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Most apps mark your streak on a calendar of little flames. One grows it as a flower.
A whole month, clockwise from noon. Hover a petal to read its day.
Drag a day to set its practice. Tap a short one to spend a freeze. Hover any petal.
A calendar streak knows only two things: you showed up, or you didn't. So people game it — one sleepy review at 11:55pm to keep the chain.
The flower won't let you. Height is the time you put in; colour is what you actually learned — so a real day burns tall and deep, and a lazy one stays short and pale. “An app that doesn't punish free learning,” someone called it.
(That “1.1m” in the middle? Months, not millions — about 33 days.)
I showed it to a few thousand learners. They split — and both sides were right.
That's the point: it trades the calendar's instant clarity for something you'd actually want to look at.
A streak worth growing — not a chain you're scared to break.
The flower lives in Severo, a language app I'm building. If you'd like a rose of your own, it's there.
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