Startr

What's New

Release notes for every build shipped to TestFlight and the App Store.

1.2 April 23, 2026 TestFlight

The Polish Update

Five waves of detail work — celebrations got smarter, streaks got their own moment, every tile shows a 7-day sparkline, and the app opens with a branded shimmer. Plus a full website refresh with the demo video and screenshot gallery.

Celebrations

  • Confetti intensity tiers. Small burst on goal completion, medium on streak milestones — each with tuned particle count, speed, and gravity.
  • Streak milestone moments. Landing a 1 / 7 / 30 / 100 / 365-day streak triggers a full-screen number celebration with bespoke copy per milestone, separate from the regular goal overlay.
  • Share card auto-appears a few seconds after every goal completion with your stats — streak, hit rate, and a one-tap share sheet.

Home screen

  • 7-day sparkline under every activity card's progress ring — a quick visual of your consistency pattern for the week.
  • Daily motivational line rotates. The all-goals-done message cycles through 18 phrases keyed to the day of the year so it never repeats two days running.
  • Progress ring bounce on each tap — a small scale spring so every rep registers visually.

Launch experience

  • Wordmark shimmer on cold launch. The Startr logo sweeps a light sheen across the screen before the tab bar fades in.

Visual polish

  • Typography scale unified across all views (titlePrimary, displayMedium, captionMedium).
  • Card corner radius bumped 14→16 px across the app; hero tiles 16→18 px.
  • Card border opacity increased for better depth on Startr Dark.
  • Paywall: owned plan card gets an accent glow border and drop shadow.
  • Settings theme picker: checkmark springs in on selection.

Website

  • Demo video live in the hero phone frame — 10 seconds of real tapping.
  • Screenshot gallery with four in-app screens.
  • Press kit, updated privacy and support pages, sitemap.
  • Email notification fix: envelope sender now aligns with SPF.
1.2 April 9–17, 2026 TestFlight

Streaks 2.0 + IAP Foundation

The streak system got a full rethink — graded consistency scoring, freeze days, calendar heat maps, and milestone trophies. StoreKit 2 IAP infrastructure landed with the Startr Pro paywall wired and ready for products.

Streaks 2.0

  • Graded consistency. A 30% day counts as 30%, not zero — one missed day doesn't erase a month of progress.
  • 30-day calendar grid in Activity Detail with color-graded dots showing your exact pattern.
  • Streak freeze. Weekly allowance protects your chain across planned rest days.
  • Multi-period streak chips — day / week / month streaks shown simultaneously on every activity.
  • Personal records surface best-ever streak anywhere in the app.

Trophies

  • Catalog expanded from 14 to 17: First Day, Habit Formed, Double Centurion added.
  • Trophy Wall flex stat shows best-ever across all activities.

Monetization

  • Startr Pro paywall — monthly ($1.99) and yearly ($14.99) plans. Auto-renders "Coming soon" while ASC products are pending.
  • Pro gate on all ad surfaces: banner, interstitial, and inline list ads.
  • Restore Purchases in Settings and Paywall.

Design

  • Custom Startr wordmark + arc icon lockup in every tab toolbar.
  • Startr Dark ships as the default theme (deep navy + cyan arc gradient).
  • Home hero header: big date, numericText animation, encouragement line.
  • Weekly Recap "shape of the week" pattern strip.
1.1 April 7–8, 2026 TestFlight

HealthKit, Watch Sync & Explore

Apple Watch app, Home Screen widgets, HealthKit write-back, and the Explore tab with curated habit templates across 12 categories.

Platform

  • Apple Watch app — log from your wrist, syncs to phone via WatchConnectivity.
  • Home Screen widgets — small and medium sizes for seeing today's progress at a glance.
  • HealthKit integration — optionally writes water, steps, and mindful minutes to Apple Health.

Explore tab

  • Curated habit templates across 12 categories: Health, Fitness, Mindfulness, Learning, Faith, Finance, and more.
  • One-tap import adds any template to your Home screen.

Performance

  • Fixed 60-second freeze on step-count goals — entry model changed to a single entry carrying the full increment instead of N individual rows.
1.0 April 7, 2026 TestFlight

First TestFlight Build

Core tap-to-log experience: three activity types, goals for any period, lifetime tap counts, and a leaderboard for competing with friends.

Core

  • Three habit types: count-up (increase), count-down (reduction with programme ramp), and boolean done/not-done.
  • Any period: daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, or all-time goals.
  • Offline-first. No account required. Works fully without a network connection.
  • Goal celebration overlay on completion.
  • Dashboard with 7-day hit rate, lifetime taps, and goal progress.
  • Leaderboard for ranking activities by tap count.