Comparison

Vane 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

Vane

This app helps you build positive habits with a focus on privacy and simplicity. Track daily or weekly goals, visualize your progress with beautiful statistics, and stay motivated with streaks and reminders. It includes a focus timer for dedicated work sessions.

Highlights
  • Daily & weekly habit tracking
  • Daily dashboard view
  • Calendar view for habit completion
  • Last 4 weeks consistency visualization
  • Streak counter
  • Built-in focus timer
  • Reminders
Features
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Vane is a calm, no-account, privacy-first habit tracker built around two simple ideas: log your day, watch your progress. No leaderboards. No social feed. No accounts. Just you and the habits you care about. Whether you want to drink more water, work out, read every night, meditate, or finally start journaling, Vane gives you a clean daily dashboard and beautiful statistics that make showing up feel rewarding. FEATURES DAILY & WEEKLY HABITS Track habits that should happen every day, or X times per week (e.g. "Run 3x/week"). Each habit can be a simple check-off or a counter with a target value. DAILY DASHBOARD Your day at a glance. Log progress, edit any day, all in one place. CALENDAR A month-at-a-glance view for each habit, color-coded by completion. LAST 4 WEEKS A pretty visualization of your consistency across the past month, with a percentage so you know exactly how you're doing. STREAKS Keep your fire alive, counted strictly on consecutive successful days. No fudge factor. FOCUS TIMER Built-in Pomodoro timer for habits that need dedicated time, like meditation, study, or deep work. Rings even when the app is in the background. REMINDERS Pick a time and Vane will nudge you. 100% PRIVATE Everything stays on your device. No accounts, no servers, no syncing your data anywhere. VANE PRO Unlock everything Vane has to offer: • Unlimited habits • 6 home-screen widgets in multiple sizes • Yearly statistics • Multiple reminders per habit • Import & export your full history • Restore archived habits • Family Sharing, share Pro with up to 5 family members • Support an independent developer Vane Pro is available as a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription. The annual plan starts with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers; you won't be charged until the trial ends. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase (or at the end of the free trial). The subscription auto-renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel anytime in Settings, [your name], Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://vaneprivacypolicy.carrd.co/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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

Vane4 screens
Habit Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Vane at 15.1 against Habit Tracker's 18.0. 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. Vane sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Habit Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Vane against 5.0 for Habit Tracker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Vane versus Habit Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVaneHabit Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFINLEY ALSCHWEIGANDREI RUSTI

Customer experience

Vane

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Habit Tracker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Vane

Subscriptions2
  • Vane Pro monthly$1.991 Month
  • Vane Pro annually7 Days trial$17.991 Year
One-time1
  • Vane Lifetime Pro$29.99
1 purchases

Habit Tracker

One-time1
  • Habit Tracker Premium$2.99

Questions

Is Vane free?
Vane is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Habit Tracker free?
Habit Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Vane or Habit Tracker?
Vane and Habit Tracker are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Vane or Habit Tracker have ads?
Neither Vane nor Habit Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vane or Habit Tracker?
Vane ships an update weekly, and Habit Tracker weekly. Most recently, Vane was updated on October 14, 2026 and Habit Tracker on October 15, 2026.

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