Your year in pixels starts when you do

Tintle is an iPhone app for marking your mood, the habits you're building or quitting, and the challenges you take on. Each day you mark becomes a colored square, and the squares add up to a month, a quarter or a whole year, whichever view you choose.

It works like a Year in Pixels journal, except you can run several trackers at once and start a new one any day.

Yes. Tintle is free to download.

• Free: up to 3 trackers, 4 palettes and 4 templates, plus reminders, notes and share cards.
• Tintle Pro: unlimited trackers, all palettes and templates, and extra app icons. It comes as a monthly or a yearly plan, and the yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial.

The App Store shows the price in your local currency.

A Year in Pixels is a grid with one square for every day of the year. You keep one grid for each thing you track, such as your mood, a habit or a challenge, and each day you color its square with the shade that fits. After a few months the grid shows patterns a diary hides: rough weeks, good seasons, weekday dips.

Tintle is built around this format. Our Year in Pixels guide covers the method, and color key ideas help you pick a scale.

Yes, you can start right now. Turn off Linked to Calendar in the tracker's settings, and Tintle counts your year from today, so you won't see empty months before it.

Read why you don't have to wait for January.

Yes. Every tracker in Tintle has its own colors, icon and grid, so your mood can sit next to a habit you're building or one you're quitting. Inspiration has ready trackers such as Movement, Water and Breathing, and you can create your own.

Read how to track habits without streaks.

No. Tintle doesn't count how many days in a row you kept going. It keeps every day you mark, so missing one is fine: that square stays empty and the rest of your grid stays as it is.

In a study of how habits form, missing a single day did not materially affect the process (Lally et al., 2010). More on that in our guide to habits without streaks.

Your activities, daily entries, notes and palettes are stored on your iPhone. Tintle has no accounts, so there is nothing to sign up for, and it shows no ads.

Tintle does collect usage analytics and crash reports to improve the app. The privacy policy lists every service it uses.

Because entries live only on the device, deleting the app deletes your data.

Anything you can mark once a day on a scale from less to more: your mood, a habit you're building or quitting, or a challenge.

Inspiration has ready trackers such as Movement, Water, Breathing, Energy and Outside, and you can build your own, such as days without coffee or pages read.

For more ideas see 12 color keys and challenge ideas.

Not yet. Tintle is made for iPhone and needs iOS 26 or later. On an iPad it runs as the iPhone app, without a layout for the larger screen.

The app speaks English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Turkish.

Yes. Turn a month, a quarter or a year into a card sized for Instagram Stories, so it fills the whole screen and looks sharp. Post it straight to Stories or save it to your photos.