Miles, pages, glasses of water, dollars saved. Log it in a couple of taps and watch it add up. • Target by Date — "read 12 books by December." Onward does the pace math and tells you, honestly, whether you're on track, ahead, or behind — and shows its work. • Resolution — a one-time goal with no quantity, like "update my will." Track it as a plain checkbox, a percentage, or a checklist of sub-tasks — whichever fits. Drag any habit, total, or target to reorder it within its own section, so what matters most sits up top. INSIGHTS THAT MEAN SOMETHING Your history becomes feedback: current and best-ever streaks, completion rates, an at-a-glance activity heatmap, per-goal trend charts, milestones worth noticing, and a weekly review of how it went. BUILT TO FIT REAL LIFE • Timed habits and a focus (Pomodoro) timer • Reminders — as many as you need per habit, grouped by time of day • Notes and a mood tag on any entry • A full calendar history you can edit and backfill • Light and dark mode COUNTDOWNS Count down to a birthday, a trip, a deadline — or count up the days since something that matters. Choose days, weeks and days, or percent done, add a progress bar, and get a reminder on the day. Upcoming countdowns show in a "Coming up" strip on Today, and a Countdown widget keeps the next one on your Home or Lock Screen. Countdowns count toward your 5 free active goals. HOME & LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS Add a widget to check off today's habits, log a running total, or see a streak and pace verdict — right from your Home Screen or Lock Screen, no need to open the app. ONWARD PRO Everything above works free — all four goal types, iCloud sync, Apple Watch, up to 5 active goals. A one-time Onward Pro unlock ($9.99, no subscription) removes the goal limit and adds the full Insights dashboard, Weekly Review, timed habits + Focus timer, Apple Health import, CSV import/export, multiple reminders per habit, Resolution progress tracking, and Countdown extras (repeating and weekday-only countdowns, reminders ahead of the date, year/quarter/month/week progress, linking a countdown to a goal, and importing upcoming events from your Calendar). There's also an optional tip jar if you'd just like to support development. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Onward is local-first. Your data lives on your device — no account to create, no sign-in, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. iCloud sync across your own devices uses your private iCloud — still no servers of ours. Optional Apple Health import reads a workout only when you tap to import it; nothing is sent anywhere. The App Store privacy label says it plainly: Data Not Collected. No subscriptions. No noise. Just a quiet tool to help you keep moving onward.
What’s new
Version 1.5 · Updated October 4, 2026
New in Onward: • Countdowns: count down to a birthday, trip or deadline, or count up from a day that matters — with a "Coming up" strip on Today, reminders, and a Countdown widget • Countdown extras (Pro): repeating countdowns, weekdays-only counting, reminders a day or week ahead, year/quarter/month/week progress, and import from your Calendar • Control Center controls: check off a habit, quick-log, or start a focus timer from Control Center, the Lock Screen, or the Action Button • Siri & Shortcuts: log progress and check your streak without opening the app • Live Activities for timers on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island (Pro) • Activity Heatmap widget and new widget styles (Pro) • New Goals Dashboard widget, larger Streak and Target widgets, an iPad Today widget, and more Lock Screen options • Tap a habit, timer, or goal in a widget to jump straight to it • Widgets now look right in Tinted and Clear Home Screen modes
App privacy
The developer, Anthony Taurisano, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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