Hear the Ding,
get the (ha)Bit.
I built DingBit for myself. A sound plays on a schedule, you do the thing, one tap confirms it. Do that for a few weeks and the sound starts the habit before you’ve decided to — that’s classical conditioning, and it’s the whole app.
- Free for three habits
- No account
- Works offline
Four steps, then it runs itself
The same principle behind Pavlov's bell, pointed at something useful. Repeated pairing of a cue and an action makes the action automatic.
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Pick a habit and a sound
Breathe, drink water, stretch, look away from the screen. Name it, then choose its ding from thirteen bells, bowls and chimes — each one plays as you tap it, even with your phone on silent.
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Set the interval
Every 30 minutes, every hour, every 90 — and the hours it's allowed to ring. From then on each ding time repeats on its own, indefinitely, whether or not you ever open the app again.
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Hear it, do it, confirm it
The sound plays and the notification arrives. Your wrist taps. You do the thing and press Done straight from the notification — on the phone or the Watch, without opening anything.
Watch it turn automatic
After a few weeks the sound starts the action before you've decided to. That's the conditioning, and DingBit measures it: the share of dings you answered within two minutes.
A plant that grows when you do
It sits at the top of your home screen and on your wrist. A seed on day one, a new leaf every few days, a full crown at thirty active days.
Day 1
Seed
Day 6
Sprout
Day 14
Seedling
Day 22
Sapling
Day 30
Flourishing
Counted in active days
Go quiet for a while and it drops a leaf. It never dies on you, and it never guilts you — the worst it does is wait.
Once it’s fully grown it starts fruiting, one every five active days. The fruit stays on the stem until you pick it, which opens a badge track called The Harvest.
The habit detail screen. Figures come from the demo account used to capture screenshots, not from real users.
Find out how automatic it actually is
Every habit scores itself: the share of dings you answered straight from the notification, inside two minutes. No other habit app measures this, and it is the number this whole app is built on — so you get to watch it climb.
- The score is free, for everyone
- It was the point of the app, so it isn’t behind anything.
- Supporters see the trend behind it
- Week by week, how long you took to answer — the evidence that the response is getting faster, not just more frequent.
The whole app, actually
Every screen here is a real capture from the app — no mockups, no renders. The history behind them is a demo account, not a real user's.
Answer from the notification
You never have to open the app to keep a habit going.
Thirteen sounds to choose from
Crystal bowls, meditation bells, gongs, wind chimes. Each plays as you tap it.
The week at a glance
Current streak, total dings answered, and which days you showed up.
Badge tracks that fill as you go
The Flame, The Bells, Tuned In, Faithful, Rooted — and The Harvest, once you pick fruit.
Streaks, totals and badge dates come from the seeded demo account used to capture these screenshots. They show what the screens look like, not what anyone achieved.
The Watch isn’t an afterthought
A tap on the wrist, then one tap back. No iCloud account, no sign-in, no pairing dance — your habits and your plant are already there, with your full history behind them.
Why this one is different
- A cue you answer, not a tracker you check
- The big trackers wait for you to remember them. This one rings, and answering it is the whole interaction.
- Dings that don't run out
- Each ding time repeats on its own, indefinitely. Leave your phone alone for a week and it is still ringing when you come back.
- Conditioning without the shock
- The other product using the word Pavlovian is a wristband that shocks you. This one plays a bell you picked because you like it.
- No account, no servers, no cloud
- Everything stays on your device. I have no way to see your habits, because there is nowhere for them to go.
Free for three habits. Forever.
The conditioning loop is the product, so it is never behind a purchase. Supporter exists for people who want more habits or the report behind the score.
Free
Everything the app is actually for.
$0
- Three habits, with no time limit
- The ding, the notification, one-tap Done
- Apple Watch app and haptics
- Your conditioning score
- Streaks, stats, achievements and widgets
- The plant, all the way to a full crown
Supporter
If you want more room, or the numbers behind the score.
- Monthly
- $2.99
- per month
- Annual
- $14.99
- per year, 7 days free
- Lifetime
- $24.99
- one payment, founding price
- Unlimited habits
- The full conditioning report — the weekly response-time trend
- Per-habit sounds and the extra sound packs
- Extra palettes and alternate app icons
- Gilded Sprig: bronze-green leaves, a gold vase, gold fruit
Prices are US dollars and set in the App Store; your local price may differ. Supporter is bought inside the app, not here. The lifetime price is a founding-supporter price and will go up.
Questions people ask
Three habits are free with no time limit, and that includes the whole loop — the ding, one-tap Done, the Watch app, achievements, widgets and your conditioning score. Supporter is $2.99 a month, $14.99 a year with a 7-day free trial, or $24.99 once for lifetime access. Lifetime is a founding-supporter price and will go up.
It keeps ringing. Each ding time repeats on its own, indefinitely, whether or not you open the app. That wasn't true before version 2.0 — DingBit used to schedule a batch of alerts and top them up on next launch, so a phone left alone could quietly go silent. It doesn't anymore.
No. Go quiet and it drops a leaf, and it will look a little sorry for itself, but it never dies and it never nags you. Answer a ding and it starts growing again. It grows per active day rather than per ding, so you don't have to catch every single one.
No — DingBit works on iPhone alone. But the Watch is where the conditioning really lands: a tap on the wrist you answer without looking at a screen. There's no iCloud account or sign-in needed for it, and your plant and full history are already there.
Entirely. DingBit is local — no internet connection needed, ever. There are no accounts, no cloud sync and no servers involved.
None. Your habits and completion history live on your device only. There are no accounts and no servers, so there is no mechanism by which I could see your data even if I wanted to.
Classical conditioning is one of the most studied phenomena in psychology, with more than a century of research behind it: pair a cue with an action often enough and the cue starts producing the action. DingBit applies that to small daily habits, and it measures how far along yours is instead of asking you to take it on faith. It isn't a medical or therapeutic tool and makes no claims of that kind.
Anything you can do in the moment you hear the sound: a few slow breaths, a glass of water, a stretch, a posture check, looking away from the screen, a moment of gratitude. It suits small repeatable actions rather than hour-long sessions.
Something else on your mind? Ask me directly
Start with one habit
Pick a sound you actually like, set an interval, and see where it has got to in a month.
iOS 17 or later · Apple Watch app included · Free for three habits