Comparison

Compound vs Grid Habit

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

Head to head
About

Compound

This minimalist app displays your entire year on a single screen, allowing you to track daily habits with a single tap. It focuses on visualizing patterns and consistency without pressure or reminders, prioritizing privacy with local data storage.

Highlights
  • Yearly view on one screen
  • One-tap daily check-ins
  • Optional daily notes
  • Visual pattern emergence
  • Clean, minimalist interface
  • Local data storage
  • No notifications or reminders
Features
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Compound is a minimalist habit tracker designed around a single idea: see your entire year at a glance. Every day of the year lives on one screen. Tap once to check in. Add notes if you want. Over time, patterns emerge naturally. See your whole year All 365 days are visible at once. No scrolling. No dashboards. The layout automatically adapts to your screen so your year always fits. One tap per day Tap a day to mark that you showed up. That’s it. The calendar shows what happened, clearly and honestly. Optional depth Add short daily notes with a long press Review reflections in a simple timeline Run time bound personal experiments alongside your daily check ins Use as much or as little as you want. Visual patterns See consistency over weeks and months. Runs appear naturally. No streak pressure. No resets. Designed for focus Clean, minimalist interface No notifications or reminders No gamification Thoughtful dark mode Privacy first No accounts No cloud sync All data stored locally on your device Export and import your data anytime Missing a day is okay Compound is descriptive, not motivational. It shows what happened, not what should have happened. Show up when you can. Watch it compound.

About

Grid Habit

Features
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Every habit is a pixel in the masterpiece of your life. GridHabit turns your consistency into something you can actually see: a grid of tiles, one square per day, filling in a little more every time you keep your word. Miss a day and you see the gap. Keep going and you watch a year of effort take shape. Everything stays on your iPhone and iPad. No account. No sign-up. No server, no analytics, no network code at all. THE GRID A week-per-column contribution grid with four intensity levels. Tiles bloom with a spring when a day flips on, glow on the dark themes, and the layout adapts so squares fill the width exactly — on any device, in any orientation. TRACKING THAT BENDS TO YOUR LIFE • Flexible schedules — every day, X times per week, or chosen weekdays • Multiple completions a day, with partial-fill tiles • Streaks in days, or in weeks for weekly habits • Streak goals (7, 21, 30, 66, 90, 180, 365 days) with progress rings • A full calendar to fix any past day you forgot to mark • Archive as a soft delete that keeps your history intact INSIGHT, NOT JUST NUMBERS • Current streak, longest streak, total completions, days marked • Completion rate over 30, 90 and 365 days — measured against days the habit was actually scheduled, not raw calendar days • A rolling consistency chart you can scrub through • Your best day of the week, found from your own data • An auto-written weekly review in plain language • Habit standings ranked by recent consistency MORE THAN A CHECKBOX • Smart reminders that suggest a time based on when you actually complete the habit • Groups — bundle related habits into "Morning Routine" and filter your day by them • Mood tracking, rated 1–5 on completion, averaged into your stats • Challenges — eight prebuilt 7, 21 and 30 day pushes • Achievements — sixteen badges with live progress • Journal — attach a note to any day • Habit stacking — anchor one habit to another: after coffee, meditate • Focus mode — only what is due right now, nothing else • Haptics and sound on completion, each toggleable FOUR THEMES WITH ACTUAL CHARACTER System, Midnight Bloom, Soft Pastel and Solar Flare — each with its own gradient ground, drifting colour blooms and glass surfaces. Habits draw from a 21-swatch palette tuned separately for light and dark. SHARE IT IF YOU WANT TO Render any habit's grid as a card, save it to Photos or send it anywhere. Optional, and always your choice. YOUR DATA, YOURS Export everything to a single JSON file, and restore it with merge (adds only what is missing, never duplicates a square) or replace. Your backup, your file, your storage. Start with one square today.

Screenshots

Compound4 screens
Grid Habit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Compound at 15.1 against Grid Habit's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Compound versus Grid Habit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCompoundGrid Habit
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAbhijat SaraswatMuhammad Fadhil Abidin

In-app purchases

None

Compound

No in-app purchases

None

Grid Habit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Compound free?
Compound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grid Habit free?
Grid Habit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Compound or Grid Habit have ads?
Neither Compound nor Grid Habit shows ads.

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