Principal Task vs CrewHabits
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Principal Task
This app helps you manage tasks by tracking your completion rate against new tasks created. It offers a unique 'Task Velocity' score to show if you're keeping up with your workload. Organize with folders, contexts, and priorities, with advanced features available through a premium subscription.
- Task Velocity score
- GTD-native structure
- Due dates and repeating tasks
- Markdown support
- Kanban boards
- Private templates
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Track your Task Velocity — the ratio of tasks you complete against the ones you create, updated every day. See at a glance whether you're ahead or falling behind, not just what's on your list. Principal Task is a GTD-native task manager built for people who've outgrown to-do apps. Folders, contexts, priorities, statuses, and unlimited nested subtasks — organized the way real work actually happens. TASK VELOCITY Your 30-day completed-vs-created ratio, shown as a simple multiplier. Free members see their current score. Premium unlocks the full history, filterable by folder, context, priority, and status. SYSTEM HEALTH A live verdict — Healthy, Strained, or Overloaded — so you know where things stand today, separate from where they're heading. BUILT FOR GTD Folders and sub-folders, contexts, priorities, statuses, and stars. Subtasks nest as deep as you need, with independent completion — no forced parent-child status. KANBAN, HEATMAP, TEMPLATES See your work as a board. Watch your activity over time. Turn repeatable processes into templates you can apply in one tap. BUILT FOR AI ASSISTANTS Principal Task connects to AI assistants over MCP — read and write your tasks, subtasks, and folders directly from the assistant you already use. SHARE WITHOUT FRICTION Share a task list with a four-word link. No account required to view. You control how long it stays open. Free, no credit card. Premium is about $3/month or $24/year, and it doesn't limit how much you can do — it unlocks Task Velocity history, Kanban, the Activity Heatmap, and private templates. Principal Task. Software that gets out of the way. Terms of Use: https://principaltask.com/terms
CrewHabits
This app helps you build habits by connecting with friends. It uses social accountability, leaderboards, and shared progress to keep you motivated and consistent. Get personalized insights and routines to achieve your goals.
- Social accountability with friends
- Build routines from goals
- Activity feed and reactions
- Leaderboards and streaks
- Personalized insights
- Smart streak protection
- Focus timer and live activities
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CrewHabits makes building habits easier by doing it together. Only 1 in 10 people stick with a new habit on their own. The difference? Having people who show up with you. Team up with friends in crews to stay motivated, hold each other accountable, and actually stick with it. Social Accountability Habits are harder to skip when your crew is watching. Share your progress, see when others show up, and let the gentle pressure of a group keep you consistent. It's not about perfection, it's about showing up together. Whether you want to exercise more, read daily, or drink more water, your crew keeps you on track. Build Habits Together Create crews with friends and family. Share habits, cheer each other on with reactions, and compete on leaderboards to see who's most consistent. When your crew is counting on you, showing up becomes second nature. Activity Feed & Reactions Celebrate wins together. See when your crew completes habits, react, and stay engaged with real-time activity updates. A little encouragement goes a long way. Leaderboards & Streaks Friendly competition keeps everyone motivated. See who's leading the crew, track your streaks, and climb the ranks. Nothing like a little rivalry to keep you consistent. Build a Routine from a Goal Have a bigger ambition? Type a goal like "I want to get in shape" or "I want to sleep better" and get a complete routine. Multiple complementary habits designed to work together. No more guessing what to track. Personalized Insights Spot patterns in your progress: which days you're strongest, where your streaks break, and what's working. Get suggestions that adapt as your habits evolve, so you're always improving. Quick Add Describe any habit in plain words, like "drink 8 glasses of water" or "read before bed", and it becomes a trackable habit instantly. Pick from 7 categories with dozens of suggestions across health, fitness, sleep, focus, self-care, creativity, and more. Smart Streak Protection Life happens. Skip a day when you need a break without losing your streak. Your progress pauses, not resets. Perfect for vacations, sick days, or rest days. Track Your Progress Log daily completions, build streaks, and visualize your consistency with heat maps and weekly overviews. See which days you perform best and where you tend to slip, so you can adjust and keep going. Focus Timer & Live Activities Stay locked in with a built-in focus timer. Start a session for any habit, and a mini timer pill follows you across tabs so you never lose track. On iOS, your timer appears on the lock screen and Dynamic Island through live activities. No need to open the app to check your progress. Guided Onboarding New to habit tracking? No problem. A step-by-step guide walks you through creating your first habit, from naming it to setting your frequency. You'll feel at home in seconds. iPad Optimized Full tablet support with responsive layouts: two-column views, expanded icon grids, and comfortable spacing designed for larger screens. Features: • Crews: build habits with friends and family • Social accountability with activity feed and reactions • Crew leaderboards and consistency rankings • Build a routine: share a goal, get complementary habits • Quick add: type a habit in plain words • Focus timer with live activities on lock screen • Smart streak protection with skips • Heat maps, streaks, and progress visualization • Daily, weekly, and custom frequency goals • Push notification reminders • Guided onboarding with spotlight walkthrough • iPad optimized with responsive layouts Whether you want to meditate daily, exercise more, read regularly, or build any positive routine, CrewHabits helps you stay consistent with friends by your side. Download CrewHabits and start building habits that actually last.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CrewHabits at every 2 days against Principal Task's every 3 months. On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Principal Task sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and CrewHabits sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Principal Task against 5.0 for CrewHabits. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Principal Task ships an update every 3 months, CrewHabits every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Principal Task | CrewHabits |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Zechariah Schwenk | Alisen Berat Ozel |
In-app purchases
Principal Task
- Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$29.991 Year
CrewHabits
- CrewHabits Premium (Monthly)7 Days trial$3.491 Month
- CrewHabits Premium (Annual)7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- CrewHabits Premium (Lifetime)$44.99









