HeatMap vs TallyCounter!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HeatMap
Visualize your progress with a daily streak tracker that uses a GitHub-style contribution grid. Log habits with simple taps, counters, or timers, and gain insights from detailed statistics. Integrates with home screen widgets and Siri Shortcuts for seamless tracking.
- GitHub-style contribution grid visualization
- Yes/No, Counter, and Timer tracking modes
- Detailed statistics and trend analysis
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Siri Shortcuts integration
- Offline functionality with optional sync
- Multiple color palettes and themes
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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 English, Russian, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Japanese. 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.
TallyCounter!
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Create tallies. Count anything, then see what it means. Tally Counter turns every tap into history. Track water, reps, coffee, pages, habits, anything, and see streaks, trends and goals build themselves. COUNT FAST • Tap anywhere on a counter to add to it • Count straight from your home screen with the widget, up to 10 counters in the large size • Choose list or grid layout for the widget • Custom step size, including counting down • Lock a counter so it can't change by accident • Undo the last count, or reset to zero SEE THE PATTERN • Charts by day, week and month • Current and longest streak • This week compared with last week • Your busiest day, week or month • Goals per day, week or month, with progress shown right on your list YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE • No ads. No tracking. No analytics. • Everything stays on your iPhone • Export your full history as CSV FREE AND PRO Free includes 3 counters, the last 7 days of history, and the widget. Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. It unlocks unlimited counters, your full history, streaks, trends, goals and export.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HeatMap at none against TallyCounter!'s 1. HeatMap also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. TallyCounter! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. HeatMap asks for nothing beyond the download.
HeatMap ships an update every 2 weeks, TallyCounter! monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HeatMap | TallyCounter! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Leonid Chirkov | James Bosilkovski |
In-app purchases
HeatMap
No in-app purchases
TallyCounter!
- Tally Counter Pro$3.99









