Comparison

HelloHabit vs MicroHabit

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

MicroHabit

This app helps you build consistent habits by focusing on your last 30 days of progress rather than a streak. Easily track daily actions, count progress, or time activities. It offers privacy by design, keeping all your data on your device.

Highlights
  • 30-day progress view
  • Customizable habits
  • Check off, count, or time actions
  • Privacy-focused, no account needed
  • Home screen widgets and Siri integration
  • Pause or archive habits
Features
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Miss a day? Pick up with one small action. MicroHabit shows your last 30 days of progress instead of a streak to protect. Check off a habit, count pages read, or time a few minutes of movement. START SMALL, KEEP GOING Create your own habit or choose a ready-made small action. Pick the days that suit you and add a reminder when you want one. CHECK OFF, COUNT, OR TIME Mark a habit done, add to a count, or start and pause a timer from Today. Counts and timers record the actual amount, even after you reach your target. SEE PROGRESS BEYOND A STREAK Review your 30-day progress instead of protecting an unbroken streak. There is no streak counter to reset; your progress updates as the window moves. Review your week with Weekly Progress, or use Day Review to look back at a day. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account or sign-in • No analytics, tracking, diagnostics, or crash reporting • Habit data stays on your device by default. You can export an unencrypted backup to a destination you choose. ACT WITH LESS FRICTION • Use Home Screen widgets and Siri or Shortcuts for quick actions CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN PACE Pause a habit when you need a break, or archive it and restore it later. Your recorded activity stays available. MicroHabit is free for up to six active habits, Weekly Progress, and Day Review for the last 30 days. An optional one-time Pro purchase unlocks unlimited active habits, your full history in Day Review and Activity, and CSV export. No subscription or trial.

Screenshots

HelloHabit4 screens
MicroHabit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: HelloHabit at 3.3K against MicroHabit's 2. HelloHabit also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (5 vs 2). MicroHabit's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 81%). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HelloHabit sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and MicroHabit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

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 MicroHabit. 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. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of HelloHabit's written reviews are positive against 100% of MicroHabit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HelloHabit ships an update every 8 days, MicroHabit every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
HelloHabit versus MicroHabit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHelloHabitMicroHabit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (3.3K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.3K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRightLife, Inc.VeloTract

Customer experience

HelloHabit

All ratings3,304 ratings
Positive97.4%
Neutral1.3%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews194 reviews
Positive80.9%
Neutral7.2%
Negative11.9%

MicroHabit

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
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
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  • Adjustable text size and dark mode

MicroHabit

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

HelloHabit

Subscriptions8
  • HelloHabit Premium2 variants$4.997 Days
  • HelloHabit Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • HelloHabit Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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  • 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-time1
  • HelloHabit Plus$59.99
1 purchases

MicroHabit

One-time1
  • MicroHabit Pro$19.99

Questions

Is HelloHabit free?
HelloHabit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MicroHabit free?
MicroHabit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HelloHabit or MicroHabit?
MicroHabit is rated higher. HelloHabit averages 4.9 out of 5 from 3.3K ratings, while MicroHabit averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do HelloHabit or MicroHabit have ads?
Neither HelloHabit nor MicroHabit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HelloHabit or MicroHabit?
HelloHabit ships an update every 8 days, and MicroHabit every 3 weeks. Most recently, HelloHabit was updated on November 8, 2026 and MicroHabit on November 5, 2026.

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