Not a good habit to pay subscription fees
The app has great user experience and I love the way it builds up and vibrates when you complete a goal. This is very rewarding and provides a great feedback loop, genius idea. The worst part about the app is that you get a free trial and THEN IT restricts your use.
Most other apps will start you off with limited features and allow you to upgrade to more features, not give you features and then limit you to just one unless you upgrade.
I don’t mind paying a one time fee, I don’t mind there being ads, but I bought the book and move it, I don’t think the app does enough to warrant $60/year! Seems like a bad habit to get into to pay $60 or more a year for a phone app. Especially if one of your habits you want to form is to spend less time on your phone or be better at budgeting.Pretty, but limited and expensive
After reading the book and finding it extremely helpful, I suppose my expectations for the app were too high. But yes… it’s objectively limited, expensive and doesn’t even truly matches the objective of the book. At some level if feels like the author is monetizing on his fame… good old capitalism, I guess.
So it’s expensive. VERY expensive. My mobile plan in Europe is cheaper than this app. Even Netflix is. And I don’t mind paying for something that’s worth it, but this app sure isn’t.
Take for example the habits you can track. Six! Yes… S.I.X. You want to cultivate a different habit each weekday? Nope…. You’ll be missing one day. The habit tracker template on JC website has almost 20 habits. And it’s free!
Moreover, the way habits are formulated are limited and incongruous with the book. They have to follow a format of “I’ll do X at Y, to become Z”. No Habit Stacking, no breaking a habit, no other cue managing, no nothing. You get that format and that’s all.
Besides that, the other functionalities, like the quotes and the community, feel so lacking and underdeveloped that I might be better off by asking a chatbot to motivate me.
Yes, it’s pretty and it welcomes you with shiny animations but how this app has a 4.8 stars review just baffles me. Go to Reddit and read the reviews, they’re as critical as mine, if not worse.Helps me to track a much needed habit
Updated review: App is working well for me, now that I’ve learnt how to log my habit after the day has passed and can see the calendar to further track my habit. I personally find it quite motivating to see my progress. I use the free version which suits my needs at this time.
I don’t always get to log in my habit right after I finish the habit because life gets busy. However, once a day has passed, there is no way to log that you actually completed the habit. This makes the tracker look inaccurate. Also, I wish I could see my habit in calendar style like Streaks does. The “calendar” shows up only when I log my habit and it only shows a week at a time. As such, it won’t help me review the past month for example to see if there is pattern (i.e. days I am more likely to miss my habit) which might indicate more about a failure of my process on that day compared to other days.Developer Response
Hello, all these features are available in the app. Please visit the FAQs under the app’s profile page for more information about the app’s features.