Comparison

Shelfie vs Habit Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Shelfie

Features
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Shelfie turns your screenshot and photo chaos into an organized, searchable library — powered entirely by on-device Apple Intelligence. Nothing ever leaves your iPhone. Every image you import is automatically analyzed, tagged, and categorized using Apple's Vision, Natural Language, and Foundation Models frameworks. Screenshots, photos, receipts, whiteboards, documents, signs, handwritten notes — Shelfie knows what it's looking at and makes it instantly findable. INTELLIGENT ORGANIZATION • Works on both screenshots and regular photos — the picker defaults to screenshots but you can toggle to your full photo library • Auto-categorization into 19 smart categories: Receipts, Conversations, Articles, Code, Maps, Social Media, Email, Calendar, Settings, Shopping, Travel, Health, Finance, Food, Documents, Entertainment, Education, Music, and Other • AI-generated tags, one-sentence summaries, and key highlights (prices, dates, action items) • Entity extraction — people, places, and organizations pulled automatically • Tappable detected data — URLs open Safari, phone numbers dial, addresses jump to Apple Maps POWERFUL SEARCH • Full-text search across every pixel of OCR-extracted text — screenshots, signs, receipts, handwriting • Smart AI search understands natural language: "receipts from last week", "photos of whiteboards", "messages from John" • Spotlight integration — find any image straight from your Home Screen • Siri Shortcuts: "Search images in Shelfie", "Find image in Shelfie" VISUAL DISCOVERY • Similar images surface automatically using visual fingerprinting • Content Graph — explore your library as a constellation of related ideas • Auto-generated Collections plus custom Groups for manual organization PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS • Your Context — tell Shelfie about yourself (work, hobbies, life) and Apple Intelligence writes tags, descriptions, and group names that actually fit you. Stays on your device, syncs only via your private iCloud • Combine multi-page screenshots into a single item — drag to reorder, Apple Intelligence suggests the right top-to-bottom order, and overlapping OCR text is deduplicated. Originals are kept and back-linked • Multi-select mode to summarize several images into a single AI briefing with themes and action items • Quote Card Generator creates shareable image cards in five styles and three sizes • Share Sheet support — send screenshots and photos to Shelfie from any app • Editable personal notes on every image • Import up to 50 images at once from the photo library, take a new one with the camera, paste from the clipboard, or share up to 10 at a time. After importing from Photos, Shelfie can offer to delete the originals so you free up space • Automatic screenshot detection (optional) — Shelfie spots new screenshots on your phone, shows how many are waiting, and adds them in one tap. A gentle notification can remind you when a few have piled up • Imports are fast: images appear immediately and AI analysis continues in the background while you browse PRIVACY FIRST All image analysis happens on-device. No cloud AI. No ads. No cross-app tracking. Your images — and everything Shelfie learns about them — stay yours. Your library syncs across your Apple devices through your own private iCloud container, which only your devices can read. Shelfie collects anonymous, non-tracking usage analytics — which features get used, never your images or their contents — to guide what we improve next. REQUIREMENTS • iOS 26 or later • Apple Intelligence-capable device (iPhone 15 Pro or newer) for summaries, smart search, and quote generation • OCR, categorization, and similarity features work on all supported devices • No account required Stop scrolling through Photos looking for that one image. Let Shelfie find it for you.

About

Habit Tracker

Build positive routines and achieve your goals with this daily habit tracker. It offers flexible tracking, progress visualization, and smart reminders to help you stay consistent. Integrates with Apple Health for automatic data syncing.

Highlights
  • Build and quit habits
  • Apple Health sync
  • Customizable schedules
  • Multiple tracking types
  • Progress visualization
  • Streak protection features
  • Built-in focus timer
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
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Make today count with Habit Tracker: Planner Routine, a calm daily habit tracker for building routines, reaching goals, protecting focus time, and understanding your progress. Create habits for anything you want to build or quit. Track simple checkmarks, counts, durations, or custom values. Plan routines by day, category, time of day, start date, end date, and custom weekly schedules. See progress without digging. Your Today view shows daily goals, completion rate, category filters, and quick logging in one clean dashboard. Add notes after important completions so your habit history captures the reason behind the result, not just the checkmark. Works with Apple Health. Link supported habits and your progress fills in automatically from the Health app: steps, activity minutes, active energy, sleep, water, heart rate variability, and mindfulness minutes. Values you log in Habit Tracker can be saved back to Apple Health too. Health data only syncs after you grant permission, and sync is included for free. Turn consistency into insight with stats, streaks, heatmaps, and reports. Review weekly, monthly, and yearly progress, spot your best days, compare sleep and hydration trends, and connect mood logs with habit completion to learn what helps your days feel better. Protect your streaks on hard days. Every week of completed days banks a Streak Shield that is spent automatically to save a streak when you miss a day. Skip a day on purpose without losing momentum, or turn on Vacation Mode so nothing breaks while you are away. Get a nudge only when it matters. Smart streak risk alerts warn you in the evening before a streak ends, and an optional evening check-in lists whatever is still open for the day. Both stay quiet when everything is already done. Stay focused with a built-in focus timer. Run timed sessions, save deep work minutes automatically, and attach focus time to any duration habit. Keep habits close with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. Check progress, quick-log routines, and keep weekly, monthly, and yearly report widgets visible throughout the day. Built for everyday use: - Build and quit habits - Apple Health sync for steps, sleep, water, mindfulness, and more - Daily, weekday, weekend, and custom schedules - Checkmark, count, duration, and value tracking - Categories for routine, health, fitness, mind, work, and more - Habit templates for walking, water, sleep, meditation, reading, workouts, deep work, and more - Streaks, totals, heatmaps, and completion rates - Streak Shields, Vacation Mode, and streak-safe skip days - Smart streak risk alerts and an evening check-in - Mood logging and daily rewards - Focus sessions with automatic habit logging - Time and location reminders - Widgets for today, progress, and reports - Theme colors, with alternate app icons available in Premium - App Lock, export, and import tools available in Premium Habit Tracker Premium is an optional one-time purchase that unlocks unlimited habits, extra reminders, advanced reports, all widget habits, App Lock, backup/import, and alternate app icons. Your routines should feel clear, motivating, and easy to return to. Habit Tracker helps you notice what is working and keep going, one day at a time.

Screenshots

Shelfie4 screens
Habit Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Habit Tracker at Free against Shelfie's $0.49. Habit Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Shelfie's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Habit Tracker is free to download; Shelfie costs $0.49 up front. Habit Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Shelfie asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shelfie ships an update every 5 days, Habit Tracker weekly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Shelfie versus Habit Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShelfieHabit Tracker
Price$0.49Free — better
Rating—3.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBCLG APPS PTY LTDANDREI RUSTI

In-app purchases

None

Shelfie

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Habit Tracker

One-time1
  • Habit Tracker Premium$2.99

Questions

Is Shelfie free?
Shelfie costs $0.49, with no in-app purchases.
Is Habit Tracker free?
Habit Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shelfie or Habit Tracker have ads?
Neither Shelfie nor Habit Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shelfie or Habit Tracker?
Shelfie ships an update every 5 days, and Habit Tracker weekly. Most recently, Shelfie was updated on October 25, 2026 and Habit Tracker on October 25, 2026.

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