Comparison

Habit Tracker vs Dimly

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

Head to head
About

Habit Tracker

Features
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Struggling to stick to your daily resolutions, habits, or routines? You've come to the right place! Research suggests that consistent tracking can significantly improve your adherence to a routine. That's where Habit Calendar comes in – it simplifies the process of tracking one or more activities. Here's how it works: Begin by adding the activities or habits you want to track. Then, each day, open the calendar and simply mark whether you've completed the task or not. You can access performance reports at any time to evaluate your progress. If you're on a journey to develop good habits and break free from bad ones, consider reading "Atomic Habits" by James Clear. An essential tool for mastering these atomic habits is a habit tracker like our user-friendly Habit Calendar, which allows you to record your daily achievements effortlessly. Our Habit Calendar is designed for tracking multiple recurring tasks, habits, or events. It also offers robust reporting capabilities and serves as an activity log. Marking your progress on the calendar is as easy as a touch or swipe across the days. You can even add notes or comments for each day if needed. Generate reports whenever you like to gain insights into task trends, habit streaks, attendance records, and more.

About

Dimly

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Dimly is a quiet app for the end of your day: a short bedtime routine, sleep sounds and a dim red screen with no clock. No account, no ads, and everything stays on your phone. At bedtime you tap "I want to sleep". First you can write down whatever is still on your mind. The list waits in the app until morning. Then you pick a sound and a light, and the screen turns dim red. Over about 20 minutes it fades to black. The sound stops on its own after 15, 30 or 60 minutes, or plays all night if you want. You can switch off any step you don't use, and your choices stay for the next night. On nights when you just want to lie down, play something on the Sounds tab and tap "Dim and sleep". Sounds and light There are 23 sounds, and you can mix any two: rain, rain on the roof, a distant storm, a winter storm, ocean waves, a stream, a waterfall, a night marsh, wind, rustling trees, a forest, a fan, a fireplace, a campfire, a train, a purring cat, white noise, pink noise, brown noise, and four calm meditation tracks, singing bowls among them. For the light you get Embers, Aurora, Night sky, Breath (a circle you can breathe along with) or Dark, which is just a black screen. Tap the screen for the controls, which sit over your own light. To end the night, hold the button. At night None of the night screens show the time. That's on purpose. If you wake up and open the app, one tap starts your sound and the light again. You can change the sound, the volume or the light in the middle of the night, and the controls stay dim and red. If you can't fall asleep, there's a short page that suggests getting up for a bit and coming back when you feel sleepy. In the morning Dimly has no alarm. If you open it 7.5 hours or more after lights out, it asks "Time to get up?" You can sleep a little longer with your sound on, or get up and let the sound fade out. Then it asks how the night was. Pick good, okay or rough. One tap is enough. If you like, add what helped, and last night's list is there too. Your nights Tonight shows your last seven nights as small moons. The Nights tab goes back by week, month, year or all at once. After about ten nights you'll start to see what your good nights often had in common, a sound or going to bed on time, for example. It only works from your own nights in the app, so take it as a hint. There are no scores, streaks or badges. You can set a reminder 15 to 60 minutes before bedtime. It stays off until you turn it on. The daytime screens have an aurora in the background, in one of five shades from Emerald to Ice. At night everything turns red anyway. There's nothing to sign up for and nothing to buy. The app doesn't track you and doesn't send anything anywhere, so what you write never leaves your phone. You can delete all of it in Settings. I'm a product designer in Czechia. I made Dimly in my spare time, for my own evenings. It's in English and Czech. If something doesn't work for you, write to me from Settings. I read every message. Dimly is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition.

Screenshots

Habit Tracker2 screens
Dimly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Dimly at every 5 days against Habit Tracker's every 2 weeks. Habit Tracker's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Habit Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, Dimly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
Habit Tracker versus Dimly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabit TrackerDimly
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 β€” better16.4
Further details β€” not scored
Size32 MB69 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBhavinkumar SatashiyaMichal Damborsky

In-app purchases

None

Habit Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

Dimly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Habit Tracker free?
Habit Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dimly free?
Dimly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Habit Tracker or Dimly have ads?
Neither Habit Tracker nor Dimly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Habit Tracker or Dimly?
Habit Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, and Dimly every 5 days. Most recently, Habit Tracker was updated on November 3, 2026 and Dimly on October 31, 2026.

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