Comparison

HabitGrid vs DayA Habits

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

Head to head
About

HabitGrid

Features
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Habit Grid helps you build and maintain daily habits with a beautiful GitHub-style contribution grid. • Habit Tracking — Create habits and tap to complete them each day. • Contribution Grid — See your consistency as a color-intensity grid over time. • Streak Tracking — Track current streak, best streak, and total completions. • Flexible Scheduling — Set habits for daily, specific days, or X times per week. • Streak Celebrations — Confetti and milestones at 7, 14, 30, 100, and 365 days. • Daily Reminders — Get notified so you never miss a habit. • Day Notes — Add a short note to any of your last 14 completed days to remember how it went. Features: • No account required. Works offline. HabitGrid Premium ($2.99/month): • Unlimited habits • All 8 grid themes • Year in Grid — a twelve-month recap of any habit for every year you have tracked, with days done, best run, top month and your day notes, shareable as an image • Share grid as image • No ads • Auto-renews monthly. Cancel anytime. Perfect for anyone building better routines — students, professionals, or anyone who wants to stay consistent. Choose the plan that suits you: monthly, yearly, or a one-time Lifetime purchase that never renews. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple ID subscription settings. The Lifetime option is a single purchase with no renewal. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tabishapps.com/privacy-policy.html

About

DayA Habits

Features
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DayA is your habit app for iPhone and iPad: streaks, daily goals, quitting a habit, and a garden that grows each month with the days you kept. Plant a goal. Show up. Each month a new plant grows. Want to quit smoking, drinking or vaping? DayA counts your clean days. • Goals your way: check, amount, timer, limit — or quit. • Pick which weekdays count toward your streak. • Focus timer when you need to sit with one goal. • Widgets: today, streaks, garden and clean days. • Optional Apple Health and a DayA calendar. • Optional iCloud. No DayA account. English and Spanish. Free: 3 active goals. DayA Premium: more goals, charts, Botanical and Minimal looks, garden widget and private goals with Face ID. Premium: six-month auto-renewing subscription or one-time lifetime. Charged to your Apple ID. Cancel ≄24h before renewal in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://dayaweb.vercel.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://dayaweb.vercel.app/privacy

Screenshots

HabitGrid4 screens
DayA Habits4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: DayA Habits at none against HabitGrid's shown. DayA Habits also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 10 days). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. HabitGrid sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and DayA Habits sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 6 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HabitGrid ships an update every 10 days, DayA Habits daily. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
HabitGrid versus DayA Habits: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabitGridDayA Habits
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB264 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTabish HassanGANDHI EMMANUEL VALDEZ HUERTA

In-app purchases

3 purchases

HabitGrid

Subscriptions2
  • Habit Tracker Premium$2.991 Month
  • HabitGrid Premium Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$49.99
2 purchases

DayA Habits

Subscriptions1
  • DayA Premium 6 months$4.996 Months
One-time1
  • DayA Premium Lifetime.$6.99

Questions

Is HabitGrid free?
HabitGrid is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DayA Habits free?
DayA Habits is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HabitGrid or DayA Habits have ads?
HabitGrid shows ads; DayA Habits does not.
Which is updated more often, HabitGrid or DayA Habits?
HabitGrid ships an update every 10 days, and DayA Habits daily. Most recently, HabitGrid was updated on November 5, 2026 and DayA Habits on October 31, 2026.

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