Comparison

Strides vs Habits & Counters

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

Head to head
About

Strides

Organize your life by tracking habits, routines, and goals in one place. Utilize over 150 templates or create your own, with progress reports, charts, and reminders to keep you motivated and on task.

Highlights
  • Track good or bad habits
  • SMART goal setting
  • 150+ customizable templates
  • Progress reports and charts
  • Unlimited reminders
  • Integration with Apple Health
Features
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Imagine having all of your most important habits, routines and goals together in one simple to do list. Now you can! With Strides, you can track good or bad habits, SMART goals, and more. Keep up with reminders to hold you accountable and charts to keep you motivated. Explore new ways to manage your life with over 150 templates and the ability to create your own trackers. Get organized with a daily checklist to help create your perfect routine. Keep up with what you’ve accomplished with progress reports that compile your goals, projects and progress all in one place. Set up reminders and add notes to ensure you’re on track and on task. Track anything you want with four types of trackers. Streak calendars let you keep up with your success rate, and milestone calendars help you to keep up with project timelines. Want to keep track of a repeating number? Check out the Average tracker. Looking to hit a goal by a specific date? Give the Target tracker a try. Start keeping track of your habits and goals anywhere you go. Download today to get organized and create the perfect routine with Strides. TRACKERS: - 150+ templates to choose from, or create your own customized tracker - Progress Reports with everything in one place - View charts with history, streak, success rate and more - Unlimited reminders to set yourself up for success ADDITIONAL FEATURES: - Integration with Apple Health - Sync between iPhone, iPad & Mac - Add notes to logs and trackers - Reminders to keep you on track SEE WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING: "I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU! Strides is one of the most useful apps out there. Nowadays, I can't even imagine myself without it :)” ~Leyla "Amazing app. The sheer amount of flexibility with what you can track with Strides is amazing." ~Carlo "My life has become so much more organized and fulfilled since I started using your app. I really appreciate it!” ~Micah "Best tracking app. I love, love, love this app! This is exactly what I've been looking for for two or three years. I can track multiple goals and see them all on one screen. Perfect!" ~Kate – Strides is free forever to track what's most important to you. If you want to get even more out of it and support development, you can upgrade to Strides Plus with a monthly or annual subscription - or with a one-time purchase of the lifetime plan - to unlock all premium features, including Unlimited Trackers, sync between iPhone, iPad & Mac, Tags & Filters, Today List, Export Data, Goal Notes and more. Payment will be charged to the credit card connected to your iTunes Account when you confirm the initial subscription purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be identified. You may manage your subscription and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after the purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where applicable. – Read our full Privacy Policy / Terms of Use: https://www.stridesapp.com/privacy.html https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Keep making strides!

About

Habits & Counters

Organize your life and precisely track habits or count multiple tallies. From monitoring project time to counting passing cars, this app offers versatile tracking for daily activities and personal goals.

Highlights
  • Habit tracking with custom backdrops
  • Multiple counter support
  • Detailed stats and comparisons
  • Passcode/Biometric privacy protection
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Siri integration for reminders
  • Split View and Slide Over support
Features
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Organize your life and get precise track of your habits or conveniently count multiple tallies with Habits & Counters. Anything from figuring out the time spent on a project to just counting cars passing by – the app has got you covered. Habits & Counters let you make these simple and fun: - Keep an eye on your walking frequency - Track sleep / commute / work time - Count cars of different colors / workout reps - Build healthy meal habits - Overview your reproductive health - Be sure to consume your medicine - Or track just about anything else HABITS - Name your habits anything you like and get appropriate backdrops to easily locate habits within the app - Replace a backdrop with your own or one of many offered by Magic Gallery that brings you aptly selected images found on the web - Get track of continuous habits such as work time - Find your habits and basic stats with Spotlight search - Ask Siri to remind you about a particular habit COUNTERS - Keep an eye on multiple counters at the same time or - Open a counter fullscreen to add events even when you’re not looking at the screen - Open another app while keeping your counters close at hand, thanks to Split View and Slide Over support - Start counting on one device and pick up where you left off on another using Handoff - Quickly open a counter from the Home screen or check a tally with Spotlight search STATS - Track habit stats within a day, week, month or year interval - Compare the stats with other habits stats - Reset a counter without losing your habit stats - Share habit stats in a graph image form PRIVACY - Protect your habits and counters privacy with a passcode or Touch ID / Face ID SYNC - Sync your habits and their stats on multiple devices with iCloud

Screenshots

Strides4 screens
Habits & Counters4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Strides at fortnightly against Habits & Counters's every 7 months. Strides also leads on ratings volume (19K vs 4). Habits & Counters's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 81%) and iOS requirement (10.2 vs 17.0). On price, rating, 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. Strides sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Habits & Counters sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 — 4.8 for Strides against 4.8 for Habits & Counters. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strides has 19K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of Strides's written reviews are positive against 100% of Habits & Counters's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Strides ships an update fortnightly, Habits & Counters every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Strides versus Habits & Counters: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStridesHabits & Counters
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (19K ratings) — better4.8 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews81.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings19K — better4
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.010.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size147 MB14 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperGoals LLCDenis Avdeev

Customer experience

Strides

All ratings19,264 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews1,170 reviews
Positive81.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative14.0%

Habits & Counters

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Strides

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes after iOS 14.8 update
  • Incorrect data logging and display issues
  • Notification bugs showing outdated information

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow more than 3 habits in free version
  • Add time tracking and time-based goals
  • Improve syncing and notification reliability
  • Introduce more customization and organization options
  • Provide a one-time purchase option instead of subscription

Habits & Counters

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Strides

Subscriptions6
  • Strides Plus$4.991 Month
  • Strides Plus$7.991 Month
  • Strides Plus$9.991 Month
Show 3 more
  • Strides Plus7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Strides Plus7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Strides Plus1 Month trial$39.991 Year
One-time3
  • Strides Plus$39.99
  • Strides Plus$99.99
  • Strides Plus$149.99
1 purchases

Habits & Counters

One-time1
  • Unlimited Habits$2.99

Questions

Is Strides free?
Strides is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Habits & Counters free?
Habits & Counters is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Strides or Habits & Counters?
Strides is rated higher. Strides averages 4.8 out of 5 from 19K ratings, while Habits & Counters averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Strides or Habits & Counters have ads?
Neither Strides nor Habits & Counters shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Strides or Habits & Counters?
Strides ships an update fortnightly, and Habits & Counters every 7 months. Most recently, Strides was updated on November 11, 2026 and Habits & Counters on November 2, 2026.

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