And no more
H³ limits what is active so the list stays something you read rather than something you scroll. Pause or archive to make room; neither counts against the five.
Habit tracking
Build the habit. Do not worship the streak.
H³ helps you name the behaviour, tie it to something that already happens, break it into small actions, and see whether it is getting easier over time.
Requires Loopa Premium A missed day is information, not a reset.
Start on Loopa Basic. This feature unlocks with Premium, at $12.99 a month or $69.99 a year.
Why it matters
The streak is the thing that makes people quit
A streak counter turns one missed Tuesday into a failure, and a failure into a reason to stop. The research on habit formation does not support that reading: missing a single day makes very little difference to whether a behaviour eventually becomes automatic. So Loopa does not keep a streak to break.
Name the behaviourWhat you actually want to be doing
Tie it to a cueSomething that already happens every day
Break it downUp to ten small actions
Check inAnd say how automatic it felt
Watch the lineYour own answers, over weeks
How it is built
Four parts, and a cap
Deliberately small. The constraint is the feature.
After I ...
You fill in the blank with something that already happens: after I pour my morning coffee, after I close my laptop. Anchoring to a real moment beats anchoring to a time you hope to be free.
Per habit
The small actions the habit is actually made of. Start with one or two.
That asks one question
How automatic did it feel, one to five. That is the whole input, and it is the thing the chart is made of.
The chart
Your own answers, against a reference point
Worth being exact about what is on it, because it would be easy to imply more.
The line is your self-reported score. Each check-in asks how automatic the behaviour felt and you answer between one and five. Loopa plots those answers over the days since you started. Nothing derives the number from your behaviour, and it is not a measurement of anything in your head.
Day 66 is marked on the chart as a dashed line. That comes from a 2010 study by Lally and colleagues, which followed people forming a new daily habit and found the median time to reach a plateau was 66 days. Individuals in that study ranged from 18 days to 254.
It is a reference point, not a deadline, and not a promise about you. Loopa marks it because a target with no shape is hard to hold on to, and it carries the range with it because a median without one is how 66 days became a fact people repeat.
Where the numbers come from
Where each number on the habit screen comes from
The most important one is the first: the score is your answer, not a measurement.
You entered itEverything. The habit, the cue, the micro-goals, the check-in and the automaticity score are all things you told Loopa.
EstimatedThe completion rate, which is arithmetic over a trailing window whose denominator shrinks to the habit’s own age.
Published guidanceThe 66-day marker, from published habit-formation research, carrying the study’s own range of 18 to 254 days.
Missing a day
Nothing resets
There is no streak in H³, so there is nothing to break and nothing to defend.
Over a trailing window
One missed day moves the number slightly. It does not zero anything and it does not read as failure.
The window grows with it
A habit four days old is not judged against a month. The denominator shrinks to its own age.
By design
The strip shows a gap where a day was missed. A gap is what a missed day is.
One missed day does not erase what you have already built.
Without the AI
The feature works on its own
The AI wizard helps you shape a habit if you want it. It is not the product.
Name, cue, micro-goals
Type what you want to do and what it comes after. That is a complete habit, and everything on the chart works from it.
If you want help shaping one
It asks what you are actually after, what you do now, and what would make it worth repeating, and proposes a cue and a replacement behaviour.
The same tracking
The cap, the check-in, the chart and the completion rate do not care which way the habit was created.
FAQ
Questions about H³
Including what the score actually is.
What is H³?
The Healthy Habit Helper. You define a behaviour, tie it to something that already happens in your day, break it into small actions, and record how automatic it feels as the weeks go by. It is a Premium feature.
Why only five habits?
Because a list of twenty is a list you stop reading. Five active at once is the cap; pause or archive one to start another, and paused and archived habits do not count. Each habit can carry up to ten micro-goals.
Is the automaticity score measured?
No, and this matters. At check-in Loopa asks how automatic the behaviour felt and you answer on a one-to-five scale. The chart is your own answers over time. It is a diary entry, not a psychological measurement, and nothing in the app infers it from your behaviour.
What is the 66 days about?
A 2010 study by Lally and colleagues followed people forming a new daily habit and found the median time to reach a plateau of automaticity was 66 days, with individuals ranging from 18 to 254. Both halves of that matter. Loopa marks day 66 on your chart as a reference point, not a deadline, and the range is why it is not a promise.
What happens if I miss a day?
Nothing resets. There is no streak to break. Loopa reports a completion rate over a trailing window, so a missed day moves it slightly and never reads as failure. The denominator also shrinks to the habit’s own age, so an early wobble is not counted against a habit that is a week old.
Does one missed day matter at all?
Not much, on the evidence, which is exactly why the design is shaped this way. It does not mean a month of missed days is the same as a month of done ones. What it means is that one bad Tuesday should not make you abandon the habit, and an app that shows you a broken streak is arguing the opposite.
Do I need the AI to use it?
No. There is a plain form: name the habit, write the cue, add your micro-goals. The AI wizard that helps you shape one is a separate thing on top, and the feature is complete without it.
What is a cue?
Something that already happens reliably in your day, which you attach the new behaviour to. Loopa asks you to fill in the blank in “after I ...”, so it is anchored to a real moment rather than to a time you hope to be free. Loopa displays it; it does not turn it into an alarm.
Pick one habit, not five
H³ is part of Loopa Premium. The cap is five, and the first one is the only one that matters this week.
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