Comparison

Habit Star vs OneTapNote

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

Head to head
About

Habit Star

Build lasting habits with flexible tracking, custom reminders, and a rewarding star system. Personalize your experience with themes and sounds to stay motivated and achieve your goals.

Highlights
  • Flexible habit tracking (daily, weekly, specific days)
  • Customizable habit reminders with personalized messages
  • Star reward system for consecutive habit completion
  • Multiple view options (expanded streak focus, compact list)
  • Themable interface with color options
  • Customizable reminder and check-off sounds
  • Streak progress visualization
Features
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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 • 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.

About

OneTapNote

Features
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OneTapNote, just tap, every day of your life. What do you need to note down? Your physical condition? Your exercise? What you studied? You are busy and have a lot of tasks to do every day. Maybe there is more than one kind of thing you want to record. No problem! You can note down your days with just a tap. ##Features## - Easy: just tap your days - Custom settings: icons, colors, tags, order - Safe: Your notes are not collected - Themes: multiple themes to choose from - Save: Backup and restore available - Output: CSV output supported - Reminder: I will notify you once a day if you need it - Languages: English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (simplified/traditional) All ideas, feedback and suggestions are welcome. http://appa.flat-kids.net/

Screenshots

Habit Star4 screens
OneTapNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Habit Star at none against OneTapNote's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Habit Star ships an update every 2 weeks, OneTapNote monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and May 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Habit Star versus OneTapNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabit StarOneTapNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.1 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatti SalokangasMami Takata

In-app purchases

None

Habit Star

No in-app purchases

None

OneTapNote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Habit Star free?
Habit Star is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OneTapNote free?
OneTapNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Habit Star or OneTapNote have ads?
OneTapNote shows ads; Habit Star does not.
Which is updated more often, Habit Star or OneTapNote?
Habit Star ships an update every 2 weeks, and OneTapNote monthly. Most recently, Habit Star was updated on September 18, 2026 and OneTapNote on May 16, 2026.

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