Habits First User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience97.5% of reviews
Neutral2.5% of reviews
Negative experience0.0% of reviews

~ Based on 40 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Habits First Safe?

Habits First appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Habits First is 91/100.

This assessment is based on 63 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.

Safety Analysis

100.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
0.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
0.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 63 App Store ratings for Habits First.

Is Habits First Legit?

Habits First has limited verification signals. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Habits First is 58/100.

Based on 58 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Awesome

I bought the premium one time purchase which lets you have more features too very nice

Only one that has a free tier that does something

This app is peak

Great design

The app has everything. This is not a good app but an excellent app.

Awesome

Very happy with how simple this is. Happy to support the creator!

Opal/Brick, etc. Killer

10/10 No Notes

So good!

Amazing app actually works really well and is super effective, one down side is when you turn on “prevent app deletion” it definitely works but it also blocks you from deleting every single app on your phone so basically I completely loss the ability to delete other apps aside from habits first and there’s no way for me to turn off deletions because it’s permanent please help me 😭
(As soon as this is resolved I’ll change my rating to 5 stars)
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Response from developer

Hey there you can disable this by going into screen time settings then turning off content restrictions. Apologies as this is an iOS limitation and I should make that clearer in the future. I hope you reconsider your review

Great app

I gave it 4 stars earlier but the dev very quickly addressed everything

Response from developer

Hey there you can report a bug in the app at the bottom of the settings page. For your specific use case I think it makes more sense you create two blocks. You can create a block with no conditions except time which just keeps it blocked other than the specific date or time ranges you select

Good but…

Better than expected! I got the og yt video from the dev. Said it’d be free, ad free, all of the features would be free and it’d still be developed even without significant backing! All of it is true, except for the fact there is a $10 flat fee that lets you use Apple short cuts, lets it connect to other apps and alternative widgets. I haven’t paid for it and it works great! Highly recommend it!
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App deleting Bug

I enabled the feature that you can’t delete the Habbits App, but now I can’t delete any of my other apps anymore. An issue on my iPad and IPhone!

Response from developer

You can turn this off by going to Settings > Screen time > Content restrictions, and turning it off. In the update now it's made clearer that it blocks deleting apps in general.

Best content limiter app i’ve used

Really tapped into something genius here with the “hijacking” of the addictive nature of apps towards personally meaningful goals. Apple health integration is a fantastic idea

Amazing app! But….

Regardless of the but I just want to say this app is hands down my favorite “lock in” app haha I’ve been reading more and find myself not scrolling as much anymore so kudos to that!

My only but is that I would lock my phone while listening to my audible and realized that when you lock the phone the app doesn’t track the time.

Other than that this app is amazing!
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Its really good

Hey reysu, I'm going to test it right away and I love your idea, and I rly hope it will be able to help me with being a lazy bum lol. One thing I'd love to see (although I'm not sure if it's possible), is being able to lock certain websites from my browser, for example Youtube etc, since I'm afraid that I would instead of actively try to unlock Youtube (by reading a book for example), I'd just use safari to watch Youtube.

also would love to have this app on my MacBook, would be really great to stay productive.

And since I fear that when I am in college I'd be glued to my iPad since I'd use it for studying, it would be really cool if I would be able to lock my iPad in it's entirety for 2-3 min for example, to give myself a mental break (This feature may be already implemented in your app, but didn't rly get to fully test it out yet ... so sry for suggesting something that's already in your app).
Again thank youuu for this amazing app and stay healthy and safe!🙏 🙏🙏

Bug: Unlocking YouTube for 30 min, proceeds to use it for 10 min does something else for 20 min and YT is blocked again
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Great App, helps a lot

Hey reysu, I'm going to test it right away and I love your idea, and I rly hope it will be able to help me with being a lazy bum lol. One thing I'd love to see (although I'm not sure if it's possible), is being able to lock certain websites from my browser, for example Youtube etc, since I'm afraid that I would instead of actively try to unlock Youtube (by reading a book for example), I'd just use safari to watch Youtube.

also would love to have this app on my MacBook, would be really great to stay productive.

And since I fear that when I am in college I'd be glued to my iPad since I'd use it for studying, it would be really cool if I would be able to lock my iPad in it's entirety for 2-3 min for example, to give myself a mental break (This feature may be already implemented in your app, but didn't rly get to fully test it out yet ... so sry for suggesting something that's already in your app).
Again thank youuu for this amazing app and stay healthy and safe!🙏 🙏🙏

BUG: when I unlock YouTube for 30 min, but then only use it for 10 min and then proceed to do something else for 20 min, YT gets blocked again
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Love it so far !!

I love the concept of the app and how it’s constructed. What’s missing for me would be creating my own habits like “make breakfast” before f.e. open YouTube or “read” or “time for hobbies”.
I’d love to make my own habits. And that’s almost it. I love that I can select a time window when I can use apps and that I can also select “blocked the whole day”. Really nicely done !
I would like a more detailed location but I think it’s already better than most of the screen time- apps behind a paywall and it’s free. So thank you so much for trying to get a whole generation out of phone addiction <33
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Great concept!

This is the first app that I’ve seen like this, and I’m sure it’s the first good free one. It makes a lot more sense than any other I’ve used and I’m excited to see where it goes. It already pretty great already.

Fantastic App - Feature Request / Idea

Really like Habits First! I use it to block my social media apps until I’ve completed my workout, and it works really well.

One feature idea: I’d love the option to schedule when a block is active, while still keeping the unlock condition. For example, I’d like my social apps to stay blocked until I finish my workout, but only between 8:00 and 20:00. Because I use a Shortcut that adds a waiting time before opening apps, so being able to combine time-based blocking with conditions would be really useful.
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Finally an app I couldn’t find a way around

I feel like I’ve tried every screen time app there is and I always ended up finding some way around it, which kind of defeats the whole purpose. I’ve done phone lock boxes, I’ve given my friends and family the passcode to my screen time so I couldn’t get to it, and I still found ways to bypass it. Honestly it got pretty bad and I kind of assumed nothing was going to work.

This app is different, I mean the developer must’ve been in the same spot as me because there are so many features that are exactly what I needed. The fact that I can’t delete it is insane to me. That was my first reaction to every other app, well none of this matters because I can just delete the thing that’s blocking me, and this one closes that off completely.

The part I think is actually the coolest is that the apps aren’t just gone. It’s not like the lock box where my whole phone is unusable, and it’s not like handing off a passcode where I have no access at all. I can still get into everything I block, I just have to do certain things first. That little difference of it actually being available but only after I do something I’ve realized is soooo helpful.

I’m going to email you because I have some ideas I think would make it even better, but it’s already so good. Really cool app, thank you!!
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Woah!

I'm finally doing my hobbies and not wasting my time on social media 😭 Thank you!!!

Really like it, one question though

Came from the video and really liked the concept, very cool app indeed! Can recommend, but I have one question:
Why is chess.com something you unlock with the purchase but can be used with the app time requirement? Does that mean it doesn‘t work without the purchase and i dont get the minutes? Because I have some minutes of the chess.com app but it still shows 0/15mins in the overview of the block…
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Response from developer

App time requirement tracks how long you have the app open. Chess.com integration tracks how many games you completed. If you add Chess.com as an app time requirement it should track how many minutes you have used it. If there's a bug please let me know and I will fix it as soon as possible!

Thx

This app truly improved my quality of life. I am so grateful for all of the features that I’ve been waiting for someone to create for such a long time. This app is awesome and I would recommend it to literally anyone.