Comparison

Haptic vs Self

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

Head to head
About

Haptic

This app helps you build new habits and track your progress by monitoring your daily actions and recording your thoughts and feelings. Analyze your behavior, form positive routines, and become a more disciplined individual with its user-friendly interface and privacy-focused design.

Highlights
  • Track daily actions and habits
  • Record feelings and thoughts
  • Analyze action statistics
  • Form new habits
  • Minimalistic interface
  • Data stored locally
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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Do you want to form new habits and track your progress? Haptic is an ideal helper for monitoring actions and habit formation. Keep track of your actions, record your feelings and thoughts, make new habits and become a better person! Life is defined by the actions we make. Everything matters – the books you read, the kilometers you ran and even every glass you drank early in the morning. Actions form us so it’s important to keep control of them and start good habits based on your actions. Together with Haptic you can: - pick categories of habits (reading books, listening to podcasts, watching movies and series, doing sport), make new actions and record your daily ones in different categories to form habits. - become more disciplined and analyze which actions your life consists of. - record your progress and feelings of sticking to good habits and eliminating the unhealthy ones. How does Haptic work? Research shows that after a number of attempts people still fail to form a new habit. Our app will help you stay on track thanks to action tracking, recording your feelings and thoughts and accurate action statistics for different periods of time. Benefits: - Minimalistic, trendy and nice interface. - Unconditional confidentiality. All the added information is stored on your device only. - No advertising or any other unnecessary notifications. - Convenient integration in Apple Health, Apple Music, Spotify apps. Free and premium accounts You can use Haptic for free. You will need a subscription to create more than 5 user categories, access to extended statistics and unique app icons (to your mood, weather and wallpapers). Contact us Do you have any questions or ideas on how to improve the app? Contact us at haptichq@gmail.com Privacy Policy: hapticapp.com Terms of Use: hapticapp.com Keep your actions under control, form habits and become the best version of yourself!

About

Self

This app helps you conduct self-experiments to understand the impact of behavioral changes on your health, wellness, and productivity. It provides tools to set up trials, track outcomes, and gain personalized insights through automated analysis and daily reminders.

Highlights
  • Conduct self-experiments
  • Track behavioral outcomes
  • Gain personalized insights
  • Automated statistical analysis
  • Daily check-in reminders
  • Data-driven self-improvement
Features
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Self-experimentation is the process of conducting trials where you are both the researcher and the subject. Through modifying your behaviors and reporting outcomes, you can gain concrete insights into the efficacy of whatever self-improvement you seek to make. Self-experimentation is a data-driven way to gain ultra-personal insights into the driving factors behind your health, wellness, and productivity. Through Self-E, you can set up experiments, view your data, and attain individualized insights through automated statistical analysis. Self-E sends daily reminders to check in so that your experiment stays consistent and structured.

Screenshots

Haptic4 screens
Self4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Self at 5.0 against Haptic's 4.3. Self also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Haptic's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, device support 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. Haptic sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Self asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Self holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Haptic has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Haptic ships an update every 3 weeks, Self every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Haptic versus Self: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHapticSelf
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (15 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better14.5
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexey SekachovBrown University Computing & Information Services

Customer experience

Haptic

All ratings15 ratings
Positive73.3%
Neutral20.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive53.8%
Neutral30.8%
Negative15.4%

Self

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Haptic

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Membership7 Days trial$1.491 Month
  • Annual subscription7 Days trial$12.991 Year
None

Self

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Haptic free?
Haptic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Self free?
Self is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Haptic or Self?
Self is rated higher. Haptic averages 4.3 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Self averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Haptic or Self have ads?
Neither Haptic nor Self shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Haptic or Self?
Haptic ships an update every 3 weeks, and Self every 6 weeks. Most recently, Haptic was updated on October 15, 2026 and Self on September 24, 2026.

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