The Long View vs Behavior Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Long View
This app visualizes the long-term health consequences of daily nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle choices. It helps users understand how their current habits will affect them in the future, from next year to two decades from now.
- Long-term health impact visualization
- Nutrition tracking
- Exercise tracking
- Lifestyle choice analysis
- Future effect projection
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The Long View shows the time you win back by quitting smoking, worked out from your own habit. Enter how much you smoke and for how long. The app shows the years that habit has likely cost you, and how many come back as you cut down and stay smoke free. A one-tap check-in each day keeps the number current. IN THE FREE APP - The years you are winning back, from your own age, sex, country and smoking history - A daily check-in in one tap, with a countdown to the next one - Your full history, every day of it - A photo of your reason, right behind the number - Your smoke-free day count and your next health milestone - The whole app in any of 21 languages, picked in Settings - Log today from the menu bar on Mac PREMIUM - Money saved, from your own price per pack - A quit plan that steps you down to zero - The full recovery timeline, with the date you reached each milestone - App lock, to keep your check-ins and your photo private - Widgets, the Apple Watch app and export - Sync across all your devices and platforms. Sign in once with your email, or with Apple, Google or Microsoft, and Premium follows you. The yearly plan starts with 7 days free for new subscribers. Lifetime is one payment. BUILT TO BE FINISHED Reach 365 smoke-free days and every Premium feature is included at no charge. WHERE THE NUMBERS COME FROM About 17 minutes of life per cigarette for men and 22 for women (Jackson et al., Addiction, 2025), a life table for your own age, sex and country (the US Social Security Administration for the United States, the World Health Organization for every other country), and the recovery bands from Jha et al., New England Journal of Medicine, 2013. The full method is on thelongviewapp.com. YOUR PRIVACY The free app needs no account, and what you log stays on your device. With Premium, your check-ins sync encrypted with a key made on your device, so what we store is unreadable to us. No ads. The estimate is a motivational figure built from population averages. For medical advice, talk to a doctor or a quitline.
Behavior Tracker
This app helps you identify and understand the triggers behind unwanted behaviors like overeating, smoking, or doomscrolling. By logging urges and their causes, you can uncover patterns and gain insights to make lasting changes and break negative cycles.
- Log urges and causes
- Discover behavioral patterns
- Identify trigger-effect links
- Frequency and time analysis
- Personalized behavior recommendations
- Customizable triggers and behaviors
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Ever wonder what triggers your urges to drink, smoke, overeat, doomscroll, or gamble? TriggerLink connects triggers to behaviors so you can break the cycle. When an urge hits, log what led to it: stress, boredom, or social situations, then discover your patterns and gain the insights you need to resist urges and make lasting changes. UNDERSTAND YOUR TRIGGERS. CHANGE YOUR BEHAVIORS. TriggerLink helps you break the cycle by connecting your behaviors to their triggers. TriggerLink reveals the cause-and-effect patterns behind your behaviors. Track what triggers your urges—stress, boredom, arguments—and see exactly how they connect to your actions. Understanding the "why" is the first step to lasting change. HOW IT WORKS: SIMPLE CAUSE & EFFECT TRACKING When an urge hits, log it in seconds: - Cause (Triggers): What led to it? (Stress, Argument, Boredom, Loneliness) - Effect (Behavior): What happened? (Drank alcohol, Overate, Smoked, Doomscrolled) - Context: Add optional notes for deeper understanding Then watch the patterns emerge. SEE THE CONNECTIONS - "Stress → Drinking: 8 times this month" - "Argument → Overeating: 5 times this week" - "Boredom → Doomscrolling: most common at 9pm" These insights reveal your patterns, identify warning signs, and show exactly what drives your behaviors. TRACK CAUSES (TRIGGERS) - Emotional: Stress, Depression, Loneliness, Anxiety - Social: Arguments, Conflicts, Social Situations - Physical: Tired, Hungry, Pain - Environmental: Work Problems, Saw Trigger - Custom: Add your own unique triggers TRACK EFFECTS (BEHAVIORS) - Substance: Drinking, Smoking, Vaping - Eating: Overeating, Binge Eating, Sugar Cravings - Digital: Doomscrolling, Gaming, Procrastinating - Emotional: Lost Temper, Self-Isolated, Overthinking - Resistance: Track when you resist urges - Custom: Create behaviors specific to your journey DISCOVER YOUR PATTERNS - Cause-effect links: See which triggers lead to which behaviors - Frequency analysis: Identify your most common patterns - Time patterns: When are you most vulnerable - Trigger rankings: Know your highest-risk situations - Visual insights: Charts that make patterns clear - Filter by timeframe: 7 days, 30 days, year, all-time trends SMART SUGGESTIONS - Personalized behavior recommendations - Discover behaviors you should track - 50+ pre-made suggestions by category - Insights that learn from your habits FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE - Create custom behaviors with emojis and colors - Add your own trigger categories - Organize everything to fit your life - Make it personal to your journey PERFECT FOR - Addiction recovery: Understand what triggers drinking, smoking, or substance use - Emotional eating: See the connection between feelings and food - Anxiety management: Track what triggers stress responses - Breaking bad habits: Identify root causes of unwanted behaviors - Therapy support: Share insights with your therapist or counselor - Self-improvement: Build awareness through data-driven insights - Sobriety tracking: Prevent relapse by knowing your triggers - Mental Health: Use as a CBT-based log for anxiety, ADHD symptoms, or stress. WHY CAUSE-EFFECT TRACKING WORKS Understanding triggers is essential for behavior change. When you can see the cause (trigger) before the effect (behavior), you can: - Interrupt automatic responses - Avoid high-risk situations - Develop coping strategies - Build lasting awareness - Make intentional choices instead of reactive ones TriggerLink turns this into a simple daily practice. YOUR PRIVACY - iCloud sync - All data stored securely on your device - Completely private Whether you're in addiction recovery, managing emotional eating, working with a therapist, or building self-awareness, TriggerLink gives you the clarity you need to understand your patterns and make lasting changes. ---- Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pixolini.com/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: The Long View at every 2 days against Behavior Tracker's every 10 days. The Long View also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). 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. The Long View sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Behavior Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 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 The Long View against 5.0 for Behavior Tracker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
The Long View ships an update every 2 days, Behavior Tracker every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Long View | Behavior Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Augustus Travels LLC | Pixolini, Inc. |
Customer experience
The Long View
Behavior Tracker
In-app purchases
The Long View
- $0.99 One-Time Donation$0.99
Behavior Tracker
- TriggerLink Premium Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- TriggerLink Premium Yearly$24.991 Year
- TriggerLink Lifetime$34.99









