Grow vs Cuke
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grow
Effortlessly track daily progress and visualize your improvements over time. This app offers clear weekly and yearly insights to help you build better habits with purpose and stay motivated on your journey.
- Daily habit tracking
- Weekly progress view
- Yearly insights and charts
- Goal planning
- Motivation through visual growth
- Lifestyle improvement
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GROW. HABIT TRACKER FOR BETTER HABITS. Most habit trackers reward you with streaks, then make you feel like you've failed the moment you miss a day. Grow doesn't. There are no streaks to break and no badges to chase. Instead, Grow shows you the bigger picture: when your habits actually work, and how they quietly compound over weeks, months, and a whole year. Because building a better life isn't about a perfect run of days. It's about understanding yourself, and showing up again and again, without the pressure. NO STREAKS. NO GUILT. JUST PROGRESS. Miss a day? Nothing breaks. Grow is built so a single setback never undoes your momentum or your motivation. You see how far you've come, not where you slipped, so it's easy to simply pick back up tomorrow. SEE WHEN YOUR HABITS ACTUALLY WORK Grow reveals the patterns behind your habits. Discover which days of the week you're strongest, watch your monthly totals build across the year, and see your effort compounding instead of fixating on small dips. Real change is a trend, not a tally. INSIGHTS THAT HELP YOU UNDERSTAND YOURSELF The Insights tab stacks all your habits together in one clear picture, so you can compare them side by side and find the ones that genuinely resonate, the habits that stick for you. No two people are the same, and Grow helps you learn what works for you specifically. SEE YOUR WHOLE YEAR AT A GLANCE Zoom out from today to your entire year. Spot your strongest months, follow your momentum, and keep your long game in view, beautifully mapped and never cluttered. ORGANIZE EVERYTHING BY CATEGORY Group habits into categories and switch between them instantly. Focus on what matters today without losing the bigger picture. DESIGNED TO BE CALM, NOT OVERWHELMING Grow honors sleek, elegant, distraction-free design. No noisy gamification, no manufactured rewards, just a clean, native app that's a quiet pleasure to open every day, in both light and dark mode. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your habits are yours alone. Grow syncs seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud, and keeps your data private. PERFECT FOR - Workouts, stretching, and getting your steps in - Reading, studying, and learning a new language or a word a day - Sleeping on time and drinking more water - Meditation, journaling, and a daily moment of gratitude - Practicing an instrument or a creative craft - Cutting back on screen time, caffeine, or other habits you'd like to change - Taking vitamins or keeping up a daily routine - Anyone who's abandoned a habit app after breaking a streak - Students, professionals, parents, and anyone who wants to understand themselves better, without the pressure WHAT GROW DOESN'T DO - No streaks to lose - No badges, points, or gimmicks - No guilt, no clutter, no noise Start small. Stay consistent. Watch yourself grow.
Cuke
This app provides a visual routine planner and timer designed for individuals with ADHD. It features a gentle, non-judgmental approach to habit tracking and time management, with a focus on visual cues and step-by-step guidance.
- Visual routine planner
- Step-by-step routine player
- Shrinking ring timer
- Focus blocks with breaks
- Live Activity and Dynamic Island support
- On-device pattern coach
- Box breathing exercises
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Cuke is a calm routine planner and visual timer for ADHD brains — with a small cucumber who never scolds. Pay once, keep it forever: no subscription, no streaks, no shame. Most habit apps punish a missed day: a streak breaks, a number turns red, a notification says "we miss you." Cuke doesn't keep score. Miss something and it quietly fades and waits. Come back after a hard week and today simply starts at zero. MEET CUKE A cucumber keeps you company on every screen. It holds on to the routine you're in, tugs the next one into your day, and lies down under the one that moved to later — cheerful every time. It has five faces and not one of them is disappointed. Finish a routine and it celebrates. Every active day adds a little brine to its jar, and the jar only ever fills. TIME YOU CAN FEEL • A shrinking ring for every step, not a number climbing — a time-blind brain can see ten minutes leaving. • A step-by-step routine player with gentle audible cues, so a locked phone still moves you forward. • Running late? A quiet "shifted +12 min" chip. Nothing turns red. • Focus blocks on your own terms: 10, 25 or 45 minutes, with a real break. ROUTINES THAT STICK • Start with one routine — morning, shutdown, meds & basics — or build your own in a minute. • Basics you can check off anytime: meds, water, food, with an optional time-sensitive reminder for the ones that matter. • Unmissable alarms, opt-in only: for medication, for the end of a focus block, or to wake straight into a routine. • Miss a routine and it moves to later. Skip a step and nothing is owed. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN • Live Activity and Dynamic Island show the current step and the time left. • Home and Lock Screen widgets show what's next, quietly. • Siri and Shortcuts: "Start my routine in Cuke", "Log my meds in Cuke", "What's next in Cuke". SKILLS FOR STUCK MOMENTS • Box breathing in a jar: the brine rises as you breathe in, and an optional vibration follows your breath, so it works with your eyes closed. • Get unstuck: name the wall, slice the task into small rounds, start with one. • Ground yourself in 90 seconds. Nothing here is tracked or graded. A REVIEW THAT ONLY GROWS A calm weekly review of what actually happened — patterns in plain language, never grades, never leaderboards. An optional on-device pattern coach notices things like "mornings hold, evenings slip" and says so gently. It runs entirely on your phone. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. Cuke has no servers of its own — your data lives on your device and syncs only through your own private iCloud. Analytics are anonymous and content-masked; your routines and notes never leave as text. If you choose to download the optional on-device AI model, only the model comes down; nothing about you is ever sent to us. HONEST PRICING Your first routine is free, forever. Unlock unlimited routines with a single $24.99 purchase — one time, no subscription, nothing that renews. Cuke offers skills, not therapy. If things feel heavy, a professional is the right tool. Works on iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Cuke at Free against Grow's $0.99. Cuke also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Grow's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.2 vs 26.0). On update cadence, ads and device support 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
Cuke is free to download; Grow costs $0.99 up front. Cuke sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Grow asks for nothing beyond the download.
Grow ships an update every 2 weeks, Cuke fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grow | Cuke |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ozlem AKBUDAK | Emre ALICI |
Customer experience
Grow
Cuke
In-app purchases
Grow
No in-app purchases
Cuke
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