Habit Star vs Notes Card
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Habit Star
This app helps you build and maintain positive habits through simple daily check-ins and detailed progress tracking. Visualize your streaks, set custom reminders, and record more than just completion with custom fields. It offers seamless integration with your devices and Apple Health.
- Customizable habit scheduling
- Detailed progress visualization (calendar, timeline)
- Record custom data fields per habit
- Home screen widgets and Apple Watch app
- Apple Health integration
- On-device AI for habit suggestions
- Local data storage with export/import
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Habit Star helps you keep doing the things you meant to keep doing. Check a habit off and it is done. That is the whole daily loop — one tap, on a screen that shows today and nothing else. Everything below is what the app does with those taps once you have been at it a while. BUILD THE HABIT • Daily, every other day, chosen weekdays, or a number of times a week • Several times a day, if that is the shape of it • Reminders at the times you pick, worded the way you want • Streaks, and a star when you reach a goal you set • Drag habits into the order you actually do them SEE WHAT HAPPENED • The month as a calendar, every day green, amber or red • A timeline where a run of days draws as one unbroken line • Momentum, consistency by week, and the days you tend to skip • Your record and your current run, side by side RECORD MORE THAN A CHECKMARK • Add fields to a habit — minutes, reps, weight, how it felt • Set a target and see how often you hit it • A journal of every note and value you have written, searchable by word or by meaning ON YOUR HOME SCREEN, YOUR WRIST, AND BY VOICE • A widget you can check habits off from without opening the app • A progress ring and your perfect-day run, on the home and lock screens • "Hey Siri, mark meditation done in Habit Star" • An Apple Watch app with today's list, and complications for the watch face APPLE HEALTH • Link a habit to steps, exercise or mindful minutes and let it check itself off • Read-only and opt-in per habit. It only ever adds a completion, never removes one ON NEWER IPHONES • Describe a habit in a sentence and the form fills itself in • Write "ran 5k in 28 min" as a note and the numbers land on the habit's fields • Apple's own model, running on the phone. Nothing is sent anywhere. iOS 26 on iPhone 15 Pro or later YOURS TO KEEP • In English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Português, 日本語 and Suomi • Everything lives on your device. No account, no sign-up, no server • Export a full backup whenever you like and restore it on a new phone • Thirty-four themes, light and dark — pick one of each and the app follows your phone HABIT STAR PRO A one-time unlock, not a subscription. Trends, the calendar, the timeline, fields and targets, the journal, Apple Health, the Apple Watch app, the on-device suggestions, CSV export, and sixteen more themes with a builder for making your own. Buy it once and it follows your Apple ID to every device. The free app tracks habits properly. Today's screen, streaks, reminders, widgets, Siri, backup and restore are not behind the paywall.
Notes Card
Organize your tasks with a clean and simple note-taking interface. Manage your to-do list using easy-to-navigate card views. Add, edit, or delete notes with intuitive long-press actions.
- Simple and clean interface
- Card views for easy management
- Add new notes
- Edit existing notes
- Delete notes
- Intuitive long-press actions
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A simple clean notes card for memorizing your todo list Feature: Simple, Clean Card views easy to manage How to use: Press "Add Note" to add new note Long press Card can Delete or Edit
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Notes Card at none against Habit Star's 2. Habit Star's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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. Habit Star sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Notes Card asks for nothing beyond the download.
Habit Star ships an update every 6 days, Notes Card every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Habit Star | Notes Card |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matti Salokangas | Fei Yun |
Customer experience
Habit Star
Notes Card
In-app purchases
Habit Star
- 14-day TrialFree
- Habit Star Pro$9.99
Notes Card
No in-app purchases









