Notch · Creative
Track pages written on iPhone. Set a target, log each session's output, and build your manuscript total without a streak reset wiping progress. Free.
You're writing a book, a screenplay, a thesis — something with a page target attached. You started tracking daily writing sessions in a habit app, logging each day you wrote. Then you hit a difficult chapter and the words slowed down.
You still sat down every day. You still opened the document. But some days produced three pages and some produced half a paragraph. A daily habit check-in recorded both the same way: done.
And then you took a Sunday off. Streak broken. The 140 pages you'd built across three months had no visible representation anymore. The app saw a missed day where you saw a manuscript.
A page count tracker shows 140 of 300. Every session adds its output to the total. The slow days and the fast days both count. The Sunday off changed nothing.
Writers targeting a novel typically aim for 1 to 5 pages per day. A 300-page book at 2 pages per day takes about 5 months.
Page count is a cumulative metric. You're building toward a total. Some days produce 5 pages; some days produce one paragraph. The total matters more than whether you wrote every single day. A streak tracker that resets on your off days treats a productive 4-day sprint followed by a rest day the same as not writing at all.
A rest day breaks the writing streak. The 120 pages written before the break are the actual measure of progress. The streak counter shows zero when the manuscript shows 120.
Writing 2 pages per day reaches 300 pages in 150 days. A week off doesn't remove pages already written.
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 pages written, log each page, and watch the dot grid fill. No streaks. No resets. No subscription.
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