Comparison

HelloHabit vs Compound

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

Head to head
About

HelloHabit

This app helps you build positive habits and achieve your goals through personalized tracking and journaling. Set custom habits, receive reminders, and monitor your progress with detailed statistics. It also offers a rich text journal to reflect on your journey and a calendar view for scheduling.

Highlights
  • Custom habit creation
  • Habit suggestions
  • Goal setting (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
  • Multiple reminders
  • Activity logging
  • Streaks and statistics
  • Rich text journaling
  • Calendar view
Features
Read full description

Focus, grow, and feel your best. HelloHabit helps you manage tasks, build habits, and achieve success. TASKS Task Lists: Create lists for tasks, errands, routines, and anything you want to remember. Custom Lists: Organize tasks by project, priority, schedule, or personal category. Task Reminders: Add reminders to keep important tasks visible at the right time. Progress Tracking: Mark tasks complete and review what you have finished. HABIT TRACKING Custom Habits: Personalize your routine with habits like exercise, run, steps, read, meditate, drink water, wake up early, sleep early, journal, brush teeth, cook, quit smoking, quit drinking, quit social media, quit skin picking, and more. Suggestions: Explore hundreds of habit ideas for your list, including fitness, health, productivity, and wellness goals. Goals: Set daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly targets to achieve your desired outcomes. Reminders: Set up multiple reminders per habit to stay on track and build consistency. Activity Entries: Log unlimited activities for past or current dates to monitor your progress. Streaks and Stats: Track your progress with detailed streaks, statistics, and records to stay motivated. Timers: Stay focused with stopwatch or countdown timers for time-bound habits. Health Sync: Automatically sync health-related habits with Apple Health for comprehensive tracking. Quit Trackers: Monitor the duration since quitting habits to celebrate milestones. JOURNAL Detailed Notes: Record insights and progress for each habit to reflect on your journey. Rich Text Editor: Customize notes with formatting and styles for better organization. Centralized View: Access habit activity and notes in one place for easy reference. Filtering: Organize journal entries by habit to review specific areas of focus. Bookmarking: Mark important notes for quick reference and easy access. SCHEDULE Reminder Options: Set one-time, daily, weekly, or monthly reminders to keep your habits top of mind. Unlimited Reminders: Add as many reminders as needed for each habit to stay consistent. Calendar View: Check your schedule in daily, weekly, or monthly formats to plan ahead effectively. PLATFORM Dark Mode: Try out a sleek, dark interface for comfortable nighttime use. Customization: Personalize various settings to suit your preferences and needs. Sync Across Devices: Access your data seamlessly on all your devices for convenience. Customer Support: Get help via an in-app chat feature for quick assistance. Terms of Use: https://hellohabit.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://hellohabit.com/privacy

About

Compound

This minimalist app displays your entire year on a single screen, allowing you to track daily habits with a single tap. It focuses on visualizing patterns and consistency without pressure or reminders, prioritizing privacy with local data storage.

Highlights
  • Yearly view on one screen
  • One-tap daily check-ins
  • Optional daily notes
  • Visual pattern emergence
  • Clean, minimalist interface
  • Local data storage
  • No notifications or reminders
Features
Read full description

Compound is a minimalist habit tracker designed around a single idea: see your entire year at a glance. Every day of the year lives on one screen. Tap once to check in. Add notes if you want. Over time, patterns emerge naturally. See your whole year All 365 days are visible at once. No scrolling. No dashboards. The layout automatically adapts to your screen so your year always fits. One tap per day Tap a day to mark that you showed up. That’s it. The calendar shows what happened, clearly and honestly. Optional depth Add short daily notes with a long press Review reflections in a simple timeline Run time bound personal experiments alongside your daily check ins Use as much or as little as you want. Visual patterns See consistency over weeks and months. Runs appear naturally. No streak pressure. No resets. Designed for focus Clean, minimalist interface No notifications or reminders No gamification Thoughtful dark mode Privacy first No accounts No cloud sync All data stored locally on your device Export and import your data anytime Missing a day is okay Compound is descriptive, not motivational. It shows what happened, not what should have happened. Show up when you can. Watch it compound.

Screenshots

HelloHabit4 screens
Compound4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Compound at none against HelloHabit's 13. HelloHabit's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (3.3K vs 2). On price, rating, ads and iOS requirement 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. HelloHabit sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Compound asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for HelloHabit against 5.0 for Compound. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HelloHabit has 3.3K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HelloHabit ships an update every 8 days, Compound every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
HelloHabit versus Compound: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHelloHabitCompound
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (3.3K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.3K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRightLife, Inc.Abhijat Saraswat

Customer experience

HelloHabit

All ratings3,277 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral1.3%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews194 reviews
Positive80.9%
Neutral7.2%
Negative11.9%

Compound

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

HelloHabit

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Steps and calories not syncing
  • Login screen freezing
  • Incompatibility with older devices

Requested features

6 requests
  • Apple Watch app integration
  • Calendar and reminders integration
  • Ability to track habits with decimals
  • Archiving completed habits
  • More color customization options
Show 1 more
  • Adjustable text size and dark mode

Compound

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

12 purchases

HelloHabit

Subscriptions9
  • Unlimited Access$3.991 Month
  • HelloHabit Premium2 variants$4.997 Days
  • HelloHabit Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
Show 6 more
  • HelloHabit Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • HelloHabit Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • HelloHabit Premium$14.991 Year
  • HelloHabit Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • HelloHabit Premium$29.991 Year
  • HelloHabit Premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time3
  • HelloHabit Plus$34.99
  • HelloHabit Plus$59.99
  • Lifetime Access$59.99
None

Compound

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HelloHabit free?
HelloHabit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Compound free?
Compound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HelloHabit or Compound?
Compound is rated higher. HelloHabit averages 4.9 out of 5 from 3.3K ratings, while Compound averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do HelloHabit or Compound have ads?
Neither HelloHabit nor Compound shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HelloHabit or Compound?
HelloHabit ships an update every 8 days, and Compound every 2 months. Most recently, HelloHabit was updated on October 30, 2026 and Compound on October 16, 2026.

Other comparisons