How Your Streak Works

Your streak is the number of days in a row that you have saved an examination. A day counts once: examining twice on a Tuesday is one day kept, not two, and the day is your own local day rather than a clock somewhere else. Nothing else moves the number: not how long you spent, not how much you wrote down, and not whether you have been to Confession recently.

A run does not break the moment you miss a day. If your last examination was yesterday, the streak is still yours, because today is not over and nothing has been lost yet. The number you see is the run reaching today or yesterday, and it is the same number everywhere it appears: on Home, on the Examine tab, and on the streak page itself.

Every six days you keep in a row, you earn a freeze. A freeze is a cushion that covers a single day you miss, so the run carries on instead of ending. You never have to spend one yourself: on the first day you miss with a freeze in hand it is spent for you, and that day is marked as covered on your calendar rather than left empty. There is no limit on how many you can bank, and the count toward the next one starts again each time you earn one and each time you miss a day.

A freeze holds a run open; it does not add a day to it. The number is always days you actually examined. Six kept days, then a covered day, then three more kept days is a nine-day streak spanning ten days on the calendar. Better a smaller number that is true than a larger one you did not examine for.

Today is never frozen, because the day is not over and a freeze is only ever spent on a day that has already ended. A freeze also goes to the next day you miss rather than waiting for a better one. Bank a freeze, stop for a month, and it covers the first day of that month, not the day you would have chosen; nothing in the record could tell us which day you meant to protect.

You are told at both moments. Earning one is said on the screen that confirms your examination was saved. Spending one is said on the next screen that shows your streak, and, if you have allowed notifications, in a short message the following morning, so that a covered day is not something you discover by accident. That message only reports what already happened, and it has its own switch under Notifications.

Victories are the items you marked as avoided during an examination: the temptation you saw and did not follow. They are kept with that examination and you can read them back later, but they do not change your streak. A day you examined honestly and marked nothing counts exactly the same as a day with a long list. That is on purpose. A streak that paid you for finding more would quietly be asking you to be less honest, which is the opposite of what an examination is for.

A broken streak ends a count and nothing else. Every examination you saved is still saved, every day you kept is still on your calendar, and the longest run you have ever had is still recorded there. The streak exists to help you come back tomorrow. It was never meant to be something you could lose.