Comparison

Spring vs HeatMap

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

Head to head
About

Spring

Build better habits and break bad ones with a simple, privacy-focused tracker. Monitor your progress, stay accountable with streaks, and receive smart reminders to maintain consistency. Reflect on your journey with habit notes and gain insights into your patterns.

Highlights
  • Simple habit tracking
  • Abstinence counters
  • Streak tracking
  • Smart reminders
  • Habit notes
  • Progress insights
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Spring: Daily Habit Tracker Build better habits, break bad ones, and watch your streaks grow. Spring is a simple, privacy-focused habit tracker designed to help you stay consistent without the complexity. WHY SPRING? Unlike other habit apps that overwhelm you with features, Spring focuses on what actually works: tracking your progress, staying accountable, and celebrating your wins. CORE FEATURES Simple Habit Tracking Create daily habits and check them off with a tap. Morning routines, evening wind-downs, or anytime goals—organize habits by time of day. Abstinence Counters Breaking a bad habit? Track how long you've stayed strong with dedicated quit counters. See your progress in days, weeks, and beyond. Streak Tracking Stay motivated by building streaks. Visual progress keeps you accountable and helps turn actions into lasting habits. Smart Reminders Never forget a habit with customizable notifications. Get reminded at the right time to stay on track. Habit Notes Reflect on your journey by adding notes to your habit completions. Track context, mood, or anything that matters to you. Progress Insights View your habit history and see patterns over time. Understand when you're most consistent and where you can improve. iCloud Sync Your habits sync seamlessly across all your Apple devices. Start on iPhone, check off on iPad. PRIVACY FIRST Your habit data stays on your device. No third-party analytics, no tracking, no ads. Your personal growth is nobody's business but yours. SPRING+ PREMIUM Get unlimited habits and counters with Spring+. Free users can track up to 5 habits and 2 counters. • Monthly: $4.99/month • Yearly: $34.99/year ($2.92/month) Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://offmenu.design/spring/privacy

About

HeatMap

Visualize your progress with a daily streak tracker that uses a GitHub-style contribution grid. Log habits with simple taps, counters, or timers, and gain insights from detailed statistics. Integrates with home screen widgets and Siri Shortcuts for seamless tracking.

Highlights
  • GitHub-style contribution grid visualization
  • Yes/No, Counter, and Timer tracking modes
  • Detailed statistics and trend analysis
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Siri Shortcuts integration
  • Offline functionality with optional sync
  • Multiple color palettes and themes
Features
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Every day you keep a habit turns one square green. Skip a week and you see the gap. That is the whole idea: a year of your life on one screen, honest and impossible to argue with. HeatMap is a habit tracker built around the GitHub-style contribution grid. Open it, tap once, done. No cluttered dashboard, no ads, no guilt-tripping notifications. THREE WAYS TO TRACK - Yes / No — did you go to the gym today? - Counter — pages read, glasses of water, cups of coffee. - Timer — start it and log real minutes of practice, study or meditation. Set a daily target, or a gentler one like "4 times a week", and the grid follows your rule instead of shaming you for a rest day. STATISTICS THAT ACTUALLY TELL YOU SOMETHING - Current streak, personal record, total days - Your most productive weekday, and weekdays vs weekends - Six-month trend, month-over-month change and a year-end projection - Your longest gaps, so you can see where a habit usually breaks Tap any number to open the full chart behind it. RIGHT ON YOUR HOME SCREEN - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets showing your live heatmap - A Control Center button to log a habit without opening the app - Siri Shortcuts: "Hey Siri, mark meditation" WORKS OFFLINE, SYNCS WHEN YOU WANT Start tracking immediately — no account, no email, no onboarding quiz. Everything is stored on your device and keeps working on a plane or underground. Sign in later and your existing habits move with you to iPhone, iPad and the web, in both directions, with nothing lost. MADE TO BE LOOKED AT EVERY DAY Twelve hand-picked colour palettes, icons for every kind of habit, full light and dark themes, and a calm interface that gets out of your way. Available in English, Russian, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Japanese. GOOD FOR Gym and workouts, running, reading, meditation, language learning, drinking water, journaling, practising an instrument, quitting smoking, cutting screen time, side projects, deep work, medication, skincare. FREE, WITH NO CATCH Track habits with every colour palette and the complete set of statistics — free. No ads, no paywall standing in front of your own charts, no trial that quietly starts charging you. Built by one developer who tracks his own habits with it. Every message gets read, and a lot of what is in the app came from user requests. Tell us what is missing.

Screenshots

Spring4 screens
HeatMap4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HeatMap at none against Spring's 2. HeatMap also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Spring sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. HeatMap asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Spring against 5.0 for HeatMap. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Spring versus HeatMap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpringHeatMap
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCHASE HUNTER,LEE HAMMONDSLeonid Chirkov

Customer experience

Spring

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

HeatMap

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Spring

Subscriptions2
  • Springs - Habit Tracker$4.991 Month
  • Springs - Habit Tracker$34.991 Year
None

HeatMap

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spring free?
Spring is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HeatMap free?
HeatMap is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spring or HeatMap?
Spring and HeatMap are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Spring or HeatMap have ads?
Neither Spring nor HeatMap shows ads.

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