Comparison

Habit Tracker vs Steel Notes

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 and maintain positive habits by visualizing your progress and streaks. Track your consistency with manual check-ins, automatic counters, and planned days off. Reach milestones and earn trophies as you achieve your goals.

Highlights
  • Build habits with streaks
  • Manual and automatic check-ins
  • Planned days off
  • Reminders and widgets
  • Habit history and insights
  • Milestones and trophies
  • Local data storage
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

Steel Notes

This app helps you capture and organize quotes from books, articles, and your own ideas. It allows you to connect related thoughts and trace them back to their source material, building a lasting library of your reading and insights.

Highlights
  • Capture book quotes
  • Clip web articles
  • Organize notes and resources
  • Connect related ideas
  • Searchable library
  • Trace ideas to source
Features
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Steel Notes gives your books, quotes, articles, and ideas a lasting place to live. CAPTURE WHAT MATTERS • Quickly capture quotes from physical books. • Your margin notes automatically appear. • Search quotes, notes, and resources. PRESERVE USEFUL ARTICLES • Clip text from articles on the web. • Keep the content without the page disappearing from the web. CONNECT YOUR THINKING • Reference books, quotes, and articles within your own notes. • Connect related ideas across different sources. • Trace each idea back to the material that inspired it. BUILD YOUR READING LIBRARY Keep the books you have read and the ideas you have collected organized in one focused space. Steel Notes is made for students, researchers, academics, and thoughtful readers who want more from their reading than a collection of forgotten highlights. For readers to remember. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Habit Tracker4 screens
Steel Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Steel Notes at none against Habit Tracker's shown. Steel Notes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 74%). Habit Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (242 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Steel Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Steel Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Habit Tracker has 242 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Habit Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Steel Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Habit Tracker versus Steel Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabit TrackerSteel Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (242 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings242 — better2
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB27 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperExplora (Apps)Pitts Ventures

Customer experience

Habit Tracker

All ratings242 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral5.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive73.7%
Neutral7.9%
Negative18.4%

Steel Notes

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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$14.991 Year
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  • Flame Tracker Pro - Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Flame Tracker Pro - Lifetime Offer$24.99
  • Flame Tracker Pro - Lifetime$49.99
1 purchases

Steel Notes

Subscriptions1
  • Steel Notes Monthly$5.001 Month

Questions

Is Habit Tracker free?
Habit Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Steel Notes free?
Steel Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Habit Tracker or Steel Notes?
Steel Notes is rated higher. Habit Tracker averages 4.6 out of 5 from 242 ratings, while Steel Notes averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Habit Tracker or Steel Notes have ads?
Habit Tracker shows ads; Steel Notes does not.
Which is updated more often, Habit Tracker or Steel Notes?
Habit Tracker ships an update weekly, and Steel Notes weekly. Most recently, Habit Tracker was updated on October 30, 2026 and Steel Notes on October 31, 2026.

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