Habits that know your schedule
Daily, specific weekdays, or once a week. Counter habits with a daily target — “8 glasses” shows an 8-step counter, not a checkbox. The page splits itself into today’s habits and rest-day habits automatically.
RPG habit tracker · Task manager · Web + mobile
The gamified productivity app where your to-do list has hit points.
Grindful turns your task manager, habit tracker, goals, pomodoro timer and journal into a character sheet. Every completion rolls for a critical hit. Every day rolls your luck. Every relapse costs you HP. And every single number in that economy is a slider you control.
No card required · 10 languages on web · Web and mobile · Your journal is never sent to AI unless you say so
💥 Critical success ×1.5
Write the Q3 retrospective
+22 XP+15 🪙+20 skill XP
LVL 141,284 coins
70 / 100 HP
Daily luck
73🍀 Good×1.31
26
Screens
web + mobile
6
AI features
premium
48
Look combos
themes × modes × styles
10
Languages
on web · Arabic RTL
28
Economy knobs
all yours to tune
Task manager, habit tracker, goal tracker. The work is real.
Strip the game away and you still have a serious productivity system.
Tasks, three ways
Card gridKanbanEisenhower 2×2
One task list, three views: a card grid, a 3-column Kanban board, and a 2×2 Eisenhower matrix. Drag a card between quadrants and its urgent/important flags rewrite themselves. Drop an overdue task into “To Do” and the board marks it overdue for you. Nested subtask checklists, task dependencies with loop detection, and six filters that all live in the URL.
Routines with combo multipliers
Chain habits into a morning or evening routine. Each extra habit in the chain adds +0.1× to the bonus, capping at 2.0×. A guided runner walks you through it one step at a time and resumes where you left off.
Goals, two ways to track
Count completed tasks, or log minutes. The card shows the right unit and the right deadline band — active, due soon, past due.
Everything on one calendar
Tasks, goal deadlines, expanded habit schedules and journal entries on one month grid, each overlay independently toggleable. Connect Google Calendar and your external events land alongside them.
Pomodoro with sessions
25/5/15 with a 4-pomodoro cycle, a progress ring, and the countdown mirrored into your browser tab. Wrap focus time in a named session with a category and a target.
Now here’s the part that keeps you coming back.
The game layer
Six RPG mechanics. Every number is a setting.
×1.5Critical success
+10 XP+15 XP
Roll for it
Every task, habit, goal, journal entry and mood check-in rolls the dice. A crit lands with a full-screen burst and multiplies the payout. Ships at 15% for ×1.5 — and both numbers are sliders. Set the chance anywhere from 0 to 100% and the multiplier from 1.0× to 3.0×. Turn it off entirely if you’d rather it were boring.
73
🍀 Good
×1.310.8 + (luck / 100) × 0.7Some days you’re just lucky
Every calendar day rolls you a luck score from 1 to 100 that scales everything you earn. The formula is 0.8 + (luck / 100) × 0.7 — a 1 pays 0.80×, a 100 pays 1.50×. Five bands from Bad to Excellent. Above 1.2× the app tells you it’s your day. Below 0.9× it commiserates.
Boss fightNicotine demon
Clean time
23d 04h 11m
Cost of relapse
−41 HP−82 XP
Concede defeat
Your bad habits are bosses
Every habit you’re quitting becomes a demon with a live clock counting your clean time. Slip up and you don’t just reset a number — you face a boss fight screen showing exactly what it costs, and you confirm by conceding defeat.
And the penalty grows with your streak. Relapsing on day 2 costs 10 HP. Relapsing on day 30 costs 50. The demon’s power scales with everything you had to lose.
base + (max − base) × min(streak/30, 1)CodingLVL 7
FitnessLVL 4
PianoLVL 2
Skills level separately
Define your own skills and attach tasks and goals to them. Each one levels on its own rising curve — level 1→2 costs 100 XP, level 5→6 costs 500 — with overflow carrying into the next level. Tasks pay 20 skill XP, goals pay 100, and there’s a chance your dedication pays off with a surprise bonus on top.
Amulet of the Long Night
XP gain+45
Coin find+30
Max HP+20
Forge price1,350 🪙
Forge your own gear
Name an amulet, pick its color and icon, and stack up to three different stat effects at power levels you choose. The forge quotes the price server-side — sum of effects × 10 × number of effects — mints it straight into your inventory, and refunds half if you ever dismantle it.
The Tavern
Checked in
Resting for6h 20m
- HP can’t drop
- Bad habits can’t hurt you
- Streaks shifted forward
- No XP or coins while you rest
And when life happens, check into the tavern
Rest mode with teeth. While you’re in the tavern you stop earning XP and coins — but you also can’t lose HP, bad habits can’t hurt you, and your habit streaks are shifted forward by exactly the length of your stay so nothing breaks. Minimum stay 24 hours, so it’s a real rest, not a loophole.
Settings · Game economy
Task XP · high25
Coins per habit8
Relapse HP cost · max50
Crit chance15%
Crit multiplier1.5×
Skill-up chance10%
Crits on
Daily luck on
Random events off
Skill-ups on
Every number on this page is a setting
Task XP by priority. Coins per habit. How much a relapse costs. Crit chance and crit multiplier. Skill-up odds and bonus size. 28 economy values, 6 RNG switches and 7 RNG parameters — all per-account, all editable, all in one Settings page. Want a hardcore run where relapses cost 100 HP? Set it. Want the randomness gone entirely? Six switches turn it off.
Most gamified apps hand you their difficulty curve. Grindful hands you the knobs.
The quiet half: journal, mood, gratitude.
Not everything worth tracking is a quest. Some of it is just how the day went.
Journal
A dated daily journal that autosaves as you type. Write something substantial and it pays out like anything else — run through the same crit, luck and event multipliers.
Mood + gratitude
A five-face mood picker and three “grateful for” slots at the top of every day. One tap, five seconds, and it feeds a 30-day mood trend on your analytics page.
Prayer tracking
Built-in tracking for the five daily Islamic prayers — Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha — with a monthly consistency calendar. A day only counts toward your streak when all five are logged.
Your journal, typeset as a book
Story turns everything you’ve written into a real page-flipping book — a cover, a divider page for each month showing that month’s dominant mood, and every entry laid out as a proper book page. Not a scrolling list: the app measures your rendered text and paginates it into physical pages.
March
Mostly good
🙂
18
Mar 14 · Thursday
19
Six places the AI actually helps
Not a chatbot bolted on the side. Six specific jobs, each one ending in a form you review before anything saves.
Roll a character
Pick an archetype (The Detective, The Strategist, The Explorer, The Athlete, The Artist, The Monk, The Founder, The Scholar) or describe your own, and get a whole themed starter kit: goals, habits, life areas and skills. Tick what you keep.
Your first one is free, even without a subscription.
Spell of Clarity
Point at any goal and get 10–20 ordered subtasks, each with a priority and a matched skill from your own list.
Quick capture
Type call dentist next tue, high prio and get back a structured task with a real calendar date. The server resolves “next tue” itself and re-checks the math.
Calendar extraction
Pull actionable tasks out of a synced calendar event’s description, linked back to the source event.
Habit replacements
For a bad habit you’re fighting, get 3–5 positive habits to do instead when the urge hits.
Weekly coach
A short read on how your week actually went, a mood trend, and up to three next steps.
The AI doesn’t read your journal.
For the weekly coach, the server computes your numbers itself — completions, streaks, average mood, word counts — and the model is only allowed to phrase them. It is explicitly forbidden from inventing or changing a single figure.
Your actual journal text is sent only if you turn on a switch in Settings that ships off. A missing answer counts as “no”, never as permission. Even with it on, the app prefers the aggregates. Calendar extraction runs only on an event you choose, and sends only that event’s text — nothing else from your calendar.
48 ways to make it look like yours
Six color themes × light and dark × four completely different UI personalities.
Morning routine
4 of 6 habits · combo ×1.4
Run routine
Today’s quests
Ship the deck8 glassesRead 20 pages
Neobrutalist — 4px black borders · hard offset shadows · 0px radius
14 animated backgrounds
Atmospheric · Tech · Abstract · High energy
Starfield
Terminal rain
Mesh gradient
Retro cyber grid
Atmospheric — snow, rain on glass, drifting clouds, deep ocean, starfield
Tech — neural nodes, terminal rain, retro cyber grid
Abstract — mesh gradients, glassmorphism orbs, topographic waves
High energy — pulsing heatmap, light trails, audio pulse wave
On web you can also upload your own looping video. Your theme and style are saved to your account, so the app looks the same on your phone as it does on your laptop. Backgrounds stay on the device you set them on.
Web app and mobile app. Both, not one then the other.
26 screens on the web app. 26 screens in the Flutter mobile app. Same routes, same backend, same character. Themes and styles follow your account across both.
Interface translation is complete on web in 10 languages; mobile translation is still rolling out.
Free, or Premium for $7 a month. That’s it.
Premium
$7/month
or $70/year
- Everything in Free
- All six AI features: character generation, goal breakdown, quick capture, calendar extraction, habit replacements, weekly coach
- Yearly works out to $5.83/month — two months free
Free
$0forever
No card required.
- The entire productivity system — tasks, habits, goals, routines, calendar, pomodoro
- The full game layer — XP, levels, coins, HP, skills, the forge, the tavern
- All 6 themes, 4 styles and 14 backgrounds
- Journal, mood, gratitude, prayer tracking, Story
- Buddies and team goals
- One free AI character generation
Billing and subscription management run through PayPal’s hosted checkout — Grindful never sees your card. Cancel from your PayPal account any time.
Frequently asked questions about Grindful
Do I have to care about the RPG stuff?
No. Six switches in Settings turn off every random layer, and you can set every reward to whatever you like. Underneath it’s a straightforward task, habit and goal manager.
Is the game too easy or too hard?
That’s up to you, literally. 28 reward values and 7 RNG parameters are yours to set. Ship-defaults are a starting point, not a design decision you’re stuck with.
What happens if I stop using it for a week?
Check into the Tavern first. Your streaks are shifted forward by the length of your stay, you can’t lose HP, and bad habits can’t touch you.
Does the AI read my journal?
Not unless you switch it on, and the switch ships off. The weekly coach works from numbers the server computes itself.
Is there a mobile app?
Yes — Flutter, 26 screens, one-to-one with the web app, against the same backend.
What languages does it support?
The web app is fully translated into 10 — English, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, German, French, Portuguese, Hindi, Japanese and Latvian — with full right-to-left layout for Arabic. Mobile offers all 10 and mirrors RTL, with its own interface copy still rolling out.
Roll your character.
Free to start. No card. Your first AI-generated character is on the house.
Start playing