Comparison

Ivy vs Habit Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Ivy

This app helps you focus on what matters by planning your day, tracking progress, and reviewing accomplishments. It offers features like repeating reminders, time-based goals, and voice input for planning. Celebrate your completed tasks with animations and build a journal of your day.

Highlights
  • Daily planning and commitment
  • Repeating reminders and time-based goals
  • Voice input for quick planning
  • Focus Mode for time tracking
  • Completion animations and haptics
  • Journaling of completed tasks
  • Review list for unfinished items
Features
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Achieve more by taking on less. Start your day by choosing what truly matters and commit to it. Focus and feel the momentum build as you check things off. Finish with a beautiful record of a day well spent, while anything unfinished rolls into your Review list—ready for tomorrow. Add rich detail • Create repeating reminders. • Add notes, and set time- or count-based goals. • Promote to a Superaction and get an extra impactful animation on completion. • Schedule for a specific time of day, and get reminded with a notification or an alarm. Choose what matters • Quickly draft your plan just by talking with the voice input*. • Loosely slot anything in between auto-sorted scheduled items. • Commit when your plan feels right—you can still adjust as things come up. Focus and build momentum • Get rewarded with satisfying animations and haptics as you check things off. • Stay focused and track time as you go with Focus Mode. • Interact with your plan at a glance by enabling the Live Activity on your Lock Screen, or by adding the widget to your Home Screen. • Long press to quickly adjust—add something new, or bump to tomorrow or Review. Celebrate what you accomplished • Mark your day as done and enjoy a beautiful 3D animation. • Watch your completed plan transform into a journal—so you can see where your time went. • Easily adjust the record with the ability to edit when you did things—and for how long. • Anything unfinished rolls into your Review list—ready for tomorrow’s plan, or to be let go. A powerful review tool • See what you’ve delayed—rescheduled items are automatically bumped to the top. • Scrub through days to retroactively complete—or assign to a day in the future. • Make decisions one by one with Focus Mode—moving or deleting a task will automatically focus the next one. • Turn a fleeting thought into action—use the Lock Screen control to add to your review list with a single tap. Personalize your experience • Get reminded to get started—or to wrap up your day—with morning and evening notifications. • Give yourself extra time to work on your plan if you’re a night owl. • Pick from a selection of themes and handcrafted patterns. Work with other apps • Connect Ivy with the Calendar and Reminders apps. • Import content from other apps with the share extension, including markdown lists. Expect great things down the road • Dedicated iPad, Mac, and watchOS apps. • More ways to organize—interests, habits, projects, etc. • Expanded journaling tools. *Voice Input requires a device with Apple Intelligence. Try Ivy today with a two week free trial. Feedback is always welcome—reach us at hello@semantical.com. Download Ivy for free and try it without registration. After the trial period, an active subscription is required to continue using the app. A subscription unlocks full access to Ivy on all supported devices. • 14-day free trial. • Full access on all supported devices. • Monthly and annual subscription options available. Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless automatic renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription through your Apple Account subscription settings. Privacy and Terms of Use: https://semantical.com/privacy https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Habit Tracker

This app helps you build self-improvement routines by visualizing your progress with a unique jar metaphor. Log habits to fill jars with marbles, track streaks, and organize your goals with custom colors. It's designed for privacy and ease of use.

Highlights
  • Visualize progress with habit jars
  • Log habits by adding marbles
  • Track streaks and stats
  • Organize habits with custom colors
  • Private data storage via iCloud
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The perfect habit tracker to help you on your shelf-improvement journey (pun intended). Habit Jars helps you visualize your progress. Every time you log a habit, you drop a marble into a jar. Keep stacking marbles at your own pace or start a Streak to help you stay consistent and motivated. You can organize your shelves, and give a unique color to each jar to easily track your progress at a glance. Why people love it: - Designed to feel like a real object in your hand. - Easy to use: tap to add a marble, that's it. - Track your streaks and stats over time. - Private by design, your data is stored on your iCloud account. The app is free to download and you can unlock unlimited jars and marbles with a one-time purchase. No subscriptions, ever. So start small, fill your jars, and become the best version of yourshelf (fine I’ll stop). Privacy Policy: https://floperillat.com/habit-jars/privacy Terms of Service: https://floperillat.com/habit-jars/terms

Screenshots

Ivy4 screens
Habit Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Habit Tracker at free with in-app purchases against Ivy's subscription. Habit Tracker also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). Ivy's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 2). On price, rating, 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. Ivy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Habit Tracker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ivy against 5.0 for Habit Tracker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ivy has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ivy ships an update every 10 days, Habit Tracker every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ivy versus Habit Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIvyHabit Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (16 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings16 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.026
Further details — not scored
Size169 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSemanticalFlorent Perillat

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Ivy

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Month$3.991 Month
  • 1 Year14 Days trial$29.991 Year
3 purchases

Habit Tracker

One-time3
  • Habit Jars - Lifetime$4.99
  • Habit Jars - Lifetime$8.99
  • Habit Jars - Lifetime$12.99

Questions

Is Ivy free?
Ivy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Habit Tracker free?
Habit Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ivy or Habit Tracker?
Ivy and Habit Tracker are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 16 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Ivy or Habit Tracker have ads?
Neither Ivy nor Habit Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ivy or Habit Tracker?
Ivy ships an update every 10 days, and Habit Tracker every 4 days. Most recently, Ivy was updated on September 18, 2026 and Habit Tracker on September 14, 2026.

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