Comparison

Habit Tracker vs Grid

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

Head to head
About

Habit Tracker

Build better habits and track your progress with a simple, ad-free tracker. Offers flexible scheduling, visual heatmaps, streak tracking, and personalized notes. Gain insights into your patterns with powerful analytics and reminders.

Highlights
  • Flexible habit scheduling
  • Visual heatmaps and streak tracking
  • Personalized habit notes (premium)
  • Insightful analytics charts (premium)
  • Smart reminders and notifications
  • Home screen widgets
  • Privacy-first, offline functionality
Features
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Habitwise - Simple Minimalistic Habit Tracker Build better habits and transform your daily routine with Habitwise, the ultimate habit tracker app. Track habits, build streaks, and monitor progress with powerful heatmaps, analytics, notes and reminders. As a top habit tracker, Habitwise helps with productivity, self-improvement, and without ads, logins, or internet required. Unlike rigid habit apps, Habitwise offers flexible scheduling for real life. Handle habits like drinking 6 glasses of water daily or gym sessions twice on Mondays and Fridays. FLEXIBLE HABIT TRACKING - Multiple Frequencies: Create habits with Daily, Weekly or Monthly frequencies - Multi-Instance Tracking: Add multiple instances per habit VISUAL PROGRESS WITH HEATMAPS & STREAK TRACKER Habits appear on the homescreen for the selected date, with a unified header showing task status, completion progress, and date timeline. Each habit tile features a heatmap grid for past completions. Swipe right to mark a habit complete, or left to mark it incomplete. Tap a habit to view habit details, streak info, check-in history, grid heatmap, and interactive calendar. Mark completions for any date, even retroactively, to build and maintain streaks. PERSONALIZED HABIT NOTES (PREMIUM) Enhance your habit tracking with optional notes for each day. While completing a habit for any day, add a personalized note to capture your thoughts, mood or reflections. This feature supports notes for every occurrence of daily, weekly, or monthly habits, aiding deeper self-insight and motivation. POWERFUL INSIGHTS & ANALYTICS FOR PRODUCTIVITY Dive into your patterns with 6 interactive charts: - Performance: Track daily success rate over weeks, months, or years with a smooth line chart showing completion ratios (free). - Year Overview: Visualize your year in grid or calendar view, highlighting daily completion rates with tappable details (premium). - Weekly Pulse: Check week-over-week improvements with a trend indicator over a 6-week line chart (premium). - Routine Rhythm: Identify power days via radar chart averaging weekday performance, with tappable info on best/worst days (premium). - Leaderboard: Rank strongest habits by completion rate, with details on completions, misses, and streaks (premium). - Streaks: Overview of current and best streaks per habit, highlighting active streaks (premium). SMART REMINDERS & NOTIFICATIONS Set multiple reminders per habit (1 for free users, 3 for premium users). HOME SCREEN WIDGETS FOR QUICK TRACKING Add homescreen widgets for single habit, or daily summary for overall status. PRIVACY-FIRST HABIT BUILDER No account or signup needed. No ads. Works offline. Your data stays on-device. Archive inactive habits and restore or delete as needed. FREE FOREVER FEATURES - Unlimited habits with daily frequency. - 1 reminder per habit. - Performance insight chart. - Heatmap visualizations and calendar with retroactive logging. - Streak tracking and check-in monitoring. - Light/dark mode. - Archive and restore habits. - No ads, no login, offline access. PREMIUM UPGRADES FOR ADVANCED USERS - Everything in Free tier - Weekly and monthly habit frequencies. - Up to 3 reminders per habit. - All 6 advanced insight charts for deeper analytics. - Home screen widgets for habit and daily status. - Import/export data backups via offline files. - Personalized habit notes for adding and viewing daily entries. - Everything in free, plus enhanced productivity and self-improvement tools (monthly, yearly, or lifetime subscription). Perfect for fitness goals like gym, running, yoga, workouts; health habits like water intake, vitamins, medication; mindfulness like meditation, gratitude; learning like reading, studying; weekly or monthly planning. Inspired by Atomic Habits and Seinfeld method, Habitwise makes habit building simple and effective. Download the best habit tracker app now – your productivity app, wellness tracker, streak counter, and motivation tool in one.

About

Grid

Visually track your daily habits using colorful grids, similar to contribution graphs. Check in from widgets, receive smart reminders, and build motivating streaks. Perfect for establishing routines and making positive changes stick.

Highlights
  • Visual grid tracking
  • Home screen & lock screen widgets
  • Custom reminders
  • Streak counters
  • Unlimited habits
  • No ads
  • Data stays on device
Features
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Track habits with colorful grids—just like GitHub contributions. Tap circles to check in from widgets, get smart reminders, and watch your streaks grow at a glance. Perfect for building morning routines, fitness habits, reading goals, and any daily practice you want to make stick. Simple, visual, and incredibly satisfying. WHY GRID IS DIFFERENT Most habit trackers hide your progress behind menus and stats screens. Grid puts everything front and center with a visual grid for each habit—tap today's circle, watch it turn green, and see your patterns emerge instantly. Your habits appear as horizontal rows with scrollable grids showing the last 90 days. Green circles = completed. Gray = missed. It's impossible to ignore your consistency (or lack of it). STAY ON TRACK WITH SMART REMINDERS Set custom notifications for each habit—morning meditation at 7am, evening reading at 9pm, or water reminders throughout the day. Grid sends gentle reminders exactly when you need them, keeping you consistent without being annoying. CHECK IN FROM YOUR HOME SCREEN Grid's home screen widgets let you see and complete habits without opening the app. Glance at your progress, tap to check in, and keep your momentum going—all from your iPhone home screen or lock screen. Widget options: - Today's Habits - See all habits and check them off - Single Habit Focus - Track your most important habit with a mini-grid - Quick access from small, medium, or large widgets FEATURES - Unlimited habits (100% free) - Visual grid tracking for each habit - Home screen & lock screen widgets - Custom reminders for each habit - Satisfying check-in animation with confetti - Streak counters that motivate you daily - Share cards to celebrate milestones - Full calendar view with detailed stats - Dark mode support - No ads, no account required - All your data stays on your device PERFECT FOR Morning routines (meditation, journaling, exercise) Health goals (drink water, take vitamins, track sleep) Fitness habits (gym, running, yoga, stretching) Learning (read daily, practice language, study) Productivity (deep work, no social media, inbox zero) Self-improvement (gratitude, mindfulness, reflection) HOW IT WORKS 1. Add a habit with an emoji and name 2. Set a reminder time (optional) 3. Get notified when it's time 4. Tap the circle to check in—from the app or widget 5. Watch green squares fill up your grid 6. Build unstoppable streaks 7. Share your progress when you hit milestones NEVER MISS A HABIT Grid's notification system is designed to help, not harass. Set one reminder or multiple throughout the day. Snooze if you need more time. Dismiss if you're done. Each habit gets its own reminder schedule that works for your life. THE GRID APPROACH Inspired by GitHub's contribution graph, Grid makes habit tracking visual and immediate. You don't need to dig through menus to see how you're doing—your grids and widgets tell the story at a glance. Miss a day? You'll see the gap. Building consistency? The pattern becomes obvious. Unlike apps that hide broken streaks or make excuses, Grid shows you the truth. NO TRICKS, NO GAMES No points, levels, or virtual rewards. No AI coaches or premium features locked behind paywalls. Just you, your habits, honest visual feedback, and helpful reminders. Grid respects your time and privacy. No account required. No data collected. No ads interrupting your flow. Your habit data stays on your device. 100% FREE FOREVER Grid is completely free with all features unlocked. Unlimited habits, unlimited reminders, all widgets included. No feature gates, no subscription required. SHARE YOUR WINS Hit a 30-day streak? Grid lets you create beautiful share cards with gradient backgrounds to post on Instagram, Twitter, or send to friends. Celebrate your progress and inspire others. START TODAY Download Grid and build the habits that will change your life. One reminder at a time, one widget at a time, one circle at a time

Screenshots

Habit Tracker4 screens
Grid4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Habit Tracker at 5.0 against Grid's 4.2. Habit Tracker also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 50%) and device support (3 vs 1). Grid's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Grid sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Habit Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Habit Tracker's written reviews are positive against 50% of Grid's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Habit Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Grid every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Habit Tracker versus Grid: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabit TrackerGrid
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better4.2 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings56 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHrishikesh DeshkarWes Thomson

Customer experience

Habit Tracker

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Grid

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Habit Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Habitwise Monthly Premium$0.991 Month
  • Habitwise Yearly Premium$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Habitwise Lifetime Premium$19.99
1 purchases

Grid

Subscriptions1
  • Grid Pro - Yearly$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Habit Tracker free?
Habit Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Grid free?
Grid is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Habit Tracker or Grid?
Habit Tracker is rated higher. Habit Tracker averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Grid averages 4.2 from 6 ratings.
Do Habit Tracker or Grid have ads?
Neither Habit Tracker nor Grid shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Habit Tracker or Grid?
Habit Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Grid every 5 weeks. Most recently, Habit Tracker was updated on October 28, 2026 and Grid on October 28, 2026.

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