Comparison

Spring vs Cascade

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

Cascade

This app helps you regain focus by blocking distracting applications and offering mindfulness exercises. It provides different session modes to suit your needs, from strict blocking to intentional unlock windows, and helps you understand app design to reduce their hold on your attention.

Highlights
  • App blocking for set durations
  • Multiple session modes (Zen, Monk, Vault)
  • Mindfulness and breathing exercises
  • Rewire course on app design
  • Pattern recognition for habits
  • Routine building for sessions
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Cascade blocks the apps you pick, for as long as you pick. The rest of the app is about the moment you want to open them anyway. THE MODES - Zen: block your apps for a time you choose. You can stop anytime. - Monk: locked until the timer ends. Longer sessions earn a few short unlock windows for real needs. If you want to stop early, Cascade first asks what you are feeling. - Vault: no stopping early. You get 3 passes a week, each opens your apps for 15 minutes. WHEN THE URGE COMES The feeling you name decides what you get: a short breathing exercise, a small thing to do away from the screen, or a question to think about. Each takes a minute or two. None of them lead back to the feed. ROUTINES Set the days and hours once. Sessions start and end on their own, even when the app is closed. ASK CASCADE Ask anything about the app, or just say what you want: it sets up your routine, starts a session or switches modes for you. Pro. ALWAYS ON Always locked keeps the apps you choose closed until you remove them. Check-ins add a short pause before an impulsive open. FRIENDS Add friends with a code. In the Progress tab you see each other's focus time, longest session and streak. You can invite friends into a focus session, or into a shared routine so everyone focuses at the same hours with their own apps. Every finished session also counts as a vote for the person you are becoming, and your friends can see your votes too. THE WEEKLY LETTER At the end of every week Cascade writes you a short letter: which days you focused, why you stopped, what you finished. Past letters stay in an archive. ALSO INSIDE Short meditations for focus, calm and sleep. Rewire, a course on why feeds are so hard to put down. A lock screen widget and Live Activities for your sessions. PRIVACY The list of apps you block stays on your phone. Blocking runs on Apple's Screen Time framework, on your device. We never see your apps. What you type in Ask Cascade goes to our server to be answered. PRICE Free: unlimited Zen sessions, one meditation, one Rewire lesson. Pro unlocks everything else, as a subscription or a one time purchase. The yearly plan starts with a 7 day free trial. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Spring4 screens
Cascade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Cascade at 17.6 against Spring's 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 and Cascade sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. 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 Spring against 5.0 for Cascade. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Spring versus Cascade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpringCascade
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB303 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCHASE HUNTER,LEE HAMMONDSIDIL CIVEZ

Customer experience

Spring

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

Cascade

All ratings1 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
3 purchases

Cascade

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro$11.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$199.99

Questions

Is Spring free?
Spring is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cascade free?
Cascade is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Spring or Cascade?
Spring and Cascade are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Spring or Cascade have ads?
Neither Spring nor Cascade shows ads.

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