Beaver Habit Tracker is the habit app that gets out of your way. No streak guilt, no XP bars, no dashboards full of charts you'll never look at. Just a clean daily grid of squares that you tap when you do the thing.

The philosophy is simple: no goals, just tracking. You're not trying to hit 10,000 steps or read for 30 minutes. You're just marking whether you showed up today. Most of the time, that's all you actually need.

What is Beaver Habit Tracker?

Beaver is a minimalist habit app inspired by the classic Loop Habit Tracker for Android. You add the habits you're working on (drink water, stretch, write, meditate, call mum) and each day you tap a square when you've done it. That's the whole interaction model.

There are no streaks to break, no punitive notifications, no social leaderboards. The interface is a grid of days and habits, green when done, empty when not. Over time, that grid becomes a quiet, honest record of the life you're trying to build.

On iOS, you can "Add to Home Screen" and the app behaves like a native installed app. No App Store, no IAPs, no tracking SDKs. On desktop, it's just a browser tab you keep pinned.

What you get on ElfHosted

• Your own private instance at https://yourname-beaverhabits.elfhosted.com
• Single-sign-on via ElfHosted's forwardauth, so there's no extra password to juggle
• Persistent storage for your habit data, backed up nightly to offsite S3
• iOS standalone mode: add to home screen and it opens as a full-screen app
• Configurable date-column density, so the grid fits nicely on whichever device you're using
• No ads, no telemetry, no upsells. It's your data, on your instance
• Hosted, managed, and monitored by us, so you can focus on the habits

Integrations

Beaver is deliberately small, but it exposes an API that a surprising community of tinkerers has built on top of:

• Apple Shortcuts: one-tap quick-log from your iPhone widget or watch complication
• Home Assistant: mark habits done automatically when triggered by sensors, routines, or voice
• HabitDeck: turn an Elgato Stream Deck into a physical habit-logging panel on your desk
• CalDAV bridge: surface your habits as tasks in your calendar client
• OpenClaw skill: talk to your habits via natural language through ChatGPT, Claude, or whatever LLM you're using

You don't need any of these to get started. The default web UI is fully self-sufficient. But they're there when you want them.

Why ElfHosted?

Habit tracking only works if it's frictionless. The moment the app is slow, or the sync breaks, or the Docker container on your NAS quietly died three weeks ago, you stop checking in. And when that happens, the habit evaporates.

On ElfHosted, your Beaver instance is always on, always fast, always backed up, and always reachable from any device you've got. No containers to babysit, no SSL certs to renew, no backups to remember. Just the grid, every morning, waiting for its green squares.

Who is this for?

Beaver is for people who've tried the fancy habit apps and bounced off the gamification, the paywalls, or the dopamine-engineered streaks. It's for people who want a quiet, honest mirror of what they've actually been doing, not a dashboard optimised to keep them engaged.

If you've ever thought "I just want a grid I can tap," this is that.

Included in this plan

• One Beaver Habit Tracker instance on your ElfHosted tenant
• Persistent storage, nightly backups, uptime monitoring
• Access to the full ElfHosted ecosystem: run it alongside your media apps, note-takers, and whatever else
• A 7-day free trial, because habits take more than an afternoon to form

Small squares, big consistency. Start building the habits that stick, and let us handle the hosting.