Comparison

Habits Garden vs Obius

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

Head to head
About

Habits Garden

Turn life goals into a fun video game. Set habits, complete daily quests to earn rewards, and grow a beautiful virtual garden. Compete with friends and over 7,000 users on leaderboards to overcome procrastination.

Highlights
  • Gamified habit tracking
  • Daily quests and rewards
  • Virtual garden growth
  • Leaderboard competition
  • Social play with friends
Features
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Upgrade your life! You want to exercise more so read Atomic Habits, and watch productivity videos. But life doesn't change... Habits Garden turns your life into a video game. Reaching your goals becomes fun and exciting! 1. Set your goals and habits 2. Complete daily quests to earn rewards 3. Unlock and plant beautiful flowers in your garden 4. Play with 7,000+ users, climb leaderboards, and compete against friends Habits Garden is a gamified habit tracker to help you beat procrastination once and for all. ------ Terms of use: https://habitsgarden.com/tos Privacy policy: https://habitsgarden.com/privacy-policy Stay tuned on Twitter for the latest updates: @HabitsGarden

About

Obius

This app offers a visual workspace for organizing notes and ideas. It allows for reusable content blocks, color-coded sections for intent, and AI-powered features for content generation and semantic search. It prioritizes privacy with local-first storage and end-to-end encryption.

Highlights
  • Visual workspace for notes and ideas
  • Reusable content blocks (Loops)
  • Color-coded sections by intent
  • AI-powered content generation and search
  • Version history and snapshots
  • Offline functionality and end-to-end encryption
Features
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Obius — Notes that evolve. Designed for the way you think. Your ideas don't arrive in straight lines. Obius is a visual workspace where notes carry color, ideas connect to each other, and what you wrote yesterday folds into what you're building today. Built for founders, PMs, designers, researchers — and anyone who outgrew Apple Notes but never quite fit into Notion. LOOPS — WRITE ONCE, REUSE EVERYWHERE Drop a Loop into any note — a named, reusable content block like @launch_checklist or @weekly_review. Edit it in one place, every copy updates instantly. Perfect for running lists, shared context, and anything you reference more than once. SECTIONS THAT CARRY MEANING Every section has an intent — a color that tells you at a glance what kind of thinking lives there. Open ideas, questions you're sitting with, work in motion, issues to fix, things that are done. Five colors. Five intents. Your thinking, visible. — Drag and drop to reorder — Collapse, expand, and nest sections — Rich content: text, checklists, code, quotes, images, audio — Tap once to change a section's intent ECHOES — REMINDERS THAT BRING THE NOTE BACK Attach a time-based reminder to any Loop. Unlike calendar pings, an Echo resurfaces the full note when the moment matters — with all its context intact, not a one-line nag. OBIUS INTELLIGENCE AI that lives inside the workspace, not in another tab. — Generate full pages from a single prompt — Edit, rewrite, and refine content in place — no copy-pasting between apps — Smart titles that actually describe the page — Semantic search that finds ideas, not just keywords — Research context: pull what you need, paste, and think from there INSIGHTS THAT SURFACE WHAT MATTERS Obius watches your pages for patterns so you don't have to. Cleanup suggestions, related notes you forgot about, lists hiding in your text, and safety flags for leaked credentials or secrets. VERSION HISTORY, BUILT IN Every note quietly snapshots itself. Browse the timeline, restore any earlier version, watch your thinking evolve over time. No save button. No lost work. SHARE LIVE OR FROZEN Generate a short public link to share a live note that updates as you edit — or freeze a snapshot in time. Readable URLs. View counts. Comments optional. CALENDAR See your work across time. Plan ahead, look back, stay oriented — without leaving Obius. LOCAL-FIRST. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT. — Pages stored on your device first — Works fully offline; syncs when you reconnect — End-to-end encrypted sync — No tracking. No selling data. Not now, not ever. — Optional local-only mode for maximum privacy YOUR MIND. YOUR ARCHITECTURE. Obius isn't another notes app. It's a workspace shaped like thinking — simple enough to start in seconds, deep enough to grow with how you actually work. Designed for the way you think. Terms of Use (EULA): https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRq_bt_Z_V7ci7lS3hHLzq4QjRrDFJsJu6Ab-oedeeSakGPGcx_dJlG3EDAzdetptd21GPyEtzTxKbg/pub Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRbJ9cYTWnyQSYeL8JrTOizC0eC-f8rhoicqh3GttTDIrbNlesR-_auwkFz2OLsTTzguDG3YLtzwnEY/pub

Screenshots

Habits Garden4 screens
Obius4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Obius at none against Habits Garden's shown. Habits Garden's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Habits Garden sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Obius sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 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 — 5.0 for Habits Garden against 5.0 for Obius. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Habits Garden has 18 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Habits Garden ships an update every 5 days, Obius weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Habits Garden versus Obius: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabits GardenObius
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (18 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarc, Roger, Gustave LOUVIONDAED LLC

Customer experience

Habits Garden

All ratings18 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

Obius

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Habits Garden

Subscriptions2
  • Habits Garden$5.991 Month
  • Habits Garden$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Habits Garden — Lifetime$44.99
4 purchases

Obius

Subscriptions3
  • Obius Pro Founder$4.991 Month
  • Obius Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Pro Annual$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Power Pack$9.99

Questions

Is Habits Garden free?
Habits Garden is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Obius free?
Obius is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Habits Garden or Obius?
Habits Garden and Obius are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 18 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Habits Garden or Obius have ads?
Habits Garden shows ads; Obius does not.
Which is updated more often, Habits Garden or Obius?
Habits Garden ships an update every 5 days, and Obius weekly. Most recently, Habits Garden was updated on November 3, 2026 and Obius on October 31, 2026.

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