Flows vs Habit Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Flows
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Most time trackers are built for billing. Flows is built for understanding your day. Tap a card to start tracking. Tap another to switch. That's it. No projects, no timers to manage, no descriptions to fill in. Create your own flows: broad categories like Deep Work, Meetings, Admin, Resting, whatever matches how you actually spend your time. Flows records it and shows it back to you in a way that makes sense at a glance. Because work isn't just what was on screen. And your day is more than a timesheet. DRIFTING Not every minute gets deliberately assigned. Step away. Forget to tap. Take a break. Lose half an hour. Flows doesn't treat that as a gap or a failure. It becomes Drifting, a built-in flow that quietly catches the time you didn't claim. Move it later if you want. Leave it if it belongs there. Most trackers punish missing time. Flows treats it as part of the day. (One reason it sits well with ADHD brains, and anyone who forgets to tap.) SEE YOUR WHOLE DAY AT ONCE The day-bar is a coloured ribbon showing every minute of your day in the flow it belongs to. No spreadsheets. No reports to decode. Just the shape of the day, visible at a glance. MEET DROPLET Droplet is the small companion who lives in your timeline. No dashboards to read ā Droplet notices the shape of your week and reflects it back in a sentence or two: which flows carried the days, when the drifting clustered, how the rhythm moved. Curious about something? Just ask. Ask Droplet answers from your own tracked time ā "how much did I flow this week?", "where did my time go?" ā in plain, warm language. Never a score. Never advice you didn't ask for. REFLECTIONS Zoom out to a week or a month and Flows shows its shape at a glance: a simple bar for each day, your flows laid out by rhythm, and a short reflection up top. Not "was this a good week?" Just "what kind of week was this?" FIX THINGS WITHOUT BREAKING ANYTHING Forgot to switch? Long-press a flow card to move time from one flow to another after the fact. Long-press any segment in the day-bar to see its history: what it was, what changed, and how it got there. Nothing is destructive. Corrections add clarity, they don't erase the past. FEATURES * One-tap tracking. Start and switch instantly. * Drifting. Built-in time for the moments you didn't claim. * The day-bar. See your whole day as a single timeline. * Droplet, a companion who reflects your week back to you. * Ask Droplet questions about your own time, in plain language. * Weekly and monthly Reflections that show the shape of your time. * Move time between flows after the fact. * Per-segment history and corrections. * Bridges. Flows asks what to do with gaps in your day. * A grace period for accidental taps. * No streaks. No guilt. Nothing to maintain. Ask Droplet and AI-written reflections need a device that supports Apple Intelligence. Everything else works on any supported device. WHAT FLOWS IS NOT * Not a productivity scoreboard. * Not a focus app that locks you out of things. * Not a billing tool with clients, invoices and hourly rates. * Not an automatic activity logger watching your screen. Flows is for people who finish the day and wonder where it went. A calmer way to track your time. Time flows. Know where. Privacy Policy: https://flowsapp.io/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Habit Tracker
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Tempo is a habit tracker with a focus timer built in. Tick off the small things as you go. When something needs real attention, tap it and a session starts with a countdown that keeps running on your Lock Screen. Everything you complete fills in the same progression grid of squares. TWO KINDS OF HABIT Some take a second. Drink water. Take your vitamins. Others want real time set aside: thirty minutes of deep work, a twenty minute run. ⢠Tick-off habits ⢠Timed habits that open a focus session the moment you tap them ⢠Choose the days of the week each habit runs on ⢠64 habit templates ready to go, covering health, study, finance, and more. ⢠Rough week? Pause a habit and come back to it. Your history stays exactly where it was. REMINDERS Ensure you do not miss a completion by setting reminders. Each habit can carry its own reminder. You can also switch on a daily check-in reminder, with your own time and message. THE FOCUS TIMER Tap a timed habit and the rest of the app gets out of the way. Eleven sounds to sit behind your work: rain, heavy rain, storm, ocean, forest, campfire, wind, stream, birds, a night field and a ticking clock. Keep the screen awake if you like watching the numbers drop, or lock the phone and follow the countdown from your Lock Screen. TRACK YOUR IMPROVEMENTS ⢠Streaks, and a progression grid of little squares that fill in as you progress ⢠Weekly, monthly and yearly views ⢠The hours of the day you tend to show up ⢠A journal of every session you finished, including its date and time MAKE IT LOOK RIGHT ⢠Over 30 backgrounds. Set some of your favourite cities and natural scenery as backgrounds. ⢠Light and dark, with habit cards that you can make as see-through as you like ⢠Reorder your habits, hide the finished ones, hide the habits on days you are off ⢠Home Screen widgets to show today's list without opening the app ⢠12 languages WHERE YOUR DATA SITS Your habits are stored on your phone. There is no Tempo account and no servers. Switch on iCloud sync and the backup goes to your own private iCloud. --- Terms of Use: https://tempohabit.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://tempohabit.app/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Habit Tracker at 15.1 against Flows's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Flows sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Habit Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Flows ships an update every 3 days, Habit Tracker every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on August 29, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flows | Habit Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days ā better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch ā better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Stanton | Andy Wu |
In-app purchases
Flows
- Flows+ Monthly$9.991 Month
- Flows+ Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Flows+ Lifetime$69.99
Habit Tracker
- Tempo Premium Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Tempo Premium Yearly7 Days trial$11.991 Year





