Alto Daily Habit Tracker vs MindStem
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alto Daily Habit Tracker
This app helps you monitor your daily habits by leveraging Apple Reminders. Simply create recurring tasks in Reminders, select your list, and start tracking your streaks and progress.
- Habit tracking via Apple Reminders
- Streak monitoring
- Goal setting
- Simple interface
- Recurrent task support
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Track habits using Apple Reminders. You can track your habits in a simple way: 1. Create a list in Apple Reminders. 2. Add recurrent tasks. Eg "run", "read", "gym". 3. Select the list in Alto Daily. Done. Now you can see your habit streaks.
MindStem
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MindStem on iPhone is the capture door: one field, one Save. A thought arrives mid-walk — type it, save it, forget it. It travels through your own iCloud and lands in the Brainstorm tray of the map open in MindStem on your Mac. Thoughts wait visibly until your Mac picks them up, and you can take one back before it goes. Capture from anywhere: the app, Siri, the share sheet, or a Back Tap / Action Button shortcut ("Capture a Thought"). The maps themselves live in MindStem for Mac — brainstorm against the clock, structure by drag & drop, read your day on the clock, leave as Markdown or PDF. On iPhone, MindStem is deliberately small: capture, not cartography. No account. No server. No tracking. Your thoughts travel only through your own iCloud.
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Verdict
Alto Daily Habit Tracker and MindStem are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Alto Daily Habit Tracker sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and MindStem sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Alto Daily Habit Tracker ships an update every 6 days, MindStem every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alto Daily Habit Tracker | MindStem |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | System Operator LLC | Uwe Bury |
In-app purchases
Alto Daily Habit Tracker
- A coffee$1.99
- Donate 3.99$3.99
- A thank you$4.99
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- Alto Daily Pro$9.99
- A big thank you$9.99
- A huge thank you$14.99
MindStem
- MindStem Pro$19.99





