Habits Social

The Social page is where you connect with friends, see their activity, and start conversations about your shared habits. The Inbox page keeps all your chats in one place.

This guide explains how to add friends, share habits, read the activity feed, and start a chat about any habit.

Important: Friends can only see habits you have shared with them. If you have not shared a habit, no friend can view it, even if you are connected.

Adding friends

From the Social page, use the Search Users field to find someone by their username. Tap Add next to their name to send a friend request. The other person will see your request and can accept or decline it.

When you accept a request, you are prompted to share some of your habits with your new friend. You can pick which habits to share right then, or skip and share them later.

Accepted friends appear in your Friends list on the Social page. You can tap any friend to see their profile and the habits they have shared with you.

You control exactly which habits each friend can see. A habit stays private until you choose to share it.

You can share habits in three ways:

When you first connect with a friend, right after sending or accepting a request.
From a friend's profile, by tapping Share habits in the options menu.
When starting a chat about a habit that is not yet shared with that friend — the app asks if you want to share it first.

You can change which habits are shared at any time. Removing a shared habit stops your friend from seeing it in their feed and on your profile, but it does not delete your existing messages about that habit.

Activity feed

The activity feed on the Social page shows recent progress from you and your friends. Each item shows who did what and when — for example, when someone completes a habit or reaches a streak milestone.

You only see activity for habits that are shared with you. Your own activity appears in the feed as well, so you can review your recent progress alongside your friends'.

Each activity item has a Chat button. Tapping it lets you start a chat about that specific activity.

You can also tap the activity item itself — the habit name or the activity card — to open a detail view. This view shows the habit's name, its current streak, and a full calendar of daily logs so you can see the habit's history beyond the 7-day timeline. If the habit is no longer shared with you, the app shows a message letting you know.

Chatting about an activity

The way you start a chat depends on whose activity you are replying to.

Whose activity	What happens when you tap reply
Your own activity	A list of your friends opens. Pick a friend to start a chat about that habit with them. If the habit is not yet shared with that friend, the app asks you to confirm sharing before the chat opens.
A friend's activity	The app opens your chat with that friend directly, with the activity attached for context. No extra steps are needed.

In both cases, the chat opens inside the Inbox page with the habit activity shown as a card at the start of the conversation. You and your friend can then talk about it.

The Inbox page

The Inbox shows all your conversations with friends. Each conversation is listed with the friend's name and a preview of the most recent message.

Tap a conversation to open it. From there you can:

Send text messages.
See habit activity cards that were shared as conversation starters.
Scroll up to load older messages.
Delete a message you sent within the first 5 minutes.
Report an inappropriate message received from the other user.
Report a user directly from the chat header.
Clear the conversation from your view (your friend still sees their copy).

To start a new conversation without a specific activity, tap New Chat and pick a friend.

Reporting users and messages

Habits Social maintains a strict zero-tolerance policy against harassment, hate speech, spam, and inappropriate content. You can report any user or chat message directly from within the app.

Reporting a user

You can report a user from two places:

From their profile: Open their profile page, tap the More Options (⋮) button in the top right, and select Report user.
From the inbox: In any open chat, tap the Flag icon in the chat header.

Reporting a message

To report a specific chat message:

Locate the message in the conversation.
Tap the Flag icon next to the message timestamp.

Report categories

When submitting a report, select the reason that best describes the issue:

Spam: Commercial advertising, automated messages, or repetitive unwanted content.
Harassment or bullying: Targeted abuse, threats, intimidation, or persistent unwanted contact.
Inappropriate content: Sexually explicit material, violence, or content violating community standards.
Hate speech: Content attacking individuals or groups based on identity, race, religion, gender, or disability.
Other: Any other violation of our Terms of Service.

You can also provide optional additional details (up to 1,000 characters) to help our moderation team understand the context.

What happens after reporting

Confidentiality: All reports are strictly confidential. The reported user will not be notified of who submitted the report.
Immediate blocking option: When you report a user, the app will automatically prompt you with the option to block them immediately. Blocking them prevents any further messages, hides your habits, and removes the connection.
Moderation review: Our moderation team reviews reported content and accounts promptly. Accounts found violating our Terms of Service face immediate suspension or permanent termination.

Removing friends and blocking

You can remove a friend from their profile page. When you remove a friend, all habits you shared with them become private again, and they can no longer see your activity. Your conversation remains in your inbox, but neither of you can send new messages.

Blocking someone also removes them as a friend and prevents them from finding you in search or sending you a new friend request.

Privacy

Habits are private by default. A friend only sees a habit after you explicitly share it with them. Sharing is per-friend — you can share different habits with different friends.

Your buckets are always private and are never visible to friends, even if the habits inside them are shared.

FAQs

Can a friend log my habits?

No. Friends can only view the habits you have shared with them. They cannot add, edit, or delete your logs.

They see the habit name, your 7-day timeline for that habit, and your current streak. They also see your completed, skipped, and failed days for that habit in their activity feed.

Can I chat with someone who is not my friend?

No. You can only send messages to people with an accepted friend connection.

What if I unshare a habit we already chatted about?

Your existing messages about that habit stay in the chat. Your friend just stops seeing new updates for that habit in their feed and on your profile.

Does blocking someone delete our chat?

No messages are deleted, but the conversation is hidden from your inbox while the block is active. Since blocking removes the friendship, and chat requires an accepted friend connection, the conversation will not appear and neither of you can send new messages. If you unblock and reconnect later, the conversation may become visible again.