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Why Steady Ember is built the way it is
Criteria you can hold any tracker against, and the reasoning behind the decisions that make this one different — including the trade-offs they cost us.
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What to Look for in a Private Habit Tracker
Seven criteria — storage, account, bundled SDKs, permissions, export, uninstall, streak design — with a way to check each one before you install anything.
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What "Privacy-First" Actually Means in a Habit Tracker
Privacy-first defined in testable terms rather than adjectives, so you can verify the claim yourself.
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Why Steady Ember Has No Account, No Ads, and No Cloud Sync
The reasoning behind three deliberate absences, and what we accepted giving up for them.
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Why We Built Streak Freezes Instead of Punishing Missed Days
A finite freeze allowance, a retroactive recovery window, and why resetting a person to zero never worked.
Structure without surveillance
Steady Ember is a private, offline habit tracker for Android — no account, no ads, no cloud sync, and your history kept on your phone. Up to 6 habits free, unlimited on the paid tier.
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