HabiTally vs MonarchWeb
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HabiTally
This app allows users to record data about their monarch butterfly habitat conservation efforts. The collected, anonymized data is shared with conservation groups to help monarch populations recover.
- Record habitat conservation data
- Support monarch butterfly recovery
- Anonymized data aggregation
- Data shared with conservation parties
- Citizen science for wildlife
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Monarch butterflies face many challenges that have contributed to a significant decline in their population over the last two decades. More breeding habitat and food resources, including milkweed and nectar sources, across the migration route will help monarch populations recover. HabiTally enables farmers, ranchers, landowners and private citizens to support these efforts by entering data about their monarch habitat conservation efforts. Data collected through HabiTally will be made anonymous and aggregated at the county level. HabiTally data will be shared with other parties involved in monarch conservation/habitat implementation while remaining anonymous.
MonarchWeb
This platform supports standardized biological monitoring of monarch butterflies across North America. It was developed by analyzing existing scientific protocols and citizen science platforms.
- Standardized biological monitoring
- Trinational platform
- Monarch butterfly tracking
- Citizen science integration
- Scientific protocol analysis
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Trinational platform for standardized biological monitoring of the monarch butterfly in North America. For the creation of the platform, an analysis of various scientific protocols and citizen science platforms was carried out, as well as existing platforms to monitor monarch butterflies in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MonarchWeb at every 14 months against HabiTally's every 43 months. MonarchWeb also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). HabiTally's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HabiTally against 5.0 for MonarchWeb. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HabiTally has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
HabiTally ships an update every 43 months, MonarchWeb every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HabiTally | MonarchWeb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 43 months | Every 14 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Iowa State University of Science and Technology | Raul Padilla |
Customer experience
HabiTally
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In-app purchases
HabiTally
No in-app purchases
MonarchWeb
No in-app purchases
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