Loop vs Habits
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Loop
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Loop is a simple micro-habit tracker that helps small actions become part of your day. Create habits such as drinking water, stretching, taking screen breaks, walking, or doing a few squats—and keep your next step close at hand. Build each habit around your routine. Choose a custom interval, active hours, weekdays, target amount, reminder intensity, and notification sound. Quiet hours and per-device reminder controls help notifications arrive where and when you want them. When a reminder appears, mark the action Done, Skip it, or Snooze it for later directly from the notification. You can also pin important habits, pause them when life gets busy, reorder your list, or archive habits you no longer need. Stay connected to your progress: • Follow today’s scheduled actions and completion • Review current and best streaks • See 7-day and 30-day completion rates • Track your total completed loops • Add a personal goal and a note for your future self • Keep progress visible with Home Screen widgets Loop is local-first and requires no Loop account. When iCloud is available, your habits, progress, and profile can stay in sync across your Apple devices. Loop Supporter is an optional upgrade that unlocks unlimited active habits and additional widgets, including Next Loop and Habit Focus. Free users can create and track up to three active habits. Small actions. Repeated consistently. Real momentum.
Habits
This habit tracker prioritizes real progress over rigid streaks, allowing for missed days without resetting your progress. It offers a simple, one-screen interface for easy logging and ensures your data remains private on your device.
- Forgiving streak tracking
- Simple one-screen logging
- Private data, no account needed
- Full VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support
- Optional one-time tip for development
- Exportable habit data
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Most habit trackers punish you for being human. Miss one day and the streak you spent months building drops to zero — so you give up on the app, not the habit. Habits is built the opposite way. Miss a day? You didn’t lose your streak. Habits shows your real streak and an honest “X of the last 30 days” — so one off day nudges the number by one instead of erasing everything. Slip and come back, and you’ll just see a calm “Back on track.” No guilt, no broken chain. One screen. Two taps to log. That’s the whole app. A clean, focused list of habits. Tap to mark today done. See your streak. Done. No dashboards to maintain, no gamified chores, no second job. Your data never leaves your iPhone. No account. No sign-up. No cloud. No tracking, no analytics, no ads — the App Store privacy label says Data Not Collected, and we mean it. Export your habits to a plain JSON file you own, anytime. Designed for everyone. Full VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type, and light/dark mode from day one — not an afterthought. Free, the whole way through. Every feature is free and unlimited — no paywall on anything that helps you build a habit. If the app earns a place on your phone, you can leave an optional one-time tip to support development, and as a thank-you it turns on a set of calm accent colors. No subscription, ever, and nothing real is ever locked away. Real streaks. No punishment, no account, no nonsense.
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Verdict
Loop and Habits are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Loop sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Habits sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Loop ships an update weekly, Habits every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loop | Habits |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mahmud hanadi | Antonio Vargas |
In-app purchases
Loop
- Loop Premium Weekly Subscription$0.997 Days
- Loop Premium Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
- Loop Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
- Loop Premium Lifetime$39.99
Habits
- Leave a tip$2.99








