November 1 to 30, 2026
No Shave November
Let your facial hair grow this November. Check in each day, compare progress with friends and use the new look to start a conversation about cancer awareness.
Explore the challengeThe Quests journal
Guides to building habits with friends: monthly challenges, daily check-ins, and practical ways to follow through.
New to Quests? Read how the Quests app works, then make a free challenge plan.
November 1 to 30, 2026
Move-ember
Exercise any way you like for 15 minutes every day in November. Check in, invite friends and get moving!
Explore the challenge
October 1 to 31, 2026
Sober October
with friends
How to join the Sober October challenge on Quests, take part with friends, and follow through on an alcohol-free month.
Explore the challengeUsing Quests and choosing a tool
Comparison
Quests vs Finch: Self-Care and Habits With Friends
Compare Quests and Finch for daily habits, self-care and accountability with friends. See how shared challenges, a virtual pet and buddy goals fit your routine.
Comparison
Quests vs Strava: Shared Habits or Activity Tracking?
Compare Quests and Strava for challenges with friends, activity recording and everyday habits. See which fits your group and how you can use both.
Guide
What Is the Quests App? Habits With Friends, Explained
Quests is an app for building habits with friends through daily challenges. See how shared check-ins, streaks, and rewards work, and where to download it.
Guide
How to Start Your First Quest With Friends
Plan your first challenge on Quests: choose an action, invite friends, make a check-in and agree on a supportive routine.
Guide
Habit Tracker, Challenge App or Group Chat?
Compare a personal habit tracker, a shared challenge app and a group chat by privacy, structure, check-ins and the kind of support you want.
Plans and templates
Resource
Record a Habit Baseline Before Choosing Your Next Goal
Use a seven-day observation worksheet to choose a realistic habit target. Separate completed, missed and unknown records, with a worked reading example.
Resource
Challenge Completion-Rate Calculator
Calculate completed opportunities, missing records and a possible completion range. Includes worked individual and group examples, with local-only inputs.
Template
Challenge Invitation Templates for Friends
Copy invitations for a reading partner, a small group or an existing club. Include the action, dates, check-in plan and an easy way to reply.
Template
Check-In Prompts for a Shared Challenge
Use short completion, reflection and support prompts for a challenge with friends, with worked reading examples and a copyable check-in card.
Template
A Fifteen-Minute Challenge Kickoff Agenda
Run a short kickoff for a challenge with friends. Use a timed agenda, a worked reading-group example and a downloadable decision note.
Template
A Challenge Finish Reflection: Continue, Change or Stop
Finish a shared challenge with a practical reflection worksheet. Review the whole round, acknowledge contributions and choose what happens next.
Template
Plan a Challenge on Selected Days
Build a non-daily group challenge schedule with a worked two-week example, clear rest days, rescheduling rules and a downloadable planning sheet.
Template
Supportive Reminder Messages for an Accountability Partner
Agree on reminders with your accountability partner, then adapt these messages for a planned session, a missing update or a pause.
Guide
Make a Plan. Bring Your People.
Build a free challenge plan with a daily action, cue, check-in, and recovery plan. Copy, download, or print a 7-, 14-, or 30-day checklist for your group.
Guide
A Simple Accountability Agreement for Friends
Copy a practical accountability agreement covering daily actions, check-ins, reminders, privacy, missed days and a weekly review.
Guide
A Ten-Minute Weekly Habit Review
Review a week of habit practice with five questions, a worked example and a downloadable template for an accountability partner.
Guide
Fair Rules for a Group Challenge
Choose completion-based, personal-target or team scoring for a group challenge, with worked examples and clear rules for missed days.
Guide
How to Start a Challenge With Friends
Choose a daily action, agree on check-ins, and plan a challenge with friends. Includes a sample invitation and a free group challenge planner.
Guide
How to Find an Accountability Partner
Find an accountability partner, agree on supportive check-ins, and make a shared habit plan. Includes an invitation, weekly review, and practical boundaries.
Guide
5 Ways to Keep Your Habit Going When Life Gets Busy
Plan a manageable habit during travel, deadlines and changing routines, with clear minimums, useful cues, supportive check-ins and a restart plan.
Habit science
Research
Five Habit Findings to Put Into Practice
Explore five habit research findings behind practical challenge planning, with original sources, study limits, and ideas for building a routine with friends.
Research
If-Then Planning: Turn an Intention Into an Action
Write a useful if-then plan with a clear cue, a manageable response and worked examples for reading, drawing and shared challenges.
Research
How to Monitor Habit Progress Without Overcomplicating It
Choose a useful habit measure, distinguish actions from outcomes and review progress with a simple record and clear privacy boundaries.
Research
Choose a Habit Cue That Fits Your Day
Find a recognizable cue for a daily habit, reduce setup friction and use a short experiment to see whether the context fits your routine.
Research
How Long Does It Take to Build a Habit? What the Research Says
Habit formation takes different amounts of time. Understand the 66-day research finding, its limits and how to plan a useful challenge.
Research
How to Use Habit Streaks Without Losing the Bigger Picture
Understand what a habit streak measures, where it can help, and how to combine consecutive-day counts with a useful weekly review.
Research
Building Habits as a Shared Journey
What research says about social support, progress tracking, and habit plans. Build a shared routine with clear actions, thoughtful check-ins, and room to adjust.
Challenge ideas
Guide
How to Do a 30-Day Challenge With Friends (and Actually Finish)
A practical plan for running a 30-day challenge with friends: picking the habit, setting the rules, daily check-ins, and getting through week three.
Guide
30-Day Fitness Challenge With Friends: A Plan for Beginners
A 30-day fitness challenge built for groups with mixed fitness levels: a daily floor everyone can hit, weekly progressions, rest built in, and rules that keep the whole group to day 30.
Guide
The 30-Day Meditation Challenge: Ten Minutes a Day, With Friends
A 30-day meditation challenge for beginners: ten minutes a day, what to expect each week, what the research supports, and how a small group makes it stick.
Guide
75 Hard: The Rules, and How to Do It With Friends
The five daily rules of 75 Hard, who it suits, how to prepare, and why a small group with daily check-ins is the most reliable way to finish all 75 days.
Guide
The Complete Guide to Dry January
How to do Dry January and finish it: what to expect each week, handling social pressure, what to drink instead, and why doing it with friends helps.
Guide
Building Habits With Your Partner: Challenges for Couples That Don't Turn Into Nagging
How to build a habit with your partner without becoming each other's supervisor: shared rules with personal targets, challenge ideas for couples, and the check-in format that keeps it light.
Guide
50 Healthy Challenge Ideas to Do With Friends
Fifty healthy challenge ideas you can run with friends, sorted by fitness, food, sleep, mind and screens, with the rule for each one and how long to run it.
Guide
The 30-Day Journaling Challenge: One Page a Day
A 30-day journaling challenge you can do with friends: one page a day, 30 prompts for the days you are stuck, what the research says about expressive writing, and how to keep the habit private and the check-in shared.
Guide
New Year's Resolutions With Friends: Why the Ones You Share Survive February
Most resolutions are abandoned within weeks. The ones made with friends, written as daily actions, and checked in on survive. Here is the research and a January plan for a group.
Guide
The 30-Day No Sugar Challenge: Rules, What to Expect, and How to Finish
A realistic 30-day no added sugar challenge: what counts, what to expect each week, how to handle cravings and social situations, and why doing it with friends changes the odds.
Guide
How to Run a Reading Challenge With Friends
Plan a reading challenge with friends using personal targets, audiobooks, useful check-ins and a worked first week. Includes ways to find a reading partner.
Guide
The 30-Day Screen Time Challenge: Less Phone, With Friends
A 30-day screen time challenge that people finish: a daily limit based on your own baseline, phone settings that do the work, rules for a group, and what to do with the time you get back.
Guide
Sober October 2026: How to Take Part With Friends
Take part in Sober October from October 1 to 31, 2026. Learn how to join the Quests challenge and follow through with friends.
Guide
How to Run a Step Challenge With Friends
Plan a step challenge with friends using personal targets, consistent counting, voluntary check-ins and clear rules for a mixed group.
Guide
How to Run a Workplace Wellness Challenge People Actually Join
How to run a workplace wellness challenge for a team or small company: choosing a habit that fits work, opt-in rules, pods of four, privacy, and a 30-day plan that remote teams can follow.