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Audiobook Goal Tracker for iPhone

Track audiobooks finished on iPhone. Log each completion, build toward your yearly goal, and handle irregular listening without a streak reset. Free to download.

Audiobooks don't fit neatly into daily habits. You listen on the commute, on walks, while cooking, during long drives. The pace is irregular by nature — some weeks you finish two, some weeks you're still 40% through the same one for 10 days.

Habit trackers struggle with this. If you're mid-book and don't open the logging app one day, the streak breaks — even though you spent 45 minutes listening that afternoon. The book was progressing. The tracker didn't know.

Audiobook goals are about finished books. The listening pace, the medium, the topic — none of that changes whether a completion adds to the count. You finished it: one dot.

A goal tracker shows how many audiobooks you've completed this year. The weeks you were mid-book and the weeks you finished two look exactly right in the total.

Common targets

12 audiobooks24 audiobooks52 audiobooks

The average audiobook runs 10 to 12 hours. Someone listening for an hour per day finishes roughly one every 10 to 12 days.

Why audiobooks listened is a milestone goal

Audiobooks are consumed across commutes, walks, and household tasks. The pace is irregular by nature. A goal of 24 audiobooks in a year is best measured by completions, not daily listening streaks. Some weeks you'll finish one; some you'll be mid-book for two weeks.

The problem with streak trackers for audiobooks listened

A streak tracker resets every time you don't actively log a session. Listening for 45 minutes on a commute counts as nothing if you don't open the tracker. A completion counter records reality: you finished or you didn't.

What the math looks like

Two audiobooks per month reaches 24 in a year. A busy commute month with three completions balances a travel month with one.

How Notch tracks audiobooks listened

  1. 1
    Set a target. Enter how many audiobooks you want to listen to. Notch knows where done is.
  2. 2
    Log each audiobook. Tap to add one. Each tap adds a dot to the grid and moves the total closer to your target.
  3. 3
    Watch the grid fill. Every dot represents a real audiobook you listen to. Nothing resets. Take a break and resume from exactly where you left off.
Pricing

Free to download. The full app unlocks with a one-time $9.99 purchase. No subscription.

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A milestone tracker for iPhone. Set a target for audiobooks listened, log each audiobook, and watch the dot grid fill. No streaks. No resets. No subscription.

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