The creative goals app that keeps your projects moving

How does Bemelio help you reach your creative goals?

Bemelio is a free mobile app, a social network built around personal goals. For creative projects, it gives your drawing, writing, photo, video, craft or cooking ambitions a clear home. You pick the Creativity category, then a subcategory such as Writing or Photography, and the app suggests example goals to get you started. You give your goal a title and decide whether it is public or private.

From there, each goal becomes a living record. You add steps, log your sessions with the tools built into your subcategory, and post updates when something moves forward. A sketch, a paragraph, a test shot, a wobbly first loaf: everything counts. Over time, your updates tell the story of your project, from the first attempt to the finished piece.

• Drawing & Painting
• Writing
• Photography and Video & Film
• DIY & Crafts
• Cooking & Baking

How do you track progress on a creative project?

Big creative goals can feel shapeless. Writing a novel or renovating a room is hard to picture from one day to the next. In Bemelio, you can split your goal into steps you tick off: outline the chapters, draft the opening, revise. Each checked step gives you a concrete marker, even when the finished piece still feels far away.

Depending on your subcategory, your goal comes with built-in tracking tools. A streak counts the days you showed up. A session timer records each session and keeps the history. Writers can log sessions and word counts project by project, and cooks can note the recipes they make and the techniques they learn. Many tools offer a Publish as update option that turns your real numbers into a card.

Updates are the heart of it. Each time you make progress, you post text, a photo or a video on your goal. For visual work, this is where it really helps: your first watercolor next to a recent one, or an early edit beside your latest cut. Scrolling back through your updates is often the clearest way to see how far you have come.

• Steps you tick off as you go
• A streak for regular practice
• A session timer with history
• Updates with text, photo or video

Why work on creative goals with other people?

Creative work often happens alone, at a desk or in a kitchen late in the evening. Sharing it can make it feel less solitary. On Bemelio, you follow people, see their updates in your feed, react and comment. Following others who draw, write or bake shows you real work in progress, not just polished results, and gives you a reason to keep posting your own.

Circles bring together people heading in the same direction, so you can find others building a portfolio, making a short film or keeping a daily sketch habit. Private messaging lets you talk one to one when you want feedback or simply want to compare notes. The app also showcases experts, such as coaches and specialists, along with events you can discover.

Some projects are better made together. With a co-goal, you share a goal with another person, who becomes its co-author: a short film with a friend, a room renovation at home, a cooking challenge for two. And when an update makes you proud, you can turn it into a visual to share as a story, on Instagram for example, with a link to your Bemelio profile.

How do you stick with a creative goal?

Start smaller than you think. Writing a novel is a direction; writing for a short, fixed time on a few evenings this week is something you can actually do. Break your project into pieces you can finish, and make the first one almost easy. Small wins help you build the habit of showing up, and that habit carries a creative project further than any single burst of inspiration.

Aim for regularity over intensity. A short session you repeat is often easier to keep than a long one you dread. Pick a time and a place, keep your materials ready, and let a streak remind you of the days you showed up. If you miss a day, simply start again the next one. A pause is part of the process, not the end of it.

Measure what you can see. Creative progress is easy to doubt, so keep evidence: dated photos, word counts, session times, recipes completed. Compare your work with your own earlier work rather than with someone else's finished piece. Share unfinished things too. Posting a rough draft can feel uncomfortable, but it gives you a record and invites encouragement along the way.

• Break the project into steps you can finish
• Choose a regular time and keep sessions short
• Keep your materials within reach
• Track sessions, not only results
• Look back at your updates from time to time

Creative goal ideas to get started

Here are some goals you can set in Bemelio, or adapt to your own project:

• Draw every day for 100 days
• Learn watercolor
• Write a novel
• Keep a daily journal
• Do a 365 photo project
• Master manual mode on your camera
• Film and edit one video a week
• Cook a different dish every week

Tracking tools for creative goals

Depending on the subcategory you choose, your goal comes with tracking tools like these:

Start your creative goal in 3 steps

1. 1

   Download Bemelio

   Get the free app on the App Store or Google Play.

2. 2

   Create your goal

   Choose Creativity, pick a subcategory, give your goal a title and set it to public or private.

3. 3

   Post your first update

   Share a sketch, a page, a photo or a dish to mark the point where you are starting.