Comparison

HeatMap vs IGN8

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

Head to head
About

HeatMap

Visualize your progress with a daily streak tracker that uses a contribution grid to show your consistency. Offers multiple tracking methods, detailed statistics, and home screen widgets for easy logging. Works offline and syncs across devices.

Highlights
  • Daily streak visualization
  • Yes/No, Counter, and Timer tracking
  • Detailed habit statistics
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Siri Shortcuts integration
  • Offline functionality
  • Cross-device syncing
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 12 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional). 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.

About

IGN8

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Build your daily rhythm with IGN8 Habits: a simple, free habit tracker for iPhone that works offline. Open straight into your routine. No account, subscription, or onboarding carousel. Create the habits that matter to you and keep a clear record of the small things you do each day. YOUR DAY, IN ORDER Group habits into Morning, Anytime, and Evening. Choose every day or selected weekdays, and see what's due for the day you're viewing. CHECK OFF. COUNT UP. Complete a check-off habit with a tap, or track an amount toward a goal: glasses of water, pages read, minutes, steps, or times. Record amounts manually, adjust them when needed, and see partial progress as well as completed goals. PROGRESS YOU CAN SEE Review your week in a habit-by-day matrix. Explore 13 weeks of colored history, then open a habit's calendar for exact dates, progress, and current and best streaks. Correct past scheduled days when you need to. MAKE EACH HABIT YOURS Choose an icon and one of eight colors. Personalize your goals and schedule. Archive a habit to keep its history, or permanently delete it when you no longer want its records. OPTIONAL LOCAL REMINDERS Set a reminder time for your habit's scheduled weekdays. Notifications work without a server and require your permission. Focus and iOS settings can affect delivery, and a reminder may still arrive after you've completed a habit. SIMPLE AND OFFLINE Your habit records are stored locally. There are no ads, analytics SDKs, accounts, or app-managed cloud synchronization. Normal user-controlled iPhone backups may include app data. Deleting the app removes its local database; offloading preserves documents and data. This version does not include export/import or guaranteed recovery. A little each day adds up. Start with one habit. Support: https://ign8.app/habits/support/ Privacy: https://ign8.app/habits/privacy/

Screenshots

HeatMap4 screens
IGN84 screens

Verdict

The call

HeatMap and IGN8 are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
HeatMap versus IGN8: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHeatMapIGN8
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLeonid ChirkovSEBASTIAN MICHAL GRALIKOWSKI

In-app purchases

None

HeatMap

No in-app purchases

None

IGN8

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HeatMap free?
HeatMap is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IGN8 free?
IGN8 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HeatMap or IGN8 have ads?
Neither HeatMap nor IGN8 shows ads.

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