Just Habits vs ClearFast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Just Habits
This app focuses on honest habit tracking without gamified streaks. It allows for daily check-ins, goal setting, and provides progress grids and trend analysis. Features include Apple Watch integration, flexible scheduling, and smart reminders.
- Daily check-ins
- Daily goals with progress rings
- 16-week progress grid
- Trend analysis (weekly charts, weekday rhythm)
- Apple Watch app
- Flexible scheduling
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Data export
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Streak broken. App deleted. If you have been here before, you know the feeling. One missed day and weeks of effort seem to disappear. The guilt kicks in. You stop trusting the app, then stop opening it, then quietly uninstall it. That cycle is not a character flaw. It is a design flaw. Just Habits is built on a different idea: your history does not expire, and a missed day does not erase what you have built. There are no streaks in Just Habits. Just your honest record, moving forward. WHAT JUST HABITS DOES Daily check-ins Tap once to mark a habit done. Clean list, fast interaction, nothing extra. No points, no flames, no animations. The whole daily interaction takes about ten seconds. Daily goals Some habits happen more than once a day. Set a daily goal, like drinking water 8 times, and each tap fills a progress ring until the day is done. 16-week progress grid A rolling calendar for each habit shows your actual pattern: which days you showed up and which you did not. Honest filled and empty squares that do not reset when life gets in the way. Trends, not streaks Every habit gets a weekly completion chart and a weekday rhythm view: your real trend over 12 weeks and which days carry the habit. A percentage, not a streak. It survives travel, illness, and difficult months intact. Apple Watch app Today's habits on your wrist. Check off a habit, or log one more glass of water, without touching your phone. Flexible schedules Every day, specific weekdays, times per week, or every few days: laundry every 3 days, a review every 14. Home screen and lock screen widgets Tap to complete up to 5 habits right from the medium widget, see your top 3 in the small widget, or check off your top habit from the lock screen. Siri and Shortcuts Say "Log a habit in Just Habits" or ask "How are my habits" and Siri answers with what is left today. Smart reminders An optional notification per habit, only on days it is scheduled. A twice-a-week habit will not ping you on rest days. Backdating Tap any past day in the grid to fix it. Just Habits is designed for honest tracking, so you can always tell the truth about the past. iCloud sync Your data syncs privately across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch through Apple's CloudKit. No account needed. Encrypted and accessible only to you. Data export Export your complete history as a CSV file anytime. Every habit, every date, every completion. Yours to keep. WHY THIS APP EXISTS Most habit trackers make the same bet: gamification is what keeps you coming back. Streaks, flames, XP, virtual pets. It looks great on engagement dashboards, until you read the reviews and find people admitting they check off habits they did not do, just to protect a number. That is not habit tracking. It is a game wearing a wellness label. You downloaded a habit tracker because something in your life matters enough to show up for regularly. What you need is an honest record that keeps you accountable without making you feel ashamed for being human. No streak counters. The word "streak" does not appear anywhere in this app. No gamification. No badges, levels, achievements, or virtual anything. No subscription. Pay once, $4.99, own it forever. No social features. No leaderboards, no sharing, no comparing. No account. Not now. Not ever. PRICING The first 3 habits are free forever. No time limit. When you are ready for more, a one-time $4.99 unlock gives you unlimited habits permanently. Family Sharing included. You will never be locked out of your own records. PRIVACY Everything you log stays on your device and your private iCloud account. No server, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. No account. No email. No tracking. No ads. BUILT FOR iPHONE, iPAD, AND APPLE WATCH Native SwiftUI. Full light and dark mode. Four color themes, each with a matching app icon. Dynamic Type at all sizes. Complete VoiceOver support on every screen and widget. Requires iOS 26+.
ClearFast
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Most fasting apps today are bloated with social feeds, AI coaches, mandatory account creation, and intrusive data tracking. ClearFast is different. Built for minimalists and anyone who values their privacy, ClearFast is a beautifully designed, high-contrast utility that does exactly one thing: tracks your fast flawlessly. No friction. No clutter. Just open the app and tap start. RADICAL PRIVACY Your health data is yours. ClearFast operates 100% offline. We do not require an email, we do not use third-party analytics SDKs, and your data never leaves your device. If you delete the app, your data is gone forever. CORE FEATURES (100% Free) • Unrestricted Protocols: Track 16:8, 18:6, OMAD (23:1). • Butter-Smooth UI: A 60fps dark-mode timer built to look beautiful in a pitch-black room at 5 AM. • Local Notifications: Reliable end-of-fast reminders that don't rely on cloud servers. • Edit Start Times: Forgot to start your timer after dinner? Easily adjust your start time retroactively. • 7-Day History: View your current streak and rolling 7-day average. • Eating window countdown after you end a fast, so you know when the next one begins. • Meal notes: jot down what you broke your fast with. Optional, never nagged about. • Home Screen widget (live timer data inside it is a Premium feature). CLEARFAST PREMIUM (Optional) If you love the app and want to support an independent developer, ClearFast PREMIUM is for people who want the long-term record and the system integrations. Buy it once, or subscribe to it monthly, your call. • Unlimited Fasting History: Keep your data and view your long-term consistency. • Premium Aesthetics: Unlock custom accent colors to replace the default Teal. • Unlock Custom Plan: Set a custom fasting plan. • Custom Reminder Notification: Set multiple random time intervals to get a reminder notification (eg:-get reminder notification every 10min and 30min interval). • Compliance calendar: a year of fasting at a glance. • 30-day and all-time trend charts, filterable by completed versus ended early. • CSV and PDF export, meal notes included. • Custom fasting length, anywhere from 1 to 48 hours. • Weekly schedule: different targets on different days. • eating-window reminder notifications. • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, and live data in the Home Screen widget. • Custom alternate app icons. Experience fasting, simplified. Website:- https://www.useclearfast.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Just Habits at monthly against ClearFast's every 4 months. ClearFast's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Just Habits sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ClearFast sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Just Habits ships an update monthly, ClearFast every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Just Habits | ClearFast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aaron Hampton | Janardan Ayachi |
In-app purchases
Just Habits
- Unlock Unlimited Habits$4.99
ClearFast
- ClearFast Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- ClearFast Lifetime$19.99









