Habitica vs Checkii
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Habitica
This app gamifies your daily tasks and goals using RPG elements. Earn rewards by completing habits, chores, and to-dos to level up your avatar and unlock in-game items. It's designed to help with productivity, self-care, and achieving resolutions.
- Gamified task and habit tracking
- Avatar customization and leveling
- Collectable in-game gear and pets
- Social features for accountability
- Challenges and guilds for community
- Repeating tasks and to-do lists
- Reminders and widgets
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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
Checkii
Organize your daily life with a smart checklist app. Capture tasks by typing, voice, or photo, and get smart suggestions. Share lists with family and friends, and set up recurring routines. Turn a tablet into a shared family hub.
- Task capture via text, voice, or photo
- Smart task suggestions
- Calendar view for planning
- Shared checklists with family and friends
- Recurring task setup
- Tablet kiosk mode for shared hubs
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A clearer day starts here. The groceries. The appointment. The thing you promised you’d do. Give it all a place with Checkii: a daily checklist that helps you get thoughts out of your head, make a plan and share the everyday with friends and family. CAPTURE IT YOUR WAY Type naturally, say what needs doing or start with a photo. Checkii turns your input into tasks with suggested categories, priorities and time estimates. Review what was added and adjust the details anytime. SEE TODAY CLEARLY Spend less time managing the list and more time living the day. See today’s tasks at a glance, check things off and plan ahead on the calendar. Keep someday ideas on the Backburner until you’re ready. MAKE PLANS TOGETHER Divide the errands, send a task to a friend or share a checklist with family. See who a task is from and who it’s assigned to. You choose who can see your checklists and add tasks. BUILD EVERYDAY ROUTINES Set up repeating tasks for the things that come around again, from watering plants to a weekly reset. MAKE A CHECKII HUB Your family’s hub. On the tablet you already own. Turn a compatible tablet into your Checkii hub with kiosk mode—no special hardware to buy. Bring permitted checklists together in a shared view of the day, while everyone keeps their own account. It's time to manage everything, one day at a time - for yourself, with your friends and family, and even a kiosk mode to turn any tablet or larger screen device into your Checkii hub. BRING YOUR ASSISTANT ALONG Connect a compatible AI assistant to your Checkii tasks on an eligible paid plan. Choose whether it can read or make changes, and disconnect anytime. An account is required. Free accounts can add tasks manually and check them off. Premium adds AI-assisted capture and other planning and sharing features. Available plans, pricing and subscription terms are shown before purchase. AI-assisted capture and connected assistants require an internet connection. Checkii is a product of Luctance, Inc. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Checkii at 5.0 against Habitica's 4.3. Checkii also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 64%) and device support (4 vs 2). Habitica's advantage is ratings volume (3.7K vs 4). On price, update cadence, 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. Habitica sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Checkii sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Checkii holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Habitica has 3.7K ratings behind it against 4, 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 100% of Checkii's.
Habitica ships an update every 3 weeks, Checkii monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Habitica | Checkii |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (3.7K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.7K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HabitRPG, Inc | Luctance, Inc. |
Customer experience
Habitica
Checkii
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
Checkii
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Checkii
- Checkii Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Checkii Premium Annual$49.991 Year








