Routinely vs Routine Planner, Habit Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Routinely
This app helps you build, monitor, and understand your daily habits and tasks. Set specific goals with target times, track your progress, and receive reminders. Review your history and streaks to stay motivated and mindful of your routine.
- Establish and track daily goals
- Set custom target times for tasks
- Receive completion reminders
- Review history and completion streaks
- Create custom goals or use suggestions
- Utilize 3D Touch for quick actions
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Routinely is a tool to help you establish, track, understand, and be more mindful of your daily routine. Use Routinely to quickly and easily set goals for each of the tasks and habits that make up your day, and then track your completion of those goals. Routinely can send you notifications to remind you to complete your goals, and provides a history view to review past days. Each goal has a name, an abbreviation (you can use emoji to liven up your routine!), and a target time. Goals can also have alternative target times for different days of the week, or target times can be set relative to other goals. Routinely will track your average completion time for each goal, and let you know when you’re on a completion streak. You can create custom goals, or choose from a library of suggestions. Routinely uses 3D Touch (when available) to give you quick access to creating new goals, and completing your ‘most recent’ and ‘next upcoming’ goal. You can swipe to access frequently used features for each goal, use Pop/Peek to quickly review goal information, and search for goals using spotlight. Routinely provides a "Current Goals" widget that shows your most recent and next goals, for quick access.
Routine Planner, Habit Tracker
This app helps you build and execute daily routines by breaking down tasks into small, manageable steps with timed prompts. It's designed to make starting easier and keep you focused, even offering voice guidance and integration with AI assistants.
- Break down tasks into 1-5 minute steps
- Voice prompts for next actions
- AI assistant integration for routine creation
- Home screen widget for quick access
- Cross-device support (phone, watch, tablet, Mac)
- Visual progress tracking with plant growth
- Share routines with others
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You've checked the boxes. The day still didn't happen. Routinery tracks your routines and then runs them with you. App of the Day 2026 (Apple) - Best ADHD App of 2025 (Forbes Health) - 5 million downloads A habit tracker, routine tracker and day planner in one. Stack small habits into a daily routine, break it into 1-5 minute steps, and each step runs on its own timer while a voice calls out what comes next. Morning routines, bedtime wind-downs, study blocks, workouts, medication - anything with a fixed order runs the same way. WHY IT WORKS - Starting gets easier. "Study" is too big to begin; "sit at the desk, 1 min" is not. Small steps lower the cost of the first move. - Nothing to decide mid-run. You set the order once, when you built the routine. Nothing left to choose means less to stall on. - Wins come back often. A finish is logged every step, not once a day. - No time math. You set each step's length once. Sink into one thing and the voice pulls you out, so an afternoon doesn't vanish. ASK CHATGPT OR CLAUDE TO BUILD IT - "Make me a 40-minute weekday morning routine" and it lands in the app. - Your assistant can handle routines alongside other tools you've connected there, like Google Calendar. - Connects to ChatGPT, Claude and others over our MCP server, included in the free plan. IT STARTS ON TIME, SCREEN OR NOT - Set the weekdays and time; the reminder arrives then. Weekdays only, three times a week, whatever your schedule. - The voice reads each step aloud, so the routine keeps running while you shower or cook. - A home screen widget shows today's list without opening the app. - Start on the phone, carry on from watch, tablet, or Mac. STAY DEEP IN ONE THING - A pomodoro that announces the next task, so the block keeps its own momentum. - Build the environment: white noise, Focus mode, landscape view, Shortcuts. - Stretch a timer, skip a step, reorder what's left - all without leaving the run. DON'T DO IT ALONE - Share a routine's task list with family or a friend and see how far each of you got. - Finish a routine and the result goes straight to the person you picked. SEE IT ADD UP - A plant grows for each day you keep a streak; weekly and monthly stats show what holds. FOR THE DAILY AND THE ONE-OFF - Keep undated tasks and weekly repeats in one daily routine planner. - A one-time task gets a timer too. - Can't face it now? Park it in Anytime for later. - Shift work that moves weekly still fits: Morning, Afternoon, Evening. - See the day as a list, a calendar, or a timeline. WHO USES ROUTINERY - Adults with ADHD who know the task and still can't start - People who lose hours once they sink into something - People who double-check in case they missed one - Anyone who waits to start until they can do it perfectly - Shift workers, people on daily medication, parents on the school run - Anyone who wrote a routine down and never once ran it ROUTINERY AT A GLANCE Is Routinery free? Yes. 2 routines free, no account, first one running in under a minute. Premium lifts the routine cap: monthly, 6-month or yearly. The free plan shows ads; Premium is ad-free. Do I need an account, and what about privacy? No account, no sign-up. Routine data is stored on our servers; usage analytics go through third-party tools. What you type is never used to train AI models. Email hello@routinery.app and we delete your data. Does Routinery work offline? Almost entirely. Routines, timers, voice, reminders and history run offline. Only device sync needs a connection. What does Routinery connect to? Siri Shortcuts, widgets, Apple Watch, and AI assistants over MCP. No direct sync with Apple Health or calendars. No export button either; pull your data out over MCP instead, free plan included. What devices does Routinery run on? iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. No web version. Questions, bugs or ideas: hello@routinery.app Routinery is not a medical device and does not diagnose or treat ADHD.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Routine Planner, Habit Tracker at 4.7 against Routinely's 3.3. Routine Planner, Habit Tracker also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 45%) and ratings volume (18K vs 6). Routinely's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and ads (none vs shown). On price and update cadence 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. Routine Planner, Habit Tracker sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Routinely asks for nothing beyond the download.
Routine Planner, Habit Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Routine Planner, Habit Tracker has 18K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Routinely's written reviews are positive against 83% of Routine Planner, Habit Tracker's.
Routinely ships an update fortnightly, Routine Planner, Habit Tracker every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Routinely | Routine Planner, Habit Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (6 ratings) | 4.7 (18K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews | 82.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 18K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 167 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | chris hollander | Routinery Corp. |
Customer experience
Routinely
Routine Planner, Habit Tracker
Bugs and requests
Routinely
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Routine Planner, Habit Tracker
Reported bugs
3 issues- Routine steps not updating correctly
- Crashes when trying to edit routines
- Sync issues between phone and Apple Watch app
Requested features
5 requests- More than 2 free routines
- One-time purchase option instead of subscription
- Ability to create checklists within tasks
- Option to run routines without set times
- Improved Apple Watch integration and complications
In-app purchases
Routinely
No in-app purchases
Routine Planner, Habit Tracker
- Routinery Premium (Weekly)7 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Routinery Premium (monthly)7 Days trial$5.491 Month
- Routinery Premium (monthly)7 Days trial$6.991 Month
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- Routinery Plus Yearly Plan7 Days trial$24.001 Year
- Routinery Premium (6 months)7 Days trial$26.496 Months
- Routinery Premium (Yearly)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Routinery Premium (Yearly)1 Year trial$39.991 Year
- Routinery Membership1 Year trial$39.991 Year
- Routinery Premium (Yearly)7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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