This release was two ideas that look small on a changelog and feel large in use. Both came from the same observation: the systems meant to support you were, in subtle ways, working against you.
The streak that forgives
Streaks are a great motivator right up until the moment you miss a day. Then the number that was cheering you on becomes a tiny accusation, and a mental health app is the last place that should be handing out guilt. We watched people build a 30-day streak, miss one ordinary Tuesday, see the counter reset to zero, and quietly stop opening the app. The streak did its job too well and then punished them for being human.
So we added a grace window. Miss a day and your streak does not detonate — it holds, with a gentle nudge rather than a reset. The point was never the unbroken chain. The point is the habit, and habits survive a missed Tuesday. Removing the guilt trip made people more consistent, not less, which is exactly backwards from how streak mechanics are usually designed.
Goals that steer
The second idea is quieter and, I think, more important. You can now set a focus goal — calming work anxiety, being kinder to yourself, getting out of your own head before sleep. It does not add a tracker or a progress bar. Instead it steers the reframes themselves. Set a goal around self-compassion and the reframes lean that direction. Set one around overthinking and they get more grounding, more present-tense.
A goal here is not a target you hit. It is a direction the whole app leans. It shapes the chips you see, the tone of the reframes, the way the app talks to you, without ever announcing that it is doing so. Two small changes, both about getting the system out of your way so the actual work can happen.