Streaks, grace days & pauses

Your streak counts the days in a row you hit your daily snack goal. Snack App is deliberately forgiving - a single off day usually won't wipe out weeks of effort. Here's how that works, so you can lean on it when you need to.

Grace days

Life happens. Snack App automatically forgives the occasional missed day - roughly one rest day a week - so a single slip keeps your streak alive instead of resetting it to zero. Two misses in a row will still end it (a streak should mean something), but you don't have to be perfect to keep one going.

Pause your streak

Know you'll be away - a vacation, an illness, recovery from an injury? From the Streaks tab you can pause your streak, so the time off doesn't count against it. It picks up right where it left off when you're back. You can also pause a stretch after the fact, if life got in the way before you had the chance.

Welcome back

If a longer streak does break while you're away, Snack App offers to pick it back up the next time you open the app - so an unexpected gap doesn't mean starting over from day one.

What this looks like

A few everyday examples:

One rough day. Maya's streak is at 12 when a brutal Tuesday leaves no time to move. She's back at it Wednesday - and her streak reads 13, not 1. The missed Tuesday quietly counted as a rest day.
A whole weekend off. Sam skips both Saturday and Sunday. Monday, he's starting fresh. Two missed days back-to-back is where a streak gives way - grace covers the occasional slip, not a run of them.
A planned trip. Before a 10-day vacation, Priya taps Pause on the Streaks tab. Nothing counts against her while she's away, and the day she's back and logs a snack her 40-day streak continues at 41 - as if the trip never interrupted it.
Caught off guard. Diego comes down with a nasty cold and doesn't open the app for five days. Once he's better, he pauses those days from the Streaks tab after the fact - and his streak is whole again, as if the time off had been planned.
Away longer than expected. Aisha keeps a three-week streak, then a family emergency pulls her away for two weeks. When she finally reopens Snack App, it offers to pick her streak back up right where it was - no starting over from day one.

The short version: an occasional missed day, spread out, won't end your streak - it's back-to-back misses that signal the habit has slipped. And when you know a break is coming (or realize one already happened), a pause keeps even a long stretch off from costing you a thing.

Two kinds of streak

The Streaks tab shows two: your goal streak - days you hit your daily snack goal, the headline number you'll see on the Home screen - and an activity streak, days you logged at least one snack. The goal streak is the one grace days, pauses, and welcome-back all apply to.