Comparison

Habitica vs Packmap

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

Packmap

Easily track the contents of moving boxes with scannable QR codes and color-coded labels. Log items by typing, voice, or photo recognition, and quickly find anything you need when unpacking.

Highlights
  • Printable QR code and color-coded labels
  • Item logging via voice, photo, or text
  • On-device photo recognition
  • Offline functionality
  • Plain language search
  • QR code scanning for box contents
Features
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Packmap turns a pile of identical moving boxes into something you can actually search. Label each box with a QR code and a big, color-coded badge, then log what goes inside however is fastest — type it, dictate it, or snap a photo and let Packmap name what it sees. When you're unpacking and can't find the coffee maker, just search for it and Packmap tells you which box it's in. The color-coded, named, numbered labels can be spotted from across the room! PRINT SMART LABELS • Create a whole room's boxes at once and print their labels two to a page. • Each label has a scannable QR code and a bold room color so you can spot it across a room. • Renaming a box never breaks its printed label (but you can reprint with the new name and color). LOG HANDS-FREE • Hold the microphone button like a walkie-talkie and rattle off items — they drop into the list as you speak. • Snap or pick a photo and Packmap suggests the items it recognizes. • Or just type. Whatever's fastest with your hands full. FIND ANYTHING • Search in plain language — "where are my headphones?" works. • Scan a box's QR code to jump straight to its contents. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Everything works on your device, offline, with no account. • Even photo recognition runs on-device — your photos never leave your iPhone. • Nothing collected, no ads, no tracking.

Screenshots

Habitica4 screens
Packmap4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Habitica at Free against Packmap's $2.99. Habitica also leads on ratings volume (3.5K vs 1). Packmap's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (100% vs 64%). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Habitica is free to download; Packmap costs $2.99 up front. Habitica sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Packmap asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Packmap holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Habitica has 3.5K ratings behind it against 1, 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 Packmap's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Habitica ships an update every 3 weeks, Packmap every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Habitica versus Packmap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabiticaPackmap
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.3 (3.5K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.5K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB45 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHabitRPG, IncMartes Delta Co, LLC

Customer experience

Habitica

All ratings3,473 ratings
Positive81.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative11.9%
Written reviews1,296 reviews
Positive64.3%
Neutral14.4%
Negative21.4%

Packmap

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Packmap

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
None

Packmap

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Habitica free?
Habitica is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Packmap free?
Packmap costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Habitica or Packmap?
Packmap is rated higher. Habitica averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3.5K ratings, while Packmap averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Habitica or Packmap have ads?
Neither Habitica nor Packmap shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Habitica or Packmap?
Habitica ships an update every 3 weeks, and Packmap every 6 weeks. Most recently, Habitica was updated on October 15, 2026 and Packmap on October 8, 2026.

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