Comparison

Just Tasks 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

Just Tasks

A minimalist to-do list app designed for quick task management. It integrates seamlessly with your Mac's menu bar and iPhone's home screen for immediate access. Features iCloud sync, task categorization, and a focus on privacy with no servers or tracking.

Highlights
  • Menu bar integration for quick access
  • iPhone home screen widget for glanceable tasks
  • Seamless iCloud synchronization
  • Task deferral ('Today vs. Later')
  • Task grouping with 'Buckets'
  • Frictionless drag, edit, and completion
Features
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To Do is the smallest possible to-do list — built around the macOS menu bar and your iPhone home screen. No accounts. No upsells. No clutter. Add a task, finish it, move on. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Lives in your menu bar. The next thing you need to do is one keystroke away — never buried in another tab. • Designed for the iPhone widget. Today's list is glanceable from the home screen. • iCloud sync that just works. Tasks added on Mac show up on iPhone in seconds. • Today vs. Later. Push a task to Later when it's not for now — it stays out of your way until you bring it back. • Buckets. Group tasks by project or category when you want, ignore them when you don't. • Drag, edit, and complete with no friction. Built for fast, frequent use. PRIVACY To Do stores your tasks locally and syncs them through your private iCloud account. There is no server, no analytics, no tracking, and nothing collected by us — your tasks never leave Apple's iCloud and your devices. REQUIREMENTS • iPhone and iPad: iOS / iPadOS 17 or later • Mac: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later • iCloud sign-in for cross-device sync Terms of Use (EULA): 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

Just Tasks3 screens
Habit Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Habit Tracker at 100% against Just Tasks's 0%. Habit Tracker also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). Just Tasks's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Habit Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Just Tasks asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Just Tasks ships an update every 3 months, Habit Tracker weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Just Tasks versus Habit Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJust TasksHabit Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThird Floor Studios LLCANDREI RUSTI

Customer experience

Just Tasks

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
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

None

Just Tasks

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Habit Tracker

One-time1
  • Habit Tracker Premium$2.99

Questions

Is Just Tasks free?
Just Tasks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Habit Tracker free?
Habit Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Just Tasks or Habit Tracker have ads?
Neither Just Tasks nor Habit Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Just Tasks or Habit Tracker?
Just Tasks ships an update every 3 months, and Habit Tracker weekly. Most recently, Just Tasks was updated on October 14, 2026 and Habit Tracker on October 15, 2026.

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