Habitica vs Routine Planner, Habit Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Routine Planner, Habit Tracker
This app helps you build and execute daily routines with timed steps and voice prompts. It breaks down large tasks into manageable segments, making it easier to start and complete them. Ideal for individuals who struggle with task initiation or time management.
- Timed routine steps
- Voice prompts for next action
- Habit and routine tracking
- Integration with AI assistants
- Home screen widgets
- Cross-device support
- Progress visualization
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You've checked the boxes. The day still didn't happen. Routinery tracks your routines and then runs them with you. App of the Day 2026 (Apple) - Best ADHD App of 2025 (Forbes Health) - 5 million downloads A habit tracker, routine tracker and day planner in one. Stack small habits into a daily routine, break it into 1-5 minute steps, and each step runs on its own timer while a voice calls out what comes next. Morning routines, bedtime wind-downs, study blocks, workouts, medication - anything with a fixed order runs the same way. WHY IT WORKS - Starting gets easier. "Study" is too big to begin; "sit at the desk, 1 min" is not. Small steps lower the cost of the first move. - Nothing to decide mid-run. You set the order once, when you built the routine. Nothing left to choose means less to stall on. - Wins come back often. A finish is logged every step, not once a day. - No time math. You set each step's length once. Sink into one thing and the voice pulls you out, so an afternoon doesn't vanish. ASK CHATGPT OR CLAUDE TO BUILD IT - "Make me a 40-minute weekday morning routine" and it lands in the app. - Your assistant can handle routines alongside other tools you've connected there, like Google Calendar. - Connects to ChatGPT, Claude and others over our MCP server, included in the free plan. IT STARTS ON TIME, SCREEN OR NOT - Set the weekdays and time; the reminder arrives then. Weekdays only, three times a week, whatever your schedule. - The voice reads each step aloud, so the routine keeps running while you shower or cook. - A home screen widget shows today's list without opening the app. - Start on the phone, carry on from watch, tablet, or Mac. STAY DEEP IN ONE THING - A pomodoro that announces the next task, so the block keeps its own momentum. - Build the environment: white noise, Focus mode, landscape view, Shortcuts. - Stretch a timer, skip a step, reorder what's left - all without leaving the run. DON'T DO IT ALONE - Share a routine's task list with family or a friend and see how far each of you got. - Finish a routine and the result goes straight to the person you picked. SEE IT ADD UP - A plant grows for each day you keep a streak; weekly and monthly stats show what holds. FOR THE DAILY AND THE ONE-OFF - Keep undated tasks and weekly repeats in one daily routine planner. - A one-time task gets a timer too. - Can't face it now? Park it in Anytime for later. - Shift work that moves weekly still fits: Morning, Afternoon, Evening. - See the day as a list, a calendar, or a timeline. WHO USES ROUTINERY - Adults with ADHD who know the task and still can't start - People who lose hours once they sink into something - People who double-check in case they missed one - Anyone who waits to start until they can do it perfectly - Shift workers, people on daily medication, parents on the school run - Anyone who wrote a routine down and never once ran it ROUTINERY AT A GLANCE Is Routinery free? Yes. 2 routines free, no account, first one running in under a minute. Premium lifts the routine cap: monthly, 6-month or yearly. The free plan shows ads; Premium is ad-free. Do I need an account, and what about privacy? No account, no sign-up. Routine data is stored on our servers; usage analytics go through third-party tools. What you type is never used to train AI models. Email hello@routinery.app and we delete your data. Does Routinery work offline? Almost entirely. Routines, timers, voice, reminders and history run offline. Only device sync needs a connection. What does Routinery connect to? Siri Shortcuts, widgets, Apple Watch, and AI assistants over MCP. No direct sync with Apple Health or calendars. No export button either; pull your data out over MCP instead, free plan included. What devices does Routinery run on? iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. No web version. Questions, bugs or ideas: hello@routinery.app Routinery is not a medical device and does not diagnose or treat ADHD.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Habitica at none against Routine Planner, Habit Tracker's shown. Routine Planner, Habit Tracker's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (83% vs 64%). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Habitica sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Routine Planner, Habit Tracker sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Routine Planner, Habit Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Routine Planner, Habit Tracker has 18K ratings behind it against 3.6K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Habitica's written reviews are positive against 83% of Routine Planner, Habit Tracker's.
Habitica ships an update every 3 weeks, Routine Planner, Habit Tracker every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Habitica | Routine Planner, Habit Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (3.6K ratings) | 4.7 (18K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.4% of reviews | 82.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.6K | 18K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 166 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | HabitRPG, Inc | Routinery Corp. |
Customer experience
Habitica
Routine Planner, Habit Tracker
User reviews
Habitica
From 3.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great app for habit tracking and productivity
- 🎮 Gamified approach is motivating
- 🤝 Supportive community
- 💰 Reasonable subscription model
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and glitchy at times
- 🤔 Confusing navigation and UI
- 🔒 Issues with login and account sync
- 💸 Gems/rewards locked behind paywall
Routine Planner, Habit Tracker
From 18K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Efficient and helpful for routines
- 👍 Simple and intuitive interface
- 🙂 Motivating and improves productivity
- 💡 Customizable routines and tasks
- 🕰️ Useful timers and reminders
Room to improve
- 🔒 Limited to 2 free routines
- 💰 Subscription model can be expensive
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and crashes
- ⏱️ Rigid time-based structure not flexible enough
- 🔀 Difficulty rearranging tasks within routines
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
Routine Planner, Habit Tracker
Reported bugs
3 issues- Routine steps not updating correctly
- Crashes when trying to edit routines
- Sync issues between phone and Apple Watch app
Requested features
5 requests- More than 2 free routines
- One-time purchase option instead of subscription
- Ability to create checklists within tasks
- Option to run routines without set times
- Improved Apple Watch integration and complications
In-app purchases
Habitica
- 1 Month Subscription$4.991 Month
- 3 Months Subscription$14.993 Months
- 6 Months Subscription$29.996 Months
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- 12 Months Subscription$47.991 Year
- 4 Gems$0.99
- 21 Gems$4.99
- For 1 Month$4.99
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- 42 Gems$9.99
- 84 Gems$19.99
- For 12 Months$47.99
Routine Planner, Habit Tracker
- Routinery Premium (Weekly)7 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Routinery Premium (monthly)7 Days trial$5.001 Month
- Routinery Premium (monthly)7 Days trial$5.491 Month
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- Routinery Plus Yearly Plan7 Days trial$24.001 Year
- Routinery Premium (6 months)7 Days trial$24.006 Months
- Routinery Membership1 Year trial$36.001 Year
- Routinery Premium (Yearly)1 Year trial$36.001 Year
- Routinery Premium (Yearly)7 Days trial$36.001 Year
- Routinery Premium (Yearly)7 Days trial$39.491 Year
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