Comparison

Strides vs Habitica

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

Head to head
About

Strides

This app helps you organize your habits, routines, and goals in a single to-do list. Track progress with reminders and charts, and choose from over 150 templates or create your own. Get organized and build your perfect routine.

Highlights
  • Habit and goal tracking
  • Customizable trackers
  • 150+ templates
  • Progress reports and charts
  • Reminders
  • Daily checklist
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

Habitica

This app gamifies your life by turning tasks and goals into a retro RPG. Build your avatar, complete daily habits, to-dos, and chores to earn rewards and level up. Team up with friends for accountability and battle challenges together.

Highlights
  • Gamified task and goal management
  • Avatar customization and leveling
  • Daily, weekly, and one-time task tracking
  • Social features: parties, challenges, guilds
  • Collectable in-game items and gear
  • Cross-device syncing
  • Customizable themes and reminders
Features
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Habitica is a free habit-building and productivity app that uses retro RPG elements to gamify your tasks and goals. Use Habitica to help with ADHD, self care, New Year’s resolutions, household chores, work tasks, creative projects, fitness goals, back-to-school routines, and more! How it works: Create an avatar then add tasks, chores, or goals you’d like to work on. When you do something in real life, check it off in the app and receive gold, experience, and items that can be used in-game! Features: • Automatically repeating tasks scheduled for your daily, weekly, or monthly routines • Flexible habit tracker for tasks you want to do multiple times a day or only once in awhile • Traditional to do list for tasks that only need to be done once • Color coded tasks and streak counters help you see how you’re doing at a glance • Leveling system to visualize your overall progress • Tons of collectable gear and pets to suit your personal style • Inclusive avatar customizations: wheelchairs, hair styles, skin tones, and more • Regular content releases and seasonal events to keep things fresh • Parties let you team up with friends for extra accountability and battle fierce foes by completing tasks • Challenges offer shared task lists you can add to your personal tasks • Guilds let you connect with others that share your interests and goals • Reminders and widgets to help keep you on track • Customizable color themes with dark and light mode • Syncing across devices — Habitica is an open-source app run by a small team that’s made better by the work of volunteers who contribute pixel art, translations, bug fixes, and more. If you’d like to contribute, reach out! Community, privacy, and transparency are important to us. Your tasks are private and we don’t sell your personal data to third parties. Check out our instagram or twitter(@habitica) for the latest news, announcements, and feature spotlights! —- Habitica can be fully enjoyed for free, but if you would like to help support us, we offer optional in-app purchases and subscriptions. If you choose to purchase a subscription, payment will be charged to your Apple account only when you confirm your purchase. There are four types of optional Habitica subscriptions: $4.99 every month; $14.99 every three months; $29.99 every six months; and $47.99 every year, which is a 20% discount! (Prices may vary by location.) Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account Settings after purchase. Thanks for choosing Habitica! Terms of use: https://habitica.com/static/terms

Screenshots

Strides4 screens
Habitica4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Strides at 4.8 against Habitica's 4.3. Strides also leads on review sentiment (81% vs 64%) and ratings volume (19K vs 3.6K). On price, update cadence, 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 Habitica sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Strides holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strides has 19K ratings behind it against 3.6K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Strides's written reviews are positive against 64% of Habitica's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Strides ships an update fortnightly, Habitica every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Strides versus Habitica: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStridesHabitica
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (19K ratings) — better4.3 (3.6K ratings)
Positive reviews81.0% of reviews — better64.4% of reviews
Number of ratings19K — better3.6K
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size147 MB69 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperGoals LLCHabitRPG, Inc

Customer experience

Strides

All ratings19,258 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews1,169 reviews
Positive81.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative14.0%

Habitica

All ratings3,523 ratings
Positive81.6%
Neutral6.6%
Negative11.8%
Written reviews1,298 reviews
Positive64.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative21.3%

User reviews

Strides

From 19K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💻 Flexible and customizable
  • 📊 Detailed progress tracking
  • 🔄 Helpful for building habits
  • 🎯 Effective for achieving goals
  • 🤖 Seamless integration with Apple Watch

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription model
  • 🔒 Limited free version features
  • 🐛 Syncing and notification issues
  • 🕰️ Lack of time-tracking capabilities
  • 🗂️ Difficulty organizing multiple habits

Habitica

From 3.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great app for habit tracking and productivity
  • 🎮 Gamified approach is motivating
  • 🤝 Supportive community
  • 💰 Reasonable subscription model

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy and glitchy at times
  • 🤔 Confusing navigation and UI
  • 🔒 Issues with login and account sync
  • 💸 Gems/rewards locked behind paywall

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

Habitica

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Tasks and habits not resetting properly
  • Crashes and freezes on app launch
  • Inconsistent behavior when rearranging tasks
  • Sync issues between mobile and web versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Calendar view for tasks and habits
  • Ability to set custom difficulty levels for tasks
  • Offline mode for tasks and habits
  • Apple Watch app
  • More social features and party functionality

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Strides

Subscriptions6
  • Strides Plus$4.991 Month
  • Strides Plus$7.991 Month
  • Strides Plus$9.991 Month
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  • 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
10 purchases

Habitica

Subscriptions4
  • 1 Month Subscription$4.991 Month
  • 3 Months Subscription$14.993 Months
  • 6 Months Subscription$29.996 Months
Show 1 more
  • 12 Months Subscription$47.991 Year
One-time6
  • 4 Gems$0.99
  • 21 Gems$4.99
  • For 1 Month$4.99
Show 3 more
  • 42 Gems$9.99
  • 84 Gems$19.99
  • For 12 Months$47.99

Questions

Is Strides free?
Strides is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Habitica free?
Habitica is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Strides or Habitica?
Strides is rated higher. Strides averages 4.8 out of 5 from 19K ratings, while Habitica averages 4.3 from 3.6K ratings.
Do Strides or Habitica have ads?
Neither Strides nor Habitica shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Strides or Habitica?
Strides ships an update fortnightly, and Habitica every 3 weeks. Most recently, Strides was updated on November 1, 2026 and Habitica on November 1, 2026.

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