Pacer uses streaks to encourage consistent daily activity. A streak tracks how many consecutive days you hit your daily step goal. Rest days are built into this system so you can maintain your streak even when life gets in the way.

Understanding Streaks

• Streak refers to how many days in a row you achieve your daily step goal. 
• Streaks motivate you to stay active by rewarding consistency.

Why Rest Days Exist

Nobody can be active every single day. Travel, illness, and busy schedules happen. Rest days allow you to take a break without losing your streak.

How Rest Days Work

• You are allowed to take up to two rest days within each week, which runs from Sunday through Saturday, without losing your current streak. This means that even if you do not meet your step goal on up to two days during the week, your streak will remain intact.
• Rest days are automatically applied whenever you fail to reach your daily step goal. You do not have to manually designate a rest day; the system will recognize when your steps fall short and count that day as a rest day.
• How rest days are replenished each Sunday:
• Each Sunday, Pacer automatically adds rest days based on how many you have remaining:
• If you have 0 rest days remaining → 1 rest day is added
• If you already have 1 or 2 rest days remaining → nothing is added
• This means the maximum number of rest days you can hold is 2. To receive a replenishment on Sunday, you need to have used all of your rest days during the previous week.
• If you do not meet your step goal and have already used all your available rest days for that week, your streak will be broken and reset to zero.

Example Scenario

Imagine you have a 10‑day streak and two rest days available. On Day 11, you walk less than your step goal. One rest day is used automatically, and your streak continues at 11 days — you now have one rest day remaining. If you miss your goal again on Day 12, the second rest day is used; the streak continues to 12 days but your rest day balance drops to zero.

On Sunday, since you have 0 rest days remaining, 1 rest day is added. The following week, you start with 1 rest day. If you miss your goal on two separate days that week, your streak will break on the second missed day, because only 1 rest day was available.

Summary

A Streak Rest Day lets you keep your Pacer streak alive when you need a break from your daily step goal. Pacer applies them automatically whenever you miss a day. This feature acknowledges that life isn’t always predictable and helps you stay motivated over the long term.