Most goal apps are a list you write once and then avoid. Mastery is built around the opposite habit: coming back.
You plan a day you can actually finish, you work through it one step at a time, and each evening you tell the truth about how it went. Over a week that produces something a to-do list never does — a picture of how you actually work.
FOUR RANGES, ONE LADDER
Every goal lives in Today, This Week, This Month or This Year. The Roadmap tab holds all four at once, so you can see the shape of everything you have taken on. Move a goal into Today when you are ready for it and it appears on the Today tab — there is no second list to keep in sync.
Nothing expires and nothing is shown in red. A goal still open after the day or week you set it for carries a quiet mark saying how long it has been waiting, because an app that pretends a goal from a fortnight ago is fresh is not much use. Whether you work it, move it or drop it is left to you — Mastery never reshuffles your plans for you.
A DAY YOU CAN FINISH
Today shows only what you committed to for today. Tick steps as you go; finished goals collapse into a strip rather than vanishing, so the day keeps its evidence. Tap any step to load it into the focus card and start a sprint.
The countdown carries on over your Lock Screen and, on a phone that has one, in the Dynamic Island — so you can put the phone face down without losing the thread. Pause and resume freely. When the clock runs out the step ticks itself off, unless you would rather decide that yourself.
SOLVE, INSTEAD OF REWRITING THE GOAL
When something stalls, most apps let you edit the deadline. Mastery gives you somewhere to think.
Name the problem in your own words. List the causes you suspect. Then commit to one — because a list of five possible causes is a way of avoiding the question. Mastery turns that cause into a goal with steps, you work it like any other goal, and then you come back and record the verdict: it worked, or it did not. Both answers are useful. Both close the loop.
AN HONEST EVENING
From the hour you call evening, Today asks three short questions: what you set out to do, what actually happened, and what you would change. That is the whole ritual. It takes under a minute.
GOALS THAT REPEAT
Mark any goal as a routine and it comes back every cycle with its steps cleared, ready to run again. The cadence follows the range it already sits in: a goal in Today repeats daily, one in This Week repeats weekly.
Each routine keeps a streak of the cycles you held in full, and Insights shows the last fourteen days as a strip — so you can see where the misses fell, not just how many there were. Days the app was not opened are shown as having no record rather than as failures, because it was not there to know.
A REVIEW, NOT A SCORE
Insights answers the questions a single day cannot: which days you turn up, whether the plans you set are the plans you keep, where your rate is heading. The findings are written as sentences rather than left as charts for you to interpret. Gaps are shown as information, not as a scolding, and nothing in the app badges or nags you.
Streaks exist, but only on routines, where a streak is the honest measure — and Pro includes two freezes a month so one bad day does not erase a habit you have kept for months.
NOTES THAT ARE A NOTEBOOK, NOT AN INBOX
A thought arrives and you cannot act on it yet. Write it down. Dated entries in notebooks you name, searchable across all of them, with no unread state, no "needs sorting" and no red badge. A note you never revisit has still done its job by getting out of your head.
PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION
Your goals live in your own private iCloud database. There is no account to make and no server we run — nothing you write is sent to us, because there is nowhere for it to go. The step and cause suggestions are generated by a model on your device. You can export everything as readable JSON at any time, and Mastery works fully with iCloud switched off.
ALSO
• Quick capture from every tab, and ⌘N on a keyboard
• Light, dark or system, applied throughout
• Full VoiceOver support and Dynamic Type
• Runs on iPhone and iPad
• A built-in user guide, searchable, in Settings