Grow vs Tracely
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.
Tracely
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Tracely is a health diary you can just talk to. Say one sentence — "heartburn, a 6, took Gaviscon, had a cheeseburger with fries", or "very fatigued today, legs heavy, blurred vision" — and Tracely sorts it into symptoms, food, medication, sleep and the times you mentioned. No forms. No dropdowns. No tapping through menus. EVERYTHING IN ONE TIMELINE • AI structures every sentence you say • A whole day merges into a single card • Severity sliders, medication doses and meals, side by side SEE WHAT CHANGES • Trends charts your symptom severity by day, week or month • Analysis reads your log and names the patterns in plain language — which symptoms move together, when they cluster, and what tends to come before them • Log only symptoms if that's all you want to track. Food and medication are optional, never required • Useful for reflux, migraine, IBS, fatigue, allergies, sleep and long-term conditions — any symptom you want to understand WORKS WITH APPLE HEALTH • Symptoms, moods and caffeine or alcohol are copied into Health • Tracely only writes — it can never read your health data PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your diary stays on your iPhone and in your iCloud • The AI never stores your words or trains on them • Your words are never sold. No ads. No tracking across other apps. • Anonymous usage stats only, and you can switch them off in Settings Tracely organizes what you tell it. It does not diagnose, give medical advice, or make decisions about your health. Always talk to a doctor about your symptoms.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tracely at Free against Grow's $0.99. Tracely also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Grow's advantage is iOS requirement (18.2 vs 26.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Tracely is free to download; Grow costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Grow ships an update every 2 weeks, Tracely every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grow | Tracely |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ozlem AKBUDAK | Björn Schefzyk |
In-app purchases
Grow
No in-app purchases
Tracely
No in-app purchases









