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A streak you can keep through a bad week
Streaks usually punish the exact people they are meant to help, because the first slip ends the run and the run was the only reason you were trying.
In short
Tock counts a night toward your streak at 90% of your sleep goal, and it bridges one missed night per week automatically. Milestones sit at 3, 7, 14, 30, 60, 100, 180 and 365 nights, drawn as a moon rather than a flame.
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- Milestones, from 3 nights to 365
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How it actually works
Why one short night does not cost you the run
Set a sleep goal and a night counts toward the streak at 90% of it. On an eight hour goal that is seven hours and twelve minutes, so a night that ran slightly short is still a night where you did the thing. The 10% exists because sleep is not a task you complete, and a streak that demands precision teaches you to lie to the app rather than go to bed.
On top of that, one missed night a week is bridged for you, automatically, with nothing to claim and nothing to explain. Streaks that break on the first slip stop motivating anybody around day four, because protecting them becomes the goal. This one is built to survive a real week with a late flight in it. It is drawn as a moon rather than a flame, filling as the run gets longer, and milestones land at 3, 7, 14, 30, 60, 100, 180 and 365 nights.
- 90% of your goal counts as a full night
- One bridged night per week, applied for you
- Eight milestones, from three nights to a full year
The bridge is weekly, not a bank you can save up. Two missed nights in the same week will end a run.
Setting a goal you will actually hit
People set the goal they think they should have rather than the one their life supports, then miss it by twenty minutes every night and quietly stop caring. With the 90% rule, an honest goal is far more useful than an aspirational one.
Set the goal you hit on a decent Wednesday. Move it later, once decent Wednesdays are normal.
What the moon is really counting
It is counting consistency, not heroics. A run of thirty ordinary nights beats one perfect night and a fortnight of chaos, and the insights back this up: sleep regularity turns out to matter more than the occasional long night.
The streak reads from your sleep goal, so changing the goal changes what counts from that point on.
When the run finally ends
It will, and that is fine. A broken streak after two rough nights in one week is information about the week, not a verdict on you. The insights keep every night regardless, so the history you built does not disappear with the number.
Where it stops
Every feature has an edge. Better you read it here than find it at six in the morning.
- The bridge covers one night per week. A genuinely broken week will still end the run.
- A night only counts if Tock tracked it, so a night you forgot to start is a night that did not happen.
- Chasing a streak is its own kind of pressure. If the number starts making bedtime stressful, turn it off.
- It measures consistency against your own goal. It says nothing about whether that goal is right for you.
Questions people ask
What counts as a night?
A tracked night that reached 90% of your sleep goal. On an eight hour goal, seven hours and twelve minutes is enough.
Do I lose my streak if I miss a night?
Not the first one in a week. Tock bridges one missed night per week automatically. A second miss in the same week ends the run.
What happens to a night that split in two?
It still counts as one night. Getting up at 3am does not create a second night in Tock.
The rest of the app
The parts that sit closest to this one.
- Sleep scoreThe sleep score is a single number for a night, sitting at the top of that night detail view. Underneath it are the parts that produced it, and across nights the insights cover 21 metrics in 7 groups plus long-run measures like sleep regularity and sleep debt.
- Wind-downWind-down is a short guided routine you run before sleep. It has 6 steps you can reorder or drop, three lengths, and a 30 second drift at the end that hands you over to the good-night screen.
- Sleep trackingSleep tracking in Tock runs on the phone alone. The microphone and the accelerometer stay awake all night, Apple SoundAnalysis labels sounds like snoring, coughing and sleep talking on device, and the clips are saved so you can play them back in the morning.
- Wake-up missionsA wake-up mission is a small task that has to be completed before the alarm will stop. Tock ships 9 of them in 3 families: mind, body and place. The alarm keeps ringing the whole time the task is on screen.
Elsewhere on the site
A different corner of the same problem.
- Head to headCalm vs PzizzIf you nap, or if hearing the same recording twice ruins it for you, Pzizz is the better buy. If you want big-name narrators and a library that carries you through the daytime too, Calm is the deeper product.
- Sleep soundsWhite noiseWhite noise holds equal power in every one hertz band, which makes it the brightest of the sleep noises and the best at covering thin, sharp sounds: keys in a lock, a running tap, a voice through a wall. That same brightness is why plenty of people last about an hour before switching to pink or brown.
- Tock for youPeople who hate morningsThe alarm goes off and you feel physically wrong. Not tired exactly, more like you were pulled out of something, and it takes the better part of an hour before you are a person again.
- AlternativesTock vs PillowStay with Pillow if you track on your wrist, because it runs on the Watch and Tock does not. Choose Tock if your phone is the only thing on the nightstand and you want the alarm to be the centre of the product rather than a feature of the tracker.
- RoundupsThe best sleep apps for iPhone, sorted by what you're fixingFor iPhone, the best sleep app depends on the problem. Tock is the best all-round pick when the alarm and the morning are what is broken, Apple Health Sleep is the free place to start, Calm is for people who cannot fall asleep, AutoSleep is for Apple Watch owners, Rise is for sleep debt and SnoreLab is for snoring.
- Wake timesWaking up at 9:00amBedtimes by sleep cycle for a 9:00am alarm.
A streak you can keep through a bad week
Tock counts a night toward your streak at 90% of your sleep goal, and it bridges one missed night per week automatically. Milestones sit at 3, 7, 14, 30, 60, 100, 180 and 365 nights, drawn as a moon rather than a flame.