WHAT IS THRIVE

THRIVE is a goal tracker that looks and sounds like a 1980s phosphor terminal. It started with fridge magnets: a paper calendar where you move a magnet onto the day you actually kept your promise. THRIVE keeps that honesty and adds the one thing paper cannot — it shows you what a year of small daily decisions adds up to.

Check in on real things — workouts, reading, calling your parents — and watch six sides of your life gain levels. Nothing here is pretend: the stats are yours, the progress is yours, and the only opponent is your own week.

Add a goal in a couple of taps, tap the day you did it, and watch it add up. Everything lives on your device. No account, no feed, no ads, no analytics.

NEW IN 1.3

• Deutsch and Español. The app, the tour and the reminders now speak German and Spanish, alongside English.
• A new icon. A check mark glowing on an old terminal screen: what the app does, at Home Screen size.
• Redesigned widgets. Your goals by their icons, with streaks, progress and charts in the free space; tap to flip through them. The small widget shows yesterday, today and tomorrow, the new large one your whole week. Check goals off right from the Home Screen.
• Share your week. The same grid, glyphs and phosphor as an image you can send, from the Today screen or straight from a level-up.
• Easier to read. With Increase Contrast on in iOS settings, scanlines and glow step aside and text shows at full brightness.

T.H.R.I.V.E. — YOUR SIX STATS

HOW IT WORKS

• Check-ins & XP. Every check-in grants XP twice — to the goal's stat and to you.
• Stat levels pay off. The higher a stat's level, the more XP each of its check-ins gives — from 5 XP at level 1 to 30 XP at level 10.
• Weekly streak bonus. Close every scheduled day of a goal's week and Monday brings a bonus. Consecutive weeks multiply it: ×2, ×3, ×4…
• Decay. A stat idle for 7 days starts fading. A single check-in stops it — real life, honestly simulated.
• Shields. A shield covers a missed day so it doesn't break your streak. You start with 3 and earn more as you climb.
• Ranks. Your XP builds your level; every 10 levels opens a new tier with a new rank insignia.

HOW IT'S DRAWN

The interface is drawn, not imported. Every stat glyph, every rank insignia, the radar chart, the scanlines and the vignette are procedural — there is not a single bitmap in the UI. Pick your phosphor (green, amber, blue, cyan or red) and your scanline pattern, and the whole screen recolours on the spot.

Overlays type themselves out with a blinking cursor. Switching tabs flickers like a tube re-syncing. Nine sound effects were recorded for it. Built and designed by one person, with no third-party code.

The terminal look does not lock anyone out. The weekly grid, the charts and every level-up work with VoiceOver, cells announce their goal, day and state in plain words, and Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion and Increase Contrast are honoured throughout.

PRICING

Every feature is free for 14 days — no sign-up, no card. After the trial your data stays visible; keep checking in with any plan:

Prices may vary by region. Billing and cancellation are handled by the App Store; subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your Apple account settings.

SUPPORT

Found a bug, have a question, or an idea for THRIVE? Email thrive@nsergeevich.com — a human reads every message and replies within a few days.

When reporting a bug, please mention your iPhone model, iOS version and what you tapped right before things went wrong.