Questions about the habit tracker

Crek is a free to-do list and habit tracker that runs in your browser, with notes beside them. Add a todo or a habit and it brings ideas for getting it done; tick your habits off each day and watch the streak grow — on your own, or in a group with your partner, family, friends or team.

It is deliberately simple: no boards, no tags, no projects to set up. A habit is a title and how often it repeats — daily, on the weekdays you choose, or monthly — and that is the whole model.

Yes. Every feature is free, there is no paid tier, and there is nothing to upgrade to. You sign in with Google and start writing.

Not to try it: the free habit tracker at crek.io/habit-tracker works with no account and keeps your habits in that browser. An account is what puts your habits, todos and notes on every device you sign in from — and anything you tracked before signing in comes with you.

Signing in is one press: Crek uses Google sign-in, so there is no password to choose or remember. Groups need an account too, for everyone in them: you add people by their Crek username.

Both, in one place. A habit is anything that repeats — drink water every day, go to the gym on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, pay rent on the 1st — and it keeps a streak. A todo is something you do once and check off.

Most people keep the two in separate apps and forget one of them. Here they sit on the same list, so the habit is in front of you when you plan the day.

Today is the one list to check each day: the habits due today, the todos due today or that you have put on today, and anything overdue. Todos with no date, or due later, stay off it until you add them from your list with one tap.

Habits and todos from your groups appear there too when they are yours to do — given to you, or habits the whole group does — marked with the group's name.

No. Crek runs in any modern browser on desktop, tablet and phone. There is nothing to download and nothing to keep updated.

Crek runs in your phone's browser, so there is nothing to get from an app store — and it works the same on iPhone and Android. To open it like an app, add it to your home screen: in Safari tap Share, then Add to Home Screen; in Chrome on Android open the menu and choose Add to Home screen.

No. You can track as many habits as you like, for free — there is no paid tier that unlocks more.

Four things. It brings ideas for doing each todo and habit, not just a place to tick them off. It is free with no cap on habits. It works on any device with a browser, so your streaks are the same on your phone and your laptop. And your to-do list and notes sit beside your habits, instead of in another app you forget to open.

You can also share habits and todos with other people in a group, which most free habit trackers either leave out or charge for.

There are no points or levels to manage — just your habits, their streaks, and a calendar of every day.

Daily, weekly on the weekdays you choose, or monthly on a day of your choosing. A habit comes back each period rather than being finished once.

Months that are too short use their last day, so a todo set for the 31st still happens in February.

Both are optional. A todo can carry a due date and a priority of high, medium or low. Medium is the default and is left unsaid in the list, so the priorities you actually set are the ones you see.

A one-off todo moves to your Completed view. A habit is marked done for the current period and returns in the next one, keeping its streak.

Yes. Habits and streaks are worked out in your own timezone, not the server's, so a day ends when it ends for you.

It disappears from your list immediately. Deletes are recorded rather than wiped instantly, which is what makes it possible to recover from a mistake, but there is no undo button in the interface today.

Anything a todo is the wrong shape for: a plan, a list of ideas, a journal entry, something you want to keep to hand. Notes live beside your todos rather than in a second app.

Yes. Notes support bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, inline code, bulleted and numbered lists, quotes, code blocks and links. You can type Markdown shortcuts as you write — **bold**, a dash for a list, a backtick fence for code — or use the toolbar.

Star a note and it appears under Favorites. There are no folders or tags — for a personal notebook, a single starred set and the fact that the newest note is always first covers almost everything folders would.

Yes. Make a group, add people by their Crek username, and put habits and todos in it. Everyone who joins sees the group's list and what has been done; your own habits, todos and notes stay private.

There are guides for doing it as a couple, a family, a group of friends or a team at crek.io/habit-tracker/for.

Whoever makes a group is its owner. They add people by username, and each person sees an invite they can join or decline — nothing in the group shows until they join. The owner can rename the group, remove people and delete it; anyone else can leave.

Every member can add habits and todos to the group and edit them.

That depends on who it is for, which you choose for each one. For anyone: one shared tick, whoever gets to it. For one person: only they can tick it, and the rest of the group sees whether it is done. For everyone (habits only): each member ticks it themselves.

For a habit set for everyone, yes: each member has their own ticks and their own streak. A habit for anyone, or for one person, keeps a single streak for the group.

Yes. Give each chore to one person and set how often it repeats — every day, on the weekdays you choose (bins on Tuesday), or once a month. Only that person can tick it, and the whole family sees whether it is done. Each person's chores show up on their own Today page.

Groups are free, like everything else in Crek, and there is no limit on how many people a group can have or how many groups you can be in.

They stop seeing it, and anything that was given to them goes back to anyone in the group. What they ticked stays in the group's history. When the owner deletes a group, its habits and todos go for everyone in it.

When you add a todo or a habit of your own, Crek looks for what would help you do it and shows the ideas on its page. Some are links: books, videos, events, places and products. Others are written for you: a guide, a checklist, a plan split into days, a draft of a message, or a short tip.

"Go to a concert" can bring up shows in your city, if you have told Crek where you are. A plain errand may get nothing, because no idea is better than a weak one.

Yes. Tick the lines of a checklist and add them as todos, or do the same with a plan and each one lands due on its day, starting from the day you add it. A guide can go into the item's notes, and a draft can be copied to send.

No. They are free, like everything else in Crek, and there is nothing to set up.

The item's title, the start of its notes, and your city if you gave one go to Google's Gemini API, which decides what to look for. Those searches go to Firecrawl, and Gemini picks from the results. Items in a group get no ideas.

Every habit keeps its own streak: the number of times in a row you did it when it was due. A daily habit counts days. A weekly habit counts the weekdays you picked — a Monday, Wednesday and Friday habit done all three days this week is on a streak of three. A monthly habit counts months.

Miss a day the habit was due and that streak starts again. Days it was not due, like a Tuesday for a Monday-Wednesday-Friday habit, never break it.

Yes. Press any earlier day in a habit's week, or on its calendar, to mark it done — or to clear one ticked by mistake — up to a year back. Your streak and totals update straight away.

No. Today stays open until it is over, so a streak only resets once a due day has actually passed without the habit being done.

Yes, unless you put a habit or todo in a group — then the people in that group see it. Everything on your own list, and all of your notes, is yours alone, and none of it is shown on your public profile or anywhere else. To make ideas, an item's title and the start of its notes are sent to Google's Gemini API, as the suggestions section above explains.

When you sign up you claim a username, and that gives you a page at crek.io/u/your-name showing a calendar of the days you were active and a few totals — not the names or contents of your habits, todos or notes. Share the link or ignore it.