Comparison

HelloHabit vs Lapse

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

Lapse

Features
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Lapse turns the days you're looking forward to into widgets you'll love to look at. Count down to birthdays, trips, exams and holidays. See how far through the year, month, week or a project you are. Count up from the day you met, moved or started something new. Then pick one of 140+ styles and put it anywhere: Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, iPad and Apple Watch. EVENTS - Countdowns, progress and count-ups - Birthdays and anniversaries that repeat every year - Count in days, weeks, hours or sleeps - Reminders and milestone alerts - Import upcoming events from Calendar WIDGETS - 140+ styles: minimal, retro, pixel, paper, neon, cute, photo and more - Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large (iPad) and Lock Screen sizes - Change palettes, fonts, number size, backgrounds and photos - Show a percentage or the days left on progress looks - StandBy keeps each design's colors APPLE WATCH - Your saved widgets in every watch face spot and in the Smart Stack, in full color SHARE - Share any widget as an image - Send your countdowns as iMessage stickers PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Your events stay on your device. LAPSE PRO The free version includes up to three events and a selection of free styles. Lapse Pro unlocks unlimited events, every style, font, palette, pattern and photo background, sharing widgets as images, iMessage stickers and extra app icons. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase you can share with Family Sharing. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://lapse.laavi.in/terms Privacy Policy: https://lapse.laavi.in/privacy

Screenshots

HelloHabit4 screens
Lapse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: HelloHabit at 5 against Lapse's 3. HelloHabit also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, 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 Lapse sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
HelloHabit versus Lapse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHelloHabitLapse
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (3.3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.3K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRightLife, Inc.Lavanya Tatiparthi

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

Lapse

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
3 purchases

Lapse

Subscriptions2
  • Lapse Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Lapse Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lapse Pro Lifetime$19.99

Questions

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

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