Comparison

Patchwork Habits vs Lodestar

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

Head to head
About

Patchwork Habits

This app helps you build positive habits by encouraging you to make time for yourself without pressure. Track your activities, leave journal entries, and visualize your progress as your personal quilt evolves over time. It focuses on consistency rather than perfection.

Highlights
  • Create and name custom activity threads
  • Mark activities as completed with a tap
  • Daily and activity-specific journaling
  • Set daily reminder notifications
  • View and filter quilt progress
  • Cloud data backup and sync
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Patchwork habits is a free and forgiving activity tracker focused on helping you remember to make time for yourself. Patchwork's goal is to give you a nudge to help do the things you care about, without relying on streaks or targets. Over time, you'll see how your quilt evolves - whether finding a new hobby you love, starting up a seasonal hobby, or getting better at making time for yourself. It's not about being perfect, it's about making sure you're working on your quilt. Features: - Create, name, and reorder "threads" of activities - Tap threads to mark as completed - Leave daily journals, or journals about a specific activity - Set daily notification timings to remind yourself to fill in your quilt! - View and filter your entire quilt as well as summarized data - Back up your data on the cloud to keep it safe and move it between devices quiltly and quiltly subscriptions are subject to the terms of use in https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Lodestar

This app helps you achieve your ambitions by breaking down large goals into manageable milestones, steps, and daily tasks. It keeps your primary objectives visible and provides tools for tracking progress, building habits, and staying focused.

Highlights
  • Goal-first breakdown system
  • Milestone and step tracking
  • Daily habits and repeating tasks
  • Standard task tracking
  • Roadmap view
  • Optional XP system
  • Focus timer with Pomodoro
Features
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Lodestar – Never Lose Sight of What Matters Most apps track tasks. Lodestar tracks your life. Goals, money, vision, and career all in one place, showing how they connect. One glance at Home tells you where you are headed, what you are neglecting, and what to do next. Your Life, One Dashboard - Home brings it together: Life Pulse radar across six domains (Career, Finance, Health, Relationships, Personal), active goals with clear next steps, savings progress, net worth, wage tracking, free-to-spend budget, and a vision strip. Rearrange or hide any section. Your dashboard, your priorities. Life Pulse – See the Whole Picture - Where is your energy going? Life Pulse blends goals, vision photos, savings targets, and career plans into a balance radar. Spot blind spots before they become regrets. Catch when one area is eating everything else. Build a life that is intentional, not accidental. Goals That Scale With You - Set goals at any depth: keep it simple with to-dos, add milestones, or build a full roadmap with checkpoints and daily steps. Lodestar's guided wizard walks you through it. Savings goals live in the same story, not a separate app. Interactive roadmap shows the full path. Always know what is next. Vision That Stays Visible - Build a photo vision board tied to life domains and goals. Cluster or grid layout. Photos surface on Home, not buried in your camera roll. When motivation fades, your north star is still right there. Plan – Money and Career Connected - The Plan tab is your financial command center: net worth tracking, live wage ticker with clock-in and widgets, monthly budget with free-to-spend at a glance, savings goals with progress and projections, and a Career Map to chart paths, stages, and lifetime earnings. Financial calculators built in. Your money and your ambitions in one place. Widgets and Live Activities - Track goals, savings, and vision from your Home Screen. Clock in on a shift and watch earnings climb with a live wage ticker. Stay connected without opening the app.

Screenshots

Patchwork Habits3 screens
Lodestar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Patchwork Habits at 3 against Lodestar's 1. Patchwork Habits also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Patchwork Habits against 5.0 for Lodestar. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Patchwork Habits ships an update fortnightly, Lodestar every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Patchwork Habits versus Lodestar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPatchwork HabitsLodestar
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9 — better6
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNonagon LLCTYLER JAMES CHRISTIAN

Customer experience

Patchwork Habits

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Lodestar

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Patchwork Habits

No in-app purchases

None

Lodestar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Patchwork Habits free?
Patchwork Habits is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lodestar free?
Lodestar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Patchwork Habits or Lodestar?
Patchwork Habits and Lodestar are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do Patchwork Habits or Lodestar have ads?
Neither Patchwork Habits nor Lodestar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Patchwork Habits or Lodestar?
Patchwork Habits ships an update fortnightly, and Lodestar every 4 weeks. Most recently, Patchwork Habits was updated on November 3, 2026 and Lodestar on October 31, 2026.

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