Comparison

Habit Tracker vs ShelfCare

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 positive habits and break negative ones by tracking daily streaks. Gamified elements and expert design encourage discipline and goal achievement. Track progress, earn trophies, and share your success.

Highlights
  • Define daily goals and start dates
  • Track streak increases daily
  • Break bad habits (substances, food, lifestyle)
  • Maintain good habits (health, mind, productivity)
  • Unlock trophies for streak milestones
  • Archive achievements
  • Home Screen widget
Features
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Build a streak you’re proud of. Flame is a habit tracker and streak counter that makes your consistency visible. Read more, keep up with your workouts, or leave late-night scrolling behind. From your first few days to your next personal best, see how long you can keep your commitment going. Features Build and break habits with streaks • Build a habit with manual check-ins. Mark it done when you’ve followed through, and add another day to your streak. • Break a habit with an automatic counter. Your streak grows at midnight without daily check-ins. Reset it when you need a fresh start. • Choose which days count. Follow a daily routine or set a weekly schedule. Planned days off won’t break your streak. • Keep your commitments in view with reminders for each habit and home screen widgets. • Forgot to check in? Update past days from the calendar. • Missed a day? Use a streak freeze to keep your streak going while recording the missed day, or restart and work toward a new personal best. Track your consistency • Review completed days, missed days, and freezes in your habit history. • Explore your activity heatmap in Insights and see how consistently you’ve kept your habits over the last 30 days. • Look beyond your current streak with personal bests, lifetime totals, and a record of your comebacks. Reach milestones and share your streaks • Set a target to work toward, whether it’s your first week or a longer challenge. • Earn trophies at 7, 30, 90, 365, and 1,000 days. • Share achievements with ready-made visuals, or keep them as personal milestones. • Archive completed streaks to preserve their trophies and make room for your next goal. Your streak data stays on your phone • Keep your progress on your device. Export a backup file to save a copy, restore it later, or move your streaks to a new phone. -- Flame Pro Start tracking for free. Premium unlocks unlimited streaks, streak freezes, home screen widgets, Insights, backup and restore, plus custom themes and icons. Subscription terms: https://www.with-aura.com/subscription-terms/flame-subscription-terms

About

ShelfCare

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Your phone is built to keep you scrolling. ShelfCare is built to help you stop. Start a focus session. Put the phone down. When the timer ends, you earn a book that lands on your virtual bookshelf. That's the whole idea — and it works because the shelf is yours. Every book reflects exactly what you did: a tall spine for a long session, a thin one for a quick 15 minutes, each color tied to what you were working on. Over time, your shelf becomes a visual record of every hour you chose depth over distraction. HOW IT WORKS Set a focus duration — 15, 25, 45, or 60 minutes — and a category. Start the session. A preview of your book takes shape on screen as the timer counts down. When you finish, the book slides onto your shelf with a satisfying animation and haptic. Put the phone down. Come back when it's done. YOUR SHELF, YOUR HISTORY Books aren't decoration — they carry meaning. Session duration shapes the spine size. Your category determines the color. Sessions with zero interruptions earn a gold edge. Over time, you'll recognize your own patterns in the shelf: the dense cluster of reading sessions on a good weekend, the thin work spines from a hectic week. Tap any book to see its details — date, duration, category, and pause count. STAY CONSISTENT A daily streak tracks how many days in a row you've shown up. A heatmap shows your consistency over the past weeks. Aggregate stats tell you your total focus hours, average session length, and how your time breaks down across categories. Daily reminders fire at a time you set — and a second reminder goes out in the evening if your streak is at risk. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. No account required. No data collected. No servers. Your focus history is yours alone.

Screenshots

Habit Tracker4 screens
ShelfCare4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ShelfCare at none against Habit Tracker's 6. ShelfCare also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Habit Tracker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. ShelfCare asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Habit Tracker versus ShelfCare: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabit TrackerShelfCare
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (242 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings242 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB42 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperExplora (Apps)Dmitrii Campestrini

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Habit Tracker

Subscriptions4
  • Flame Tracker Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Flame Tracker Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Flame Tracker Pro - Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
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  • Flame Tracker Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Flame Tracker Pro - Lifetime Offer$24.99
  • Flame Tracker Pro - Lifetime$49.99
None

ShelfCare

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Habit Tracker free?
Habit Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ShelfCare free?
ShelfCare is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Habit Tracker or ShelfCare have ads?
Habit Tracker shows ads; ShelfCare does not.

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