Bad habits · Ascend
Ascend’s bad habit tracker is a free daily check-in for the things you are trying to stop, like doomscrolling or junk food. Each day you log one word per habit, Resisted or Slipped. Resisting earns points and builds a clean streak; slipping, or not logging at all, costs points.
It works on trust: Ascend can’t see what you did, only what you log. The points are there to make an honest answer every evening feel like it matters.
Free · In beta · Phone and PC · No download needed
The whole feature is a short evening routine. It takes less than a minute once your habits are added.
Tap New bad habit and pick one of the 10 in the library, or write your own. Start with one or two that matter most.
Tick a habit to mark it Resisted, or press Slipped if it happened. On a phone, swipe right to mark Resisted. A wrong tap can be undone the same day.
Each habit shows your current resist streak, your best one and the last seven days, with slips marked, so a pattern is easy to see.
After bad days in a row, the habit says how many and what slipping today would cost, so you know the stakes before the evening, not after.
Each library bad habit has its own resist value, 1–3 points, shown next to it below and when you add it. A custom bad habit earns 1 point per resisted day.
Resist points add up across all your bad habits; penalties apply only to your oldest ones.
| What happens | Points |
|---|---|
| Resisted, library bad habitThe habit’s own value. | +1–3 |
| Resisted, custom bad habit | +1 |
| Daily cap for all resists togetherThe ones you log first count first. | 6 a day |
| SlippedLogged the same day. | −5 |
| Not logged at allCharged after midnight, counting from the day you added the habit. | −3 |
| What happens | Points |
|---|---|
| Each further bad day in a row (slipped or not logged)Rounded to whole points. A resisted day resets the count. | ×1.5 |
| From Performer rank (2,000 season points)For the 2nd bad day in a row, then the 3rd and later. | ×2, then ×2.5 |
Penalties apply to the 2 bad habits you added first. Any you add after that earn resist points but never lose any, so adding a new habit to watch is never a risk.
Deleting a bad habit only takes back today’s points from it. Points and penalties from earlier days stay, so the record can’t be rewritten.
Most trackers only count the good days, so a slip just disappears. In Ascend a slip has a small, known cost, and that cost goes into the same season points as everything else you do. Your habits, workouts and reading can make up for a bad day, but they can’t hide it.
The points are a nudge, not a judgment. If a habit has turned into something you can’t control, such as drinking, drugs or gambling, use the Recovery tracker and reach out to a professional or a helpline; Ascend is not treatment.
Add it now, log tonight, and start a clean streak tomorrow.