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When I started my self-improvement journey in 2019, a handful of apps made it easier to track habits like going to the gym. They also helped keep me accountable. If you’re looking to make small, regular tweaks in your day-to-day life, these apps will help.
1Habitica: Best for Gamification
One of the best ways to keep up with a habit is to realize that life is like a video game that you play for real. And since Habitica gamifies the habit-tracking experience, it’s one of the best apps to use to make lasting changes.
Habitica lets you set up a positive habit tracker (like walking for 10,000 steps per day) or a negative one (like qutting the afternoon coffee). You can change the category via tags and set a difficulty level.
Using Habitica, you can reset the counter on any of your habits. You can also add notes that you think will be useful to record. At the top of the home screen, you’ll see bars for health and experience—along with your gaming level. The level progresses as you achieve objectives.
Once you’ve built up enough points, you can buy different things for your avatar. It’s one of manywellness apps that turn self-care into a game.
Download:Habitica foriOS|Android(Free, in-app purchases available)
Habitica Pricing
You can use Habitica for free, but the app also has optional subscriptions. If you want to support the project, pricing is as follows:
Every 6 Months
2Super Habit: Best for iOS Users
If you’re looking for a less gamified version of Habitica, I recommend checking out this habit tracker instead. You can enter your habit name and choose how many days per week you’d like to complete it. For example, I aim to work out four times per week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday).
When using this habit tracker, you can also pick a start date. You can also choose how many reminders you want to see and decide on which day you want your calendar week to begin.
For additional customization, you can customize the color of your habit tracker. To get a full overview of your history, you can see your progress for the current month and year. Most in-app features are free, but you can upgrade to a paid subscription or get a lifetime purchase for unlimited habits.
Download:Super Habit foriOS(Free, in-app purchases available)
3Habit Tracker: Best for User-Friendliness
Davetech’s Habit Tracker app has a simplified user interface with several templates, such as breathwork, reading books, eating vegetables, and reviewing your day. Within each of these, you may choose specific goal periods and whether it’s one you want to build or quit.
Habit Tracker lets you change the icon for each of your habits, allowing you to navigate them more easily. Moreover, you can customize the chart type and choose whether it’s relevant for the morning, afternoon, or evening.
Some of the “quit” habit templates available include drinking less alcohol, complaining less, and not spending as much time on video games. You can create your own habits if you don’t want to use any of the templates.
Habit Tracker allows you to look at the status of your habits based on whether you met them or not. You can also track how you feel, which can help you find patterns when you keep up with or skip your habits.
Download:Habit Tracker foriOS(Free, in-app purchases available)
Habit Tracker Pricing
Most features are free, but you’re able to upgrade to a subscription or become a lifetime member. Pricing is as follows:
Enhance Yourself
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Lifetime Membership
4Habitify: Best for Full-Day Visualization
Habitify lets you pick from five starter habits, including drinking water and practicing yoga. You can also add your own later. The app lets you choose how often you want to repeat these habits, and you can set daily goals for how long you’d like them to last.
The Habitify app helps you keep everything organized by creating different areas. So, if you’re looking tokeep your family organizedor simply track what’s going on in your life, it’s a great choice. For each area, you can adjust the name and also pick a different color.
If you want to push yourself, you’ll find several challenges to participate in. These are split on a daily and monthly basis, and you’ll also find several subcategories to explore for more specific challenges.
Habitify has comprehensive statistics to give you an overview of your habits, and you may see which habits you finished and missed—along with those that you partially completed.
Download:Habitify foriOS|Android(Free, in-app purchases available)
Habitify Pricing
Habitify has monthly, annual, and lifetime subscription packages. Monthly costs $5.99/mo, but you can only get this on the website.
Pricing for the other two is as follows:
Lifetime Access
5Streaks: The Best Paid Habit Tracker
You have to pay $5.99 for the Streaks app, but you get lifetime access, and it’s quite comprehensive. So, if you want to take your habit-tracking more seriously, it might be worth considering.
Streaks lets you track several habits, such as walking your dog and decreasing your daily sugar intake. You’ll also find options for reading, learning a language, tidying the house, and more. Streaks integrates with the Health app, meaning that you can track various wellness-related aspects like upping or lowering your calorie intake.
To confirm that you’ve completed your habit for today, you simply have to tap and hold on to the icon. You’ll see all of your habits in the same place on the home screen.
Download:Streaks foriOS|Android($5.99)
6Way of Life: Best for Journaling About Your Habits
Way of Life is a simple habit-tracker that lets you choose whether you completed a habit by simply tapping the tick icon. You can also add notes for each habit you want to track, and it’s possible to journal within the app as well. So, you may want to consider it if you’re alsolooking for a micro-journaling app.
The Way of Life app lets you look at trends over extended periods via a bar graph or pie chart, meaning that you may tell if you’re on the right path. You can also set up daily reminders to ensure that you complete your habit each day.
When using Way of Life, you can activate password protection if you don’t want others to see what you’re doing.
Download:Way of Life foriOS|Android(Free, in-app purchases available)
Way of Life Pricing
Way of Life is free to use, but you can upgrade to a premium subscription or get lifetime access. Monthly pricing starts at $4.99/mo, and you can get the lifetime version for $29.99.
When choosing a habit tracker, you should pick something that’s easy to use and focus on core features to begin with. If you need to, you can then get something with more complex bells and whistles.
