We have been told about good habits since childhood, but not everyone can put them into practice. Lack of motivation, self-sabotage, and the complexity of the habit ritual (running in the morning, getting up early, playing at IviBet to relax and restore your energy) can hinder you. Habit trackers were invented to avoid laziness and distractions: they make it easier to track progress and allow you to praise yourself by visually seeing the results.
There are about a million trackers on the market, and they range from those that help you drink more water or keep track of your daily spending, to those that help you become more efficient and productive. In this review, let’s take a look at the best habit apps that help you implement the useful and remove the harmful habits. Let’s look at the best tools for your productivity in 2023.
TickTick
It’s a habit tracker combined with a planner. It allows you to mark habits in the past, shows modest statistics for each habit separately, and in the settings, you can set the frequency, notifications, color and icon, as well as add a quote and a goal for more motivation.
Brite
Besides the habit tracker, the app has a to-do planner plus notes and a personal diary. Habit settings are for visual lovers: besides repetitions and notifications, there are colored backings, icons, priority checkboxes, and even a Pomodoro timer (only in the Pro plan). Statistics are inside each habit, and progress can be marked in the past.
Singularity
Singularity is a powerful to-do and task planner with a built-in beautiful habit tracker on your phone with nothing extra. When you create a habit, you only need to specify its name and color. And to mark it completed, you just need to click on the circle in the column with the date. Click once — the habit is counted, and the circle is colored. Click twice — the habit is half completed or skipped, and the circle has turned into a colored circle, but the chain has not been broken. There are general statistics for all habits and separate statistics for each habit, and you can even mark habits in the past.
Tick it
One of the most popular habit trackers for Android owners, which positions itself as a goal achievement app. It keeps statistics on the fulfillment of habits, you can give a habit a day off (then the statistics will not consider it unfulfilled).
When creating a habit, you can immediately specify what kind of habit it is: harmful, regular or one-time. Among the available settings: icon, color, days of the habit, time of day and end date if needed. You can also set a goal: either duration or number of repetitions.
Habit
One of the best habit trackers for iOS — it’s bright, minimalistic, and easy to understand. In the free version, there are 3 habits, which the app itself automatically sets the color. In the settings you can set repetition and reminder. There are detailed statistics and the ability to put the progress of habits in the past.
Loop
A free habit tracker on Android with which you can cultivate as many habits as you need. In the habit settings you can specify its purpose (and even prescribe units of measurement), color, motivational question, frequency of repetition and add a reminder. The statistics are detailed. But the design is a bit outdated.
Productive
It asks you to fill out a questionnaire at the start, and then offers to choose the first habit from a list. To add new habits of your own, you will have to either buy a paid tariff or choose ready-made ones and rename them.
For habits, you can configure duration, repetition (several times a day), reminders by time and place plus color and icon. For the duration, the app has a timer that you can turn on when you start a habit, but this tool seems to be more suitable for tasks than for cultivating habits.
Besides the tracker, there’s a challenge among the app’s users, a magazine with useful articles, and statistics, but you can only view them with the Pro plan.
Everyday
A simple and clear habit tracker in a mobile app: you do it — click on the square, miss it — click on it again and it will turn into a triangle. The chain will not be interrupted, so you can not scold yourself for skipping too much. There are statistics, it looks like a huge field from the sapper game, where every day of success is painted over. The more painted without skips, the brighter the chain.
Move on
This habit app is something between a tracker and a Pomodoro timer for tasks. At the start, it offers to schedule tasks and set them to the intervals you want: how many cycles of working time there will be and how long they will last, what the short and long breaks will be. Convenient if you’re used to working with Pomodoro, but not so convenient if you just need to mark a tiny habit lasting only a minute.
To track a habit, you need to start a timer for a specific task, the habit won’t count until the time runs out. This is handy for focusing on the task at hand. And what’s inconvenient is that the app organizes the tasks from the list by their duration: the first one offers the shortest, the last one — the longest. And not in any other way.