# Create a habit: every option explained

> Name, icon, colour, schedule, cue, goal, minimum version, reminder and your why. What each option on the habit form does.

Source: https://behabit.app/help/create-a-habit · 2026-09-27

Open the habit form with **+** in the tab bar. To change an existing habit, open it and tap **Edit habit**. Here’s every option, top to bottom.

## Icon, name and type

- **Icon**: tap the circle to pick an emoji or an icon (there’s a search box).
- **Name**: up to 60 characters.
- **Type**: **Build** (“Do it, tick it, keep the streak”) or **Quit** (“Count the days you stay clean”). See [Build a habit or quit one](https://behabit.app/help/build-or-quit).
- **Colour**: eight colours. The habit’s history, widget and cards all use it.

## Schedule

- **Frequency** (Build habits):
  - **Daily**: every day.
  - **Days**: the weekdays you choose.
  - **Weekly**: a number of times per week, from 1 to 6, on any days.
  - **Interval**: every 2 to 30 days, counted from the day you created the habit.
- **Cue**: what comes right before it, like “After coffee”. A cue makes a habit easier to start.
- **When**: Anytime, Morning, Afternoon or Evening. It also sets the default reminder time.

Quit habits are always daily.

## Goal

- **Per day**: how many times, or how much, counts as done (1 to 99). Anything above 1 lets you set a **Unit** (glasses, pages…) and choose how you **Log by**: **Tap**, **Enter value** or **Timer**. See [Log counts, amounts and timed habits](https://behabit.app/help/counts-and-timers).
- **Minimum version**: “The smallest step that still counts on a hard day.” BeHabit offers it the morning after a miss.
- **Duration**: 0 to 180 minutes. Set one and the habit gets a focus timer.

## Reminder

Switch on **Remind me** and adjust **Usually at**, or tap **Or remind me at a place** for a reminder as you arrive at or leave somewhere. See [Set up reminders](https://behabit.app/help/reminders).

## More options

- **Streak goal**: a target in days, weeks or months.
- **Categories** and a **Description** of up to 200 characters.

Tap **Create habit** (or **Save changes**). If you leave with unsaved edits, BeHabit asks before discarding them.