Habit Tracker vs plant a habit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Habit Tracker
This app helps you build good habits and break bad ones with a minimalist, privacy-focused approach. Track your progress, build streaks, and receive clear feedback on your journey to a better life. Offers both free and premium features for personalized habit management.
- Create and track habits
- Set weekly goals
- Build streaks
- Minimalist design
- Privacy-centric
- Custom reminders (premium)
- iCloud backup (premium)
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Hapit is a minimalist privacy-centric habit tracker without distractions. Just clear feedback on your progress towards a better life. Create good habits – or get rid of bad ones – by setting weekly goals, tracking your progress and building streaks. Premium features: • Unlimited habits. • Custom reminders for each habit. • iCloud backup and sync of your progress. • Companion watch app to quickly mark your habits. The free version allows two habits, daily reminders, and stores your progress locally on your device.
plant a habit
This app gamifies habit formation by letting users grow virtual houseplants. Successfully completing habits waters and grows the plants, while missed days cause them to wither, encouraging consistency. Track your progress and cultivate lasting positive habits.
- Habit formation gamified
- Habits represented as houseplants
- Water plants for successful habits
- Plants wither for missed habits
- Track progress visually
- Cultivate positive habits
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Introducing plant a habit, the ultimate tool for developing and maintaining healthy habits! Our app makes habit formation fun and engaging by representing each habit as a houseplant. Every time you successfully perform your habit, you water your plant, helping it to grow bigger and healthier. If you miss a day or fall behind on your habit frequency goals, your plant starts withering, serving as a reminder to get back on track. With our app, you can easil track your progress and watch your herb friends grow into their full potential. Go ahead, try plant a habit for yourself today and start cultivating positive habits that will last a lifetime!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Habit Tracker at 88% against plant a habit's 50%. Habit Tracker also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). plant a habit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). On price and device support 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. Habit Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. plant a habit asks for nothing beyond the download.
Habit Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Habit Tracker has 37 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Habit Tracker's written reviews are positive against 50% of plant a habit's.
Habit Tracker ships an update fortnightly, plant a habit every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Habit Tracker | plant a habit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (37 ratings) — better | 4.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.5% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tenect Sweden AB | Jan Macura |
Customer experience
Habit Tracker
plant a habit
In-app purchases
Habit Tracker
- Hapit Premium$6.99
plant a habit
No in-app purchases
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