Comparison

HelloHabit vs Fade

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
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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

Fade

Features
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Fade is a minimalist note-taking app designed for quick thoughts that don’t need to live forever. Capture ideas, reminders, shopping lists, parking locations, photos, and voice notes instantly — then let them disappear automatically. Your notes and media stay only on your device and are never stored in the cloud. Choose how long your notes should stay: • 24 hours (Default) • 48 hours • 72 hours Unlike traditional note apps, Fade helps keep your phone clean by removing temporary content when you no longer need it. No gallery clutter. No forgotten recordings. No endless list of old notes. Features: • Fast and distraction-free note taking • Voice note recording • Temporary photo attachments • Automatically disappearing notes and media • 24h, 48h, and 72h expiration options • Local-only storage for better privacy • Clean and minimal interface • Designed for speed and simplicity Perfect for: • Shopping lists • Parking spot reminders • Temporary voice memos • Quick ideas and random thoughts • Daily short-term reminders Fade helps you capture what matters now without creating permanent digital clutter. Think it. Save it. Let it fade.

Screenshots

HelloHabit4 screens
Fade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fade at none against HelloHabit's 13. Fade also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). HelloHabit's advantage is device support (5 vs 2). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HelloHabit sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Fade asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HelloHabit versus Fade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHelloHabitFade
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (3.3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.3K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRightLife, Inc.Murat Demirbas

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
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  • Adjustable text size and dark mode

Fade

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
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  • 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

Fade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HelloHabit free?
HelloHabit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fade free?
Fade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HelloHabit or Fade have ads?
Neither HelloHabit nor Fade shows ads.

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