Comparison

Ripples vs brrrrr

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Ripples

This app helps you build and maintain new habits and achieve your goals. It offers a visual calendar grid to track your progress, detailed metrics, and the ability to log specific amounts for each action. You can also add notes, use Siri shortcuts, and view your progress with widgets.

Highlights
  • Visual calendar grid progress tracking
  • Vital metrics and analytics
  • Track specific amounts and custom units
  • Notes and journal entries
  • Siri shortcuts and automation
  • Interactive widgets
Features
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Build habits with a visual tracker that makes daily progress easy to see—and easier to continue. Ripples turns every check-in into a clear, color-coded picture of your routines, goals, and consistency. SEE THE PATTERN Use flexible calendar grids to spot streaks, gaps, and trends at a glance. Organize habits into dashboards and create a view that fits your routine. TRACK MORE THAN CHECKMARKS Record simple check-ins or quantities such as pages, minutes, water, distance, money, and custom units. Add a note to any entry and review your history in the Journal. STAY CONSISTENT WITH LESS FRICTION Set multiple reminders, check in from interactive widgets, and build Shortcuts or Siri automations for the routines you repeat every day. UNDERSTAND YOUR PROGRESS See current and best streaks, consistency metrics, totals, averages, and daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly charts. Compare years to understand what changed and where you are improving. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your habits and goals remain visible only to you and sync through end-to-end encrypted iCloud. Start with one habit. Watch the pattern grow. Privacy Policy: https://www.ripples.day/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

brrrrr

This app helps you track various aspects of your life, from daily habits and streaks to game dice rolls and chore rotations. It offers customizable trackers with features like automatic advancement and iCloud sync for seamless use across devices.

Highlights
  • Customizable tallies for one-tap counting
  • Dice roller from d2 to d100
  • List shuffling and selection
  • Date-since streak tracking
  • Automatic schedule advancement
  • iCloud sync across Apple devices
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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Count anything. Track everything. brrrrr is the friendly little app for life's small counts: cups of coffee, days since the gym, the next d20 roll, whose turn it is to do the dishes. Four trackers, infinite uses. TALLIES — One tap, one count. Press and hold to fly through hundreds. DICE — Roll d2 through d100. Perfect for game night, decision-making, or breaking a tie. LISTS — Shuffle for tonight's dinner. Advance through a chore rota. Pick a name out of the hat. DATE-SINCE — Days since you started, quit, ran, called. Watch the streak compound. SCHEDULES — Tallies and lists can advance, reset, or shuffle on their own, daily or weekly. Set it once and forget the upkeep. ICLOUD SYNC — Sync trackers and values across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. WIDGETS & SHORTCUTS — Glance, tap, count from your Home Screen, Lock Screen, or Spotlight.

Screenshots

Ripples4 screens
brrrrr4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ripples at 93% against brrrrr's 0%. Ripples also leads on price (Free vs $7.99) and ratings volume (230 vs 1). brrrrr's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On ads 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

Ripples is free to download; brrrrr costs $7.99 up front. Ripples sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. brrrrr asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

brrrrr holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ripples has 230 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 93% of Ripples's written reviews are positive against 0% of brrrrr's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Ripples versus brrrrr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRipplesbrrrrr
PriceFree — better$7.99
Rating4.7 (230 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings230 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMykola HarmashDan Eden

Customer experience

Ripples

All ratings230 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral1.3%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews138 reviews
Positive92.8%
Neutral2.2%
Negative5.1%

brrrrr

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Ripples

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Notifications not working reliably
  • UI bugs causing app to become unusable
  • Restore purchases not functioning
  • Pro features not unlocking after purchase
  • Lifetime purchase redemption not working

Requested features

12 requests
  • Check-in reminders/notifications
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Weekly and monthly habit tracking
  • Filtering by categories or tags
Show 7 more
  • Smaller board sizes for better screen visibility
  • Easier bulk check-in for past dates
  • Notes field for individual check-ins
  • Habit reordering functionality
  • Compact main menu view
  • Track amounts with custom units (e.g., pages read)
  • Square widgets

brrrrr

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Ripples

Subscriptions2
  • Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Plus Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time3
  • Powerpack$9.99
  • Powerpack Family$17.99
  • Ripples Plus Lifetime$24.99
None

brrrrr

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ripples free?
Ripples is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is brrrrr free?
brrrrr costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ripples or brrrrr?
brrrrr is rated higher. Ripples averages 4.7 out of 5 from 230 ratings, while brrrrr averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Ripples or brrrrr have ads?
Neither Ripples nor brrrrr shows ads.

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