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What XP is
MyLife gives you XP when you complete tasks, check off habits and keep track of your budget. XP adds up to your level, your life area XP and your place in the ranking.
- Free: XP, levels and the ranking work without a subscription.
- Account required: without signing in there's no level card or ranking, and XP is only stored on the device.
- There are limits: each section has a daily cap, and a record deleted soon after creation takes its XP back.
Where to see your level
The Profile tab: a card with your level, a progress bar and the 🔥 streak counter.
- Tap your level to open a sheet: your current level, the next one and how much XP you need to reach it.
- The streak on your phone counts days you opened the app, and in the web app it counts days you earned XP.
- A new level is celebrated with a medal and confetti.
- In the web app, your profile also shows today's XP, your pace (“level in N days”) and a year map.
What earns XP
Points are the same on all devices. The limit shows how much XP a section can give per day.
| Action | XP | Limit and conditions |
|---|---|---|
| Task completed | +5 | About 50 per day for all tasks |
| High-priority task | +10 | Within the same limit |
| Task gets a due date or a repeat | +1 | Once per task |
| All of today's tasks completed | +20 | Once a day, if you have 3 or more tasks due today |
| Habit checked off | +3 | Today only, about 30 per day |
| All of today's habits done | +10 | Once a day, if you have 2 or more habits today |
| New goal | +5 | Once per goal |
| New calendar event | +2 | Up to 10 per day |
| New expense | +2 | Up to 16 per day |
| New income | +2 | Up to 16 per day, separate from expenses |
| Custom category | +2 | Once per category |
| New debt | +2 | Once per debt |
| Debt payment | +5 | For each payment |
| Debt fully paid off | +15 | Once |
| Monthly Budget Plan | +10 | Plus +2 for each row, up to 200 per month. A new plan counts up to 10 rows of each type |
| Day results | +3 | Once per date, PRO required |
| Pomodoro session | +2 | From 3 minutes, up to 16 per day. iPhone, iPad and Mac only |
No XP for: transfers, accounts, automatic subscription expenses, statement import, editing records, notes, Feed posts and completing a whole goal (a goal earns XP through its tasks).
Limits and when XP is taken back
Limits protect against farming, like a thousand “drink water” tasks.
- A section's limit counts all of today's XP in that section, bonuses included. The last award can go slightly over the cap.
- The limit goes by when you act: if you check off yesterday's task today, the XP goes toward today's limit.
- A one-time task gives XP once, a repeating one once for each day.
- ↩️
Unchecked
The XP for the task or habit is taken back, and so is the day bonus if the day is no longer complete.
- ⏱️
Deleted quickly
A task within 2 minutes. An event, transaction or plan row within 3 minutes. A goal, habit or debt within 5 minutes.
- 🗓️
Due date removed
The task loses the +1 for the due date.
Levels
Each level needs 50 XP more than the one before: 50 to reach level 2, 100 from level 2 to 3, then 150 and so on.
- Formula: to reach level L, you need 25 × L × (L − 1) XP.
- There's no top level.
- Your level can drop if XP is taken back, for example after deleting lots of tasks.
XP by life area
Every award remembers the record's life area. The total for a life area shows in the header of its screen.
- The life area comes from the record: a “Workout” task in the “Health” life area gives XP to “Health”.
- The Budget Plan always goes to “Finance”, while day bonuses and day results have no life area.
- If you change the life area of a record, the XP already earned stays with the old one.
How life areas affect the balance radar is covered in the “Life Areas” article.
Ranking
Your profile has a badge with your place among MyLife users. There's no list of participants: you only see your own row.
- Three boards: the week from Monday, the month from the 1st and all time. The best of the three results is shown.
- Places 1–10 are shown as a number: “This week: you're #4”. From 11th place on, it says “you're ahead of X% of users”, with the percentage rounded down to a multiple of five.
- It's recalculated once a day at 4:00 Moscow time (UTC+3). Today's XP shows up in the ranking tomorrow morning.
- Everyone signed in takes part. XP earned without an account doesn't count toward the ranking.
- In the Feed, a post author's all-time place shows under their name: “🔥 Top 3”, “Top 500”. Anonymous posts don't show it.
Sync
XP is stored in your account and is the same on all devices.
- No double awards: the same action from two devices counts once.
- Offline, XP is awarded in the app and sent to the server when you're back online.
- Signing in to an existing account: on iPhone, XP earned without signing in is replaced with the account's XP. When you create a new account, it's kept.
- Past activity: the first time you launched a version with XP, the iPhone app awarded it for your past activity, with no limits.
FAQ
Why didn't I get XP for a task?
Why did my level go down?
Why can't I see my level?
When will my ranking update?
Can others see my XP?
How much XP do I need for the next level?
Do I need PRO?
Start earning XP today
Complete all tasks due today (you need three or more) and check off all of the day's habits (two or more): the full-day bonuses give you 30 more XP.
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