Comparison

Performance Medicine Institute vs Random Habit

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

Head to head
About

Performance Medicine Institute

Access your personalized exercise program with HD videos and track your progress with awards. Securely message your provider and book appointments. Integrates with your device's activity data to monitor daily steps.

Highlights
  • Personalized Home Exercise Program
  • HD Instructional Videos
  • Secure Provider Messaging
  • Progress Tracking with Awards
  • Appointment Booking
  • Multi-language Support
  • Activity Data Integration
Features
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Welcome to the Performance Medicine Institute App! Log on to access your personalized Home Exercise Program on your mobile device. Using this app, you can access your personalized Home Exercise Program with HD Instructional videos. On the 'Messages' tab, you can securely communicate with your Performance Medicine Institute provider. As you complete your exercises, we'll give you trophies and medals to celebrate your progress! On the 'Awards' tab, you can track these items. Prefer a language other than English? Go to the 'More' tab and select 'Languages' to pick another language option. If you need to book an appointment, please go to the 'Appointments' tab for more info. Make sure to select 'Mark as Complete' when doing your exercises to ensure that your provider can keep track of your progress! You must be a Performance Medicine Institute patient to gain access. This app integrates with your phone's Motion and Fitness activity framework to read daily step count data allowing your provider to monitor your activity.

About

Random Habit

This app helps you build lasting habits by sending random, timely reminders to take small actions. It focuses on real behavior change, not punitive streaks, and can be used for physical habits or internal self-talk.

Highlights
  • Randomized daily reminders
  • Focus on real behavior change
  • No punitive streaks
  • Supports physical and mental habits
  • 90-day habit cycles
  • One habit at a time
Features
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You've tried before. You set the alarm. You downloaded the app. You started fresh on a Monday with every intention of making it stick. And then life got in the way, you missed a day, and that familiar feeling crept back in. The one that whispers you're just not disciplined enough. That other people can do this but somehow you can't. I built this app because I lived that story for 25 years. And then I discovered something that changed everything. It was never about discipline. The system we were all given was broken from the start. Willpower runs out. Streaks punish you for being human. And no app in the world was built around how your brain actually learns to change. So I built one. Random Habit sends you random reminders throughout your day. Not at a fixed time, not on a schedule, just whenever. When the reminder arrives, you do one small thing. Takes less than a minute. Then you get celebrated for it. That's it. Predictable reminders become background noise within days because your brain tunes them out. Random reminders never lose their power. Your brain never stops paying attention. Across 90 days, that wires in real change. Random Habit was designed for behavior change. All of it. Not just physical habits. The deeper kind too. The kind that lives in the voice inside your head. The one that decides what you are capable of before you have even tried. Your Spark doesn't have to be a physical action. It can be a sentence. Something true about who you are becoming. Something kind you need to hear. Something you have been afraid to believe about yourself. You write it once. Then Random Habit delivers it randomly throughout your day, every single day for 90 days. Not as something you read once each morning and forget. As something that arrives in the middle of a hard moment, a quiet walk, a long afternoon, exactly when your guard is down and the words can actually land. Some people use this app to build a fitness habit. Some use it to find small moments of beauty in an ordinary day. Some use it to slowly, quietly replace a voice that has been telling them they are not enough. All of it is behavior change. All of it is what this app was built for. Here's what people are saying: "I cannot believe how simple it is. It doesn't seem like it would work and it works. I have been trying to build this habit for ten years." — Kimberly "The reminder fired and my mouth was already shut. I was unconsciously succeeding." — Carol, nose-breathing habit "From the very first reminder, something woke up in me. I'm beginning to notice things around me without the app even prompting me. Already." — Joe N. "No guilt." — Andrea A few things that make this different from every other habit app you've tried: No streaks. Miss a day, just come back. The app doesn't punish you for being human, it rewards you every single time you show up. No subscription. One small payment covers your full 90-day habit cycle. That's it. One habit at a time. Not five. Not a morning routine. One thing, done consistently, until it's part of who you are. No ads. What you do in this app is yours. It works for any habit you've been putting off. Fitness, breathing, hydration, posture, reading, creative practice, confidence, mindfulness, or anything small and consistent that would change your life if it actually stuck. Your first three days are completely free. Full access, no commitment. You'll feel the difference before you spend a penny. If it clicks, and I think it will, one small payment unlocks your full 90-day cycle. No subscription. No hidden anything. And if you decide it's not for you? You keep the app. One reminder a day, forever. I built this to help people build habits. But what it has become is something I didn't fully expect. This is the last habit app you will ever need.

Screenshots

Performance Medicine Institute4 screens
Random Habit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Performance Medicine Institute at none against Random Habit's 1. Random Habit's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Random Habit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Performance Medicine Institute asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Performance Medicine Institute against 5.0 for Random Habit. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Performance Medicine Institute ships an update every 2 months, Random Habit every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Performance Medicine Institute versus Random Habit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPerformance Medicine InstituteRandom Habit
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings36 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB116 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperPerformance Medicine InstituteCookie Magic Productions, LLC

Customer experience

Performance Medicine Institute

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Random Habit

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Performance Medicine Institute

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Random Habit

One-time1
  • Premium Access$6.00

Questions

Is Performance Medicine Institute free?
Performance Medicine Institute is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Random Habit free?
Random Habit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Performance Medicine Institute or Random Habit?
Performance Medicine Institute and Random Habit are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do Performance Medicine Institute or Random Habit have ads?
Neither Performance Medicine Institute nor Random Habit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Performance Medicine Institute or Random Habit?
Performance Medicine Institute ships an update every 2 months, and Random Habit every 2 weeks. Most recently, Performance Medicine Institute was updated on October 30, 2026 and Random Habit on October 31, 2026.

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