Comparison

Habitica vs DayCape

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

Head to head
About

Habitica

This app gamifies your life by turning tasks and goals into a retro RPG. Build your avatar, complete daily habits, to-dos, and chores to earn rewards and level up. Team up with friends for accountability and battle challenges together.

Highlights
  • Gamified task and goal management
  • Avatar customization and leveling
  • Daily, weekly, and one-time task tracking
  • Social features: parties, challenges, guilds
  • Collectable in-game items and gear
  • Cross-device syncing
  • Customizable themes and reminders
Features
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Habitica is a free habit-building and productivity app that uses retro RPG elements to gamify your tasks and goals. Use Habitica to help with ADHD, self care, New Year’s resolutions, household chores, work tasks, creative projects, fitness goals, back-to-school routines, and more! How it works: Create an avatar then add tasks, chores, or goals you’d like to work on. When you do something in real life, check it off in the app and receive gold, experience, and items that can be used in-game! Features: • Automatically repeating tasks scheduled for your daily, weekly, or monthly routines • Flexible habit tracker for tasks you want to do multiple times a day or only once in awhile • Traditional to do list for tasks that only need to be done once • Color coded tasks and streak counters help you see how you’re doing at a glance • Leveling system to visualize your overall progress • Tons of collectable gear and pets to suit your personal style • Inclusive avatar customizations: wheelchairs, hair styles, skin tones, and more • Regular content releases and seasonal events to keep things fresh • Parties let you team up with friends for extra accountability and battle fierce foes by completing tasks • Challenges offer shared task lists you can add to your personal tasks • Guilds let you connect with others that share your interests and goals • Reminders and widgets to help keep you on track • Customizable color themes with dark and light mode • Syncing across devices — Habitica is an open-source app run by a small team that’s made better by the work of volunteers who contribute pixel art, translations, bug fixes, and more. If you’d like to contribute, reach out! Community, privacy, and transparency are important to us. Your tasks are private and we don’t sell your personal data to third parties. Check out our instagram or twitter(@habitica) for the latest news, announcements, and feature spotlights! —- Habitica can be fully enjoyed for free, but if you would like to help support us, we offer optional in-app purchases and subscriptions. If you choose to purchase a subscription, payment will be charged to your Apple account only when you confirm your purchase. There are four types of optional Habitica subscriptions: $4.99 every month; $14.99 every three months; $29.99 every six months; and $47.99 every year, which is a 20% discount! (Prices may vary by location.) Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account Settings after purchase. Thanks for choosing Habitica! Terms of use: https://habitica.com/static/terms

About

DayCape

This app provides a visual schedule for families, helping children and individuals feel prepared for their day. Parents and teachers can create and manage schedules using images, timers, and checklists, with options for group planning and progress tracking.

Highlights
  • Create activities with images
  • Visual timers
  • Checklists
  • Notification reminders
  • Image library
  • Group planning
Features
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DayCape is your visual schedule for the whole family. With images, timers, and Cape-friends, it’s easier to feel prepared for the day! If you are a parent, teacher, or support person, you can create and manage schedules for your children, students, or individuals. Add events with images and follow up on progress in the app. App features include: - Create activities with images - Notification reminders - Visual timers - Checklists - Image library - Plan-B - Groups - Invite and manage Cape-planners DayCape offers free use for children in and an auto-reenable subscription feature for Parents and Teachers to easily plan the day for their children and students. - Parent subscription enables you to plan the day for 3 children and invite more people to help to plane the day. - School subscription enables you to plan for up to 15 students and invite teachers and parents to help to plane the day. – DayCape offers 30 days free trial for parents and teachers from when you start your account without any need to start a subscription. Only after the 30 days trial, you need to subscripts to continue access Parent and Teacher features. The subscription charges every month from when you decide to start a subscription. – Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase – Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period – The account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal – Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto -renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase – Privacy Policy: https://www.daycape.com/privacy-policy/ - Terms of use: https://www.daycape.com/terms-of-use/

Screenshots

Habitica4 screens
DayCape4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Habitica at 64% against DayCape's 13%. Habitica also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). DayCape's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Habitica sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and DayCape sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Habitica ships an update every 3 weeks, DayCape every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Habitica versus DayCape: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabiticaDayCape
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.4% of reviews — better12.5% of reviews
Number of ratings3.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.612.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB71 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHabitRPG, IncDaymonic AB

Customer experience

Habitica

All ratings3,523 ratings
Positive81.6%
Neutral6.6%
Negative11.8%
Written reviews1,298 reviews
Positive64.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative21.3%

DayCape

Written reviews8 reviews
Positive12.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative75.0%

Bugs and requests

Habitica

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Tasks and habits not resetting properly
  • Crashes and freezes on app launch
  • Inconsistent behavior when rearranging tasks
  • Sync issues between mobile and web versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Calendar view for tasks and habits
  • Ability to set custom difficulty levels for tasks
  • Offline mode for tasks and habits
  • Apple Watch app
  • More social features and party functionality

DayCape

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Habitica

Subscriptions4
  • 1 Month Subscription$4.991 Month
  • 3 Months Subscription$14.993 Months
  • 6 Months Subscription$29.996 Months
Show 1 more
  • 12 Months Subscription$47.991 Year
One-time6
  • 4 Gems$0.99
  • 21 Gems$4.99
  • For 1 Month$4.99
Show 3 more
  • 42 Gems$9.99
  • 84 Gems$19.99
  • For 12 Months$47.99
2 purchases

DayCape

Subscriptions2
  • Family package$8.991 Month
  • Schul-Paket$25.991 Month

Questions

Is Habitica free?
Habitica is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DayCape free?
DayCape is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Habitica or DayCape have ads?
Neither Habitica nor DayCape shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Habitica or DayCape?
Habitica ships an update every 3 weeks, and DayCape every 2 months. Most recently, Habitica was updated on November 6, 2026 and DayCape on November 1, 2026.

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