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Writing Goal Tracker for iPhone (Pages)

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.

Common targets

100 pages300 pages500 pages

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.

Why pages written is a milestone goal

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.

The problem with streak trackers for pages written

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.

What the math looks like

Writing 2 pages per day reaches 300 pages in 150 days. A week off doesn't remove pages already written.

How Notch tracks pages written

  1. 1
    Set a target. Enter how many pages you want to write. Notch knows where done is.
  2. 2
    Log each page. 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 page you write. 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.

Try Notch

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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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Free · $9.99 Pro · No subscription