Comparison

Tiny Habits vs Pathlings

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

Head to head
About

Tiny Habits

Transform your health progress into a dynamic, evolving planet. Track habits visually, with your world changing shape, color, and atmosphere as you complete daily goals. Integrates with Apple Health for automatic tracking or allows custom metrics.

Highlights
  • Visual habit tracking with a dynamic 3D planet
  • Apple Health integration
  • Customizable metrics and goals
  • Adjustable daily goals
  • Monthly planet history
  • Themed planet styles
Features
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Your daily health goals, growing into a living world. Tiny Habits is an Apple Health tracker that turns your steps, water, sleep, daylight and mindfulness into a realistic 3D planet. Reach your goals and watch mountains rise, rivers fill, forests mature and meadows bloom. Completely rebuilt for version 2.0, the new Living World replaces the original low-poly planets with detailed terrain, seas, forests, clouds and weather. Explore a world shaped by the days you actually live. YOUR HEALTH DATA BRINGS IT TO LIFE Connect Apple Health, choose your metrics and set your daily goals. Tiny Habits uses the data you already record to grow your planet automatically, without another checklist to maintain. Five habits shape five parts of your world: • Steps raise mountains. • Water fills seas, lakes and rivers. • Daylight grows forests. • Sleep brings meadows and flowers. • Mindfulness clears the skies and lights the aurora. SMALL STEPS. LASTING GROWTH. Every day is another chance to grow. Miss a goal and that part of your world waits; the growth you have already earned stays. Pick up again tomorrow. When you grow matters, too. Forests planted early have time to mature, while later growth appears young. Your world tells the story of your month. EXPLORE WHAT YOU HAVE GROWN Fly from space down into your planet's forests and valleys. See your daily progress in the landscape, then replay how your world has changed. BUILD STREAKS. UNLOCK DISCOVERIES. Reach your goals consistently to reveal wildlife and landmarks: grazing herds, whales, waterfalls, stone arches, old-growth groves, the aurora and more. Collect discoveries as they appear in your world. A FRESH WORLD EVERY MONTH Start a new planet on the 1st. At the end of the month, it joins Your Year, preserving the world your habits created. Look back through your months and see your progress as places you can revisit. With any Planet Pack, your monthly worlds become a solar system orbiting a sun shaped by your year. TWELVE LIVING WORLDS TO DISCOVER Begin with Terra, the free Earth-inspired world. Planet Pack 1 adds eleven more Living Worlds, from frozen lakes and desert oases to jungle islands, volcanic landscapes, cherry blossom valleys and glowing forests. Explore the world gallery, watch each planet grow and preview your own month in different worlds. GOALS THAT FIT YOUR LIFE • Choose the Apple Health metrics that shape your world. • Swap a default metric for walking and running distance, cycling, swimming, active calories, exercise minutes, stand hours, flights climbed or workouts. • Set a personal daily target for each metric. • Schedule weekly and month-end reminders. • See your progress with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. • Use VoiceOver and Dynamic Type. YOUR HEALTH DATA STAYS WITH YOU Your health data is read from Apple Health, used to grow your world and stored on your device. It is never uploaded. You choose which Health permissions to allow and can change them at any time. Already using Tiny Habits? Your past months are regrown as Living Worlds in Your Year. Existing Planet Pack 1 owners receive its eleven additional Living Worlds and the solar-system view. Shape your world, one tiny habit at a time.

About

Pathlings

This app transforms your daily steps into a gentle adventure with a virtual companion. Nurture your unique buddy, unlock new stages of growth, and complete daily quests to build a consistent routine. Goals are customizable to fit your lifestyle, making fitness fun and private.

Highlights
  • Virtual companion with unique personalities
  • Daily step-based adventures and quests
  • Unlockable growth stages and rewards
  • Customizable step goals
  • Collect in-game items
  • Private and ad-free experience
Features
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Walk more with a little buddy who grows alongside you. Pathlings turns your real daily steps into a cozy game. Choose a tiny creature, give them a name, and help them grow through five forms as you reach milestones and finish quests. There are snacks to share, Rubies to collect and a home to make your own. • Find your walking buddy. Start with a leaf-eared forest mouse, a lava frog or a water panda, each with their own personality and five forms to discover. Feed them snacks, play with toys, and watch them grow. • Make room for more friends. Save your Rubies to adopt other Pathlings, including a storm owl and Pebblehorn, the sandstone rhino. Decorate their home with plants, lanterns and treasures, unlock new habitats, and watch your little crew wander around together. • See who walks the most. PathLeague turns your weekly steps into a friendly race with your Game Center friends. See their Pathlings, chase a place on the podium, and win weekly Ruby prizes. Earn 100 Rubies for each new friend you add who plays Pathlings. • Turn your steps into playtime. Earn a Trail Run pass halfway to your daily goal and another when you reach it. Then dash down forest, volcanic, underwater, mountain or canyon trails: switch lanes, jump over obstacles and collect Rubies to bring home. • Take your Pathling for a stroll. Follow your walk live on your iPhone’s Lock Screen and look back on your outings in Walk History. Walk half your daily goal in one stroll, with a minimum of 2,000 steps, to earn 50 bonus Rubies once a day. • Find a pace that fits. Choose your own daily step goal and change it whenever you need to. Complete daily and weekly quests, collect badges, and look back on your progress with a weekly recap. When you need a day off, a Rest Day Shield can protect your streak. • Keep your buddy close. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets let you check in at a glance, with Feed and Play shortcuts on the Home Screen widget. See your synced progress and PathLeague race on Apple Watch, start and end walks from your wrist, or ask Siri to start a stroll. Pathlings counts your steps using Apple Health and your iPhone’s motion sensor. Free to play with optional Ruby packs. No ads, no subscriptions, and no Pathlings account needed. PathLeague is optional and uses Game Center. Choose your buddy and take your first walk together.

Screenshots

Tiny Habits4 screens
Pathlings4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Tiny Habits at 5.0 against Pathlings's 4.6. Pathlings's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). 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. Tiny Habits sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pathlings sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tiny Habits holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pathlings has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny Habits ships an update monthly, Pathlings weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tiny Habits versus Pathlings: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny HabitsPathlings
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.6 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews—87.5% of reviews
Number of ratings19 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB249 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJudeWorksDave Mohan

Customer experience

Tiny Habits

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pathlings

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tiny Habits

One-time1
  • Planet Pack$1.99
4 purchases

Pathlings

One-time4
  • 500 Rubies$0.99
  • 1,200 Rubies$1.99
  • 3,000 Rubies$4.99
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  • 6,500 Rubies$9.99

Questions

Is Tiny Habits free?
Tiny Habits is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pathlings free?
Pathlings is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tiny Habits or Pathlings?
Tiny Habits is rated higher. Tiny Habits averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Pathlings averages 4.6 from 9 ratings.
Do Tiny Habits or Pathlings have ads?
Neither Tiny Habits nor Pathlings shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tiny Habits or Pathlings?
Tiny Habits ships an update monthly, and Pathlings weekly. Most recently, Tiny Habits was updated on October 31, 2026 and Pathlings on November 10, 2026.

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