The best Amaru app alternative - Squad

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Amaru vs Squad Overview

Amaru

Amaru app combines self-care with the joy of caring for a virtual pet, offering a unique approach to building mental resilience. It provides a variety of self-care activities, customizable pet interactions, and a supportive community.

Squad

Squad is an app designed to help build lasting habits through social accountability, group challenges and daily goal tracking.

It leverages the power of community and behavioral science methods to motivate users to stay consistent toward their goals.

Main Features

Amaru

1. Self-Care Activities

Engage in goal-setting, mindfulness, and journal activities designed to build focus and resilience.

2. Customizable Virtual Pet

Feed, pet, and play with Amaru, your virtual companion, to be rewarded for self-care practices.

3. Community Support

Access a supportive community through the Keys for Those in Need Program and player-submitted affirmations.

Squad

1. Group Accountability and Habit Tracking

Squad is an app that lets users to join or create shared challenges with an accountability partner or a group (squad) for 1 to 4 weeks, aimed at achieving daily goals together.

2. Daily Check-ins and Progress Tracking:

Users commit to a realistic and measurable daily goal and check in daily to track progress with their accountability partners or squad members.

3. Penalties & Rewards for Motivation

The app uses a credit system where users can earn or lose credits based on their check-ins. Public or private squads can be joined with credits, and science backed motivation methods through rewards (positive reinforcement) and penalties (loss aversion) are provided.

What actually makes you stick to your goals?

Scienced backed methods from research from behavioral scientists and experts like James Clear of Atomic Habits, BJ Fogg of Tiny Habits, Stanford Behavior Design Lab, Andrew Huberman and more. Learn more from our habit tracker cards.

Amaru

Squad

Positive encouragement & support

When the going gets tough - a support group is more important than ever. An accountability group can encourage you when you’re down, celebrate your wins, and make your journey less lonely.

Public social contracts

When joining a squad challenge, you're making a public commitment to squad members. A classic study by Peter Gollwitzer showed that publicly committing to a goal greatly increases the likelihood of goal attainment.

Time Bound Challenges

By time-bounding a challenge (eg. 7 days), it gives you a clear goal to keep yourself accountable and also makes it look more achievable to you.

Simple & Easy Daily Check-In's

Building consistency by checking off your progress every day helps you to compound small actions into robust routines that helps achieve your goals gradually and exponentially over time.

Incentivized rewards & penalties

Our credit system incentivizes you with tangible rewards and penalties to help you stick to your goals . They act as a forcing function for action by tapping into your innate desire to seek reward and avoid loss.

Guided goal setting for easy action

Guided daily goal setting and progress tracking is designed to make taking daily action easy, satisfying and attractive—to give you the best chance of taking action consistently toward success.

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✨ How It Works

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1. Join or create a shared challenge for 1 to 4 weeks

Stay motivated with an accountability partner or squad.

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2. Check-in and make progress daily with others

Commit to a realistic & measurable daily goal—and check-in daily together.

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3. Earn or lose credits based on your check-ins 💪

Have ‘skin in the game’ by joining with credits and stay motivated with payback rewards & penalties🎖️

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❤️ Hear from Squad members

Really Works

Having accountability really helped me straighten up my act. I wish it was for longer so look forward to joining the next one. I've also completely stopped making excuses the past few days after the challenge!

Sara S

Best accountability app

Helped me get started building a habit of studying and exercising regularly. So much better than all the other habit apps out there!

Elayne E

Amazing app

Squad has been very helpful to me, knowing that I have to make myself accountable end of the day pushes me to try to do something during the day. I don’t want to report that I didn’t do anything or see the same low performance report every day, so I try do more to give a good report of myself. It is the reminder ringing in my head to go and get it done. So I don’t get left behind. Thank you so much to the team.

Hay

Gamechanger

I've been using Squad for a few months now and it's been a total game-changer for me. The group accountability has helped me build a habit I've struggled with for over 4 years. Hard to overstate how impactful this has been for my life.

AP J

Great accountability tool

I really starting see progress in my fitness journey. Would love more fitness specific metrics, but group check-ins and progress reports have kept me on track!

Bad L

Keeps me consistent

Squad has been hands down the best in helping with my inconsistency. It's easy to use and makes you want to make a note of what you signed up to do. I still slip up sometimes but I get right back on track

LaKisha