Comparison

Surely vs Habitus

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

Head to head
About

Surely

This app offers a streamlined approach to task management, focusing on completion rather than complex organization. It provides essential actions like completing, deleting, or deferring tasks, intentionally omitting features that might encourage procrastination.

Highlights
  • Complete tasks
  • Delete tasks
  • Defer tasks
  • Minimalist interface
  • Focus on task completion
Features
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Most todo apps give you lots of features to organize your todos. But you don't want to be spending time organizing your todos: you want to be completing them. Surely is a focused todo app giving you just the features you need to get your todos done. There are only three things you can do with a todo: * Complete it * Delete it * Defer it Here are all the features Surely doesn't have because they encourage you to keep more todos instead of completing them: * Separate defer dates and due dates * Complex ways of searching for todos * Separate lists of todos so you aren't looking at all of them at once * Bulk defer features. It should not be painless to defer many todos to the future; it should be painful to work with multiple todos so that you complete or delete them Surely is available for free on both iOS and the web.

About

Habitus

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Habitus is a minimalistic, non-cloud-based To-Do List and a Habit Building Tool. Major features: * Manage your Day with the Daily Task Schedule * Track Task Progress as Steps or % Completion * Create Daily-Repeating Tasks as Habit Building reminder * Recurring Tasks and easy Alarm-like manage * Time Tag for last progress * Group Tasks by Categories It works complete offline meaning: * Nobody else will have access to your tasks and schedules * No ads so you can focus on your tasks This app comes free, with one-off in-app purchase to remove usage limitations: * 4 Schedules * 2 Tasks * 2 Tags

Screenshots

Surely4 screens
Habitus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Surely at none against Habitus's 1. Surely also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 25 months). On price, ads, 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. Habitus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Surely asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Surely ships an update every 6 weeks, Habitus every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Surely versus Habitus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurelyHabitus
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 25 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoshua JusticeSapientia Data Limited

In-app purchases

None

Surely

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Habitus

One-time1
  • Full Version$4.99

Questions

Is Surely free?
Surely is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Habitus free?
Habitus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Surely or Habitus have ads?
Neither Surely nor Habitus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Surely or Habitus?
Surely ships an update every 6 weeks, and Habitus every 25 months. Most recently, Surely was updated on June 5, 2026 and Habitus on September 13, 2026.

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