Comparison

Habitify vs Shadowstep

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Habitify

This app helps users build positive habits and break negative ones through personalized motivation, automatic tracking, and seamless integration with other health apps. It offers features like smart reminders, progress visualization, and mood tracking to support your journey towards a better life.

Highlights
  • Personalized notifications
  • Progress charts and streaks
  • Automatic tracking via health apps
  • AI assistant integration
  • Customizable habit schedules
  • Mood tracking and notes
Features
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Build better habits. Build a better life. Since 2016, Habitify has helped 3M+ people form over 20M habits — and earned repeat features from Apple, including App of the Day. We believe everyone deserves a better life: more good habits, fewer bad ones. Building habits is hard. Habitify makes it easier. # Why Habitify Habitify is built for one thing: your habit-forming success. That's our north star. Every feature exists to get you started, keep you going, and help you win. # STAY MOTIVATED, EVERY DAY Motivation gets you started — and keeps you going. Habitify keeps you fueled with: - Personalized notifications that adapt to your journey - Beautiful charts, streaks, and progress views that celebrate how far you've come - Milestones that turn small wins into lasting momentum # TRACKING THAT HAPPENS AUTOMATICALLY Building habits shouldn't create a new habit of opening a habit tracker. With your consent, Habitify logs progress automatically by connecting to the apps you already use: - Apple Health & Google Health/Fit - Fitbit & Strava - Screen Time & RescueTime Walk, run, sleep, meditate, read, or cut screen time — and watch it log itself. # BUILT FOR THE AI ERA Habitify works the way you work now. With API, MCP, App Intents, and Siri support, you can: - Log habits by chatting with your favorite AI assistant - Ask for your progress and stats in plain language - Trigger updates hands-free with Siri Your habits, wherever your conversations happen. # INVISIBLE BY DESIGN The best habit tracker is one you barely notice. Habitify stays out of the way — quietly tracking, gently motivating — so your energy goes to living your habits, not logging them. # EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SUCCEED - Create habits in seconds with daily, weekly, or custom schedules - Smart reminders for morning, noon, or night - Streaks, completion history, and a clean progress calendar - Notes, mood tracking, and a built-in timer - Mark habits done, skipped, or missed — pause anytime life changes - Friendly challenges. - Sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch # JOIN 3 MILLION+ PEOPLE Whether you want to be more productive, get fit, sleep better, or simply feel more in control, Habitify gives you everything you need to make it happen. Download Habitify and start building a better life today. --- Habitify is available for free on all platforms. When you are ready to grow, unlock Habitify Plus to enjoy unlimited habits, smart reminders, and custom group areas to organize your routines. For the ultimate productivity and wellness experience, try Habitify Pro with a 7-day free trial. It includes all the features of Plus, alongside premium upgrades such as automated integrations with Apple Health and top apps, and advanced timers (pomodoro, stopwatch). --- Contact & Support • Website: https://habitify.me • Email: contact@habitify.me • Privacy Policy: https://habitify.me/privacy-policy • Terms of Use: https://habitify.me/terms-of-use • Feedback Forum: https://feedback.habitify.me

About

Shadowstep

Features
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Every day, Shadowstep matches you against one hidden rival — and you have until 8 PM to out-walk them. You won't know who they are. Their name is redacted, their city is a guess, their step count climbs in real time beside yours. All you know is the number you have to beat. Then at 8 PM the mask comes off: the identity is revealed, the verdict lands, and you find out whether the stranger you've been racing all day was a friend, a neighbor, or someone you'll never meet. One duel. One day. No grinding, no endless leaderboards, no streak guilt. Just the quiet pressure of someone out there walking — and the question of whether you moved more than they did. HOW IT WORKS • Each morning you're paired with an anonymous rival. • Shadowstep reads your daily step total from Apple Health to keep score. • Watch the gap in real time — your steps against theirs, lane by lane. • At 8 PM, the rival is unmasked and the duel is settled. • Win or lose, you get a share card built to send. WALK YOUR FRIENDS Challenge people you actually know. Find which of your contacts already play (we only ever check secure one-way hashes — your address book never leaves your phone in readable form) and call them out for a head-to-head where you both know exactly who you're racing. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Sign in with your phone number — no email, no password. • Shadowstep only READS your step count. It never writes to Apple Health and reads nothing else. • No ad tracking. No data sold. No advertising profiles. Out-walk a stranger before the day ends. Find out who they were. Then do it again tomorrow.

Screenshots

Habitify4 screens
Shadowstep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shadowstep at none against Habitify's 10. Habitify's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Habitify sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Shadowstep asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Habitify versus Shadowstep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabitifyShadowstep
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (7.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings7.2K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.216.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size228 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUnstatic Ltd CoElya Livshitz

Bugs and requests

Habitify

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Habit data disappearing
  • Sync issues between devices
  • Unreliable notifications
  • Bugs with habit editing and rescheduling

Requested features

7 requests
  • Progress picture feature
  • Weekly/monthly habit summaries
  • Ability to pause habits
  • More flexible habit scheduling
  • Improved Apple Health integration
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  • Community/social features
  • Better customization options

Shadowstep

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Habitify

Subscriptions6
  • Habitify Pro Monthly$8.991 Month
  • Habitify Pro Monthly (Family)$11.991 Month
  • Habitify Pro Yearly14 Days trial$49.991 Year
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  • Habitify Pro Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Habitify Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
  • Habitify Pro Yearly (Family)7 Days trial$89.991 Year
One-time2
  • PRO Lifetime2 variants$59.99
  • Habitify Pro Lifetime2 variants$119.99
None

Shadowstep

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Habitify free?
Habitify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shadowstep free?
Shadowstep is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Habitify or Shadowstep have ads?
Neither Habitify nor Shadowstep shows ads.

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