Quests is a habit app built around one idea: a challenge is easier to finish when the people you like are doing it with you. You pick a Quest, invite friends, and each of you checks in once a day. Everyone sees the same roadmap, so you know who has shown up today and who could use a nudge.
This page explains how the app works in plain terms, what it costs, and who tends to get the most out of it.
What a Quest is
A Quest is a challenge with a clear daily action and an end date. "Walk 8,000 steps a day for 30 days." "Meditate for 10 minutes every morning for 21 days." "No alcohol in January." The action has to be something you can answer yes or no to at the end of the day, because that yes or no is what your friends see.
Every Quest lives in one of five categories, and each category has its own color and glyph in the app:
- Healthy: movement, sleep, food, water, no alcohol.
- Mindful: meditation, journaling, gratitude, breathwork.
- Social: calling a friend, weekly dinners, writing to someone.
- Productive: reading, deep work blocks, learning a language, a clean inbox.
- Creative: drawing, writing, music practice, a photo a day.
You can start from a template in the marketplace or write your own rules. Templates are the fastest way in: pick "30-Day Fitness Challenge," invite two people, and you are running by the end of the minute.
How a day works
Once your Quest starts, the app asks one thing of you each day: did you do it? Tap to check in. That is the whole interaction, on purpose. The check-in is the heartbeat of the Quest, and keeping it to a single tap is what makes it survive busy days.
Your check-in appears on the shared roadmap alongside your friends'. If someone has checked in and you have not, you see it. If you have and they have not, they see it. That gentle visibility is the mechanism behind the whole app, and it is the same mechanism a 1999 study on weight loss with friends found so effective: 95% of people who joined with friends finished the program, against 76% of those who joined alone.
Streaks, points and the leaderboard
Consecutive check-ins build a streak. Streaks earn points, points move you up the friends leaderboard, and the leaderboard has tabs for points, streaks and total check-ins so different kinds of consistency get credit. If a friend gets ahead of you, the app tells you. A little competition turns out to be a useful nudge for a lot of people, and you can ignore it entirely if it is not your style.
Streaks are forgiving by design. The point is the habit, so a missed day dents the streak without erasing the Quest. We wrote about that philosophy in how to keep your streak when life gets busy.
Avatars, rings and the fun parts
Finishing Quests and holding streaks unlocks rewards: avatar rings, badges and profile flair from the marketplace. Some rings are earned through Quest Pass levels, others come with Pro. None of it changes what the app does, and all of it makes a day 20 check-in feel like something.
What it costs
Quests is free on iOS and Android. Free covers everything you need to run challenges with friends: unlimited Quests, check-ins, the roadmap, streaks and the leaderboard. Quests Pro adds premium rings and cosmetics, extra templates and a few conveniences for people who run many Quests at once. You never need Pro to finish a Quest.
Who it is for
Quests works best for people who already know what habit they want and keep losing it in week three. It is popular with friend groups doing a 30-day challenge together, couples building a shared routine, running clubs and gym buddies, remote teams doing a wellness challenge, and people who tried solo habit trackers and found that nobody noticed when they stopped.
It is a poor fit for people who want detailed analytics, exercise logging or nutrition tracking. Quests records one thing per day and leaves the measuring to other apps.
Privacy
Your check-ins are visible to the friends in your Quest and nobody else. There is no public feed. Health data, if you connect it, stays on your device and is used only to auto-complete check-ins you have opted into. The details are in our health data policy.
How to start
- Download Quests on the App Store or Google Play.
- Pick a template or write a Quest with one clear daily action and an end date.
- Invite two to five friends by link. They tap it, they are in.
- Check in every day. Watch the roadmap fill up.
If you want a challenge idea first, start with our list of healthy challenge ideas for friends.