HabitNow alternative
Looking for HabitNow on iPhone (or with sync)?
HabitNow is one of the best habit planners on Android: habits, tasks and routines in one app, scheduling with real depth, proper alarms rather than easily ignored notifications, and a one-time price. 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, running on iPhone and the web with the two in sync, recording times of day as real values and charting how habits move together. HabitNow still wins on reminders, because mine are on the roadmap and its alarms already work.
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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 | |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone / iOS app | — | |
| Web app | — | |
| Sync between devices | Backup only (paid) | |
| Time-of-day habits (07:15) | — | |
| Select habits (mood, workout type) | — | |
| Candle chart & correlation overlays | — | |
| Numeric habits with targets | ||
| Works with no account | On iOS | |
| Reminders & alarms | Soon | |
| To-do lists & routines | — | |
| Timers & countdowns | — | |
| Home-screen widgets | Soon | |
| Android app | Soon | |
| Import your existing history | — | Own backup |
| Price | $3.99/mo or $49 once | About $12 once |
HabitNow details checked and last updated: July 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 payment.
Proof
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FAQ
HabitNow vs Habit Pocket — common questions
No, HabitNow is an Android app and there is no official iOS version. This one catches people out: there is a similarly named app on the App Store from a different developer, so downloading it does not get you HabitNow. Habit Pocket is a genuine iPhone and web app, with the same data on both, if what you want is HabitNow-style tracking on Apple hardware.
Not yet, and HabitNow is plainly the stronger app here. Its reminder system is the best in this category, with real alarms and per-activity schedules, while Habit Pocket has push reminders on the roadmap and nothing shipped. If being reminded is the thing that makes a habit stick for you, that gap is a good reason to stay on HabitNow. A calendar event is the honest workaround in the meantime.
No. HabitNow keeps your data on the one Android device, and its cloud backup is a paid, manual save to your Google account rather than live sync, so a second device does not stay current. Habit Pocket syncs in real time between iOS and the web on the free tier as well as Pro, which is the main reason people cross over.
No, and it is a deliberate limit rather than a missing feature. Habit Pocket tracks recurring habits only, with no task list and no timers. HabitNow deliberately covers habits, one-off tasks and timed routines in a single app, so if you want all of that in one place it is the better tool and this comparison should not talk you out of it.
HabitNow, straightforwardly. Its Premium unlock is a single payment of roughly $12 in the US, though Google Play pricing varies by region, and the free tier caps you at about seven habits and tasks combined. Habit Pocket is free forever for up to 5 habits with sync and export included, then $3.99 a month or $49 once. You are paying the difference for iOS, the web app, sync, and the chart types.
Not as a file. HabitNow can export a CSV, but Habit Pocket has no importer today, so there is nothing to load it into. On Pro the public API accepts an entry for any date you name, so a script can replay an exported CSV into the grid. Otherwise most people start clean on the day they switch and keep the old app around for reference.
Not on iPhone. Habit Pocket opens straight into the grid as a guest, and entries stay in a local database on the phone until you choose to sign up, which is close to how HabitNow works by default. Signing up later merges what you already logged rather than replacing it. Sync, export and off-device backup are the things that need an account, and the web app needs one too.
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