Compared honestly
Habit tracker apps, compared honestly
Last updated: September 12, 2026
Every habit tracker promises the same thing: that a small daily record will carry you further than good intentions. The seven apps below all keep that record. Where they differ is what they do with it — who sets the target, whether you can track a limit instead of a daily tick, what happens on the day you miss, who else gets to see it, and whether anything in the app ever tells you the truth about the plan.
This page puts them side by side in three short tables: what each app is, as facts the listings settle; what it costs; and how each one thinks, in its own words where we could quote it. After that come our verdicts, ours included, and where ours falls short, because a comparison that only flatters its author is not worth your ten minutes.
What they are
What the listings say, checked September 12, 2026. A dash means the maker's own listing rules it out — by naming its platforms, its purchases or its headline features, a coach or an AI among them. "n. s." marks a detail a listing may leave out even when the app has it, such as offline use or export, and this one does.
| App | Platforms | Logging | Data | What you can track | Creating a habit | Coaching and company | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web | iOS | Android | Widgets | Watch | Offline | No account | Export | Ticks | X a week | Numbers | Limits | Quitting | Templates | AI target | Coach | Reaches out | Partner | Group | |
| CommittoThat's usCoached commitments, judged by the week | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| HabitKitThe GitHub-style grid | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not stated on the listing | Yes | Not stated on the listing | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| StreaksCircles you tap, bought once | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Not stated on the listing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not stated on the listing | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| HabitifyThe cross-platform ledger | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not stated on the listing | No | Not stated on the listing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not stated on the listing | Yes | Not stated on the listing | Not stated on the listing | Yes | Not stated on the listing | Yes | Yes |
| Loop Habit TrackerFree, open source, Android | No | No | Yes | Yes | Not stated on the listing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not stated on the listing | Not stated on the listing | Not stated on the listing | Not stated on the listing | No | No | No | No | No |
| HabiticaYour habits as a role-playing game | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not stated on the listing | No | Not stated on the listing | Yes | Not stated on the listing | Not stated on the listing | Not stated on the listing | Not stated on the listing | Not stated on the listing | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| ProductiveThe polished daily checklist | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not stated on the listing | Not stated on the listing | Not stated on the listing | Yes | Not stated on the listing | Not stated on the listing | Not stated on the listing | Not stated on the listing | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
What it costs
US store prices on September 12, 2026.
| App | Free tier | Paid | One-time or subscription |
|---|---|---|---|
| CommittoThat's us | Five active commitments, unlimited pact partners and AI commitment creation; the AI coach is Pro. | Pro €5.99 a month or €34.99 a year, 14-day trial: unlimited commitments and the coach, proactive included. | Subscription. |
| HabitKit | Four habits. | Pro $1.99 a month, $11.99 a year or $29.99 once. | Subscription or one-time. |
| Streaks | None. | $5.99 once. | One-time. |
| Habitify | Three habits you can act on, sync included; more can be created but stay view-only. | $2.49 a month billed yearly or $59.99 once on the web; noticeably more through the app stores. | Subscription or one-time. |
| Loop Habit Tracker | Everything. | Nothing to buy. | Free. |
| Habitica | Nearly everything; the subscription is mostly gems and cosmetics. | $4.99 a month or $47.99 a year. | Subscription. |
| Productive | A capped number of habits. | $10.99 a month, or $19.99 to $79.99 a year depending on the offer you are shown. | Subscription. |
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How they think
How each app treats the target, the missed day and the people around you, in its own framing where we could quote it.
| App | Who sets the target | What a missed day does | Who else is in it |
|---|---|---|---|
| CommittoThat's us | You say it in your own words; the AI proposes three honest targets (Easier, Standard, Challenge) and you pick one. | Nothing resets. The day is logged as it was, the week is judged against the target you picked, and the cycle ends with a verdict rather than a broken chain. | An AI coach that reads your own numbers and, on Pro, reaches out on its own. A pact with one partner who sees your standing and can nudge. |
| HabitKit | You type a name and pick an icon and a color. | The tile stays dark. The grid records and never responds; nothing asks why. | Nobody. You can share a card of your grid. |
| Streaks | You type your own, or take a suggestion drawn from your existing tasks. | The streak resets to zero. In the maker's own words: don't break the chain, or your streak will reset to zero days. | Other Streaks users you share a task with can see it and cheer you on. No coach. |
| Habitify | You type your own and set a daily, weekly or custom schedule. | The streak breaks, but the consistency chart smooths a single miss, and you can mark a day skipped or pause a habit. | Friends: challenges, leaderboards and nudges within a circle. Habi AI reads your habit data and explains it; whether it sets the target or reaches out, the listing does not say. |
| Loop Habit Tracker | You type a name and a question, then set the frequency. | The strength score dips instead of dropping to zero; a few missed days after a long run do not wipe your progress. Nothing punishes you, and nothing asks. | Nobody. |
| Habitica | You type a task and set its difficulty. | A missed daily damages your avatar, and on a boss quest it hurts your whole party. Pressure by design. | A party or guild: group play with shared consequences, not a partner who sees your standing. No coach. |
| Productive | You type a name, pick an icon and color, and choose weekdays and a time of day. | No punishment on screen, but the chain that habit was building ends. | Strangers in challenges, plus tip programs. No coach, no partner. |
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The verdicts
Committo
Best for: Someone who has tried a tracker before and wants a target they can actually hold, a coach who notices, and one person who sees it.
Where it wins
The target is shaped from your own words into three honest levels, Easier, Standard and Challenge, and you pick the one you can hold this cycle.
A coach that reads your own numbers, asks about the week while it can still be turned, and on Pro reaches out on its own.
A pact with one partner who sees your standing and can nudge, and a verdict at the end of the cycle that nobody has to pretend about.
Where it falls short
No widgets, no Watch app, no offline logging.
An account, not a file: the data lives on our servers, with export and delete built in.
HabitKit
Best for: Someone who wants the most satisfying record of what they did, on one phone, with no account.
Where it wins
The grid is the best-looking habit record on either store, and the widgets make logging a two-second tap.
More under the hood than the grid suggests: several completions a day, numbers such as pages or minutes, and quit habits that count clean days.
Private by design: no account, no cloud, a file export you own, and a one-time purchase if you want it.
Where it falls short
No sync between devices; the maker lists it as roadmap.
The grid records and never responds. Nothing helps set a realistic target, notices you slipping mid-week, or tells you the truth at the end.
Loop Habit Tracker
Best for: Android users who want an honest, free tracker with nothing to buy.
Where it wins
The strength score is the most honest mechanic in the field: a bad week dents it, it never zeroes it.
Flexible schedules such as three times a week, and your data leaves as a spreadsheet whenever you like.
Open source, no ads, no account, no purchases.
Where it falls short
Android only. No web, no iOS; the iOS apps with the same name are unrelated.
Purely passive: the score drops quietly and nobody asks what happened.
Streaks
Best for: Apple people who like the chain and want to pay once.
Where it wins
The cleanest daily view on iOS, with Apple Health filling in the automatic ones and a proper Watch app.
Wider than it looks: negative tasks for things you want to avoid, timed tasks, and how often a task needs doing each week.
One purchase, no subscription, and it has stayed that way for a decade.
Where it falls short
The chain is the whole game: miss a day and the streak is zero.
Apple only, and capped at 24 tasks.
Habitify
Best for: Someone with a foot in both Android and Apple who wants the ledger to follow them.
Where it wins
Real cross-platform sync, even in the free tier.
The consistency chart and the skip and pause options are a rare admission that life happens.
Where it falls short
Three habits free, and a price that depends on where you buy it.
Challenges and leaderboards make it social, and Habi AI explains your data; whether it sets the target or reaches out on its own, the listing does not say.
How to choose
Start from what happens on the day you miss, not from the feature list. Every app above can record a good day; they split on the bad one, and that is the day that decides whether you are still using the app in March.
- The chain. If an unbroken row of green days is what carries you, Streaks or HabitKit. Be honest about whether it carries you for a season or only until the first miss.
- The dent. If a broken chain has made you quit before, pick from the rows where a miss is a dent, not a reset: Loop, Habitify, or ours.
- The target. If your problem is not motivation but a plan that was never realistic, read the first column of the last table. Only one app helps you set the target; the rest let you type whatever you were going to type anyway.
- Limits, not ticks. Fewer drinks, less screen time, quitting: pick from the rows with a ✓ under limits or quitting in the first table, not only under daily ticks.
- Someone in it with you. If you show up for others when you would not for yourself: a party (Habitica), friends on a leaderboard (Habitify), shared tasks (Streaks), or a coach and one partner who sees your standing (ours).
Whichever you pick, be ambitious about the change and modest about the first target. The number you set on day one is a guess; the second week is the first real data about it. Treat recalibrating as part of the work, not as failing: a target you can actually meet on a bad Tuesday, then raised once it holds, beats an ambitious one that a single miss turns into a reason to quit.
Also considered
Six apps cannot cover everything. These came close, and this is why they are not in the tables:
- Finch. A self-care pet with habit-like goals and a huge following. A different job, and a lovely one.
- Atoms. The Atomic Habits companion: a tracker plus daily lessons from the book. A different job from a plain tracker.
- HabitNow, Way of Life, Strides, Awesome Habits. Solid trackers in the same mold as Habitify and Productive; nothing in the missed-day column would change.
- Todoist, TickTick, Notion. Task managers with a habits feature. If your day already lives in one of them, track there.
- Me+, Routinery, Fabulous. Routine and self-care programs with a tracker inside. A different question, and a different price.
- Reclaim, Fhynix and the AI-habit long tail. Calendar tools and chat apps that publish their own best-of lists. The coaching ones belong in a separate comparison.
Where Committo falls short
No widgets, no Watch app, no offline logging. If you log from your wrist or your home screen, or without a connection, HabitKit and Streaks do that and we do not.
An account, not a file. HabitKit and Loop keep everything on your phone with no sign-in. We need an account to run the coach and the pacts; you can export and delete at any time, but the data does live on our servers.
The coach is an AI. It reads your numbers well and asks good questions; it is not a human coach who calls you.
Questions people ask
Is this a neutral review?
No. We make Committo, and the disclosure above says how we compared. Where another app is the better pick, we say so in its verdict.
Which of these is actually free?
Loop is entirely free. Habitica is free for nearly everything. Habitify, HabitKit, Productive and Committo have free tiers with caps. Streaks is a one-time purchase with no free version.
How many habits can I track in Committo?
As many as you want to hold: five with weekly check-ins on Free, all of them on Pro. The design is to hold many and push few — the coach helps you pick the one or two that get the push this cycle, and the rest stay in view.
Which ones can track drinking less, screen time or quitting?
In some form: Committo, HabitKit, Streaks and Habitify. For Loop, Habitica and Productive the listings say nothing either way.
What happens in Committo when I miss a day?
The day is logged as it was. Nothing resets. The week is read against the target you chose — a missed week is treated as data about the plan, and the check-in asks whether the target still fits — and the verdict comes at the end of the cycle, on the whole run.
Try it on one commitment
Start free, no card: one commitment, three honest targets, a coach that reads your own week. See the evidence behind the design if you want the sources first.
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