What Kriya Is
Kriya is a personal execution mirror. A habit tracking app built for people who already have a daily list of things they know they should do, but cannot see whether they are actually doing them consistently.
Instead of a streak counter that punishes you on day 2, Kriya shows a trajectory graph. Miss a day and the line dips. Come back and it rises. No reset. No guilt. Just an honest view of your real pattern over weeks and months.
Who Kriya Is For
- Sales reps trying to stay consistent on prospecting without the CRM watching
- Founders running real businesses who know their own discipline is slipping
- Coaches and freelancers who have no external accountability
- Students navigating exam cycles and post-deadline collapse
- People in recovery who need a tracker that does not reset to zero
- Anyone with ADHD who has been punished by every other habit app
How Kriya Is Different
Trajectory, not streaks. The graph shows your direction of travel. Up, flat, or down. One bad day is noise. Fourteen days is a pattern worth acting on.
Your habits first. Most habit apps tell you what habits to have. Kriya tracks what you are already doing. You cannot build consistency on top of habits that do not exist yet.
Book protocols unlock after 7 days. Kriya contains 81 protocols adapted from bestselling books like Atomic Habits, Deep Work, The Power of Now, Outlive, and Fanatical Prospecting. Protocols unlock after you show up for your own existing habits first.
Cumulative impact, not perfection. Every action counts, even imperfect ones. A 60% consistency pattern is real data, not a failure.
The Story Behind Kriya
Tyler Ward, founder of Kriya, runs Tidal Remodeling, an 8-figure home services company in San Diego and Orange County. 20 door-to-door sales reps. 14 closers. $1 to $2 million per month in revenue.
Kriya was built because Tyler's own routines kept collapsing. He read every habit book on the shelf, tracked his days on paper, downloaded every app in the productivity category. Nothing showed him his real pattern. Every app either rewarded perfect streaks or drowned him in dashboards he stopped opening.
So he built the tracker he needed. A single graph. Cumulative. Forgiving. Honest.
Research Behind the Design
A University of South Australia study found habits take 2 to 5 months to feel automatic, not 21 days. Every habit app that resets your streak on day 2 is working against the actual science of habit formation.
In a 100-person Reddit challenge Kriya ran in April 2026, 60% of participants never logged a single habit. Of the 40% who activated, the biggest predictor of 30-day retention was cumulative impact visibility, not streak length.
Kriya vs Other Habit Trackers
Kriya vs Habitica: Habitica gamifies your habits with XP, gold, and avatar damage. Kriya uses no game mechanics. Habitica punishes misses. Kriya shows misses as dips in a trajectory line you can recover from.
Kriya vs Streaks (iOS): Streaks resets to zero on a miss. Kriya never resets. Streaks is a checkbox. Kriya is a cumulative graph.
Kriya vs Habit Tracker Apps in general: Most habit apps ask you to add new habits. Kriya starts by tracking what you are already doing. Most apps optimize for today's dopamine. Kriya optimizes for the 30-day pattern.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Kriya free?
Kriya offers a free 10-day trial with no credit card required. After trial, Kriya is available as a subscription. Pricing is visible at joinkriya.com/pricing.
Does Kriya work on iPhone and Android?
Kriya is a progressive web app that works on any modern mobile browser. It installs like a native app from Safari or Chrome with no App Store or Play Store required.
What is a trajectory graph?
A trajectory graph shows your cumulative habit completion over time as a continuous line rather than a streak counter. A miss appears as a dip. A return appears as a recovery. You can see your direction of travel across weeks and months.
What books are in Kriya's protocol library?
Kriya's library includes protocols from Atomic Habits (James Clear), Deep Work (Cal Newport), The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle), Outlive (Peter Attia), The Morning Miracle (Hal Elrod), Daily Stoic (Ryan Holiday), Fanatical Prospecting (Jeb Blount), and 66+ more titles across wealth, body, mindset, connection, and growth pillars.
Is Kriya good for people with ADHD?
Kriya's trajectory-based design works well for neurodivergent users because one missed day does not invalidate progress. The graph captures real momentum rather than punishing a skip. We do not make clinical claims. Users with ADHD have reported that the no-streak design reduces shame spirals.
Does Kriya have a Habitica alternative?
Yes. Kriya is designed as a direct alternative to gamified streak-based apps like Habitica. Users switching from Habitica cite the removal of guilt mechanics and the forgiving trajectory model as the main reasons.