Comparison

Habit Tracker vs Trace

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

Trace

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Run your day, or it runs you. Trace is a focus timer and time tracker built to turn deep work into a daily habit. Start a session, do the work, and Trace quietly records exactly where your time goes — then turns it into streaks, insights, and momentum you can feel. Most timers forget about you the moment you leave the app. Trace doesn't. Every session is computed from real timestamps, so your time stays accurate even if you lock your phone, take a call, or close the app for hours. WHY TRACE • A timer that survives real life — backgrounding, lock screen, calls, and app kills won't lose a second. • Tap to pause, start, and stop. Every completed session is saved, no matter how short. • Build your ideal day — set up morning, afternoon, evening, and night activities so your schedule reflects how you actually work. • Track anything — Study, Work, Workout, Read, Deep Work, and your own custom session types. • Daily to-dos and goals that keep you moving toward what matters. STAY CONSISTENT • Streaks that reward showing up day after day. • A daily summary that shows what you got done. • Clear insights and charts — see where your time goes, compare days, and spot your trends. GO DEEPER • Immersive focus sounds — coffee shop, library, piano, and more — to pull you into deep work and keep you there. • Screen Time blocking to lock out distracting apps while you focus. • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island so your session is always one glance away. • Apple Watch and Mac apps so you can start and track focus wherever you are. • Themes, accents, and glow styles to make Trace yours. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your data lives on your device. No account required to start. Stop guessing where your time went. Start tracing it. — Trace Pro unlocks deeper insights, unlimited session types and tasks, full customization, and immersive focus sounds. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Privacy Policy: https://patient-mouse-b9ce.reodan9.workers.dev/privacy Terms of Use: https://patient-mouse-b9ce.reodan9.workers.dev/terms

Screenshots

Habit Tracker4 screens
Trace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Trace at none against Habit Tracker's shown. Habit Tracker's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price 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. Habit Tracker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Trace sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Habit Tracker versus Trace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabit TrackerTrace
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (238 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings238 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB25 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperExplora (Apps)Reodan Kanesh Nathan

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
3 purchases

Trace

Subscriptions2
  • Trace Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Trace Pro Annual$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Trace Pro Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Habit Tracker free?
Habit Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Trace free?
Trace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Habit Tracker or Trace have ads?
Habit Tracker shows ads; Trace does not.

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