Onrise for Android? 4 Apps for Habits, Focus and Journaling

Onrise: Habit Tracker & Focus is a small, well-loved iPhone app: 4.8 from about 2,600 US App Store ratings, free, with no in-app purchases listed on the App Store. If you’re on an Android phone you won’t find it on Google Play: Onrise is iPhone and iPad only, and its website offers only an iOS download.

Onrise puts three things in one app: habits, a Pomodoro timer to help you focus, and a journal, with a “Wrapped” review of your year and of each month. On Android, no single app does all three the same way, so here’s one pick for each part, plus one that adds a reason to keep going. One of them is ours, Habit Rewards; we’ve tried to describe the others fairly.

If you used Onrise for…	Try on Android
Habits, free and simple	Loop Habit Tracker
The focus timer	Forest
The journal	Daylio
Habits with something to look forward to	Habit Rewards

1. Loop Habit Tracker: habits, free

Loop has been the go-to free habit tracker on Android for years: 4.7 stars from more than 63,000 reviews and over 5 million downloads on Google Play. It has no ads and nothing to buy, and it’s open source. Alongside your streak, each habit gets a strength score that grows with every repetition and dips a little when you miss, so one bad day doesn’t wipe out months of work. It has widgets and charts, and exports your data to a spreadsheet.

Good for: the habit half of Onrise, at no cost.

Less good if: you want a focus timer or a journal in the same app.

2. Forest: the focus timer

Forest is the best-known focus timer on Android: 4.3 stars from about 814,000 reviews, more than 10 million downloads and a Google Play Editors’ Choice badge. When you want to focus you plant a seed, and a tree grows while you stay on task; give in and scroll social media, and it withers. It works as a Pomodoro timer for study and work sessions. It’s free to download with ads and in-app purchases (listed at $0.99 to $59.99).

Good for: people who mostly used Onrise’s timer to stay off their phone.

Less good if: you want habit tracking with it. Forest is about focus sessions, not daily habits.

3. Daylio: the journal

Daylio is a mood diary you can keep without typing a word: pick a mood, tap the activities you did, and its stats and calendar show which activities go with your better days. It has more than 10 million downloads on Android and is rated 4.8 from about 62,000 US App Store ratings. Premium is listed from $4.99 to $59.99 (what’s free, and alternatives).

Good for: the journaling half of Onrise, with a quick daily check-in.

Less good if: you want to track specific habits with reminders and streaks.

4. Habit Rewards: habits with a payoff

This one’s ours. Onrise keeps you going with its focus sessions and its Wrapped recap; we do it with a reward at the end. Every habit pays coins by how hard it is (1, 4, 8 or 16). You write your own list of rewards, like a coffee out, a movie night or a new game, each with a coin price, and claim one when your balance covers it.

There are reminders, home-screen widgets, a streak and calendar for each habit, an optional daily mood check-in on the Home screen, and habits you want to quit as well as build. Missed a day for a good reason? Spend 10 coins on a Skip that keeps your streak alive. It’s on Android and iPhone, free for three habits and three rewards, with a Pro subscription for more. It has no focus timer and no journal; pair it with Forest or Daylio if you want those.

Good for: people who want a reason to show up beyond the habit itself.

A list of rewards with coin prices in Habit Rewards

Which one?

Pick by what you opened Onrise for most. For the habits, Loop is free and does the job; for focus sessions, Forest; for the journal, Daylio. And if what you need is a reason to keep showing up, put a reward at the end of your habits: that’s what Habit Rewards is for.

More iPhone-only apps on Android: (Not Boring) Habits for Android, Streaks for Android and Grit’s free version, and what to use on Android. Going the other way, from Android to iPhone? See HabitNow for iPhone. The whole field, grouped by what motivates you: the best habit tracker apps.

Habit Rewards is free on Android and iPhone. Onrise is made by Maximilian Munker; we’re not affiliated with it or with the other apps mentioned. Ratings and prices as listed on the US App Store and Google Play on October 25, 2026.

✅ 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.