HobbyAnchor

A hobby tracker for serial starters

One hobby at a time.
The rest can wait.

The ukulele. The sourdough starter. The half-finished cross stitch in the cupboard. HobbyAnchor gives you one hobby to actually get on with, and somewhere to put the next idea so it stops competing with it. Anything new waits three days before it can take over, which is long enough to tell a real interest from a shiny one.

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iPhone · Coming soon

The Home screen: a half-circle dial reading 18 minutes of a 30 minute daily goal for Pottery, above a seven-day strip and rows for the week, exploring and curiosities.
A running session: a timer reading 03:10 inside a progress ring, on a dark underwater scene with fish and seaweed.

How it works

Three ideas, and that is the whole app

1

One anchor

Pick the hobby you want to actually do. Every figure in the app is about that one.

2

A place for new ideas

The next shiny thing turns up whether you want it to or not. Capture it in two taps and carry on.

3

Three days, then thirty minutes

A new idea waits three days before you can try it. Then half an hour of trying before it can take over as your main hobby.

Inside

Built to be kind about it

No streak to defend

Nothing resets because you had a bad week. Every figure only goes up.

The Progress screen: 14 hours 48 minutes on Pottery all time, with tiles for time and sessions and a bar chart of minutes a day against a 30 minute goal.

Keep the thing you made

One photo or one short recording per session, and a line about where you left off. Months later you can see what you made.

One hobby's history: Pottery, anchored 71 days, 14 hours 48 minutes over 27 sessions, with the first note kept at the top and every later session below it by month.

Swapping is allowed

Sometimes the new thing is the better thing. Once it has waited its three days and you have tried it, you can make it your anchor.

The Library screen: hobbies grouped under Anchored, Exploring, Ready and Drifting, with a captured idea reading "Drifting, ready in 2d".

Waitlist

Be told when it is out

One email when HobbyAnchor is on the App Store. Nothing else.