Loop Habit Tracker alternative
Looking for a Loop Habit Tracker alternative (or an iPhone version)?
Loop Habit Tracker is the strongest free habit tracker on Android: open source under GPL-3.0, fully offline, no account, and forgiving by design, since a habit-strength score decays gradually instead of a chain snapping to zero. It is also Android-only, with no iPhone app, no web app and no sync between devices. Habit Pocket is the alternative for exactly those gaps: a calm grid on iPhone and the web with the two in sync, times of day recorded as real values, and any habit overlaid on any other. Like Loop, the iOS app needs no account to start, and nothing leaves the phone until you make one. If you are on Android with one device, keep Loop. It is very good and it is free.
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Side by side
Habit Pocket vs Loop Habit Tracker
Where each one leads, in plain terms. A dash in the Habit Pocket column is an honest gap, not a hidden one.
 Habit Pocket | Loop Habit Tracker | |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone / iOS app | — | |
| Web app | — | |
| Sync between devices | — | |
| Time-of-day habits (07:15) | — | |
| Candle chart for sleep & wake times | — | |
| Correlation overlays | — | |
| Numeric habits with targets | ||
| Skips that pause the streak | ||
| Works with no account | On iOS | |
| Flexible schedules (3× a week) | — | |
| Notes on a day | Soon | |
| Home-screen widgets | Soon | |
| Import your existing history | — | Own backup file |
| Reminders | Soon | |
| Android app | Soon | |
| Open source | — | |
| Price | $3.99/mo or $49 once | Free, GPL |
Loop Habit Tracker details checked and last updated: July 2026
Honest take
Habit Pocket or Loop Habit Tracker?
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 your tracker in a browser too, need two devices to hold the same data, or want the times and numbers behind the checkmarks charted.
Pick Loop Habit Tracker if
you are on Android, want an app that is fully open source and community-run, and yes/no plus simple number habits cover everything you track.
Proof
Overlay any habit on any other.
Steps against weight, bedtime against energy — three units on one timeline, with the exact numbers on hover.
Weight, steps & calories — last 56 days
Hover any day to read the exact numbers
FAQ
Loop Habit Tracker vs Habit Pocket — common questions
No. Loop ships on Google Play and F-Droid only, and there has never been an official iOS version, so anything you find on the App Store under that name is somebody else’s app. Habit Pocket covers the same calm, grid-shaped tracking on iPhone and the web, with the two kept in sync.
No. Loop keeps everything in a local database on one Android device, which is also the source of its privacy guarantee, and its most common complaint. You can move data by exporting a CSV or a full backup file. Habit Pocket syncs in real time between iOS and the web, on the free tier as well as Pro.
On iPhone, yes. Habit Pocket opens straight into the grid as a guest, every entry is written to a local database on the phone, and nothing is sent to a server until you decide to sign up. You can even buy Pro as a guest. What you give up by staying a guest is everything that needs a server: sync to the web app, CSV and JSON export, and an off-device backup if the phone is lost. The web app does need an account.
No, and that is a real point for Loop, which is GPL-3.0 on GitHub. What you get instead is no lock-in: CSV and JSON export of your full history is free on every tier, account deletion is one click and wipes your data from the database in one transaction, and Pro includes a public REST API you can pull everything through.
Neither punishes you for one bad day, they just do it differently. Loop weakens its habit-strength score gradually, so a miss dents the curve rather than resetting it. Habit Pocket keeps a streak but lets you mark the day as a skip, which pauses the run instead of breaking it, and per-habit excluded weekdays count neither way.
Not by uploading a file, and that is the honest cost of switching. Loop exports a CSV and a full SQLite backup, but Habit Pocket has no importer today, so there is nothing to feed them into. Two things take the sting out. Loop is free, so leave it installed and keep your old history readable in it. And on Pro, the public API writes an entry to any date you name, so a short script can replay years of a Loop CSV into the grid. Otherwise the practical move is to start clean on the day you switch.
Android is planned, not shipped, and I would rather not invent a date. Habit Pocket is iOS and web today, and the web app does run in a mobile browser on Android in the meantime. When the Android app lands it uses the same offline-first engine as iOS. Until then, if Loop is working for you on Android, there is no real reason to move.
Almost always the platform, not the price. Loop passed 5 million installs on Google Play with a 4.8 rating from roughly 62,000 reviews as of July 2026, so the recommendation spreads well past its Android userbase, and none of it runs on an iPhone, an iPad or a laptop. Habit Pocket is free for up to 5 habits, then $3.99 a month or $49 once.
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