Comparison

HelloHabit vs Simply Planned

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

Simply Planned

Features
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Simply Planned takes the thing you have been putting off and turns it into a plan you can actually follow. Answer a few questions and you get a plan built around your answers, not a generic checklist someone else wrote. THE SCHOOL YEAR, IN ONE PLACE Term time runs on a calendar, not a to-do list, so this part of the app opens on one. • A family calendar that opens on today. Week and month are a tap away. • Every child gets a colour, so a day reads at a glance instead of by reading every name on it. • Add something that clashes and it tells you before it is saved — including when it falls during school hours, and when it is two children in two places at once. • Paste a text or an email from a coach and it reads out the event — date, time, place. It is read on your phone; nothing is sent anywhere. • A card for each child: their photo, their school and its hours, their doctors, their documents, who to call when the school cannot reach you, and what they have cost so far. • Documents belong to the child, not to each place that asks. Photograph an immunization record once and every club that needs it gets that same file. • Share a child's card and choose exactly what goes. Everything starts unticked except their name. TASK LISTS WHEN YOU NEED ONE A school year is not one run-up, it is a series of them. Pick the occasion — back to school, a new season, exams, a break, the end of the year — and get a short list for that, now. Old lists stay, with everything you ticked off. WHAT IT ALL COSTS • Photograph a receipt and the amount, the date and the shop fill themselves in. It is read on your phone, not uploaded. Correct anything it misread. • Where the money actually went, by child and by category. • What the year should cost, built from what you have already entered. • Export the lot to a spreadsheet. EVERYTHING THEY ARE SIGNED UP FOR Before and after care, sports, music and summer camps in one place. Contacts, costs, seasons, coaches and the other team parents. Put a whole season of sessions into your phone's calendar in one go. ALSO FOR KIDS AND SCHOOL • Back to school — a supply checklist by grade, from kindergarten to college. • Activities, sports and camps — find what is near you and keep the dates. EVERYTHING ELSE Projects with a finish line, planned the same way: starting a business, renovating, a deep clean or clear-out, a garage sale. A week-by-week timeline, a shopping list, reminders, and local resources looked up for your area. YOUR FAMILY'S DETAILS STAY ON YOUR PHONE Nothing on a child's card is uploaded. Names, schools, doctors, photos, receipts and documents are written to private storage on your device and never reach us — we cannot read them, because we never hold them. When you send a child's details to a coach or a school, it goes from your own mail app. That is deliberate. This is children's school and medical paperwork, and we would rather not be responsible for storing it. HOW IT WORKS • Quick List is free and needs no account. • Full Plan is a one-time purchase that opens one complete plan. • Premium is a subscription, monthly or yearly, for unlimited plans. The school year is sold this way, with a free trial first. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and are managed in your Apple ID settings. You can delete your account from inside the app at any time.

Screenshots

HelloHabit4 screens
Simply Planned4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: HelloHabit at 5 against Simply Planned's 3. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HelloHabit sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Simply Planned sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HelloHabit ships an update every 8 days, Simply Planned every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
HelloHabit versus Simply Planned: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHelloHabitSimply Planned
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (3.3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.3K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRightLife, Inc.Stacey Field

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

Simply Planned

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
3 purchases

Simply Planned

Subscriptions2
  • Simply Planned - Premium$9.991 Month
  • Simply Planned Premium - Yearly$99.991 Year
One-time1
  • Simply Planned - Full Plan$4.99

Questions

Is HelloHabit free?
HelloHabit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simply Planned free?
Simply Planned is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HelloHabit or Simply Planned have ads?
Neither HelloHabit nor Simply Planned shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HelloHabit or Simply Planned?
HelloHabit ships an update every 8 days, and Simply Planned every 5 days. Most recently, HelloHabit was updated on October 30, 2026 and Simply Planned on October 14, 2026.

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