Comparison

Habit Tracker vs Project Jar

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 new habits and break old ones with a visually appealing grid-based tracker. Customize your dashboard with colors and icons to stay motivated. Easily manage past completions and add notes for each habit.

Highlights
  • Customizable habit grid dashboard
  • Create and manage daily habits
  • Calendar view for completions
  • Add notes for habit reflections
  • Data import and export functionality
  • Privacy-focused, no cloud storage
Features
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HabitGrid is the perfect app for anyone looking to form new habits or break old ones. It’s completely free to use and helps you stay motivated with beautiful tile-based grid charts. Whether you're trying to quit smoking, eat healthier, or exercise more, HabitGrid can help you achieve your goals. You can customize your dashboard by adjusting colors, icons, and descriptions. Draw motivation from growing the amount of colored tiles on your habit dashboard. CREATE HABITS Add your habits you want to track in a fast and easy way. Provide a name, description, icon, and color, and you’re good to go. DASHBOARD All your habits are displayed on your dashboard, represented by a cool-looking grid chart. Every filled-out square shows a day where you kept up with your habit. CALENDAR The calendar provides a fast and easy way to manage past completions. Simply tap a day to remove or add a completion. NOTES Keep track of your thoughts, reflections, or progress details for each habit. Add quick notes to record how you felt or what helped you stay consistent. IMPORT AND EXPORT Switching phones and don’t want to lose your data? Export your data to a file, save it wherever you want, and restore it at any time. PRIVACY FOCUSED All your data belongs to you and stays on your phone. No sign-in. No servers. No cloud.

About

Project Jar

Features
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Too many ideas. No idea where to start. Project Jar is for people whose problem was never coming up with things to make - it's picking one. Drop every idea into the jar, and when you finally have a free evening, let the jar decide. CAPTURE IT BEFORE IT'S GONE • Add an idea in seconds - type it, or hold the mic and just talk • Tag it: music, app, video, writing, or categories you invent • Attach photos and reference shots • Search everything you've ever thrown in LET FATE PICK • Tap spin and watch your Spark pull a slip out of the jar • Seven animated draw scenes to pick from • Exclude the categories you're not in the mood for today • The decision is made. Go make something. ONE IDEA, ONE PAGE • Every idea opens as a document - notes, headings, bullets, photos and to-dos in one flow • Check things off as you go • Turn an idea into a real project the moment it's ready A COMPANION THAT NEVER GUILT-TRIPS YOU • Your Spark lives in a little room and reacts to what you make • Disappear for a week? It gets more encouraging, not less. This is the opposite of a guilt app. • Unlock new looks, posters and postcards the more you create • After 30 quiet days it moves out - and you can always bring it home TRACK SHOWING UP, NOT OUTPUT • A GitHub-style activity grid across every project you touch • Tap any day to see exactly what you did • Streaks that celebrate and never scold YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS • No account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking • Everything lives on your iPhone • Optional daily reminder, entirely local OPTIONAL AI Voice capture works the moment you install it, using Apple's built-in speech recognition - free, no setup, nothing to configure. If you want Whisper-grade transcription plus automatic parsing of a rambling voice note into a clean, tagged idea, there are two ways to get it: 1. Bring your own keys — paste your OpenAI and Anthropic API keys in Settings. Free in the app; you pay your provider directly. 2. Subscribe to ProjectJar AI — no keys, no setup. ProjectJar AI · $1.99 per month, auto-renewing Whisper transcription and smart idea parsing with nothing to configure. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the period ending. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gitlab.com/seisembay/projectjar/-/blob/main/privacy-policy.md App terms: https://gitlab.com/seisembay/projectjar/-/blob/main/terms.md Built by one person with far too many unfinished projects, who needed this to exist.

Screenshots

Habit Tracker4 screens
Project Jar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Habit Tracker at none against Project Jar's 2. Habit Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Project Jar sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Habit Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Habit Tracker versus Project Jar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabit TrackerProject Jar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (51 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB48 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperEdvard Adam ErosIslam Seisembay

In-app purchases

None

Habit Tracker

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Project Jar

Subscriptions1
  • AI Voice Transcription/Parser$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Revival$0.99

Questions

Is Habit Tracker free?
Habit Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Project Jar free?
Project Jar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Habit Tracker or Project Jar have ads?
Neither Habit Tracker nor Project Jar shows ads.

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