Apps Like Arise: Level Up in Real Life, Including Free Options

Arise: Level Up Workout Game turns getting fit into a Solo Leveling-style system. You answer a few lifestyle questions, get a workout plan, and complete daily quests that earn rewards as you “level up in real life”. It has a 4.8 rating from about 21,000 US ratings and is on the iPhone.

The catch is in its own App Store description: a subscription is required to access the workout plans, quests and app features. Its plans in the US App Store run from $4.99 to $59.99 (checked October 26, 2026). That’s why so many people search for apps like Arise “but free”, and why others want the same level-up feeling for more than workouts: studying, sleep, chores, money.

Here are four free ways to get it. One of them is ours, Habit Rewards; we’ve tried to describe the others fairly.

1. Habitica: the original level-up-your-life app

Habitica turns your habits, dailies and to-dos into a pixel-art RPG. Finishing tasks earns experience and gold, missed dailies cost health, and at level 10 you pick a class. You can join a party with friends and fight quest bosses together, and the reward column holds rewards you write yourself. The habits, dailies, to-dos, rewards and parties are all free; an optional subscription ($4.99 a month or $47.99 a year in the US App Store) adds cosmetics and extras. It’s on iPhone, Android and the web. More in our Habitica review.

Good for: people who want a real game around their whole life, ideally with friends.

Less good if: losing health after a bad week makes you want to quit.

2. Dual: a Solo Leveling system you design

Dual: Solo Leveling For Life lets you build a character with your own attributes and skills. You set a long-term journey, milestones along the way and quests (the habits that move you forward). Quests raise the attributes they’re linked to, a focus timer turns minutes into skill XP, and the coins and gems you collect unlock rewards in a shop you personalize. It’s free to download on the iPhone, with a 4.7 rating from about 140 US ratings.

Good for: people who love the attribute-and-skill side of Solo Leveling.

Less good if: you want a ready-made workout plan like Arise’s.

3. A free Daily Quest tracker, in your browser

If what you love is the Solo Leveling “System” itself, our free Solo Leveling habit tracker runs it with no app and no sign-up: your habits become a Daily Quest that pays XP and gold, you level up, you buy rewards from your own shop, and missing a day gives you a penalty quest. It works in your browser.

Good for: trying the system for a week before installing anything.

Less good if: you want reminders on your phone.

4. Habit Rewards: level up, then cash in

This one’s ours. It keeps the part of the game that works for most people, getting paid, and drops the rest: no avatar, no damage. Every habit pays coins by how hard it is (1, 4, 8 or 16): 50 push-ups, a run, an hour of study. One-off jobs go in as tasks that pay once. You write a list of rewards, like a new pair of running shoes, a gaming night or a takeout dinner, and give each one a coin price. When your balance covers a reward, you claim it.

If you need a day off, a Skip costs 10 coins and keeps your streak alive. It’s on iPhone and Android, free for three habits and three rewards, with a Pro subscription for more.

Good for: people who want the level-up loop for workouts and everything else, with rewards that exist outside the app.

Less good if: you want a workout plan made for you. Habit Rewards tracks what you decide to do; it doesn’t plan workouts.

How to pick

If you want the full game with friends, Habitica. If you want to design your own system, Dual. If you want to try the Solo Leveling idea today for free, the Daily Quest tracker. And if the reward you’re grinding for is something real, give it a price in Habit Rewards. If a structured workout plan is the main thing you need, Arise’s subscription may still be worth it; these four are about the level-up system, not the training plan.

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FAQ

How much does Arise cost? Arise is free to download, but its App Store description says a subscription is required for the workout plans, quests and app features. Plans in the US App Store run from $4.99 to $59.99 (checked October 26, 2026).

Is there a free app like Arise? Habitica is free for its core RPG (habits, dailies, to-dos, rewards, parties). Dual is free to download. Our Solo Leveling habit tracker runs in the browser for free, and Habit Rewards is free for three habits and three rewards.

Is Arise on Android? Arise is listed for the iPhone. Habitica and Habit Rewards are on Android too.

Is there an app that levels up your real life like Solo Leveling? Several: Arise for workouts, Habitica for your whole to-do list, Dual for attributes and skills, and Habit Rewards if you want the coins to buy real rewards. Our free Solo Leveling habit tracker shows the system on one page.

Habit Rewards is free on iPhone and Android. Arise is made by Digital Lions Apps; we’re not affiliated with it or with the other apps mentioned.

✅ Try Habit Rewards: the habit tracker that pays you

Every habit pays coins by how hard it is (1, 4, 8 or 16). Write your own reward list, put a coin price on each treat, and claim it once you've earned it.

• Daily, weekly and monthly habits, plus one-off tasks that pay coins
• Reminders, streaks and home-screen widgets
• A 10-coin Skip for the days you can't
• Free for three habits, on iPhone and Android

Get Habit Rewards free

On a computer? Scan the code with your phone (it opens the App Store or Google Play), or get it on the App Store.

Using Notion?

Start with our free Notion habit tracker and formulas, or get the aesthetic Notion Habit Tracker template with heatmaps and streaks.