Comparison

Symptom Tracker vs DayZero Habit Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Symptom Tracker

Log symptoms, lifestyle habits, and moods to understand their impact on your well-being. Visualize trends with clear charts and generate reports for medical appointments. Stay on track with medication reminders for a healthier, more balanced life.

Highlights
  • Symptom logging with custom options
  • Lifestyle habit tracking (diet, sleep, stress)
  • Mood monitoring and analysis
  • Medication reminders and adherence tracking
  • Trend visualization with charts
  • Customizable reports for medical appointments
Features
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Ripple is your go-to tool for improving your well-being by logging symptoms, lifestyle habits, and moods in one simple place. With Ripple, you can finally see which choices actually help your recovery and which hold you back. Monitor symptoms with clarity: Quickly track any symptom using a ready-made list or create your own, from headaches and fatigue to flare-ups and brain fog. Log the exact date and time on an easy-to-use calendar so you can spot what tends to trigger bad days or support good ones. The Insights tab turns your entries into clear charts that show trends over days, weeks, and months, helping you see how symptoms change alongside your mood and daily habits. Lifestyle tracking that fits your routine: Record key lifestyle details like diet, exercise, sleep, stress levels, and medication use. Customize what you track to match your unique health journey, whether that is specific foods, workouts, bedtime routines, or supplements. Over time, Ripple helps you connect the dots, such as whether poor sleep worsens pain, or whether a walk after dinner boosts your mood the next day. Understand your mood over time: Log your mood regularly to see how your emotional well-being shifts with your lifestyle and symptoms. Notice whether stressful days lead to more symptoms, or whether certain routines help you feel more stable and resilient. Ripple helps you move from guessing to knowing what truly supports your quality of life. Stay on top of medications: Set medication reminders that match your actual schedule so you miss fewer doses and stay consistent with your treatment plan. Ripple helps you see how taking your medications on time relates to changes in symptoms, side effects, and mood, giving you a clearer picture of what works. Turn your data into meaningful reports: Create detailed, easy-to-read reports of your symptoms, habits, and mood patterns. Use them to prepare for medical appointments, so you can quickly answer questions like When did this start, How often does this happen, and What seems to make it better or worse. Share your reports with your healthcare provider to support more accurate decisions and a treatment plan tailored to your real daily experience. Ripple is designed to make tracking your health feel manageable, not overwhelming, so you can focus on what matters most: making informed choices that support a healthier, more balanced life.

About

DayZero Habit Tracker

Effortlessly build positive habits and break negative ones with a visually stunning tracker. Automatically syncs with Apple Health for seamless progress tracking and offers smart insights to keep you motivated.

Highlights
  • Beautiful streak tracking with progress rings
  • Automatic Apple Health integration
  • AI-powered insights and analytics
  • Daily notes and journaling
  • Habit templates for quick start
  • Home and Lock screen widgets
  • Apple Watch app for on-the-go tracking
  • Flexible forgiveness rules
Features
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The most beautiful habit tracker for iPhone, iPad & Apple Watch. Build streaks, break bad habits, and watch your life transform — with zero effort. Auto-syncs with Apple Health so your steps, workouts, and sleep track themselves. BUILD BETTER HABITS, ONE STREAK AT A TIME DayZero makes building lasting habits effortless and delightful. With a stunning dark interface, intuitive one-tap completion, and powerful features that go beyond basic tracking, you'll finally stick to the habits that matter most. KEY FEATURES Beautiful Streak Tracking Track up to 24 habits with gorgeous circular progress rings. Build positive habits, break negative ones, or time your activities. Watch your streaks grow with satisfying animations and visual feedback. Track current streak, best streak, and completion rates. Apple Health Integration Automatically complete habits based on your health data. Syncs steps, exercise minutes, sleep hours, mindful minutes, water intake, and more. Set custom goals for any health metric. No manual tracking needed—just live your life. Smart Insights and Analytics AI-powered insights highlight your best habits. Weekly trend analysis shows if you're improving or declining. Streak at Risk alerts warn you before breaking a streak. Pattern recognition reveals your most successful days. Day-of-week analysis shows when you're most consistent. Daily Notes and Journaling Reflect on your progress and track variations. Build a personal journal over time and see your journey unfold day by day. Habit Templates Quick-start with pre-built habits for health, mindfulness, productivity, and more. Customize templates to fit your lifestyle. Popular templates include Exercise, Meditation, Reading, Drink Water, Better Sleep, and more. Beautiful Widgets Home screen widgets show your progress at a glance. Lock screen widgets keep you motivated throughout the day. Multiple widget sizes for every need with real-time updates as you complete habits. Apple Watch App Complete habits directly from your wrist. View streaks and progress on the go. Haptic feedback for every completion. Syncs seamlessly with your iPhone. Forgiveness Rules Strict mode means miss a day, lose your streak. 2-Day Rule allows one missed day every two days. 1-Day Rule allows one missed day, exclusive to DayZero. Automatic coaching suggests when you're ready to level up. Live Activities and Timers Beautiful Live Activities for timed habits. Control timers from your Lock Screen. Track meditation, workouts, reading sessions, and more. Pause, resume, and complete without opening the app. iCloud Sync All your data syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Private and secure—your data stays yours. Automatic backups ensure you never lose progress. Privacy First All data stored locally with optional iCloud sync. No tracking, no ads, no data collection. Your habits are yours alone. BEAUTIFUL DESIGN DayZero features a stunning dark interface with 24 vibrant gradient colors for each habit, over 200 SF Symbols icons, multiple app themes, smooth animations and haptic feedback, and an award-winning onboarding experience. POWERFUL STATISTICS View completion rate with 30-day average, weekly trend indicators, calendar heatmap view, monthly progress calendars, streak history visualization, and day-of-week performance analysis. SMART NOTIFICATIONS Custom reminders for each habit. Per-day scheduling means notifications only appear on active days. Actionable notifications let you complete or snooze from the notification itself. Full notification history and management. Streak at risk alerts keep you on track. WHY DAYZERO? Unlike other habit trackers, DayZero combines the simplicity of Streaks with enhanced features, beautiful design that makes tracking a joy, smart insights that help you succeed, milestone celebrations that keep you motivated, and daily notes that help you reflect and grow. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Symptom Tracker4 screens
DayZero Habit Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: DayZero Habit Tracker at every 2 days against Symptom Tracker's every 2 months. Symptom Tracker's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and 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

Both are free to download. Symptom Tracker sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and DayZero Habit Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Symptom Tracker against 5.0 for DayZero Habit Tracker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Symptom Tracker ships an update every 2 months, DayZero Habit Tracker every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Symptom Tracker versus DayZero Habit Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSymptom TrackerDayZero Habit Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size115 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTuxedo Lab LLCShawn Gilronan

Customer experience

Symptom Tracker

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

DayZero Habit Tracker

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Symptom Tracker

One-time2
  • Ripple Premium Lifetime$19.99
  • Premium Lifetime$19.99
2 purchases

DayZero Habit Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • DayZero Premium Monthly1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • DayZero Pro Annual1 Month trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Symptom Tracker free?
Symptom Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DayZero Habit Tracker free?
DayZero Habit Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Symptom Tracker or DayZero Habit Tracker?
Symptom Tracker and DayZero Habit Tracker are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Symptom Tracker or DayZero Habit Tracker have ads?
Neither Symptom Tracker nor DayZero Habit Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Symptom Tracker or DayZero Habit Tracker?
Symptom Tracker ships an update every 2 months, and DayZero Habit Tracker every 2 days. Most recently, Symptom Tracker was updated on October 20, 2026 and DayZero Habit Tracker on October 24, 2026.

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