Comparison

HabitBoard vs Thought Path

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

Thought Path

Quickly capture thoughts, ideas, and tasks in a digital inbox. Visualize your mental output over time through maps or search. Automate capture and review with integrations.

Highlights
  • Quick thought capture
  • Task management
  • Idea organization
  • Visual output (map/search)
  • Automation with Shortcuts
  • On-device storage
  • iCloud sync
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Thought Path is an inbox to quickly capture all your thoughts, ideas, and tasks. Easily see the output of your brain over time, on a map, or in search results. You can integrate Thought Path with Shortcuts, to automate capturing and reviewing your thoughts. Though Path is free to use indefinitely, but you will need to review and archive all your thoughts once you reach a cap of 15. Pro users can remove this limit with a subscription fee. This app is made by a sole indie developer, and that means I care about user experience, not collecting user data. All your thoughts and ideas are saved on device and synced over iCloud - nothing is ever sent anywhere else for any reason. Terms of Use: https://andhash39.com/thoughtpath/terms Privacy Policy: https://andhash39.com/thoughtpath/privacy

Screenshots

HabitBoard4 screens
Thought Path4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: HabitBoard at 80% against Thought Path's 25%. HabitBoard also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). On price, ratings volume, 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. HabitBoard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.00 per month and Thought Path sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HabitBoard holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of HabitBoard's written reviews are positive against 25% of Thought Path's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HabitBoard ships an update every 10 days, Thought Path monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and July 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HabitBoard versus Thought Path: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabitBoardThought Path
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (8 ratings) — better4.3 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings89 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size134 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlorian HeidenreichMatthew James O'Donnell

Customer experience

HabitBoard

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

Thought Path

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral75.0%
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
2 purchases

Thought Path

Subscriptions2
  • Thought Path Pro (1 Month)7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Thought Path Pro (1 Year)7 Days trial$14.991 Year

Questions

Is HabitBoard free?
HabitBoard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Thought Path free?
Thought Path is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HabitBoard or Thought Path?
HabitBoard is rated higher. HabitBoard averages 4.6 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Thought Path averages 4.3 from 9 ratings.
Do HabitBoard or Thought Path have ads?
Neither HabitBoard nor Thought Path shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HabitBoard or Thought Path?
HabitBoard ships an update every 10 days, and Thought Path monthly. Most recently, HabitBoard was updated on September 9, 2026 and Thought Path on July 8, 2026.

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