Rise vs Stellar Habits
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rise
This app helps you build structured, flexible daily plans around recurring activities and personal goals. It adapts to your schedule and priorities, offering insights into time distribution and a built-in focus timer. Designed for intentional living without rigidity.
- Create structured daily plans from recurring activities
- Integrate with real calendar events
- Visualize time distribution across projects
- Flexible planning adapting to schedule and priorities
- Built-in focus timer
- iCloud sync across devices
- Privacy-first design with no accounts
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Rise — The Routine Planner for the Agentic Era. We can do more than ever now. One person can have a full-time job, study something new, build a startup, work out, care for a family, improve their health, and still have more ideas waiting for their turn. That’s exciting. It’s also a lot. We’re entering the agentic age with tools that help us move faster, but our time is still limited. And we’re still trying to manage everything with to-do lists. A to-do list doesn’t know how much time you have or help you balance competing priorities. It just keeps growing. Rise takes a different approach. Understand your time Before making another plan, step back. What are you spending your time on? What keeps getting pushed aside? Are the things that matter getting any space in your week? Rise doesn’t decide how your life should be organized. You do. Track your time by projects, goals, clients, habits, areas of life—or anything else that makes sense to you. Rise shows you how your time is distributed, so you can see whether it matches your priorities. Plan for real life Most plans work until the day begins. A meeting appears. Something takes longer. A new priority comes in. Suddenly, the plan no longer fits. Rise helps you plan around the time you actually have. When the day changes, your plan can change with it. Here’s how Rise works 1. Define your goals and activities Start with the things you want to make time for—a project, a new skill, your health, people you care about, or simply something you enjoy. Turn each one into an activity you can return to regularly. Describe it naturally, and Rise helps you set it up. 2. Set your time, schedule, and priorities Decide how much time to give each activity, how often it should happen, and whether its timing is fixed or flexible. Organize everything your way. See what’s competing for your time and decide what should come first. 3. Turn your plans into structured days Choose what you want to accomplish, and Rise fits it around the events in your Apple Calendar. In minutes, you have a realistic plan. If a meeting appears, something takes longer, or priorities shift, adjust it and keep going. Describe routines naturally Rise uses Apple Intelligence to turn your words into recurring routines. For example: • “Workout every morning for 45 minutes with a 10-minute cooldown.” • “Study Spanish Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7 AM for 90 minutes.” • “Deep work on weekdays after lunch for 2 hours.” • “Therapy every other Tuesday afternoon with reminders.” • “Read for 30 minutes whenever I have free time.” • “Review my budget on the 1st and 15th of each month.” No long forms. No complicated setup. Just describe what you want to do. Organize things your way Use folders for projects, clients, goals, habits, responsibilities, or anything else you want to track. Rise gives you the structure, but you decide what that structure means. Plan your day Each morning, choose what you want to accomplish. Rise works around your Apple Calendar events and fits activities into the time that’s actually available. A few minutes later, you have a structured day—not just a list of things you hope to finish. Features • Create recurring routines with Apple Intelligence • Describe routines in natural language • Build a structured daily plan in minutes • Plan around your Apple Calendar events • Adjust your plan when the day changes • Organize activities in your own way • Set fixed or flexible schedules • Use a built-in focus timer for every routine • See how your time is distributed • Sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud • Privacy first—no account required Rise isn’t another place to collect tasks. It helps you answer a better question: How do I fit everything I care about into the time I actually have? Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Stellar Habits
This app transforms habit tracking into a visually rewarding experience by representing your habits as stars in a night sky. Complete habits by holding them to make them glow, building a personal constellation over time. It offers a mindful approach to consistency with unique interactive features.
- Hold-to-light completion with haptic feedback
- Build personal constellations by connecting habits
- Interactive year-long spiral view of habit history
- Smart grouped notifications
- Flexible habit scheduling
- Elegant dark interface
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Every night, your habits wait in the sky as unlit stars. Hold each one to watch it glow. A small, satisfying ritual that turns consistency into something beautiful. A habit tracker that feels different. Stellar Habits replaces checkboxes and streaks with an interactive night sky. Each habit is a star. Complete it by holding it until it lights up with a warm amber glow, haptic pulse, and celebration animation. Over time, your personal constellation takes shape. WHY IT WORKS • The 3-second hold-to-light ritual creates a mindful moment of intention, not just a tap • Seeing your sky fill with light each night is deeply motivating • Connect related habits into constellations to visualize how your routines link together • A year-long spiral view shows every single day at a glance so you can watch your brightness grow FEATURES • Hold-to-light completion with haptic feedback and glow animations • Draw connections between habits to build personal constellations • Interactive year spiral: zoom and explore 365 days of history • Smart grouped notifications so you're reminded without being overwhelmed • Flexible scheduling: daily, weekdays, or pick specific days • Suggested habits to get started: Breathe, Stretch, Gratitude, and more • Elegant dark interface designed for evening wind-down STELLAR HABITS PRO • Unlimited stars (free: up to 3) • Custom reminder times (free: 8 AM only) • Custom day-of-week schedules No ads. No social pressure. Just you and your stars. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://enewman00.github.io/habit-tracker-website/#privacy Terms and Conditions: https://enewman00.github.io/habit-tracker-website/#terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Stellar Habits at 5.0 against Rise's 4.5. Stellar Habits also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Rise sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Stellar Habits sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Stellar Habits holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Rise | Stellar Habits |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aleksandr Martirosov | Ethan Newman |
Customer experience
Rise
Stellar Habits
In-app purchases
Rise
- Plus Monthly$3.991 Month
- Plus Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Rise Essentials$24.99
Stellar Habits
- Stellar Habits Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
- Stellar Habits Pro - Yearly$17.991 Year









