Comparison

TimelyCal vs Habits

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • AI-powered scheduling
  • Instant event capture
  • Organized planning
  • Student-focused
  • Young professional friendly
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

TimelyCal4 screens
Habits4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Habits sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. TimelyCal asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TimelyCal ships an update weekly, Habits daily. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TimelyCal versus Habits: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimelyCalHabits
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings410 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTimely Calendar, Inc.Peak Development LLC

Customer experience

TimelyCal

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Habits

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TimelyCal

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Habits

Subscriptions2
  • Habits Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Habits Premium Annual$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Habits Premium Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is TimelyCal free?
TimelyCal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Habits free?
Habits is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TimelyCal or Habits?
TimelyCal and Habits are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 10 ratings respectively.
Do TimelyCal or Habits have ads?
Neither TimelyCal nor Habits shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TimelyCal or Habits?
TimelyCal ships an update weekly, and Habits daily. Most recently, TimelyCal was updated on October 19, 2026 and Habits on October 22, 2026.

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