Urges.io vs Urge Surfin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Urges.io
This app helps you break negative habits and build positive ones. Log wins with a single tap, track your progress over time, and stay accountable with a friend. It's designed for privacy, with no ads or tracking.
- Log wins with one tap
- Track urges to break
- Build good habits
- View daily, weekly, monthly progress
- Accountability with a friend
- Private by design
- Apple Watch support
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Urges helps you break the habits that hold you back and build the ones that move you forward. Whether you're cutting back on coffee or keeping up a daily habit like exercise, water, or reading, Urges turns each moment into a win you can see. ONE TAP TO LOG A WIN Tap the big button when you notice an urge and let it pass, or when you show up for a good habit. Set it up on your iPhone's Action Button and a single squeeze logs a win, even with your phone locked. BREAK AND BUILD • Break: track urges you're resisting. Every time you notice one instead of acting on it, that's a win. • Build: track good habits you want to keep. Every time you do them, that's a win. See them all on one simple home screen. SEE YOUR PROGRESS • Day, week, month, and all-time trends • Current and longest streaks • Your best day and lifetime totals STAY ACCOUNTABLE WITH A FRIEND Share your progress with someone you trust using a private code and no account required. They'll see your daily and weekly counts and can send a quick "cheer" when you could use a boost. You'll get a gentle nudge when a friend is having a tough day or their streak is at risk, so you can show up for each other. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking • Your history stays on your device • Only the profile you choose to share is ever uploaded and you can stop sharing anytime AVAILABLE ON APPLE WATCH Resisted an urge? Made a healthy choice? Record a win right from your Apple Watch with a single tap. Small wins add up. Notice them, stack them, and bring a friend along.
Urge Surfin
This app helps you quit habits by tracking clean days and offering a "urge surfing" game to manage cravings. It also includes a guided breathing exercise to help you calm down quickly.
- Habit tracking
- Clean day counter
- Urge surfing game
- Guided box breathing
- Daily check-ins
- Pattern analysis
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Urge Surfin tracks one thing: how many days you've stayed clean. Choose the habit you need to quit. Start your count. When a craving hits, you have somewhere to go. Urge Surf — draf the surfer to stay balanced on a wave. Urge surfing is a real DBT technique: cravings peak and pass, usually within minutes. The game holds your attention while that happens. Box Breathing — a guided breathing exercise for when you need to come down fast. Four counts in, hold, out, hold. Clinically simple. Actually works. Track your clean days with honest timestamps. Log daily check-ins so you can see patterns, not just streaks. No grace days. No second chances built into the math. Just your real count.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Urges.io at every 2 days against Urge Surfin's every 3 months. Urges.io also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Urges.io against 5.0 for Urge Surfin. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Urges.io has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Urges.io ships an update every 2 days, Urge Surfin every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Urges.io | Urge Surfin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Check Audio LLC | CTXA LLC |
Customer experience
Urges.io
Urge Surfin
In-app purchases
Urges.io
No in-app purchases
Urge Surfin
No in-app purchases









