Simple Habit Tracker vs Pixelist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Habit Tracker
Build positive habits and transform your life with this intuitive tracker. Get inspired by a vast library of ideas, create custom routines, and stay motivated with reminders and progress tracking across physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- 200+ habit ideas
- Custom habit creation
- Daily routine builder
- 21-day challenge
- Habit reminders
- Progress tracking
- 4 wellness dimensions
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Simple Habit Tracker helps you to build good habits routine and change your life! ● Get inspired with collection of 200 simple habit ideas ● Create custom habits you want to form ● Build strong daily routine and morning ritual ● Challenge yourself: 21 days to make or break a habit ● Stay on track with the help of reminders ● Track progress on any goal or habit ● Stay balanced across 4 wellness dimensions: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual ● Achieve your life goals ● Most beautiful and simple habit planner and tracker app!
Pixelist
This minimalist app helps you track daily habits by visualizing your progress. Over time, your check-ins form unique images, encouraging mindful awareness rather than perfection.
- Minimalist habit tracking
- Daily check-ins
- Visual progress over time
- Image formation from data
- Mindful awareness cultivation
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Thank you for trying this out, I hope it brings you joy like it has for me. Pixelist is a minimalist habit tracker designed to bring mindful awareness to daily life. Over time, the micro-details of daily checkins ("pixels") will form interesting large-scale images. The goal isn't to be perfect, but instead to simply cultivate awareness. Please reach out to pixelistapp@gmail.com if you have any feedback, we'd love to hear your thoughts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pixelist at 4.9 against Simple Habit Tracker's 4.6. Pixelist also leads on review sentiment (95% vs 76%). Simple Habit Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (434 vs 100). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pixelist holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 434 and 100 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Simple Habit Tracker's written reviews are positive against 95% of Pixelist's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Habit Tracker | Pixelist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (434 ratings) | 4.9 (100 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.4% of reviews | 95.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 434 — better | 100 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maryna Furmanchuk | Jonathan Crossley |
Customer experience
Simple Habit Tracker
Pixelist
User reviews
Simple Habit Tracker
From 434 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💎 Visually appealing and intuitive interface
- 🎯 Effective at helping users form habits
- 🆓 Free and unlimited habit tracking
- 🌈 Colorful and motivating design
- ⏰ Helpful reminders and notifications
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- 🔄 Difficulty marking habits as 'done' consistently
- 📊 Limited data analytics and progress tracking
- 🔍 Lack of customization options for categories/colors
- 🔔 Redundant or excessive notifications
Pixelist
From 100 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and intuitive design
- 🎨 Beautiful and aesthetic interface
- 💰 Free with no ads or subscriptions
- ✨ Minimalist approach
- ✅ Easy to use and track habits
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- ❓ Difficulty deleting habits
- ❓ Incorrect dates displayed
- 📉 No account to save data
- 🎛️ Limited customization options
Bugs and requests
Simple Habit Tracker
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when completing 21-day challenges
- Swiping to mark habits doesn't always register correctly
- Duplicate or mismatched notifications for habits
Requested features
5 requests- Add custom habit categories
- Allow setting recurring habits (e.g. weekdays)
- Provide more detailed progress tracking and analytics
- Implement a dark mode or adjustable color scheme
- Add Apple Watch integration and complications
Pixelist
Reported bugs
6 issues- App closes immediately on opening
- Cannot delete a habit
- Incorrect dates displayed for the month
- Deleting one of two habits with the same name crashes the app and deletes both
- Monthly reset feature was problematic (now fixed)
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- March data disappeared on April 1st (resolved)
Requested features
37 requests- Export data as CSV or to clipboard
- More themes/color options
- Widget for home screen
- Yearly view
- Customizable colors/hex code picker
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- Ability to scroll calendar forward/backward
- Outline individual squares and lines
- Sync with iCloud/Dropbox
- Yearly view
- Symbols instead of colors for colorblind users
- Dark mode theme
- Zoom out view with notations
- Ability to group tasks
- Scale task label size to length
- Customizable colors instead of themes
- Widget to show visual squares
- More pixel colors/hex code picker
- Yearly view
- See previous month after it ended
- Export data as JSON or CSV
- Import data
- Dropdown menu for themes with previews
- Sync with iCloud between devices
- Display info as a widget
- Customizable colors
- Yearly view
- See previous month after it ended
- Export features
- Yearly view
- Dark mode theme
- Custom theme features
- Zoom out part of the app have notations
- Export data as a file (JSON or CSV)
- Import data
- Dropdown menu for theme with preview
- Symbols instead of colors
- Sync with iCloud between devices
In-app purchases
Simple Habit Tracker
No in-app purchases
Pixelist
No in-app purchases
Questions
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