Turn Your Life Into an RPG

Why Use an RPG Habit Tracker?

An RPG habit tracker turns a plain to-do list into a game: finish a task and you earn XP, and enough XP levels up your character. MainQuest works this way — check off a habit or finish a quest, watch a level-up bar fill, and get instant visual feedback instead of a plain checkmark on a list nobody else will ever see.

Instead of just crossing off "Do Laundry," you gain XP, find Loot, and level up your character. The mechanic matters because building a new habit takes time — a University College London study by Phillippa Lally and colleagues (published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, 2010) tracked 96 people over 12 weeks and found a median of 66 days for a new behavior to become automatic, ranging from 18 to 254 days depending on the habit and the person. A tracker that keeps rewarding you through that whole window is doing real work, not just decoration.

The Core Loop: Quests, Habits, and Classes

Inside MainQuest, everything you do falls into one of four systems. Quests are one-off tasks that pay XP when you finish them. Habits live in the Forge, MainQuest's recurring-task builder, and reward consistency instead of a single completion. Classes give your character an identity — a build that shapes which stats grow from which activities. And Story Mode ties the whole player base into one shared weekly narrative.

• Quests: one-time tasks — pay a bill, finish a report, clean the garage — that pay out XP and loot the moment you check them off.
• Habits (the Forge): recurring behaviors you're trying to build or break, tracked with streaks and a lightweight setup that only asks for the essentials.
• Classes: your character's identity system, which shapes how stat growth from your real activities gets distributed.
• Story Mode: a weekly community narrative where everyone's completed quests and habits feed the same unfolding story.

Getting Started

Getting started takes about a minute. Download MainQuest, pick a class to give your character an identity, then add your first quest or habit — both forms only ask for the essentials up front, with more detail available behind an Advanced toggle if you want it. From there, every task you check off pays XP immediately.

There's no import step to plan around and nothing to configure before you can use it — the whole point of keeping the first screen short is that you're playing within a minute of opening the app, not filling out a settings menu.

Top 5 Features of MainQuest (2026 Edition)

MainQuest's core loop is built around five mechanics that show up on almost every screen. None of them are cosmetic — offline mode decides whether the app works on your commute, and the focus timer decides whether it replaces a second app instead of sitting next to one. Here's what each one actually does.

MainQuest vs Other RPG Trackers

MainQuest isn't the first app to add RPG mechanics to a to-do list — Habitica pioneered the category in 2013 — but a plain to-do app and an older RPG tracker solve different problems than MainQuest does. The table below compares all three on the things that decide whether you'll actually keep using one: game feel, offline access, and price.

Pick whichever column matches what you actually need. If a plain to-do app is already working for you, you don't need a game layered on top of it. If you tried an older RPG tracker and it eventually stopped feeling worth the effort, offline reliability and price are usually why.