TimelyCal vs Habits
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TimelyCal
This AI-powered scheduling app helps college students and young professionals manage their busy lives. It simplifies event capture and organization, allowing users to stay on top of classes, meetings, work, and social plans with ease.
- AI-powered scheduling
- Instant event capture
- Organized planning
- Student-focused
- Young professional friendly
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College life moves fast; your calendar should keep up. TimelyCal is an AI-powered scheduling app designed for college students and young professionals who juggle classes, meetings, work, and social plans. Instead of manually typing events into your calendar, TimelyCal helps you capture plans instantly and stay organized with ease.
Habits
Build and track daily routines with customizable habit types, AI suggestions, and progress visualization. Stay motivated with widgets and reminders, and integrate with Apple Health for automatic tracking. Your data remains private on your device.
- Customizable habit types (daily, weekly, counter, timer)
- AI-powered routine suggestions
- Progress tracking (streaks, trends, milestones)
- Widgets and reminders for motivation
- Apple Health integration
- Private data storage, no account required
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Habits makes it easier to keep the promises you make to yourself. BUILD A ROUTINE THAT FITS • Create daily, weekly, counter, timer, and flexible habits • Use AI Suggestions to turn a goal into a realistic routine • Organize habits into groups and personalize your Today view SEE PROGRESS WITHOUT THE NOISE • Check off habits in a single tap • Follow streaks, trends, milestones, and weekly insights • Keep momentum with widgets, reminders, Live Activities, sounds, and haptics WORKS WITH APPLE HEALTH • Automatically complete habits from steps, calories, distance, exercise minutes, sleep, and workouts • Habits reads Health data only when you choose to connect it; it never writes to Apple Health PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account required • Your data stays on your device and can sync privately with iCloud • Habits does not sell your data Free to download. Build a habit you can keep today. Terms of Use: https://habitsapp.co/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TimelyCal at none against Habits's 3. TimelyCal also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Habits's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Habits sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. TimelyCal asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TimelyCal against 5.0 for Habits. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 10 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
TimelyCal ships an update weekly, Habits daily. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TimelyCal | Habits |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Timely Calendar, Inc. | Peak Development LLC |
Customer experience
TimelyCal
Habits
In-app purchases
TimelyCal
No in-app purchases
Habits
- Habits Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Habits Premium Annual$29.991 Year
- Habits Premium Lifetime$59.99









