Comparison

Loop vs Tally

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

Head to head
About

Loop

Features
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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 squatsβ€”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: β€’ Follow today’s scheduled actions and completion β€’ Review current and best streaks β€’ See 7-day and 30-day completion rates β€’ Track your total completed loops β€’ Add a personal goal and a note for your future self β€’ 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.

About

Tally

Features
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Tally is a simple, private counter for anything you do more than once a day. Set a daily target, tap to count, and watch the bar fill. Pushups, glasses of water, pages read, cigarettes skipped β€” if you can count it, you can tally it. KEY FEATURES β€’ Tap To Count β€” Every tally has its own per-tap amount, so a 50-rep target is ten taps of five rather than fifty taps of one. Set it to 1 for the things you count one at a time. β€’ Colourful Progress Bars β€” Each tally fills across its own coloured bar, so a glance down the list tells you exactly how the day is going. Hit the target and the button turns into a checkmark. β€’ Charts Over Any Range β€” Every tally gets a chart with a goal line at your daily target, across a week, a month, a year, or all time. Days that reached the goal are marked, and the total sits underneath. β€’ Swipe Back Through Days β€” Forgot to log yesterday? Swipe to any earlier day and fix it. One tap on "Today" brings you back. β€’ Home Screen Widgets β€” A log widget you can tap to count without opening the app, and a charts widget showing the week at a glance. Both come in small, medium and large. β€’ Count In Either Direction β€” Tapped one too many? Flip to subtract mode and tap it back off. Press and hold any tally to add or subtract any amount at once. β€’ Put Them In Your Order β€” Drag your tallies into the order you actually do them. The order follows through to the charts and the widgets. β€’ Make It Yours β€” Add, rename, recolour and delete tallies freely. Choose the daily target, the per-tap amount and the unit label, from a palette of seven colours. β€’ Light And Dark β€” Follows your system theme, or lock it to whichever you prefer. β€’ Back Up And Restore β€” Write every tally and every logged day to a single file, saved wherever you choose: iCloud Drive, Files, anywhere. Restore it on a new phone, or after a mistake. β€’ No Account, No Ads β€” Tally never asks for a single permission, has no sign-up, and shows no advertising. Your counts stay on your device unless you choose to back them up. PERFECT FOR β€’ Counting sets and reps through a workout β€’ Building daily habits and keeping a streak honest β€’ Water, steps, pages, practice minutes β€” anything with a number Tally starts you off with a set of exercise tallies, but nothing about them is fixed. Rename them, recolour them, delete the lot and build your own.

Screenshots

Loop4 screens
Tally4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tally at none against Loop's 4. Loop's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads 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. Loop sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Tally asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Loop versus Tally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoopTally
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 β€” better26.2
Further details β€” not scored
Size14 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMahmud hanadiCyan Villarin

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Loop

Subscriptions3
  • Loop Premium Weekly Subscription$0.997 Days
  • Loop Premium Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
  • Loop Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Loop Premium Lifetime$39.99
None

Tally

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Loop free?
Loop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tally free?
Tally is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Loop or Tally have ads?
Neither Loop nor Tally shows ads.

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