Comparison

Habit Tracker vs ReadFirst

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

Head to head
About

Habit Tracker

This app helps you build lasting routines with visual tracking and formation-focused insights. Understand habit consistency, set daily targets, and organize your goals with personalized categories and reminders.

Highlights
  • Visual habit map
  • Streak and completion tracking
  • Habit formation probability
  • Daily targets
  • Flexible reminders
  • Data export and import
  • Cloud sync
Features
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HabitForm is a visual habit tracker for building routines that actually last. Create habits, set daily targets, track streaks, and understand your consistency with formation-focused insights. It is built for people who want more than a simple checklist. HabitForm helps you see how your habits connect, how likely they are to stick, and what needs attention today. WHY USE HABITFORM • Visual habit map — arrange your habits in a clear constellation view and connect related routines • Streak and completion tracking — mark daily progress and see current streak, longest streak, total days, and completion history • Habit formation probability — understand how close each habit is to becoming automatic based on consistency and difficulty • Smart difficulty planning — choose whether a habit is very easy, easy, moderate, difficult, or very difficult so your timeline stays realistic • Daily targets — track habits that happen more than once per day, such as drinking water, stretching, studying, or medication routines • Flexible reminders — set one reminder or multiple reminder times for the same habit • Categories, colors, and icons — organize your routine in a way that feels personal and easy to scan • Habit archive — pause or archive habits without losing your history • Data management — export and import habit data with CSV backup tools • Cloud sync — keep your habits and progress available across devices when signed in • Shareable progress images — create clean habit progress visuals to share wins with friends, family, or your accountability circle • iPhone home widgets — complete habits and view progress directly from your Home Screen BUILT FOR REAL ROUTINES HabitForm works for health habits, fitness routines, study goals, productivity systems, mindfulness, reading, sleep, hydration, language learning, and any daily action you want to repeat. Use it to: • Build a morning or evening routine • Track workouts, steps, stretching, or mobility • Stay consistent with reading, studying, or deep work • Improve sleep, hydration, journaling, and meditation • Break large goals into repeatable daily actions • Keep accountability with visual progress and shareable milestones FORMATION-FOCUSED TRACKING Not every habit forms at the same speed. HabitForm uses difficulty and consistency signals to make progress more realistic. Easy habits can become automatic faster, while harder lifestyle changes need more time and repetition. Instead of only asking “did I do it today?”, HabitForm helps you ask: • How consistent am I? • Is this habit becoming automatic? • Which habit needs attention? • What routine should I protect next? PRIVACY AND CONTROL Your habits are personal. HabitForm gives you practical tools to manage your data, including CSV export and import, account-based sync, and clear settings for notifications and app preferences. Start with one habit. Build the system around it. Watch your routine take shape. Download HabitForm today and turn your goals into visible daily progress. HABITFORM PRO Free with up to 4 habits. HabitForm Pro, an optional auto-renewing subscription, unlocks unlimited habits, cloud sync, the daily journal, CSV export/import and the habit archive. Manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://habitform.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://habitform.app/terms

About

ReadFirst

This app helps you reduce screen time by linking app access to reading physical books. Earn minutes for your apps by reading a set number of pages, with flexible rules and rewards for consistent reading habits.

Highlights
  • App locking via Screen Time
  • Reading timer
  • Page photo verification
  • Flexible minute banking
  • Weekly skips
  • Reading achievements and stats
  • Siri shortcuts
Features
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Read a page. Then scroll. ReadFirst locks the apps that eat your day and opens them when you read a few pages of a printed book. Not a button you tap away. Not a contest of willpower. Your book is the key. Most app blockers only say no. ReadFirst gives you something better to do first, and after a few weeks you notice it: you finish books again. ReadFirst requires a purchase: a subscription or a one-time purchase unlocks every feature. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick the apps that pull you in: social media, short videos, games. ReadFirst locks them with Apple's Screen Time. 2. Open your book and read. A short reading timer runs while you read. 3. Take a photo of the page you reached. Your apps open for the minutes you chose. You set the rule: one to five pages, and how many minutes they are worth. FAIR, NOT HARSH • Minutes only run while you use your apps. What you don't use goes back into your bank. • Read more than you need and the extra minutes wait for later. • One skip a week for the days that don't go to plan, up to three if you want. • An optional daily limit if you want a ceiling. • At midnight a new day begins and your apps lock again. BECOME SOMEONE WHO READS • 60 medals to collect, from your first page to long streaks and finished books. Each one is engraved with its name and the day you earned it. • A daily goal, a streak and statistics for every week, month and year. • Your bookshelf with covers and page counts, and every page in your reading log. • Widgets, a reading timer on the Lock Screen and Siri shortcuts. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. The photo of your page is checked on your iPhone and is never uploaded or stored. Your books and your reading stay on your device and in your own iCloud. Anonymous usage statistics show us where the app can improve. They never include your name, your books or your photos. No ads, no tracking. Works on iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

Habit Tracker4 screens
ReadFirst4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Habit Tracker at 5.0 against ReadFirst's 4.0. Habit Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). ReadFirst's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 9 days). On price, ratings volume, 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. Habit Tracker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $8.00 per month and ReadFirst sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Habit Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Habit Tracker ships an update every 9 days, ReadFirst daily. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Habit Tracker versus ReadFirst: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabit TrackerReadFirst
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB23 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperArmagan GokTrueDigital LLC

Customer experience

Habit Tracker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ReadFirst

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Habit Tracker

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly$8.001 Month
  • Annual – 50% Off$19.991 Year
  • 6-Months$29.996 Months
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  • Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
4 purchases

ReadFirst

Subscriptions3
  • ReadFirst, monthly$7.991 Month
  • ReadFirst, annual$39.991 Year
  • ReadFirst, annual1 Year trial2 variants$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • ReadFirst, one-time$99.99

Questions

Is Habit Tracker free?
Habit Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ReadFirst free?
ReadFirst is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Habit Tracker or ReadFirst?
Habit Tracker is rated higher. Habit Tracker averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while ReadFirst averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Habit Tracker or ReadFirst have ads?
Neither Habit Tracker nor ReadFirst shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Habit Tracker or ReadFirst?
Habit Tracker ships an update every 9 days, and ReadFirst daily. Most recently, Habit Tracker was updated on November 4, 2026 and ReadFirst on November 6, 2026.

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