Comparison

Habit Star vs Bookmark Eater

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
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 • 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.

About

Bookmark Eater

Features
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Create a feed, full of content you like, with your bookmarks. A bookmark is placed when you discover something worth reading, but decided to read it later. Sometimes, those bookmarks are never read. What a waste for those valuable content! Stop making bookmarks an endless todo list. Bookmark Eater brings you focus and fun while helping you clean up bookmarks with GTD methodology. By focusing on only one random bookmark at a time, we provide you useful information about the bookmark. And then you are required to take explicit call to actions, whether to mark it as done or postpone it. All you need to do is exporting all your bookmarks from your browser and importing them into this application.

Screenshots

Habit Star4 screens
Bookmark Eater4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bookmark Eater at none against Habit Star's 2. Habit Star's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 7 months). On price, 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. Habit Star sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Bookmark Eater asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Habit Star ships an update every 6 days, Bookmark Eater every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Habit Star versus Bookmark Eater: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabit StarBookmark Eater
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.1 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatti SalokangasYU-WEI HUANG

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Habit Star

One-time2
  • 14-day TrialFree
  • Habit Star Pro$9.99
None

Bookmark Eater

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Habit Star free?
Habit Star is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bookmark Eater free?
Bookmark Eater is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Habit Star or Bookmark Eater have ads?
Bookmark Eater shows ads; Habit Star does not.
Which is updated more often, Habit Star or Bookmark Eater?
Habit Star ships an update every 6 days, and Bookmark Eater every 7 months. Most recently, Habit Star was updated on November 3, 2026 and Bookmark Eater on November 4, 2026.

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