Tone Threshold vs Haven
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tone Threshold
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Tone Threshold is a contemplative app for standing at the edge of a question. It is not a meditation timer, journal, quote app, therapy tool, or productivity system. It is a quiet doorway: a place to meet one question at a time and let the answer fall silent. Free gives you a beautiful threshold question. Tone Plus opens the Living Threshold: returning questions, deeper crossings, personal chambers, and soundfields that remember where you have stood. With Tone Plus, saved questions can return later through Return Field. They do not come back as tasks, streaks, or archive items. They return as unfinished thresholds: something in them has not finished with you. Tone Threshold includes single-question crossings, saved marks, Return Field, Return Ritual, premium doors, Personal Chamber, and low grounded ritual soundfields. Tone Threshold is for contemplative inquiry. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, therapy, crisis support, or emergency services.
Haven
Build real-life habits in a cozy, hand-drawn world. Earn coins, decorate your cottage, and befriend visiting animals. Enjoy gentle habit tracking without streak shame or ads.
- Gamified habit tracking
- Cottage decoration
- Collectible cozy animals
- Gentle grace days
- No streak shame
- Privacy-focused, local data
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Haven is the coziest gamified habit tracker out right now! Build real-life habits. Earn coins. Decorate a cute cottage. Wake up to find new animal friends have visited—a capybara on your floor cushion, a quokka by the fireplace, or a snail asleep on your hedgehog’s head. No streak lost from one bad day. No ads. No energy timers. Just a quiet, cozy place that grows alongside you. WHAT’S INSIDE • Full habit tracking with gentle grace days • A hand-drawn cottage you can scroll through, fill, and rearrange • 18 cozy animals to meet: cats, capybaras, snails, bunnies, red pandas, hedgehogs, raccoons, and more • Silver and Gold Shops filled with furniture, plants, lamps, food, and toys • Per-pet journals with bond levels and personality blurbs • Cottage Codes for visiting cottages shared by friends • Private iCloud backup and restore • A gentle streak counter • Daily login coins, hand-drawn weather, and a soft day-and-night cycle HAVEN PREMIUM (OPTIONAL) • Unlimited tasks and custom task categories • Share your cottage with friends using a simple code • 7 bonus Cozy Critters animals • 2× gold coins from streak milestones • Home Screen widgets • A focus timer that rewards deep work • Memory Book with automatically saved cottage snapshots and per-pet photo albums • Daily journal with mood tracking The core game is fully free, forever. Visiting shared cottages and iCloud backup are free for everyone. Premium is for productivity power users and players who want to share their own cottage. PRIVACY FIRST Most of your data stays on your device. Haven has no advertising, tracking, or Haven-operated accounts or servers. If you enable iCloud Backup, your progress is stored privately in your own iCloud account. Cottage Sharing is optional and only publishes a snapshot when you choose to share. Anyone with your code can view your shared display name, streak, and cottage layout. Your habits, journal entries, photos, pet nicknames, and progress are never included in a public cottage. Designed for anyone who finds streak shame stressful, wants a low-stakes habit tracker, or simply needs a cozy corner of their phone to return to each morning. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://havenhabits.app/#privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Tone Threshold at 13.0 against Haven's 17.6. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Tone Threshold sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Haven sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Tone Threshold | Haven |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NIKOLAI S HALAY | SAUL PLASCENCIA VALENCIA |
In-app purchases
Tone Threshold
- Tone Plus Lifetime$1.99
Haven
- Haven Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Haven Premium$29.991 Year
- Cozy Critters Pack$4.99
- Haven Premium Lifetime$59.99
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