If you have ADHD
One screen, one small thing to do today. No streak shaming, no red warnings, no pinging. Rest days and slip days are part of the app rather than a failure of it, so an untidy week does not end the whole thing.
GroveKind
A grove for small habits
A free, gentle habit tracker — given away, not sold.
GroveKind is a quiet place to keep one small promise to yourself. It was made as a gift for people who could use somewhere kind to track a habit or set an intention: people with ADHD, people trying to live a little lighter on the planet, people getting through loud days, and anyone starting again after a while away.
There are no adverts and no trackers of any kind. No one is counting you, and nothing you write here is shown to anyone else.
Free to keep. A guest visit saves nothing at all.
Who this is for
Made for people who need somewhere gentle to begin
Habit apps usually assume you have a tidy week and a good memory. This one assumes the opposite, and is built to be used on the days that go wrong.
If you want to do something for the planet
Take on less meat and dairy, fewer new gadgets, no short flights, less single-use plastic, more vegetables. The grove keeps the count, and its own page is honest about what running an app like this costs the world.
If your days are loud
A focus timer that grows flowers while you work, a meditation corner, a pond to drop a pebble into, a writing hut for when the words will not settle. Something to do with your hands and your attention for ten minutes.
If you are starting again
A missed week is not a reset to zero here. Come back whenever you like, keep a rest day, or set your start date in the past and let the grove walk you back. There is no shame in any of it.
If you just like cozy games
Animals move in and keep you company, travellers arrive with keepsakes, the seasons change the light, and a collection fills slowly. A game you play for a minute a day, not one that asks for an evening.
What is inside
One habit at the centre, and a whole grove around it
Everything here is optional. The day you check in is the only thing it ever asks of you.
Keeping the habit
The whole of it fits on one screen, and takes a tap.
- Choose from goals like fewer new gadgets, less fast fashion, less food waste, no short flights, less single-use plastic, more vegetables, daily movement or strength training.
- One check-in a day, a streak you can see, and hand-drawn milestone badges at each stretch of days.
- Rest days and slip days, so a hard day is recorded honestly instead of quietly breaking the run.
- A calendar and a history of every day, kept private to you.
- Add a second goal once the first has been kept for a week.
What grows around it
The part that makes it a place rather than a list.
- Animal companions who turn up on the Today screen, notice what you have kept, and talk with you.
- Travellers who arrive on their own rhythm and bring small keepsakes: a pinecone, a ribbon, a stone.
- A collection that fills slowly with badges, keepsakes and stuffies, and a shelf you can arrange.
- Countdowns you can hold to on your own or with someone else.
- Seasons, weather, holiday nights and quiet surprises that change the light of the place.
The quiet corners
For the moments when a habit is not the thing you need.
- A focus timer that plants a field of flowers as the minutes pass, and a meditation corner with its own badges.
- The pebble pond: drop a pebble and watch the rings go out, for no reason at all.
- A writing hut with a kind, honest reader and a word counter for the day.
- A vegetable counter, a savings jar and a kindness routine, each kept to a minute or two.
- A fictional phone inside the grove, with slow apps, for when you want the comfort without the feed.
How it works
Three small steps
One
Pick one small thing
Less of something you would rather not keep doing, or more of something you would. It takes a minute, and you can change it whenever you need to.
Two
Come in when it is done
One tap marks the day. The grove keeps the count, the animals notice, and the season turns around you whether you were perfect or not.
Three
Let the rest be extra
Look at the collection, run the timer, read the letter a traveller brought, or close the whole thing and go and live your day. Both are the point.
A gift
It is here to be given away
GroveKind is not built to make money. It is a present to anyone who might get something out of it: a place to keep a promise, to sit still for ten minutes, or to come back to after a bad month. If it helps, it has done its job, and you owe nothing for it.
Nothing to buy
No subscription, no paid tier, no locked badges. Every room in the grove is open to everyone who joins.
Nothing to sell
No adverts and no analytics. What you write and which days you keep stay on your own account, and nobody else can read them.
One person behind it
There is no company here and no roadmap voted on by strangers. The ideas are Sigrid’s, and the grove grows when she has something worth adding to it.
Questions
The things people ask before coming in
What is GroveKind?
A free, cozy habit tracker with a small world growing around it. You pick one habit, mark the days you keep it, and the grove around it fills with animals, keepsakes and seasons. There is also a focus timer, a meditation corner, a pond, a writing hut and a little phone with slow apps inside it.
Is it really free?
Yes. There is no subscription, no paid tier and no advertising. It was built as a gift, and the only support asked for is for the keeper’s own creative work, which is entirely optional.
Is GroveKind suitable if I have ADHD?
It is built with the opposite of a model week in mind: one screen, one tap a day, no nagging notifications, no punishment for missing days, and rest days that count. That said, it is a habit tracker and not a treatment, and it makes no medical claims.
Can I use it for climate or planet habits?
That is what it was first made for. You can take on fewer new gadgets, less fast fashion, less food waste, no short flights, less single-use plastic, more vegetables, or strength training and daily movement. The grove also publishes its own page about what running and building it costs the planet.
Can I look around before joining?
Yes. The guest view lets you wander through the grove without an account, and nothing you try there is saved.
What happens to what I write?
It stays on your own account. Your daily log is not public, is not shown to other keepers, and is never used for advertising. The privacy page sets out exactly what is kept, for how long, and how to take it back.
More about what is kept, and who answers for it: the privacy page.
About
Why this grove exists, in the keeper’s own words
SigridGardener of the grove
Why this grove exists
Grovekind was built in an attempt to create the habit tracker meets cozy game I always dreamed of. I needed something to keep me on track with my values while also offering some cozy feels.
I used AI to build this app. Every line of its code, every drawn creature, keepsake, landscape, and piece of funny copy within it was likely made with AI. However, I did put a lot of my time, care, ideas and imagination into this app. Please use it with kindness and respect.
If the use of AI sits badly with you, I understand and respect that sincerely. I am a writer, poet, and podcaster myself, and I know how important it is to protect skills and talent. You can read more about the cost of this app for the planet on the impact page.
It is not my intention to make money from this app. I built it because I needed it in these dark times. It is now here to be shared with anyone who might get something out of it.
If you would like to help keep this app going, please take a look at my creative work in podcasting and poetry, and share it with others if you enjoy it!
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Mother Earth's reckoningThe costs of this appWhat writing and keeping it running has taken from the world, with nothing rounded away.