Comparison

Baseline vs Habit Stacking

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

Head to head
About

Baseline

Features
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Most habit trackers treat your habits as binary: check a box, increment a streak. But your life isn’t a series of isolated checkboxes. A morning run makes meditation easier; late-night doomscrolling conflicts with reading before bed. Baseline is a sophisticated, system-oriented habit tracker that treats your habits as an interconnected ecosystem. By mapping habit relationships, logging emotional feedback loops, and tracking progress phases, Baseline helps you build a resilient routine and project your long-term trajectory. SYSTEM-ORIENTED HABIT TRACKING - Four Habit Dynamics: Track habits you want to Start, Stop, Maintain, or Replace. - Habit Synergies: Map relationships between your habits. Define which habits Support, Conflict with, or Require one another to see how your behaviors influence each other. - Phase Lifecycle: Watch your habits graduate through a structured lifecycle from Forming, to Established, to Maintained, and ultimately Completed. DETERMINISTIC ANALYTICS & NARRATIVE AUDITS - Today View: Log habits quickly, view 7-day visual sparkline heatmaps, check streaks, and record your mood on a 5-point scale. - Reviews: Deep-dive into weekly, monthly, and annual charts. Analyze completion rates, mood trends, synergy co-occurrences, and habit type distributions. - Life Audit: Read a monthly narrative timeline automatically generated from your logged activity, mood milestones, and reflections. Completely computed locallyβ€”no external servers or AI processing required. AI-POWERED TOOLS - Future Self: Generate speculative, vivid second-person projections of where your current habits are likely leading you in 3 months, 1 year, or 3 years. - Generate from Goal: Enter a natural-language goal (e.g., "prepare for a half marathon") and draft a custom habit stack ready to import. - Extract from Content: Paste text or upload a PDF to extract habit stacks from your favorite articles or books. OFFLINE-FIRST & PRIVACY BY DESIGN - No Accounts Required: No signup, no login, and no passwords. Start tracking instantly. - Local Storage: All habit logs, mood scores, and reflections are saved locally on your device. Your personal data never leaves your phone. - Opt-In Sharing: Publishing and sharing habit stacks with friends or followers is completely opt-in. Shared stacks contain only template configurationsβ€”never your private logging history. Set your baseline today and build a lifestyle system that lasts. Terms of Use: https://get-baseline.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://get-baseline.app/privacy/

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Habit Stacking

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Big goals fail because they start too big. Cubit starts with the moment after your coffee. Habit stacking is the one technique behind every routine that actually lasts: take a moment you already own (after coffee, after lunch, when you climb into bed) and attach a chain of tiny actions to it. Cubit is built around that single idea. You never track a lonely habit again; you run a stack, one block after another, and the anchor moment does the remembering for you. WHAT YOU GET β€’ Routines that run themselves: every stack hangs on a real anchor moment, so you stop relying on willpower and start relying on sequence. β€’ A first stack in under a minute: pick from 24 built-in micro-habits such as one push-up, box breathing, a gratitude note or phone face-down. β€’ Momentum you can see: check off each block and watch the progress ring close in real time, stack by stack. β€’ Streaks that mean something: current and best streaks per stack, plus a seven-day consistency score that tells you the truth about your week. β€’ A nudge at exactly the right moment: an optional daily reminder fires at each stack's anchor time, not at some random hour. β€’ Your own habit library: add any micro-habit with an icon and an estimated time, search it, and drop it into as many stacks as you like. PERFECT FOR β€’ Anyone who has downloaded a habit tracker before and quietly abandoned it by week three. β€’ Morning people and night owls building a ritual that fits their actual day. β€’ Readers of Atomic Habits and Tiny Habits who want the method, not another checklist. β€’ Busy parents, students and shift workers who only have two spare minutes at a time. WHY NOT JUST USE A HABIT TRACKER? A tracker gives you a grid of empty boxes and hopes you remember. Cubit gives each habit a home: a trigger, a place in the sequence, and a ring that fills as you move through it. Three tiny actions chained to one anchor beat one big resolution every time. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-up. No sync servers. No analytics sent anywhere. Every stack, habit and check-off lives on your iPhone and nowhere else. The only permission Cubit ever asks for is notifications, and only if you switch on a reminder. FULL ACCESS Cubit is a premium app. Unlimited stacks and blocks, the full habit library, per-stack progress rings, streaks and reminders are unlocked with a Weekly or Yearly subscription. Pricing is shown in the app in your local currency before you confirm. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled at any time in your Apple ID settings. Build your first stack tonight: anchor it to "after dinner", add three blocks, and check them off before you sleep. Terms of Service: https://pnkl26.web.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://pnkl26.web.app/privacy-policy Support: pnkhanhlinh0206@gmail.com

Screenshots

Baseline4 screens
Habit Stacking4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Baseline at 15.1 against Habit Stacking's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Baseline sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Habit Stacking sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
Baseline versus Habit Stacking: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBaselineHabit Stacking
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Every 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPod β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 β€” better17.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size47 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrew IsabiryeLinh Phan Nhat Khanh

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Baseline

Subscriptions2
  • Baseline Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Baseline Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
2 purchases

Habit Stacking

Subscriptions2
  • Cubit Habit Stack Weekly$9.997 Days
  • Cubit Habit Stack Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Baseline free?
Baseline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Habit Stacking free?
Habit Stacking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Baseline or Habit Stacking have ads?
Neither Baseline nor Habit Stacking shows ads.

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