Habit Tracker vs Rool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Habit Tracker
This app helps users build new habits and break old ones through progress tracking and visual feedback. Customize your dashboard with colors, icons, and descriptions to stay motivated by seeing your streaks grow.
- Create and track habits
- Visual grid-based progress charts
- Customizable dashboard (colors, icons, descriptions)
- Calendar for managing past completions
- Archive habits for breaks
- Data import and export
- Privacy-focused, no sign-in or cloud storage
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Big life changes do not start big. They start with one small habit, done today, done again tomorrow. HabitKit turns those daily wins into a colorful grid of tiles, one square for every day you show up, so you can finally see yourself becoming the person you want to be. That visible progress is the whole secret behind HabitKit, a beautifully simple habit tracker. When your grid looks this good, you will not want to stop. Fill the tiles, protect your streak, and let consistency do the heavy lifting. Whether you want to work out more, read every night, meditate, drink more water, save money, or finally quit smoking, HabitKit gives every goal the same simple loop: do it, log it, watch the grid grow. No guilt trips, just daily habit tracking that feels rewarding. BUILD GOOD HABITS, QUIT BAD ONES Create the habits you want to grow, or flip it around and quit a habit: every day counts as clean until you log a slip, and your streak counts your clean days in a row. You can even set a daily maximum, like two coffees a day, and simply stay under it instead of going cold turkey. TRACK YOUR HABITS YOUR WAY Check a day off with a simple yes or no, count reps like glasses or pages, or measure amounts with your own unit, like 2 L of water or 7.5 km of running. Set daily goals and flexible schedules that fit your routine: every day, specific intervals, or a number of times per week or month. YOUR PROGRESS AT A GLANCE Every habit gets its own tile grid, like a contribution graph, and every completed day fills in a square. See all your habits together on one dashboard, switch between Classic, Compact, and Split views, and share a beautiful snapshot of your progress when you hit a milestone. One glance tells you the whole story: what you did, what you missed, and how far you have come. WIDGETS FOR YOUR HOME SCREEN Put your favorite habits right on your home screen with small, medium, and multi-habit widgets. Your grids stay in sight, so your goals stay on your mind. Widgets follow your theme too, all the way to pure black dark mode. REMINDERS AT THE RIGHT TIME Get a friendly nudge exactly when you need it, and never forget a habit again. Add a daily check-in to review your whole day, and with Pro, up to three reminders per habit. STATISTICS, STREAKS, AND NOTES Watch your current streak grow, chase your best streak, and set streak goals for extra motivation. Dive into completion statistics and monthly charts, manage past days in the calendar, and add a short note to any day: what went well, what got in the way. MAKE IT YOURS Give every habit its own color and icon, or use any emoji. Organize your dashboard with categories and filters, reorder everything with drag and drop, and pick light, dark, or system theme, including a pure black mode for OLED screens. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. No ads. Your habit data stays on your device, and the app works completely offline. HABITKIT PRO HabitKit is free to use with up to four habits, including streaks, the calendar, notes, reminders, and exporting and importing backups. Pro unlocks unlimited habits, charts and statistics, home screen widgets, restoring archived habits, and up to three reminders per habit. Subscribe monthly or yearly, or pay once and keep Pro forever with the lifetime option. Every upgrade supports an independent developer. Start free, see if the grid pulls you in, and upgrade whenever you are ready. You do not need a new life. You need one small habit and a place to see it grow. Download HabitKit and place your first tile today. Terms of Use: https://www.habitkit.app/tos/ Privacy Policy: https://www.habitkit.app/privacy/
Rool
This app provides a private cloud-based AI assistant to help you with tasks, projects, and file management. It allows you to chat with an AI, create and edit files, generate content, and collaborate with others in isolated project environments.
- Private cloud computer
- AI-powered task completion
- File upload and management
- Content generation (text, code, images)
- Persistent project memory
- Collaborative work environments
- Data export
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Rool gives you a private computer in the cloud that you can talk to. Ask questions, create files, solve problems, and work through projects with an AI that builds on what you’ve already done. Each Rool Machine brings your conversations, files, and memory together. It can run software and carry out tasks with multiple steps, helping you go from an idea to finished work through a familiar chat. WORK WITH YOUR FILES Upload documents, PDFs, images, spreadsheets, and code. Ask Rool to read, edit, organise, or create files for you. Turn notes into a report, work through calculations, or build an interactive HTML page. CREATE AND EXPLORE Draft ideas, generate images, write code, and compare different approaches. Refine the results through conversation and keep what you create alongside the rest of your project. BUILD ON YOUR WORK Rool connects your notes, conversations, files, and decisions through persistent memory. Return to a project with its context still available, and ask your AI to use earlier work when planning what comes next. MAKE ROOM FOR DIFFERENT PROJECTS Use separate Machines for personal projects, work, or shared interests. Each has its own files and memory, helping you keep different parts of your life organised. WORK TOGETHER Invite others into a Machine to collaborate with the same AI, files, and project history. Changes sync in real time, so everyone can work from the same information. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your work is stored in your own isolated Machine, hosted in the EU. Rool has no ads and does not sell your data or share it for third-party AI training. You can export your data whenever you choose. AI INCLUDED Advanced AI is built in. Rool automatically selects models for the task, so you can focus on what you want to do. Start with a free plan that includes AI access, persistent memory, and file storage. Paid plans offer higher usage and storage limits. Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Habit Tracker at 2.5K against Rool's 5. Habit Tracker also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6). Rool's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 90%). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Habit Tracker sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Rool sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Habit Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Habit Tracker has 2.5K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of Habit Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rool's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Habit Tracker | Rool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (2.5K ratings) — better | 4.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.5K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 223 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Sebastian Roehl | Lightpost One Limited |
Customer experience
Habit Tracker
Rool
Bugs and requests
Habit Tracker
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional crashes on launch
- Widgets not updating automatically
Requested features
7 requests- Add more widget size options
- Implement Apple Health integration
- Allow setting habit frequency (e.g. 3 times per week)
- Add ability to log notes/details for each habit
- Implement Apple Watch app
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- Provide calendar view of habits
- Enable ability to mark a habit as incomplete
Rool
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Habit Tracker
- HabitKit Pro (1 Month)$0.991 Month
- HabitKit Pro (1 Month)2 variants$1.991 Month
- HabitKit Pro (1 Month)$4.991 Month
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- HabitKit Pro (1 Year)$5.991 Year
- HabitKit Pro (1 Year)$11.991 Year
- HabitKit Pro (1 Year)$24.991 Year
- HabitKit Pro (Lifetime)$14.99
- HabitKit Pro (Lifetime)$29.99
- HabitKit Pro$59.99
Rool
- Plus$12.991 Month
- Pro$29.991 Month









