HabitNow alternative

Looking for HabitNow on iPhone (or with sync)?

HabitNow is one of the best habit planners on Android: habits, to-dos and recurring tasks in one app, scheduling with real depth, reminders and alarms, timers, and a one-time Premium price of $11.99 at most in the US. It is also Android-only, with no iPhone app, no web app and no sync between devices. Habit Pocket is the alternative on the other side of that line: a calm grid on iPhone and the web with the two in sync, times of day recorded as real values, and habits charted against each other. HabitNow still wins on reminders, tasks and price, because my reminders are on the roadmap and its alarms already work.

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Last updated October 2026 · I checked HabitNow’s Google Play listing, privacy policy and release notes in October 2026; I have not used HabitNow day to day. I build Habit Pocket, so read the verdicts knowing that; where HabitNow is stronger, this page says so. · By Bohdan Stefaniuk

At a glance

Habit Pocket and HabitNow, side by side.

HabitNow is an Android daily planner by an independent developer: habits, to-dos and recurring tasks on one calendar, with reminders, alarms and timers, for a one-time price.

Habit Pocket

Platforms: iOS, Web (Android planned)
Price: Free · $3.99/mo · $29.99/yr · $49.99 once
Best for: habits you measure, on iPhone and the web, in one calm grid
Standout: times of day as real values, with the candle chart and correlation overlays

HabitNow

Platforms: Android
Price: Free · one-time Premium
Best for: habits, to-dos and routines in one Android planner
Standout: customizable reminders and alarms on a flexible schedule
Rating: 4.7 (93.1k reviews, Google Play, Oct 2026)

Honest take

Habit Pocket or HabitNow?

No tool is for everyone. Here is the straight answer, including when the other one is the better choice.

Pick Habit Pocket if

you are on an iPhone or want the tracker in a browser too, need devices to hold the same data, or want times of day and correlation charts, and can live without push reminders for now.

Pick HabitNow if

you are on Android and lean on alarms, reminders and detailed scheduling, or you want habits and a task list living in the same app for one small payment.

Side by side

Habit Pocket vs HabitNow

Where each one leads, in plain terms. A dash in the Habit Pocket column is an honest gap, not a hidden one.

	Habit Pocket	HabitNow
Price	Free · $3.99/mo · $29.99/yr · $49.99 once	Free · Premium once, $11.99 at most
Free tier	5 habits, forever	Capped number of habits
Data export	CSV & JSON, free	CSV, from Backups
iPhone / iOS app		—
Web app		—
Android app	Soon
Sync between devices		Cloud backup only (Premium)
Reminders & alarms	Soon
To-dos & recurring tasks	—
Timers (stopwatch, countdown, interval)	—
Home-screen widgets	Soon
Time-of-day habits (07:15)		—
Candle chart & correlation overlays		—
Import history from a CSV	Date-per-row CSV, free (web)	Own backups only

HabitNow details checked October 2026.

Pricing

HabitNow pricing vs Habit Pocket pricing (2026)

Habit Pocket

Free, $3.99/mo, $29.99/yr, or $49.99 once (Lifetime)

Free tier: Up to 5 habits with yes/no and numeric types, a stats page for every habit, 60 days of stats, multi-device sync, and CSV/JSON export — no credit card.

Monthly and yearly start with 7 days free; cancel anytime before. Lifetime has no trial and never renews.

HabitNow

Free, or a one-time Premium unlock (Google Play lists its in-app items at $0.99–$11.99 in the US)

Free tier: A capped number of habits; free data stays only on the device, with no cloud backup.

No subscription. Premium removes the cap and adds optional Google-account cloud backup. The exact price shows in the app and varies by region and promotion.

Both apps let you pay once, and HabitNow is far cheaper. HabitNow’s Premium is a single Google Play purchase, and its listed in-app items run from $0.99 to $11.99 in the US, so even the top of that range is under a quarter of Habit Pocket’s $49.99 Lifetime. Habit Pocket also sells Pro at $3.99 a month or $29.99 a year, on top of a free tier of 5 habits. The higher price pays for iPhone, the web app, sync between them, and the time-of-day and chart features. On one Android phone, HabitNow is the better deal.

Prices checked October 2026. If HabitNow has changed theirs since, tell me and I'll fix this page.

The honest lists

What HabitNow does better — and what we do better.

Written so a happy HabitNow user would read this page and call it fair.

Where HabitNow genuinely shines

Habits, to-dos and recurring tasks in one app, laid out on a calendar, so it can replace a separate task manager.
A highly customizable reminder system, with notifications and alarms you can set per habit or task.
Flexible scheduling (daily, weekly or monthly goals, priorities, categories and lists) plus built-in stopwatch, countdown and interval timers for timed activities.
Home-screen widgets, charts and statistics, daily notes, a lock screen, and a wide range of themes and icons.
A one-time Premium price with no subscription, which many Google Play reviewers single out as the reason they paid.
Popular and maintained: 5M+ installs and 4.7 stars across about 93,000 Google Play reviews, updated July 2026.

HabitNow's limitations

Android only: no iPhone, iPad or web app. An App Store listing that uses the HabitNow name appeared in September 2026, but it comes from a different developer.
No live sync. Free data lives only on the device; Premium adds a Google-account cloud backup that restores on a new phone but does not keep two devices in step.
The free version caps how many habits you can keep, so a full routine needs Premium.
No time-of-day value type: a 07:15 wake-up is a checkmark, a number or a timer, not a clock time you can chart across a month.
Some Google Play reviews report alarms going off at the wrong time.

Habit Pocket's limitations vs HabitNow

No reminders or alarms yet. Push reminders are on the roadmap, coming soon; until then a calendar event is the workaround. HabitNow is far ahead here.
No to-do list, no one-off tasks and no timers. Habit Pocket tracks recurring habits only, by design.
No Android app yet (planned); on Android you use the web app in a browser. No home-screen widgets yet either (planned).
More expensive: Pro is $3.99/month, $29.99/year or $49.99 once, against HabitNow’s single in-app purchase of $11.99 at most in the US.

Is there a HabitNow app for iPhone?

No. HabitNow is published by HabitNow Apps on Google Play only, and there is no official iPhone, iPad or web version. An App Store listing called "HabitNow Daily Routine Planner" appeared in September 2026, but it is sold by a different developer, so it is not HabitNow.

Habit Pocket is a native iPhone app and a web app with the same data on both. On iPhone it opens straight into the grid with no sign-up, and it backs your entries up automatically to a private account tied to that install, so a lost phone does not mean lost history. Signing in later keeps what you logged and adds the web app.

Reminders, alarms and to-dos: where HabitNow wins

HabitNow is the stronger app for being reminded and for planning a day. Each habit or task can carry its own reminders and alarms, and one-off to-dos and recurring tasks sit on the same calendar as your habits. Its timers cover timed work such as study blocks.

Habit Pocket has none of that today. Push reminders are on the roadmap, coming soon, and they will be opt-in and quiet; until then a calendar event is the honest workaround. There is no task list and no timer, and that is a scope decision: Habit Pocket records what you did each day, it does not schedule your day.

If reminders are what make a habit stick for you, or you want one app for habits and tasks, stay on HabitNow.

Does HabitNow sync between devices? Backup, sync and privacy

No. HabitNow keeps free data only on the phone, where its own policy says the developer cannot access it. Premium adds an optional cloud backup linked to your Google account, which restores after a reinstall or on a new phone. A backup is a snapshot, so a tablet and a phone do not stay current with each other.

Habit Pocket keeps the iPhone app and the web app in step in real time, offline-first on the phone, on the free tier as well as Pro. Your habits are never shared with other users, never sold, and not accessible by anyone else. On iPhone you can start without signing up; the app still backs your entries up to a private account so they survive a lost or reset phone.

Can HabitNow track sleep and wake times?

Partly. HabitNow can track a wake-up as a yes/no habit, a number, or a timed activity, and its statistics show streaks, success rates and averages. It has no type that stores a clock time, so "woke at 07:15" cannot be charted as a time across a month.

Habit Pocket has a time-of-day habit type: a 23:40 bedtime and a 07:15 wake-up are stored as real clock values. The candle chart draws each night as one bar across the month, overnight spans handled cleanly, with an optional number on top. Time-of-day habits and the candle chart are Pro features.

Because Habit Pocket stores real numbers and times, any habit can also be overlaid on any other on one timeline, such as bedtime against steps (line charts are Pro).

Switching

How to move from HabitNow to Habit Pocket.

1
In HabitNow, look in the backups section for the CSV export (added in version 2.2.0; I could not confirm whether it needs Premium). There is no direct HabitNow-to-Habit-Pocket import, so this file is how you keep your history.
2
Open the CSV in a spreadsheet. Habit Pocket’s import needs one date column and one column per habit; I have not tested a HabitNow export, so if it lists one row per entry, pivot it first.
3
In the Habit Pocket web app, import the file and map each column to a habit; you see every value before anything is written. Import is free; more than 5 habits, or new time-of-day and select habits, need Pro.
4
Leave your to-dos and timers in HabitNow or move them to a task app, because Habit Pocket does not do tasks.
5
Until push reminders ship, add a calendar event for the habits that need a nudge.

Verdict

So: HabitNow or Habit Pocket?

Pick HabitNow if you are on Android and want a planner more than a tracker: habits, to-dos and recurring tasks on one calendar, alarms that tell you when to start, and timers for the work itself, all for one payment of $11.99 at most. For an Android user with one phone who runs their day from reminders, HabitNow is the better product and costs less. Pick Habit Pocket if you are on an iPhone, want the same data in a browser, or care more about what your habits add up to than about being prompted: times of day stored as real values, the candle chart for sleep and wake times, and overlays that show what moves together. Accept that reminders are not shipped yet and that tasks will live elsewhere. The deciding question is whether you need an app to tell you what to do next, or one to show you what you have been doing.

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FAQ

HabitNow vs Habit Pocket — common questions

HabitNow is free to download, with a cap on how many habits you can keep. Premium is a one-time purchase with no subscription; Google Play lists HabitNow’s in-app items at $0.99 to $11.99 in the US (checked October 2026), and the exact price varies by region and promotion. Habit Pocket is free for 5 habits, then $3.99 a month, $29.99 a year or $49.99 once, so HabitNow is the cheaper of the two.

Choose HabitNow if you are on Android and want habits, to-dos, reminders, alarms and timers in one app for one small payment. Choose Habit Pocket if you are on an iPhone or want a web app, need your data on more than one device, or want to track times of day and see habits charted against each other, and can wait for reminders.

No. HabitNow is an Android app from HabitNow Apps with no official iOS version. The "HabitNow Daily Routine Planner" listing that appeared on the App Store in September 2026 comes from a different developer. Habit Pocket is a genuine iPhone and web app, with the same data on both.

Not yet. Habit Pocket is live on iOS and the web, and Android is planned on the same offline-first engine, with no date promised. On Android in the meantime, the web app works in a mobile browser. If HabitNow works for you on one Android phone, there is no strong reason to move.

Not yet, and HabitNow is plainly the stronger app here, with customizable reminders and alarms per activity. Habit Pocket has push reminders on the roadmap, coming soon, and they will be opt-in and quiet. A calendar event is the honest workaround in the meantime.

No. HabitNow keeps your data on one Android device; its Premium cloud backup restores on a new phone but does not keep two devices current. Habit Pocket syncs in real time between iPhone and the web on every plan.

Probably, with one step in between. HabitNow can export a CSV from its backups section, and Habit Pocket imports any CSV that has one date column and one column per habit, free, in the web app. I have not tested a HabitNow export file, so if it lists one row per entry, pivot it in a spreadsheet first. The import shows every value it will write before anything is saved.

No, by design. Habit Pocket tracks recurring habits only, with no task list and no timers. HabitNow covers habits, one-off tasks and timed routines in one app, so if you want all of that in one place it is the better tool.