Main Quest for iPhone and iPadGamify your tasks.

Main Quest turns the time you already spend into XP. Log an hour of work, a load of laundry or a run, and it flows into one crystal in the middle of your screen. That crystal is your HQ, and it climbs 200 tiers, from a plain stone spire to a gold monument.

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670XP Today
HQ · Tier XXI · Gold I 8,910 XP all-time

1,290 XP to the next tier. Tap any orb to log 30 minutes and watch the XP travel home.

Sample account. Same tier math as the app.

The whole economy

One minute equals one XP

One minute is one XP.

That is the entire exchange rate, and it is the same in every category. An hour of calculus and an hour of dishes both pay 60. Main Quest keeps score of your time. It does not grade it.

  • +25%Finish a completable mission and it pays a quarter of everything you logged to it, up to 500 XP.
  • +10%Hit the daily target you set for a category and it pays a one-time bonus of a tenth of what you logged there that day.
  • ±0Miss a target and nothing happens. The ring just stays open.
Last 7 days 4,970 XP
  • Work3,060 XP
  • Research660 XP
  • Recreation515 XP
  • Chores470 XP
  • Fitness265 XP
A week in the Log tab. Work won, as it usually does.
Getting time in

Log it now, time it live, or add it later.

Pick whichever matches how the day actually went. All three pay the same rate.

The Work screen: a duration wheel set to 0 hours 30 minutes above a gold Log 30 XP button, with a Start session button at the top. The Log tab with an Add time sheet open over it: pick a category, then set the hours and minutes.
Quick log · any category

Tap, spin, log.

Tap a category, spin the wheel to how long it took, tap Log. The button tells you what it pays before you press it.

  • WheelHours and minutes, in five-minute steps.
  • The buttonReads the payout first. Thirty minutes says Log 30 XP.
Live session · Session tab

A timer that checks in.

Start it when you start. Stop and save when you stop, and the minutes become XP.

  • 45 min idleIt asks if you are still going.
  • Your usualAfter five sessions it knows how long yours run, and speaks up when one goes past double.
  • OvernightA timer left running pauses itself and asks you in the morning what really happened.
After the fact · Log tab

Forgot? Add it later.

Open the Log tab, pick the day, add time. Nobody checks your homework.

  • Any dayPick it from the week strip, then the category and the duration.
  • FixableEvery entry can be edited or deleted, in case yesterday's six-hour workout was really six minutes.
The climb

Two hundred tiers. Everyone starts at Gray I.

Your all-time XP sets your HQ's tier. The base loop is five colors of five tiers each: Gray, Verdant, Sapphire, Amethyst and Gold. Clear Gold V and it starts over as a prestige loop, where every tier costs more than it did the time before. There are seven of those.

Your HQ at this tier
XXIGold I

Base loop. Reached at 8,600 XP, about 143 hours of logged time.

  1. Base1x
  2. Apprentice2x
  3. Adept4x
  4. Expert8x
  5. Master16x
  6. Legend32x
  7. Mythic64x
  8. Ascendant128x
15,000 XP

Gold V, the top of the base loop. About 250 hours, and the early colors go fast on purpose.

3,844,050 XP

Ascendant V, tier CC. At eight logged hours a day, every day, that is about 22 years. It is meant to take a while.

A ladder each

Each category climbs the same ladder on its own, which is how a Work orb can read Amethyst III while Fitness is still on Verdant I.

The Research screen: 210 XP today, 810 all-time, with three missions listed: Spanish 101, Learning Video Editing and Practice Piano.
The HQ at 8,120 XP today, with a gold daily goal ring half filled around the Work orb.
Missions, streaks, goals

Give the time a name.

A mission is a named place to put time: Spanish 101, Practice Piano, Learning Video Editing. Log to it and the XP still lands in its category and in your HQ.

  • Ongoing or completable

    Ongoing missions never end. Completable ones do, and pay the bonus when you mark them done. Switch a mission between the two whenever you like, and undo a completion you tapped by accident.

  • Streaks with soft wording

    Give a mission a daily streak and it counts the days in a row you log to it. Miss a day and it reads Paused, not Broken. Your next log starts a new run, and your longest run stays on the record. Going away? Vacation Mode in Main Quest+ pauses streaks while you keep logging.

  • A ring to fill

    Set a daily goal for a category and a ring fills around its orb as you log. Hit it and the ring closes. Miss it and the app says nothing at all.

The dashboard shows what you did, not what you didn't. From the Main Quest design notes
The Trophy Room

One hundred trophies. Fifteen won't say how.

All of them are free. Some land on day one without trying. Some take a year of showing up. Fifteen show nothing but question marks until you stumble into them, and we are not going to spoil those here.

  • First StepsLog your first minute.
  • Lunch BreakLog during the noon hour.
  • Weekend WarriorLog both weekend days.
  • Triple Threat3 categories in one day.
  • Early BirdLog before 6 AM.
  • Secret trophy
  • Deep FocusA session over 2 hours.
  • MarathonA session over 4 hours.
  • Night OwlLog between midnight and 3 AM.
  • Secret trophy
  • Double Digits10 hours logged in one day.
  • Balanced WeekAll 5 categories in one week.
  • Week Warrior7-day login streak.
  • First VictoryComplete your first mission.
  • Second WindUndo a mission completion.
  • Secret trophy
  • Comeback KidLog a category after 30+ days.
  • Big SpenderEarn a +500 completion bonus.
  • Going for GoldReach Gold, Tier XXI.
  • Secret trophy
  • Year of Quests365-day login streak.
  • AscendantReach the Ascendant loop.
  • Secret trophy
  • Millionaire1,000,000 total XP.
The Trophy Room: gold medallions such as Triple Threat, Jack of All Trades, Deep Focus and Double Digits, with locked ones in gray.

The Trophy Room in the app.

Optional

Main Quest+

Everything above is in the free app. Main Quest+ is for when five categories and one crystal are not enough.

$0.99a month, billed by Apple

Each skin swaps the structure, the particles and the connecting lines as a set. There is also Cosmic, a ringed planet among the stars, which you will have to see in the app.

Unlock everything

  • Custom categories to track anything you want
  • Unlimited missions in every category
  • HQ skins to restyle your base, particles, and links
  • Weekday schedules and per-day goal templates
  • Vacation Mode to pause streaks while you keep logging
  • Deep insights: weekly, monthly, and all-time
The paywall, word for word from the app

Six things, one price.

That list is the whole of it. Without Plus you still get the five categories, all 200 tiers, live sessions, per-category targets, streaks and the Trophy Room. Plus is for when you want more room, or want your HQ to look like something else.

The toggle, in Goals & Schedule

Main Quest+ is charged to your Apple ID and renews monthly unless you turn it off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple ID settings. Apple handles the card, and we never see it.

Privacy

What we know about you: nothing.

Your log lives on your iPhone or iPad and syncs through your own private iCloud database, which is yours and Apple's, not ours. Turn off iCloud sync in the app's Settings if you'd rather keep it on one device. There is no server of ours for anything to reach.

Read the privacy policy

Your HQ is gray right now. Log the first minute.

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