Habit Tracker Journal vs Daybearing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Habit Tracker Journal
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Track daily habits, follow routines and see your effort take shape. Hexis is a private habit tracker and journal with a paper-and-ink feel—one deliberate mark at a time. SEE YOUR EFFORT ADD UP Mark habits with a tap. Look back at your completions, streaks and consistency in a visual record you can make your own. KEEP GOING AFTER A MISSED DAY Your journal starts with three mends, and each full week you keep a habit earns another, up to three at a time. Use a mend to protect a streak without pretending the missed day never happened. FOLLOW YOUR ROUTINE Give your day a clear order with repeatable routines, individual steps, focused timers and a stopwatch. BUILT FOR DAILY USE • Daily or flexible weekly targets • Amount-based goals for pages, minutes, kilometres, and more • Routines with ordered steps, timers and a stopwatch • Tasks on Apple Calendar, if you want them there • Local reminders you control • Home Screen widgets • Apple Watch app and complications • Light, dark, paper, and ink styles PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your personal journal is stored on your devices. There are no ads or tracking. Optional iCloud sync keeps your habits and their progress in your private iCloud; routines stay on your device and can be exported in a backup. No Hexis account is needed. KEEP ONE HABIT TOGETHER With Hexis+, create a private iCloud group around one habit and invite people individually. Members can see the group's selected habit, display names and shared marks—not the rest of your journal. Each participant needs Hexis+ and an iCloud account. Groups have no public feed or discoverable profiles. You can report or locally block another member; the group owner manages invitations and access. HEXIS+ Unlock unlimited habits, private Groups, complete statistics and your full year, premium paper and ink styles, widgets, and habits to quit. Choose a weekly subscription or a yearly subscription with a seven-day free trial for eligible new subscribers. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled in your App Store account. Start with one habit. Make the first mark. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Subscription information: https://tally484.github.io/tally-legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://tally484.github.io/tally-legal/privacy.html
Daybearing
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Daybearing is a clock face for your day. Say what you are doing and how long you think it will take. Tasks fill the current hour as you go and turns as you run over — one glance, not a number to read. HOW IT WORKS Type what you want to get done, one task at a time. Tap Start. When you finish a task, tap Complete — and the next task begins. The dial is a real clock face, and your tasks sit on it where they will actually happen. See the plan for the next hour, any planned work beyond that is shown as you mark tasks complete. WHAT THE COLORS MEAN Orange means you are over your estimate but the task is still running — over, and still fixable. It turns red once you complete an overrunning task, because by then the overrun is a fact rather than a situation. The pace chip shows how far ahead or behind your plan you are, green for ahead, red for behind. Three minutes under reads as −3, in green, three minutes ahead of schedule. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO There is no pause. Daybearing shows your work against reality, and time doesn't stop. A timer you can stop measures how long you had it running, not how long the work took. If you need to stop working on something, Set Down ends the session, logs time for the part you actually did, and returns the remainder to the queue. There are no subtasks, tags, categories or statistics screens. No clutter, just what you need to stay on track. PRIVACY No account is required. Your tasks and history are stored locally on your iPhone. There is NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO IN-APP PURCHASE and NO ADVERTISING. You pay once. ALSO IN THE APP • A Live Activity for the running task — on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, on supported Apple Watch and Mac configurations — with a Complete button on the Lock Screen, so you can finish without opening the app. • Lock Screen widgets: how far ahead or behind the day is, the task in hand, and what comes next. • Shortcut support! Ask Siri to start your next task, complete it, add one, or say how you are doing — for the moment your hands are already off the phone. • An optional chime when a task reaches its estimate. • Batch entry for repeated work: set a series of tasks quickly, estimate how long each one will take and how long your want to work on them all. • Save tasks to a plan for later, and group future tasks to make repeatable routines. • Export your whole record as tab-separated text, straight to the clipboard. • Six themes, light and dark. • VoiceOver support and adjustable text sizing. iPhone only in this version. iPad is planned.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Habit Tracker Journal at Free against Daybearing's $4.99. Daybearing's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Habit Tracker Journal is free to download; Daybearing costs $4.99 up front. Habit Tracker Journal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Daybearing asks for nothing beyond the download.
Habit Tracker Journal ships an update every 2 weeks, Daybearing every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Habit Tracker Journal | Daybearing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Martin Joy Elenjikkal | Dustin Glendinning |
In-app purchases
Habit Tracker Journal
- Hexis+ Weekly$2.997 Days
- Hexis+7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Tally+ Lifetime$14.99
Daybearing
No in-app purchases
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