Simple Habits vs Patterns
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Habits
Build positive daily routines and track your progress with this habit tracker. Visualize your streaks and stay motivated to achieve your goals. Protect your data with a passcode and back it up.
- Add daily habits
- Track habit completion
- View current and longest streaks
- Set passcode protection
- Backup habit data
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Simple Habits helps you build positive habits in your life. It helps you keep track of your progress and maintain your motivation. For each habit, you can easily see your current and longest streak. Your goal is to make your current streak as long as possible. Aim not to break the streak and you will automatically keep the habit. FEATURES * Add the daily habits that you want to build. * Track how you maintain the habits. You can give a check mark to a habit whenever you do it. If you forgot, you can still give the check mark anytime you want. * See how good you are in maintaining the habits. For each habit, you can see the current streak and longest streak. You can also see the details of the streak. This way you can easily see when you succeeded and when you didn’t. * Set a passcode to protect your data. * Backup your data.
Patterns
This app helps you build better habits and achieve your goals through personal analytics and visualization. Track routines, monitor progress with clear visuals, and stay motivated with streak counters to become the person you aspire to be.
- Habit tracking
- Goal setting
- Custom data tracking
- Progress visualization
- Streak counter
- Flexible goal targets
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Patterns is your personal analytics tool to build better habits and achieve your goals. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Join thousands of users who rely on Patterns to improve themselves by getting deep insights into the person you are -- and setting goals to become the person you want to be. Tracking health and fitness goals, keeping up good studying or practice habits, or even remembering special moments, Patterns can help record and keep track of your routines and behaviors. Why Patterns? Flexible Goals: Set specific targets like once a week, three times a month, or every day. Custom Data: Track metrics that matter to you for deeper insights. Progress Visuals: See your habits and achievements come to life with clear visuals. Streak Motivation: Keep your momentum going with a streak counter that counts each time you meet your goal. Actively developed with many new features coming soon. Let us know what you'd want to see! Start analysis today and make excellence your habit!
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Verdict
Simple Habits and Patterns both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 77% of Patterns's written reviews are positive against 59% of Simple Habits's. Patterns also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Simple Habits against 4.5 for Patterns. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 34 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 59% of Simple Habits's written reviews are positive against 77% of Patterns's.
Simple Habits ships an update every 4 months, Patterns every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Habits | Patterns |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (24 ratings) | 4.5 (34 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.3% of reviews | 77.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 | 34 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Donald Latumahina | Limit Point Software |
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Simple Habits
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In-app purchases
Simple Habits
No in-app purchases
Patterns
No in-app purchases
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