Koi vs Do It For Him
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Koi
This self-care app helps you build consistent routines and track personal goals without pressure. It offers a calm, flexible space for daily activities like exercise, meditation, and reflections, focusing on progress over perfection. Gamified elements encourage consistent engagement.
- Create daily habits and reminders
- Set personal goals with milestones
- Write reflections with photos/audio
- Track mood, water, food, exercise
- Build custom trackers
- Focus timers and guided meditation
- Gamified koi pond for progress visualization
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Koi – Build momentum. One day at a time. Koi is a self-care app designed to help you stay consistent without pressure. Build routines, track goals, and complete everyday activities like exercise, meditation, or reflections, all in one calm, flexible space. Koi focuses on progress, not perfection, so you can keep moving forward even when life gets busy. Why Koi? In Japanese culture, the koi fish (鯉) represents perseverance, strength, and transformation, swimming upstream against strong currents, one day at a time. “Koi” (恋) also means love. Building habits is an act of self-care. Small, repeated actions are how real change happens. Koi is designed around that idea. What you can do with Koi • Create daily habits and set reminders • Set personal goals with milestones and track progress • Write reflections with photos and audio • Create simple, structured and nested lists • Track mood, water, food, exercise and more • Build custom trackers for anything you want to measure • Use focus timers and meditate with natural sounds • Personalise your experience with beautiful themes • View your progress over time • Keep everything organised in one place Your Koi Pond Collect coins and feed your koi. Watch them grow from fry to elder as you build consistency. Each one a living reflection of your progress. Name them, care for them, and raise your collection one day at a time. Designed to feel natural Koi is built to be lightweight, distraction-free, and easy to return to, even after time away. Whether you’re starting a new routine or rebuilding one, Koi meets you where you are. Who Koi is for • Anyone building habits without pressure • People who struggle with strict streaks • Users who want simple structure, not complexity • Those who prefer a calm, simple design Build momentum. One day at a time. Privacy & Terms Your privacy matters. • Privacy Policy: https://koi-calm.app/privacy • Terms of Service: https://koi-calm.app/terms Contact If you have any questions or need support, feel free to reach out: Email: koi.calm.app@gmail.com
Do It For Him
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He is not real. He is still disappointed that you skipped lunch. Do It For Him is a habit tracker with a book boyfriend attached. You drink your water, you go to bed on time, you finally tidy that one surface, and he has something to say about it. Sometimes he is proud of you. Sometimes he is insufferable. He is always paying attention. FOUR MOODS. PICK YOUR TYPE. Commanding. In control, possessive, done asking politely. "One glass of water, and then you may go back to pretending you don't like being looked after." Flirty. Teasing, wicked, caught looking. "You made the bed. Now I am thinking about the bed. This is entirely your fault." Devoted. Not gentle. Ruinous. "There is no version of this where I stop. Not on your worst day. Especially not then." Proud. Undone by watching you succeed. "Nobody claps when you drink a glass of water. So I will." Switch between them whenever you like. He is a different man in each one. HIS WORDS The best things he says are rare on purpose. When one arrives it looks different, and it is saved to your collection. Twenty-eight cards per mood, a hundred and twelve in total, and every single one is free to earn. Nothing in the collection is locked behind a purchase. BUILT FOR REAL DAYS Twenty habits to choose from, or add your own. Set a daily target on any of them, so eight glasses of water counts as eight. Keep a streak, or break it and come back. He is better about that than you expect. There is no skip button. If a habit is not yours, remove it. You are not failing at something you never chose. QUIET AND YOURS No account. No sign-up. No ads. Nothing to subscribe to. Everything stays on your phone, and the app never sends your habits anywhere, because there is nowhere for them to go. Turn on a daily reminder and he will come and find you at a time you pick. For readers of enemies-to-lovers, romantasy, and every book where the dangerous one turns out to be soft about exactly one person. Water. Now. He does not like repeating himself.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Do It For Him at none against Koi's 6. Do It For Him also leads on ads (none vs shown). Koi's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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. Koi sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Do It For Him asks for nothing beyond the download.
Koi ships an update every 2 days, Do It For Him weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Koi | Do It For Him |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (19 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 149 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | DANIEL DESMOND MEDCALF | KRISTINE SUNE THESTRUP ANDERSEN |
In-app purchases
Koi
- Koi Gold$9.991 Month
- Koi Gold7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Koi Gold7 Days trial2 variants$29.991 Year
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- Koi Gold7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Koi Gold Lifetime$99.99
Do It For Him
No in-app purchases









