Connect your Aura account to a partner or friend. No feed or leaderboards: only private encouragement and a 5000 AuraCoins shared bonus when you both complete everything. Privacy-first.
Habit Buddy Mode
Habit Buddy Mode links your Aura account to one other person — a partner or a friend — so you can support each other without any of the social-media machinery. There is no feed, no likes, no leaderboard and no audience. Each of you sees a narrow slice of the other: how many habits they completed today, their mood, their coins and their streak. You can send one encouraging emoji a day, and if you both reach 100 percent on the same day you each receive a 5000 AuraCoins shared bonus. The reason it works is well documented: stating a goal to someone who will notice, and knowing your effort matters to them, raises follow-through more than private intention does. The reason it has hard limits — one poke a day, completion counts only, no access to journal entries or AI conversations — is the other half of the same research. Accountability helps; surveillance does not, and the line between them is a design decision rather than a matter of good intentions.
Why use Habit Buddy Mode
No public feed, no likes, no ranking. Just one other person, seeing how your day went and nothing about what you wrote.
If both of you complete every habit on the same day, you each receive 5000 AuraCoins — the shared stake is what makes the other person's effort matter to you.
The daily encouragement is capped at one. The cap is the feature: it keeps this as support rather than something that turns into pressure.
Choose a romantic partner bond or a platonic buddy bond, change it later from settings, and unlink at any time without ceremony.
How to enable Buddy Mode
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Share your code
Open the Couple/Buddy section and send your unique code to the person you want to link with.
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Choose the mode
Decide together whether to use the partner bond or the platonic buddy bond. Either can be changed later.
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Send encouragement
Use the daily poke — one emoji, once a day — to signal support without turning the app into a channel for nagging.
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Complete and earn
Check off your habits. If you both reach 100 percent on the same day, the 5000 AuraCoins shared bonus unlocks for each of you.
Frequently asked questions
What can my buddy or partner actually see?
How many habits you completed today, your mood value, your AuraCoins and your streak. They cannot see journal entries, AI conversations, or notes attached to a habit.
What is the shared bonus?
If both of you complete 100 percent of your habits on the same day, you each unlock 5000 AuraCoins. It is evaluated on each person's own day, so a time-zone difference does not by itself break it.
Can I switch from partner to friend?
Yes, the bond type can be changed at any time in the Buddy Mode settings, and either person can unlink whenever they want.
How many pokes can I send?
One per day. The limit is deliberate and not configurable — it is what keeps the feature encouraging rather than intrusive.
What if my buddy is much less consistent than me?
Lower the bar rather than pushing harder: reduce the number of tracked habits, let each person keep different ones, and treat the shared bonus as an occasional win. If the gap persists, unlinking the reward while keeping the visibility usually works better than both.
Is Buddy Mode free?
Yes. Linking, the shared visibility, the daily poke and the shared bonus are all on the free tier.