Habit trackers for Mac are usually the iPhone app running in a window, or a web page pretending to be an app. Reveal the Dream is built natively for macOS, and the thing you are working toward sits in Notification Center where you already look.
What it does
You pick a photo of the thing you are working toward. It starts covered, divided into one piece per day of a journey you choose. Every daily check-in uncovers one more piece, until the whole photograph is there.
Miss a day and that piece stays covered. Nothing resets, and everything you already uncovered stays uncovered. There is no streak to lose.
On Mac specifically
- A real widget. Add it to Notification Center and the reveal is there without opening anything, in small or medium size.
- iCloud sync across your Apple devices. Check in on your Mac and your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch all show it.
- Signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.
- Apple silicon and Intel, from one download. Drag it to Applications and open it. That is the whole install.
Your photo stays on your Mac
No account needed, no analytics, no tracking, and no third-party SDKs. Your photo and your check-ins never leave your devices except through your own iCloud.
There is one optional sign-in, and it is about the subscription rather than the app: if you bought Premium on your iPhone or your Android phone and want it here too, you can give us an email address and we post you a six digit code. It carries the subscription across. Nothing about a journey, a check-in or a photo goes with it.
It is not Mac only
The same journey runs on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Windows, Android and Wear OS. Premium bought once covers every device you own.