Hi — I'm Kevin Castaneda. I've been obsessed with habit apps for years and quietly disappointed by every single one. Duolingo's streak turns into a guilt engine. Habitica looks like a 2013 browser game. Finch is lovely but the data is shallow. Every app I tried treated my effort like a box to tick instead of a life I was actually trying to change.
So I built the one I wanted to use.
Why it looks different
Most habit apps punish you for missing a day. Gamified Lives gives you a Phoenix Bonus — 2× XP for 24 hours after a streak breaks. Coming back matters more than being perfect.
Most habit apps are a list of checkboxes. Gamified Lives is a three-layer system: Goals → Habits → Tasks, where goals auto-fill their progress from the domain data you're already logging. Log $50 saved, and the "Save $5,000" goal moves on its own.
Most habit apps trust you blindly. Gamified Lives has real verification: photo scan for food and proof, HealthKit auto-verification for fitness, timers for focused work. Not because I don't trust you — because proof is what makes the XP feel real.
Why "life domains"
The day I realized I had six apps on my phone for six areas of my life — one for macros, one for sleep, one for money, one for mood, one for learning hours, one for sobriety — was the day the design changed. Gamified Lives absorbs them all. You pick which domains you want. The rest stay hidden.
The magic is what happens when the data lives together. The app finds correlations for you: "You spend 30% more on days after shorter sleep." No other habit app in the market has the full picture, so no other habit app can surface those insights.
What's next
iOS launch first, then Android. Apple Health auto-verification is in the oven (see the roadmap). Beyond that, it's whatever the community tells me they want — the subreddit is the real planning doc.
Contact
Press: press kit · Support: [email protected] · Everything else: [email protected]