Comparison

iHabit vs DoBuff

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

Head to head
About

iHabit

This app helps you build positive habits and maintain focus through daily check-ins, time management tools, and goal tracking. It offers features like customizable habit creation, statistics, and a Pomodoro timer to enhance productivity and life management.

Highlights
  • Habit creation and check-in
  • Daily/weekly/monthly habit frequency
  • Habit statistics and trend analysis
  • Focus timer (countdown, Pomodoro)
  • Focus time statistics
  • Multi-device data synchronization
  • Desktop widgets
Features
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iHabit is an efficiency-enhancing software that integrates habit + focus, which can help you develop good habits and stay focused at all times. • Create habits to stay focused In work or in life, good habits will make us feel happier. In iHabit, habit checking is very simple, you just need to plan in advance what you need to check in every day or every week, and click on the habit card on that day. And through continuous check-in and continuous change of habits, it helps us to better manage our lives and time. When you want to complete the task at hand in a better state, iHabit will also be an excellent tool that can help you concentrate and prevent you from being addicted to your phone. • What features does iHabit support? - Widgets: Support adding desktop widgets on iOS14 and above systems - Habits: Frequency of daily/weekly/x days per week/x days per month to create habits to develop - Habit statistics: summary of the number of days completed by the habit/completion rate/trend statistics/pie chart statistics, etc. - Habit log: complete the reminder of the clock-in time, support uploading pictures - Concentration: countdown/countdown/pomodoro clock and other forms of concentration - Focus statistics: focus time summary/days/trend statistics/pie chart statistics, etc. - Data synchronization: iPhone/iPad multi-device cloud data synchronization - Dark mode: switch between dark/day mode with one touch - Theme style: different forms of card switching can be completed according to needs - Daily reminder: You can set a daily reminder alarm clock to ensure the completion of the check-in task of the day - Calendar view: Simple summary of calendar view, easier viewing habits or focus on completion • Contact Us Your suggestions and feedback are very important to us, write in the comment area or contact me directly. E-mail: feedback@quji.tech QQ: 714645019 Terms of use: https://gostraight-tech.github.io/ihabit-page/shi-yong-tiao-kuan.html Privacy Policy: https://gostraight-tech.github.io/ihabit-page/yin-si-zheng-ce.html

About

DoBuff

Enhance your reminders and calendar with powerful tools for time management, progress tracking, and goal setting. Visualize your tasks on a timeline, create unique weekly and yearly plans, and utilize focus timers with progress bars. Gain insights with trend statistics and countdowns.

Highlights
  • Timeline view for tasks
  • Weekly, monthly, and yearly planning
  • Focus timer with progress bar
  • Trend statistics and heatmaps
  • Countdown timers
  • Calendar integration
  • Widgets
Features
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“DoBuff” is primarily built around Reminders and Calendar, providing core features such as time management, progress tracking, goal management, and more. “DoBuff” is designed to enhance Reminders and Calendar with a range of powerful additional features, helping you use them more effectively. “DoBuff” started as a collection of tools I built for my own use with Reminders and Calendar. It was developed around my personal needs and is now available for anyone with similar needs. If you are also a Reminders or Calendar user like me, “DoBuff” may be a great fit for you. Core features and goals (supported for both Reminders and Calendar events): 1. Display tasks and events on a timeline. 2. Unique weekly, monthly, and yearly planning views. 3. Two separate tag systems that can be used independently or synced with Reminders. 4. Focus timers based on Reminders for better time management. 5. Progress bars based on Reminders, with lists serving as progress trackers for goals. 6. Completion and time-spent statistics for Reminders lists. 7. Trend analytics, including tag-based focus time statistics, list tracking, yearly heatmaps, time paths, footprint maps, and more. 8. Countdown support for Reminders. 9. Mark Reminders as abandoned or postponed. 10. Calendar integration, including reading events and writing focus sessions to Calendar. 11. Counting and count tracking. 12. Enhancements available for Reminders are also supported for Calendar events. 13. Export and back up Reminders. 14. Reminder countdowns with support for system alarm countdowns. 15. Note templates for quickly adding notes. 16. Add notes to lists. 17. A range of widgets, including Focus widgets, Calendar widgets, Goal Tracking widgets, Today widgets, and more. 18. Automatic focus timing. 19. Favorites for Reminders and Calendar events. 20. Enhanced global search. 21. Apple Watch version. 22. Turn Reminders into anniversary reminders. 23. Pomodoro focus timer support. 24. Health and sleep data integration, including automatic sleep focus tracking. 25. Energy and focus management. 26. Energy level management. 27. Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly records and summaries. 28. Daily mood tracking. 29. List migration. And several other feature enhancements. For Calendar events, DoBuff also provides workflow-based event management, such as marking events as completed or abandoned. These are only some of the features currently available in “DoBuff”. More features are being organized and will be released gradually. *Membership Subscription: Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, and the renewal price will be confirmed at that time. Subscriptions can be managed by the user. Auto-renewal can be turned off after purchase by going to the user’s App Store account settings. 【Feedback & Support】 If you have any questions or issues while using the app, please contact us at: liyubelief@iCloud.com Terms of Use: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DSFZOeURmQk1McGVu Privacy Policy: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DSFBQSWJwcERmRUhB

Screenshots

iHabit4 screens
DoBuff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: DoBuff at weekly against iHabit's every 6 weeks. DoBuff also leads on ratings volume (39 vs 4) and review sentiment (100% vs 91%). iHabit's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. iHabit sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 3 months and DoBuff sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for iHabit against 4.8 for DoBuff. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DoBuff has 39 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of iHabit's written reviews are positive against 100% of DoBuff's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iHabit ships an update every 6 weeks, DoBuff weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
iHabit versus DoBuff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriHabitDoBuff
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings)4.8 (39 ratings)
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings439 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGuangzhou Quji Technology Co., Ltd.宇 李

Customer experience

iHabit

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral4.5%
Negative4.5%

DoBuff

All ratings39 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

iHabit

Subscriptions2
  • iHabit 季度会员$1.493 Months
  • iHabit 年度会员$2.991 Year
One-time2
  • 升级永久会员$1.99
  • iHabit 永久会员$4.99
3 purchases

DoBuff

Subscriptions2
  • 月会员$0.991 Month
  • 年会员$2.991 Year
One-time1
  • 永久会员$6.99

Questions

Is iHabit free?
iHabit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DoBuff free?
DoBuff is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iHabit or DoBuff?
iHabit and DoBuff are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 39 ratings respectively.
Do iHabit or DoBuff have ads?
Neither iHabit nor DoBuff shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iHabit or DoBuff?
iHabit ships an update every 6 weeks, and DoBuff weekly. Most recently, iHabit was updated on September 22, 2026 and DoBuff on September 5, 2026.

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