Nothing—and I mean nothing in this world—motivates me more than a checklist. The dopamine hit I get when I mark an item off my to-do list is what I live for. That’s just how my brain works.

And so, I find habit tracking tools to be really useful when there’s a change I want to make in my life. Recently, I’ve been using Awesome Habits by Michal Tuma as my go-to habit tracker with great success.

For years, I would turn to Crunchy Bagel’s Streaks for this sort of thing. It’s a long-standing app from a creator with a rock solid history of creating really great tools. But after a lengthy on again/off again relationship with Streaks, I came across Awesome Habits in a recent issue of MacStories Weekly and decided to try changing things up a bit. I’m glad I did.

The concept behind Awesome Habits is simple: You create a list of behaviors you want to get in the habit of doing (or break the habit of doing), and then you use the app to log your performance of each of these behaviors. That’s the gist of it. But what I find special about Awesome Habits is how carefully it’s crafted to set you up for success and make the experience of habit tracking an enjoyable one.

What struck me most about the app when I first tried it was just how cleanly it’s designed. The home view features a big circle indicating how close you are to completing all of your daily goals with each of your habits listed underneath. To the side of each habit is a smaller circle indicating your progress towards that specific goal.

Fill your little circles to make progress towards the big circle. Once the big circle is full, you’re done for the day. The simplicity of the design makes it so easy to check in on where you’re at and where you need to be working throughout the day.

You can create any kind of habit you want in Awesome Habits. It comes with some pre-built suggestions, like drinking more water and calling a friend. But you can also create custom habits to fit your goals. Each can be assigned its own unique icon and color to make it easily identifiable in your main list.

As I mentioned above, habits can be positive or negative. Are you trying to start something new, like a workout routine? Or rid yourself of a bad behavior, like chewing your nails? Either way, you can track it in the app.

Each habit also has a repeat time. You can create a daily, weekly, or monthly habit. And for the daily ones, you can choose which days of the week to include. For example, several of mine are only active on weekdays because I take the weekends off from activities like exercise. It’s totally customizable to the rhythm you’re trying to create in your life.

After picking a habit and how often it repeats, you get to choose how you’ll measure your success. Is it something you want to do once a day? Three times a week? Thirty minutes a day? The app can help you measure any number of things, from time to the glasses of water you drink in a day to whatever else fits your needs and goals.

But habit tracking is about more than the day-to-day. You need more long-term information to see how your habits are forming over time. That’s where the history tab comes in. It allows you to see how you’re doing over an extended time period and keep track of your all-important streaks. I find this tab to be highly motivating; I love seeing the pretty graphs fill up as I complete my goals.

Awesome Habits includes a ton of other small quality-of-life features as well. You can rearrange your home view however you like and even organize habits into lists for different categories, times of day, or any other way you want to sort them. The app offers plenty of settings to get it looking and working just the way you like it, including an excellent dark mode. The top of the home page includes a fun, optional week view so you can see how you’ve been doing, similar to the weekly summary in Apple’s own Fitness app.

And there are some nice system integrations built into Awesome Habits, too. The app syncs with HealthKit, so it will automatically pull in information like workouts, mindful minutes, and nutrition information from other apps you’re already using. This makes keeping up with those habits even easier. There’s also Shortcuts support, an Apple Watch app, and different sizes of home screen widgets so you can track your habits the way you like best. And of course, all the app’s information syncs over iCloud to keep all of your devices up-to-date. (It’s available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.)

In case you can’t tell, I’ve had a wonderful experience with Awesome Habits over the past couple of months. It’s so much fun to use and look at, which motivates me to keep my tracking updated. I’ve used it to reinforce some habits that I really care about and even form a couple of new ones. Every time I fill that big ring at the top of the app, I get a small burst of joy knowing that I’ve put in the effort to become a little bit more like the person I want to be today.

Awesome Habits is free to download. The app’s subscription option, Awesome Habits Premium, unlocks the ability to create unlimited habits, access all of your statistics in the history tab, customize the looks of your habits and the app itself, and more. At $2/month, $13/year, or $23 for a lifetime subscription, I think it’s well worth the price. I’m subscribed to the annual plan so that I can continue to support Michael’s work into the future.

If you’re into habit tracking, or just want to try forming some new behaviors to help achieve your goals, I highly recommend checking out Awesome Habits. It’s been amazing for me, and I hope will be for you, too.