Comparison

HelloHabit vs PrivateTask

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

PrivateTask

Features
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PrivateTask organises your day without uploading it to any server. No account. No cloud. No ads. Everything you write is stored encrypted on your iPhone and never leaves it. SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED PrivateTask runs on a subscription. You can try it free for 7 days; after that it is USD 1.99 per month and renews automatically until you cancel. You can cancel any time in your iPhone's Settings, and cancelling never deletes what you have already written. WHAT IT DOES · Tasks and projects, with subtasks, tags and priorities. · Calendar with events and reminders, in day, week, month and list views. · Habits and routines, with the day's pace spread across your hours. · Notes. · My Finances: accounts, income, expenses, transfers, budgets, upcoming payments, subscriptions, debts and savings goals. · Optional modules for vehicle, pets, travel and small business. · Focus mode and timers for working without interruptions. HOW IT STARTS It does not leave you staring at an empty screen. You pick what you want to organise and the app offers a starting point, with habits and reminders already set up. Only what you confirm gets installed, and you can remove it any time. WHY IT IS DIFFERENT It works entirely in airplane mode. There is no server to connect to, so there is nothing to go down and nothing to leak. The database is encrypted on your device with AES-256. The key lives in the iOS Keychain. Not even we can open it. You can lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID or your iPhone passcode. Backups are encrypted with a passphrase you choose, before they leave the app. If you forget it, nobody can recover them. Not us either. Reminders are generated on your phone. Your task titles never travel to a push notification server. THE ASSISTANT Type or dictate "tomorrow 8am call the dentist" and it becomes a task with its reminder. It works offline, on your device. Nothing involving money is ever saved without your confirmation. PHOTOGRAPH YOUR RECEIPTS Capture a receipt and the app reads the amount, merchant and date to propose an expense. Text recognition happens inside your iPhone: images are not sent to any online service. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO It collects no data. It uses no analytics. It shows no ads. It does not sell your information. There are no streaks, no scores and no comparisons against your past days: it is a tool for organising yourself, not for making you feel in debt. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://privatetask.saiddcruz.com/politica-de-privacidad.html

Screenshots

HelloHabit4 screens
PrivateTask4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: HelloHabit at 5 against PrivateTask's 3. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 and PrivateTask sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
HelloHabit versus PrivateTask: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHelloHabitPrivateTask
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (3.3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.3K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size116 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRightLife, Inc.Saidd Cruz

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

PrivateTask

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
1 purchases

PrivateTask

Subscriptions1
  • PrivateTask Premium7 Days trial$1.991 Month

Questions

Is HelloHabit free?
HelloHabit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PrivateTask free?
PrivateTask is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HelloHabit or PrivateTask have ads?
Neither HelloHabit nor PrivateTask shows ads.

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