For the press Tallies — press kit
Tallies is a quiet iOS habit tracker styled like a journal page. Swipe to draw a felt-marker tally on warm cream paper. No streaks, no notifications, no nag. Paid once at $2.99. Made quietly by sthreelabs.
All materials on this page are free to use in editorial coverage of Tallies. Please credit sthreelabs.
i.Quick facts
- App name
- Tallies — Habit Tracker
- Maker
- sthreelabs (Christopher Doherty)
- Current version
- 1.1 (Quick Access — interactive widget + Siri/Shortcuts)
- Price
- $2.99 USD, one-time purchase. No subscription, no in-app purchases.
- Platforms
- iOS 18 or later. Universal (iPhone & iPad). watchOS coming in v1.2.
- Languages
- English (more languages in roadmap)
- Privacy
- No account, no analytics, no third-party SDKs, no ads. Data lives on-device and in the user's private iCloud.
- App Store
- apps.apple.com/app/tallies-habit-tracker/id6762577456
- Site
- sthreelabs.com/tallies
- Press contact
- [email protected]
ii.One-paragraph description
Tallies is a notebook-style counter for anything you'd tally — push-ups, knitting rows, prayer beads, birds at the feeder, sober days. You swipe anywhere on the page to draw a felt-marker mark, tap the home-screen widget, or ask Siri ("Tally push-ups in Tallies") and the count saves. There are no streaks, no notifications, no leaderboards, no subscription. Paid once at $2.99 and it stays out of your way.
iii.Longer description (for editorial use)
Most habit trackers want you to use them more. Tallies is the opposite. You open it, swipe to add a tally, and close it. The count saves automatically. There are no streaks to break, no notifications to ignore, no badges to chase.
Each thing you're counting gets its own chapter — push-ups, hydration, knitting rows, rosaries, birds at the feeder, books finished, sober days. Every swipe draws a felt-marker mark on warm paperback paper. Five filters give you today, this week, this month, all time — plus a totals view.
Tallies is universal across iPhone and iPad, syncs privately via your iCloud (no account), and includes an interactive home-screen widget plus Siri Shortcuts for tallying without opening the app. It's the first of a small family of paperback-aesthetic apps under the sthreelabs label, alongside A Spell of Work (focus timer), A Deep Breath (breathing paired with public-domain literature), and One Line in Time (one-line journal).
iv.What's distinctive
Three things, in order of how often readers ask about them:
- Anti-engagement on purpose. Streaks, notifications, and gamification are explicitly excluded from the roadmap. Tallies is designed to be opened briefly and forgotten the rest of the day.
- Paperback aesthetic. Cream paper, hand-set serif type (Crimson Pro), felt-marker ink. The four-and-a-slash tally we all learned in grade school. Built to feel like a notebook, not a dashboard.
- Paid once. $2.99 USD, no subscription, no IAP, no ads, no tracking. The pricing is part of the design — without recurring revenue, there's no incentive to manufacture engagement.
v.Features (positive list)
- Swipe anywhere on the tally page to add a mark — felt-marker ink trails under your finger and fades
- Organize counts into journals (rename, archive, reorder)
- Five totals filters per item: today, week, month, all time, and a full totals view
- Interactive home-screen widget — tap the + to tally without opening the app; undo button included
- Siri / Shortcuts: "Hey Siri, tally push-ups in Tallies" — works from Spotlight, Shortcuts, and the Action Button
- iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad — no account required
- Light, dark, or follow-system appearance
- Universal layout — same app on iPhone and iPad
vi.What it deliberately doesn't do
(These are the answers most likely to come up in an editorial angle.)
- No streaks, no points, no badges, no leaderboards, no "you missed a day"
- No push notifications, ever
- No subscription, no in-app purchases — paid once, yours forever
- No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no third-party SDKs, no ads
- No social or sharing features — counts stay between you and your iCloud
vii.Screenshots
High-resolution PNGs. Free to use in editorial coverage. Click any thumbnail to download.
viii.App icon
1024 × 1024 PNG. Two variants — light (default) and dark.
ix.Brand reference
Tallies (and all sthreelabs marketing) uses the paperback design language. If you'd like to color-match in editorial graphics:
Typography: Crimson Pro (300–600 weights, italics) for body and headings. JetBrains Mono 400 for numerals and small caps.
x.Pull-quotes (use freely)
Lines from the listing copy that are designed to drop cleanly into editorial.
xi.About sthreelabs
sthreelabs is a one-person studio making small, quiet iOS apps. Every app is paid once, has no notifications, collects no data, and is deliberately scoped to do one thing well. Tallies is the first of the paperback collection — alongside A Spell of Work (focus timer), A Deep Breath (breathing paired with public-domain literature), and One Line in Time (one-line journal).
Made quietly by Christopher Doherty.
xii.Press contact
Christopher Doherty — [email protected]
Press inquiries usually answered within 24 hours. Promo codes available on request for review purposes.
Made quietly by sthreelabs.