Free hobby tracker for iPhone

Collect hobbies. Build a life with texture.

Pick one of 111 real-world hobbies, capture it with one small quest, and let it level up from the practice you were going to do anyway. The app always has one clear next move, and it never punishes you for the week you skipped.

Download on the App Store How it works

Free to start, no card. iPhone only. 69 hobbies before Pro.

111 hobbies to capture
3 evolutions per hobby
6 core traits to grow

HobbyDex is a hobby tracker and habit app for real-life interests. Browse a Dex of 111 hobbies across six habitats, capture the ones you actually try, and grow each one through short quests you finish in the world rather than in an app. Everything you capture stays in your collection: levels, titles, evolutions, and a timeline of the moments that got you there.

  • Catch yourself a new hobby — the HobbyDex World Dex showing 16 of 111 hobbies captured, a Summer Hobbies seasonal pick, and habitat cards for Creative Arts, Active Life, Nature & Outdoors, and Home & Craft.
  • Small quests, real progress — Hiking at Level 3 with an Up next card for Practice Trail Etiquette, a Journey row, and the quest path at 6 of 20.
  • Discover what to try next — a daily Insight reading the last stretch of activity and recommending Coffee Brewing, with Candle Making and Crochet as alternates.
  • Train it up, evolve it — completed baking quests with XP awards, a three-stage evolution stepper ending in The Golden Crust at max evolution, and a Field Notes section.
  • You're not doing this alone — the Social tab with Friends, a leaderboard of the top three players, and a Hobby Feed of captures, evolutions, and completed quests.
The loop

Designed for momentum, not pressure.

HobbyDex borrows the rhythm of a collection game and strips it down for real life. No streak to protect, no guilt for the quiet week. Just one clear next step whenever you open it.

  1. 01 / Research

    Find what fits.

    Browse 111 hobbies across six habitats. Mark the ones worth a second look on the Research Board and they follow you home.

  2. 02 / Capture

    Start with one quest.

    A short capture quest turns a vague interest into one concrete thing you did. The hobby joins your Dex the moment you finish it.

  3. 03 / Level

    Train along a quest path.

    Each hobby has an ordered path of about twenty quests. Photo, checkbox, or a written note — six traits grow with every one you clear.

  4. 04 / Evolve

    Earn the title.

    Three evolutions per hobby, each with a title worth earning. The third is mastery, and it stays in your Dex for good.

Up Next

One screen, one obvious next move.

The app was rebuilt around a single question: what is the most useful thing to do right now? Home answers it with one recommendation. A hobby answers it with one quest and one button. Everything else steps back.

Quest Path

Every hobby has an order to it.

Open a hobby and you get its identity, one progress graphic, the quest it thinks you should do next, and the full path underneath. One sticky action at the bottom, in orange, and nothing else competing for the tap.

Proof that fits the quest.

A checkbox for the ones you just do, a photo for the ones you make, a written note for the ones worth remembering. Nothing takes longer to log than it took to do.

Stuck? There's a video.

Quests carry a YouTube recommendation for the moment the instruction isn't enough, so the next step is never a search you have to run yourself.

The Dex

A field guide to your weekends.

Six habitats, 111 specimens, each with its own quest path and three evolutions. Captured ones live in your Dex; wild ones wait for the week you finally make time. Seasonal Picks pull together a timely shortlist when you want the app to point first.

The Dex is home base. Captured specimens light up; wild ones sit in outline until the week you go get them. Every habitat tracks its own progress, so the next hobby to chase is always one tap away — and search, sort, and Research controls sit right above the results instead of behind a menu.

Inside HobbyDex

Practice, made visible.

A daily Insight that reads your last two weeks, a Journey that remembers them, and six traits that quietly record the shape of what you keep coming back to.

Daily Insights

One card a day, about you.

Each morning HobbyDex reads what you actually did — which hobbies moved, which went quiet, how the last stretch compares to the one before it — and writes a short card about it. It names one hobby worth trying next and says why, with two alternates if the first one doesn't land. Save the good ones; skip the rest. History keeps every card you kept.

Journey & Field Notes

The part you'll want to read back.

Every hobby keeps a Journey: the captures, the quests, the evolutions, in the order they happened, with the photos and notes you attached at the time. Field Notes let you add the moments the quests missed — the first loaf that worked, the trail you'd do again — and each one is worth 25 XP.

Journey is a Pro feature. Field Notes are free.

Weekly Adventure Path

Four goals a week, worth account XP, built from things you were already going to do. Claim them as they land; nothing expires angrily.

Six core traits

Creativity, Focus, Vitality, Curiosity, Craft, Connection. Every quest feeds one, so the shape of your collection shows up without you tracking anything.

Seven languages

English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Chinese, and Hindi. Hobby names, quests, titles, and Insights all follow the language you pick.

Quiet by default

Daily check-ins are opt-in and silent. There is no streak to lose, no notification that says you're falling behind, and the review prompt only appears after something actually went well.

Research

Mark what you're curious about.

The Research Board is where an idea lives before it becomes a quest. Tag a hobby, drag it into the order you'd actually try things, and let your Daily Insight tune itself to what's on your radar. A compact rail on Home keeps the shortlist one tap from wherever you are.

Three honest states.

Prime Target ("on my radar now"), In Research ("gathering ideas"), Backlog ("interesting, not next"). One tag at a time, no system to maintain.

An order you choose.

Long-press to pick a card up and drop it where it belongs. Promote something the moment it clicks; demote it without a confirmation lecture.

It feeds the Insight.

What you're researching shapes tomorrow's recommendation. Curiosity in, coaching out — and the board never leaves your account.

Social

You're not doing this alone.

One tab holds all of it: friends you added by code, a leaderboard you can sit out of, and a feed of what everyone else is capturing right now. None of it pings you, and none of it is a streak.

Add friends with a code.

Every account gets a short friend code. Share yours or enter theirs — there is no user search, so nobody finds you by accident. Friends see each other's card and Field Team even when you're hidden from the leaderboard.

A feed with no comments.

Captures, completed quests, and evolutions from players everywhere. Filter it down to friends, or hide anonymous players. There's no text to write, so there's nothing to moderate and nothing to perform.

Anonymous is a real option.

Hide from the leaderboard entirely and keep playing. Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email work end to end. You decide how visible to be, and you can change it later.

Field Team power.

Equip up to five captured hobbies as a visible roster. Each contributes power from its trait points, and Team Strength rolls them together on your profile card.

Ranked by what you built.

Account points come from capturing, levelling, and evolving — not from opening the app daily. Glance at the ranking when you want; ignore it the rest of the time.

Plans

Free is enough. Pro is more.

Start with 69 hobbies and the first evolution of each. Go Pro when you want the full Dex, all three evolutions, the Journey timeline, and your Insight without watching an ad for it.

Free No card required
  • 69 of the 111 hobbies
  • First evolution of every hobby you capture
  • Capture quests, quest paths, check-ins, Field Notes
  • Weekly Adventure Path, Research Board, Field Team
  • Friends, leaderboard, and the Hobby Feed
  • One daily AI Insight, after a rewarded ad
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Pro HobbyDex Pro $5.99 / month or $49.99 / year, save $22
  • All 111 hobbies
  • All three evolutions, every title, every mastery
  • Journey — the full timeline of each hobby
  • Detailed Stats and the complete achievement set
  • Daily AI Insights with no rewarded ad, plus regenerates
  • Priority support
Download on the App Store

Billed by Apple. Pricing may vary by region. Cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions.

Questions

The short version.

Do I need an iPhone?
Yes. HobbyDex is an iPhone app today, with no Android version and no web app. iPad works in iPhone-compatibility mode but isn't optimized yet.
Is HobbyDex free?
Yes, to start. The free tier includes 69 of the 111 hobbies and the first evolution of each one, and it never asks for a card. HobbyDex Pro unlocks the full Dex, all three evolutions, the Journey timeline, detailed Stats, and daily Insights without a rewarded ad.
How many hobbies are there?
111, across six habitats: Active Life, Creative Arts, Home & Craft, Play & Social, Nature & Outdoors, and Mind & Learning. Each one carries its own quest path and three evolutions.
Will the app constantly ping me?
No. Daily check-ins and reminders are opt-in and quiet, and there are no streak-shaming notifications. The app can notify you when a friend sends or accepts a friend request, and each of those is a separate switch in Settings.
Do I need an account?
Yes. Your account syncs your collection — Dex, levels, XP, completed quests, Research Board, settings, and daily Insights — so it carries across your devices. You can sign in with email or Sign in with Apple.
Where does my data live?
Your hobby progress and private app state sync to your cloud account, so signing in on a new phone rebuilds your collection from your own data. Quest proof photos and Field Notes photos stay on the device that took them. Signing out or switching accounts clears the local account cache on that device. The full breakdown is on the privacy page.
How are AI Insights generated?
HobbyDex sends a redacted, high-level summary of your activity to OpenAI through a Firebase proxy and saves the returned card under your account. Your proof photos and written notes are never part of that summary.
What languages does HobbyDex speak?
Seven: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Chinese, and Hindi. Hobby names, quests, titles, and Insights all follow the language you pick.
Can I cancel Pro?
Yes, at any time, through your Apple ID subscription settings. Cancelling stops future charges; you keep Pro through the end of the current period.
What happens if I delete my account?
The in-app deletion flow removes your Firebase account, profile, leaderboard row, profile photo, friend graph, synced progress and private app-state data, and cloud-backed Insight history, then erases account-scoped local app data on the device. App-store subscriptions still need to be cancelled separately.
Yours, everywhere

Your journey follows you. Your private moments stay yours.

Progress syncs so a new phone rebuilds your collection. The photos and notes you attach to a quest stay on the phone that took them.

Full details on the privacy page.

Start your Dex this week.

Capture one hobby, do one quest, and let the rest follow. It takes about ten minutes and nothing has to happen again tomorrow.

Free to start, no card. iPhone only. 69 hobbies before Pro.

Download on the App Store
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Questions? Email hobbydexsupport@gmail.com.