Streak Tracker

A tiny, native macOS menu bar app that counts the days you've kept something going. It lives quietly in your menu bar as a flame and a number, and counts up on its own every day. Broke the streak? One click resets it. That's the whole app.

Track anything you want to do (or not do) every day — exercise, writing, no-spend days, time without a cigarette, whatever. The app doesn't care what it is; it just counts. Keep several going at once if you like: the menu bar shows your active streak, and the rest are one click away in the panel.

Features

• Counts up automatically every new calendar day — nothing to click daily.
• Track multiple streaks — keep a list of named streaks; the menu bar shows the one you mark active, and tapping any other in the panel switches to it. Add, rename, and delete from the panel. Each keeps its own count, longest, history, and undo.
• One-tap reset when you slip, with a confirmation so you can't do it by accident, and a same-day Undo in case you do.
• Set a start date to backdate a streak you're already on.
• Milestone progress — the flame strengthens and a bar tracks your run toward 7, 30, 100, and 365 days.
• Longest streak is remembered.
• Native through and through — SwiftUI menu bar popover, light & dark mode, your system accent color, a monochrome menu-bar glyph that matches Apple's own icons.
• Launch at login, menu-bar only (no Dock icon, no window clutter).

Why it's reliable

The count is never a number that ticks up in the background. The app stores a single anchor day and derives the count from the clock. That means it stays correct even if the app was closed for days, after a reboot, and across daylight-saving and timezone changes.

The model is completed days since the anchor: the anchor day reads 0, and each full calendar day since adds 1.

• Start / Set start date → today reads 0, then 1 at the next midnight.
• Reset → back to 0 today, 1 tomorrow.

Both start and reset land on 0 for "today," so the counter behaves consistently however a streak begins.

Install

Download (no build needed)

Grab StreakTracker.app.zip from the latest release, unzip it, and drag StreakTracker.app into /Applications.

First launch — getting past the macOS warning

Streak Tracker is open-source and signed ad-hoc (not notarized through Apple's paid Developer program), so the first time you open it macOS warns that it "can't verify it's free of malware." That's expected for any indie app — here's the one-time, no-Terminal way past it:

1. Double-click StreakTracker.app. macOS blocks it — click Done.
2. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and scroll down. You'll see "StreakTracker.app was blocked to protect your Mac." → click Open Anyway.
3. Confirm with Open Anyway (Touch ID / password). It launches, and macOS won't ask again.

That's it — the flame appears in your menu bar.

Prefer the Terminal? One line does the same thing.

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/StreakTracker.app && open /Applications/StreakTracker.app

Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later; the release build is universal (Apple Silicon + Intel).

Build from source

Requires the Swift toolchain. On a stable macOS the Xcode Command Line Tools are enough — no full Xcode needed:

xcode-select --install   # if you don't already have the tools
git clone https://github.com/saltxd/streak-tracker.git
cd streak-tracker
./build.sh               # builds + assembles StreakTracker.app
cp -R StreakTracker.app /Applications/
open /Applications/StreakTracker.app

Then look up at your menu bar. To have it start automatically, open the panel and turn on Launch at login (run it from /Applications so the setting sticks).

Development

swift build                # debug build
swift run StreakKitCheck   # run the logic checks

The streak logic (calendar math, persistence, milestones, undo) lives in a UI-free StreakKit module and is covered by StreakKitCheck, a runnable test program. It's a plain executable rather than an XCTest target because XCTest isn't available with the Command Line Tools alone.

Project layout

Path	Purpose
Sources/StreakKit/DayMath.swift	Calendar-day arithmetic (pure)
Sources/StreakKit/Streak.swift	One streak: name + derived count, reset/undo/backdate (pure)
Sources/StreakKit/StreakRoster.swift	The collection: active selection, persistence, legacy migration
Sources/StreakKit/StreakTier.swift	Milestone thresholds (7/30/100/365), pure
Sources/StreakKit/Milestone.swift	Progress toward the next milestone (pure)
Sources/StreakKit/ResetRecord.swift	One past streak (date + length)
Sources/StreakTracker/StreakTrackerApp.swift	App entry, midnight timer, wake observer
Sources/StreakTracker/StreakPanel.swift	The menu bar popover UI (hero + streak list)
Sources/StreakTracker/MenuBarIcon.swift	The monochrome menu-bar flame + number
Sources/StreakTracker/StartDatePicker.swift	"Set start date" calendar dialog
Sources/StreakTracker/NamePrompt.swift	Add / rename streak text dialog (NSAlert)
Sources/StreakTracker/LoginItem.swift	Launch-at-login toggle (SMAppService)
Sources/StreakKitCheck/main.swift	Runnable logic checks
Tools/generate-icon.swift	Regenerates the app icon artwork
build.sh	Builds + bundles the .app

License

MIT — see LICENSE.