Best Habit Tracker Apps: 13 Picks by What Keeps You Going

Most habit trackers can do the basics: add a habit, set a reminder, tick it off, see a streak. So feature lists don’t tell you much. What decides whether you’re still using one in six weeks is whether it gives you a reason to open it, and that reason is different for different people.

So this list is grouped by motivation. Find the line that sounds like you, then read the two or three apps under it. One of the apps is ours, Habit Rewards; we’ve tried to describe the others the way their own users would. Prices and ratings were checked in October 2026.

A short list and a streak

Streaks (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac; $5.99 once). Up to 24 tasks, each a big round button. Tasks can run on set days or a number of times a week, and with Apple Health it can tick off steps or a workout by itself. Rated 4.8 from more than 27,000 US App Store ratings. Not on Android: here’s what to use instead.

Loop Habit Tracker (Android; free, open source). No ads, no account, no in-app purchases. Its habit score grows with every check-in and dips when you miss, so a bad day doesn’t wipe out months. Not on iPhone, and the App Store apps called “Loop” are by other developers: the closest iPhone apps.

Habo (iPhone and Android; free, open source). No ads, no account, works offline. A day can be done, missed or skipped, and a skip doesn’t break the streak. Optional paid encrypted sync.

Seeing your progress add up

HabitKit (iPhone and Android; free for up to four habits, Pro by subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase). Each habit is a year-long grid of tiles that fills in day by day. Goals like “3 times a week” or “20 times a month”, widgets, offline, no account.

Habits inside your planner

TickTick (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, web; free, with Premium). A to-do list first, with calendar views, several reminders per task and a Pomodoro timer; habits are one feature of it. Rated 4.9 from more than 46,000 US ratings. Good if you came from HabitNow, which is Android only: more on that.

Structured (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, Android; free, with Pro monthly, yearly or lifetime). Your day as a timeline of tasks, events and routines. Recurring tasks and routines are in Pro. Popular with people with ADHD; rated 4.8 from more than 167,000 US ratings.

A routine that runs itself

Routinery (iPhone and Android). Stack habits into a routine, split it into 1–5 minute steps, and each step runs on a timer while a voice says what’s next. Made for mornings, wind-downs and study blocks. If you’re coming from Fabulous for the morning routine, start here.

A game

Habitica (iPhone, Android, web; free, optional subscription). Your habits run an RPG character: tasks give experience and gold, missed dailies cost health, and you can quest with a party of friends. More in apps like Habitica and Habitica vs Habit Rewards.

LifeUp (Android) / ulives (iPhone, same developers). A sandbox: you invent your own skills, achievements and a shop of rewards priced in coins. The most customizable app here, with the most settings.

Looking after something

Finch (iPhone and Android; free to start, optional Finch Plus). A small bird you care for by caring for yourself, with mood check-ins and breathing exercises and no punishment for a missed day. Rated 4.9 from more than 760,000 US ratings. Apps like Finch.

Forest (iPhone and Android). One habit: staying off your phone. A tree grows while you focus and dies if you leave to scroll; coins can plant real trees through Trees for the Future.

Something to lose

Beeminder (web, iPhone, Android). Commit to a rate, and if you fall below the line you pay real money, with the pledge rising each time you derail. Lots of integrations for logging automatically.

Something to win

Habit Rewards (iPhone and Android; free for three habits, Pro subscription for more). Ours. Every habit pays coins by how hard it is (1, 4, 8 or 16), and you spend them on a reward list you write yourself, each reward with a coin price: a coffee out, a new book, a lazy Sunday. Daily, weekly and monthly habits, habits you want to quit, one-off tasks that pay coins, reminders, widgets, and a 10-coin Skip for days you can’t. How the idea works on paper: a reward chart for adults.

How to choose

Think back to the last habit you kept for months. What kept it going? If it was the unbroken chain, pick from the first group. If it was a friend, Habitica. If it was a deadline or a cost, Beeminder. If it was the treat you’d promised yourself at the end, that’s what Habit Rewards is built around.

Then start small: three habits, one of them easy. Here are 100 habit tracker ideas with a suggested coin value for each, and free printable trackers if you’d rather start on paper.

Habit Rewards is free on iPhone and Android. We’re not affiliated with any of the other apps mentioned.

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