Comparison

HabitBoard vs Breaks

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

Head to head
About

HabitBoard

This app helps you build and maintain intentional habits with a flexible tracking system. It offers detailed historical data, insightful statistics, and customizable features to support your daily routine and motivation.

Highlights
  • Unlimited habit tracking (Pro)
  • Detailed historical data and statistics
  • Weekly goals and skipped days configuration
  • Notes for individual days
  • Customizable colors
  • Lock Screen and daily widgets
  • Shortcuts integration
  • Archived habits
Features
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HabitBoard is a simple and flexible habit tracker. It helps you to form and keep track of your intentional habits, provides valuable insights for your decisions, and offers support in staying attentive. ### Personal Habits If you're just starting out with one or two habits or already have a long list of things you want to keep track of — HabitBoard imposes no limitations on the types of habits you can track. The Free version allows for tracking of 3 habits, Pro supports unlimited habits. ### Historic Data It provides a detailed calendar-like view of your historic data which grows over time. In addition, you get habit-specific statistics like current and longest streaks, completion rate, and count by week, month, and year. ### Statistics HabitBoard provides meaningful and beautiful stats that give an overview over all your tracked habits. You can inspect your overall weekly and monthly completions, get an overall completion rate, and keep track of your daily completions. Available with HabitBoard Pro. ### Weekly Goals and Skipped Days Some habits are not planned daily and HabitBoard makes it easy to configure automatically skipped days and weekly goals per habit. If you set a weekly goal, you'll see an additional label for the current progress in the habit list. ### Notes You can add notes to individual days and review them for each habit. This can come handy to, e.g., remember why you marked a day as skipped, to keep track of when you start a new book with your reading habit, or take note when you start a new progression in your exercise habit. ### Customizable Colors Each habit can use colors according to your personal taste or for visual grouping of habits. You can customize both the colors for done and missed habit states. Available with HabitBoard Pro. ### Widgets HabitBoard offers Lock Screen widgets, a daily completions widget, and small, medium, and a large calendar-like widgets (which are interactive on iOS 17) so that you can glance on your habits even if you're not using the app. ### Shortcuts With the “Mark habit as done” and “Set note for habit” Shortcuts actions, you can combine different tasks to automatically keep your HabitBoard up-to-date. ### Archived Habits Some things also come to an end (or are paused), so HabitBoard offers a dedicated place for archived habits. Habits that live there are still fully interactive, so it can also be used as a more private area for certain habits. Available with HabitBoard Pro. ### Configuration of List Labels Streaks are not always the most meaningful metric — sometimes it's better to focus more on completions. With HabitBoard, you can decide whether you want to display the current streak, weekly, monthly, and yearly completions in addition to the names in the habit list. ### Reminders When you’re starting out, a daily reminder can be useful. If you want, the app notifies you when it’s time to review your HabitBoard for the day. In addition, with HabitBoard Pro, each habit can have its own reminders. You can choose the time and weekdays where you want to be reminded, customize the notification message, and decide whether to be reminded if you already marked the habit for the day. And you can have multiple reminders per habit. ### Automatic Backup and Sync HabitBoard securely and privately backups and syncs your habits via iCloud. If you're using a second device, your data is already there. ### Support for Apple Watch If you’re using an Apple Watch, you can track your daily habits from your wrist. The dedicated watch app allows for marking habits directly (which is synced with the paired iPhone) and provides various complications for your watch face to display daily progress. --- If you have feedback, a bug report, or want to be a beta tester, feel free to reach out via any of the links under *Settings → About*. Thanks for using HabitBoard! --- Terms of Service: https://habitboard.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://habitboard.app/privacy/

About

Breaks

This app helps you enhance productivity by timeboxing work and breaks. It offers a simple, single-screen interface to set durations and start focus sessions. Receive notifications for session completion and utilize interactive widgets for easy control.

Highlights
  • Customizable work and break durations
  • Session start and end notifications
  • Work-only or break-only sessions
  • Interactive widgets for session control
  • Single-screen simplicity
Features
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Breaks is a simple focus timer to help you do your best work. Breaks lets you easily timebox your work and ensure you’re taking adequate breaks, so you can focus better and be more productive. Breaks is designed to be simple as possible with no extraneous features. Too many apps today try to do too much and make it difficult to do the one thing you actually want the app to do. Breaks is a single screen. You set your work duration, break duration, and hit Start Session, and that's it! Breaks will remember your last used durations so when your session is over, you can go again with a single tap. - Start a focus session with work and break durations - Get notifications when the work portion is over and at the end of the session - Can do work-only or break-only sessions - Interactive widgets lets you see the current time remaining as well as start/stop/restart sessions

Screenshots

HabitBoard4 screens
Breaks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: HabitBoard at Free against Breaks's $0.99. Breaks's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On ratings volume, 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

HabitBoard is free to download; Breaks costs $0.99 up front. HabitBoard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.00 per month. Breaks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Breaks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
HabitBoard versus Breaks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabitBoardBreaks
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.6 (8 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size134 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlorian HeidenreichZachary Waugh

Customer experience

HabitBoard

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

Breaks

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

HabitBoard

Subscriptions2
  • HabitBoard Pro Monthly3 Days trial$1.001 Month
  • HabitBoard Pro Yearly7 Days trial$8.001 Year
One-time1
  • HabitBoard Pro Lifetime$20.00
None

Breaks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HabitBoard free?
HabitBoard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Breaks free?
Breaks costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HabitBoard or Breaks?
Breaks is rated higher. HabitBoard averages 4.6 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Breaks averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do HabitBoard or Breaks have ads?
Neither HabitBoard nor Breaks shows ads.

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