Pixelist vs Forte
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Forte
This app helps you build and break habits by tracking progress beyond simple streaks. It offers flexible goal setting, multiple reminders, and detailed statistics to monitor your journey. Customize your experience with various colors and icons, and utilize home screen widgets for constant visibility.
- Habit strength measurement
- Flexible goal setting (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly)
- Multiple reminders
- Detailed habit statistics
- Customizable colors and icons
- Home screen widgets
- Automatic iCloud backups
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Introducing Forte - Habit Tracker, your ultimate habit tracker designed to revolutionize your habit-tracking journey. Unlike conventional habit trackers, Forte employs a unique algorithm that goes beyond mere streaks, providing a nuanced measure of the strength of your habits. Say goodbye to minor setbacks derailing your habit building progress—Forte won't reset your hard-earned progress to zero. With Forte, cultivating or breaking habits becomes a breeze. Set weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly goals for all your habits, and revel in the flexibility to track your journey. Multiple reminders ensure you stay on course, while detailed habit stats empower you to monitor and share your progress with friends. Choose from a palette of 10 vibrant colors and over 180 habit icons, accompanied by stunning home screen widgets to keep your habits in the spotlight. Forte is not just visually appealing—it also boasts automatic iCloud backups and VoiceOver accessibility for a seamless user experience. The free version of Forte lets you track up to 4 habits, but for those craving more, Forte Premium offers unlimited habit tracking. Dive into daily notes for each habit, customize your app's color and icon, and relish the satisfaction of supporting Forte's ongoing development. Any questions or suggestions on how to enhance Forte - Habit Tracker? Reach out to me at support@fortehabits.com—I'm eager to hear from you! Forte, your go-to habit tracker for a transformative tracking experience. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Icons by Icons8
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pixelist at none against Forte's 3. Pixelist also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (95% vs 67%). Forte's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume and ads 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. Forte sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Pixelist asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pixelist holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 105 and 44 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Pixelist's written reviews are positive against 67% of Forte's.
Pixelist ships an update every 2 months, Forte every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pixelist | Forte |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (105 ratings) — better | 4.4 (44 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 95.1% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 105 — better | 44 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Crossley | Cortilab LLC |
Customer experience
Pixelist
Forte
Bugs and requests
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
Forte
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pixelist
No in-app purchases
Forte
- Forte Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Forte Premium Annual7 Days trial$35.991 Year
- Forte Premium Lifetime$99.99
