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Seven habit trackers, by what each one is for

Loop, HabitBox, Streaks, Habitify, Finch, Habitica and ours, compared by price, by where your data lives, and by whether a habit can be shared.

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Quick answer

Free on Android with no account: Loop Habit Tracker. Private on iPhone or Android with no account: HabitBox. Apple devices and one payment: Streaks. iPhone, Android and the web together: Habitify. A gentle, self-care approach: Finch. A game played with a group: Habitica. Habits a household shares, kept beside its chores and calendar: ours.

Most habit trackers are built for one person and one phone, and for that job they are very good. They differ in three things that matter more than the feature lists: what the free version really allows, where your record is kept, and whether anyone else can take part.

This list runs from the most private to the most shared. We make one of the seven and it is marked, and it is not a habit tracker first: it is a household app with two habit apps in it. Prices are from each product's own site, checked in October 2026. Several of these publish no price on their site, and for those we quote the App Store listing and say so.

The list

  1. Loop Habit Tracker

    Best for: An Android user who wants a free tracker with no account

    The plainest answer on this list. Loop runs on Android only, needs no account and no internet connection, and keeps everything on the phone. It handles flexible schedules, scores each habit's strength over time and not just the current chain, and exports to CSV. Against it: there is no iPhone version, no sync between devices and no sharing, so a lost phone without a manual export is a lost history. Releases are infrequent; the most recent on Google Play is from September 2025.

    Cost: Free and open source, with no ads and no in-app purchases.

  2. HabitBox

    Best for: One person who wants a private tracker on iPhone or Android, with no account

    One tap to check a habit off, then streaks, a calendar heatmap, progress charts and home-screen widgets. There is no account and there are no ads. Habits stay on the device; on iPhone you can turn on sync through your own iCloud, free, and on Android a Plus backup file is the way to move them. Plus also adds several reminders per habit and archiving. Against it: the free plan is the smallest here, Android has no sync, and it is built for one person, with no way to share a habit.

    Cost: Free for 2 active habits, with one reminder each. HabitBox Plus lifts the limit; its site publishes no price, and its App Store listing shows in-app purchases from $2.99, lifetime options among them.

  3. Streaks

    Best for: Someone on Apple devices who would rather pay once

    Streaks runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Vision Pro, syncs between them through iCloud, and works with Apple Health, Siri and widgets. It tracks up to 24 tasks. You can share a task with another Streaks user so they can encourage you. Against it: there is no Android or web version, so that sharing only reaches people who also bought it on an Apple device.

    Cost: $5.99 once on the App Store, with no subscription and no free version. Its own site publishes no price.

  4. Habitify

    Best for: Someone who moves between iPhone, Android and a browser

    The widest reach on this list: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Android and the web, kept in step through an account. Challenges put you on a leaderboard with friends. Against it: it needs a sign-up, the free plan stops at three habits, and the plan names and prices on its site and in the App Store do not match. A challenge is a contest between people; we found nothing on its site for one habit that several people keep together.

    Cost: Free for 3 habits. Premium is $2.49 a month billed annually, or $59.99 once, on its pricing page. Its App Store listing shows other prices, a monthly one among them, so check what you are buying.

  5. Finch

    Best for: Someone for whom a checklist feels like pressure

    A self-care app more than a tracker. You look after a small bird, and it grows as you finish the modest goals you set for the day: drink water, go outside, make the bed. The tone is gentle by design, and for some people that is what makes a habit last. It runs on iPhone and Android. Against it: if you want charts, schedules and an exact history, this is the wrong shape, and the price takes some finding.

    Cost: Free to start. Finch Plus is a subscription; its site publishes no price, and its App Store listing shows in-app purchases from $5.99 to $69.99.

  6. Habitica

    Best for: People who want habits to be a game they play with a group

    Habits, daily tasks and to-dos become a role-playing game: finishing them earns experience and gold for your character, and missing a daily task costs it health. Join a party and you take on quests together, where one person's missed day hurts everyone, which is real accountability for the right group. It runs on the web, iPhone and Android. Against it: it needs an account, the game is a lot if you only want a list, and the board a household would share costs extra.

    Cost: Free to play. An optional subscription is $4.99 a month or $47.99 a year on its App Store listing. A shared task board for a family or team is a separate paid Group Plan, priced per member.

  7. Chickadee Bandit

    That's us

    Best for: A household that wants some habits private and some shared, beside everything else it keeps

    Two apps in a household library and not a product built around habits. Habits takes a daily, weekday or times-per-week goal, has grace days that absorb an occasional miss, and can be paused for a vacation without losing the history. Streaks keeps a counter that is private or shared, and a group challenge anyone in the household can check off. A milestone in either can set off an automation, such as points toward a reward. Both sit in the same place as the family's chores and calendar. Against it: you need an account and a household, the data is in your household's encrypted database on our servers and not on your phone, and there is no heatmap, no reminder per habit and no watch app. If habits are the only thing you want to track, every app above goes further for less.

    Cost: $6/mo or $60/yr for the whole household, up to 10 members, with every app in the library. 30-day trial, no card, no ads.

Prices and features are from each product's own site as of October 2026; where a product has a head-to-head page here, its entry restates that page. Products change — always check the other product's site for current details.

Choosing between them

  1. If you are on Android and want it free and offline, Loop Habit Tracker.
  2. If you want a private tracker with no account on iPhone or Android, HabitBox.
  3. If everything you own is Apple and you would rather pay once, Streaks.
  4. If you need the same habits on a phone and in a browser, Habitify.
  5. If streaks and charts make you feel worse, not better, Finch.
  6. If a group of you would enjoy the game, Habitica.
  7. If the habit belongs to the household, or you already keep the household's chores and calendar with us, ours.

Yours alone, or shared

This is the line that divides the list. Loop and HabitBox are for one person and say so. Streaks lets another Streaks user see a task and cheer you on. Habitify sets friends against each other in a challenge. Habitica's parties share the consequences of a missed day. Ours is the only one here where the people are a household that already exists, with children and adults in it, and a streak can be one counter the whole household ticks.

One more is worth knowing about. HabitShare is free and built around exactly this: you choose, friend by friend, which habits each one can see. Its App Store listing shows its last iPhone update in January 2023, so we have left it off the list, but it still installs.

Where your record is kept

Loop keeps everything on the phone, and HabitBox does too unless you turn on iCloud sync on an iPhone. Streaks syncs through your own iCloud. Habitify, Habitica and ours need an account and keep your record on their servers, which is what makes a second device or a second person possible. Neither answer is the right one. A record on your phone is private and is gone with the phone; a record on a server follows you and belongs to an account.

What free really means

Loop is free with no limit. Habitica's game is free and the subscription is optional. HabitBox is free for two habits and Habitify for three, which is enough to try either and not enough to stay. Streaks and ours have no free version: Streaks is one small payment, and ours is a subscription with a 30-day trial that covers the whole household and every other app in it.

The feature list is not fixed

Every other product on this page is a fixed set of features: it does what it does, and a need it did not anticipate gets a no. Chickadee Bandit is built from small apps, and a household can add one of its own. An admin describes the app in a paragraph on the Apps page and the hub builds and installs it, using the AI credits that come with every plan; someone who writes code can start from any of the open-source apps and install their own version from a URL. A custom app gets the same checks as the ones we ship: it declares what it reads and writes, keeps its data in your household's own database, and the hub refuses anything it did not ask for.

How to build a custom app for your household

Where this list comes from

We make one of the products on it, and it is marked. Every claim about another product was checked against that product's own pricing and feature pages on the date above — not against another review site — and where we could not find a published price we say so rather than quote one. The order is by what each product is for, not a ranking of merit.

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