Alternatives · HabitKit
HabitKit alternatives that don't throw away the grid.
HabitKit costs $29.99 once and draws the best tile grid of anything here. People go looking for alternatives when a checkmark stops being enough, or when they want the same habits open on a laptop. Habit Pocket is the closest answer to the first problem, because it keeps one screen for the whole month and puts numbers with units, real clock times, and picks from a list into the cells. Everyday is the closest on looks. Loop is free and open source on Android, Habitify runs on more platforms than anything else, and Streaks is the one-payment option inside Apple. If home-screen widgets are the reason you opened HabitKit, stay. Mine aren't built yet.
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Last updated: August 2026
The reason
Why anyone leaves an app this good-looking
HabitKit is well made and cheap, so the reasons are narrow. Four of them come up over and over.
- A checkmark is all it keeps
- HabitKit records that you did the thing. There's no numeric type with a unit, so 7,412 steps, 76.4 kg and 340 mg of caffeine have nowhere to go. You can tick a habit several times in one day, which covers glasses of water in a rough way, but the app still isn't holding the amount.
- Nothing opens on a laptop
- HabitKit is an iPhone and Android app and that's the whole list. Spend your working day at a keyboard and there's no tab to leave open, no wide view of the year you've built.
- Backups rather than a live connection
- HabitKit's site describes optional accounts and cloud backups. Whether two devices stay current with each other in between, I couldn't confirm from the outside, and I'd rather say that than guess. Test it with a second phone before you rely on it.
- The free tier ends sooner than expected
- Free use caps at a small number of habits, then it asks $1.99 a month, $11.99 a year, or $29.99 once. That lifetime price is genuinely fair, and it still arrives earlier than most people plan for.
Before you switch
Keep HabitKit if the widgets are the point
Nothing on this list has better home-screen widgets, and Habit Pocket has none at all yet. HabitKit is on Android today, which I'm not, and $29.99 once undercuts my $49. If the way you actually check your habits is glancing at a home screen rather than opening an app, none of the depth below is worth giving that up for.
The shortlist
5 HabitKit alternatives worth considering
Ordered by the need each one answers, not by which I would prefer you picked. Every entry names where it loses, including mine.
- 01
Habit Pocket
My appBest for: Keeping the grid and putting real values in it
Habit Pocket is my own app, so read this card knowing that. It keeps the part of HabitKit you liked, one screen where a whole month is visible, and lets a cell hold four different things: a check, a number with its own unit, a real clock time like 07:15, and a pick from a list you write yourself. The charts then read those values back, including a candle chart that pairs each night's bedtime and wake-up into one bar. It also runs in a browser, which HabitKit doesn't.
Where it loses: No home-screen widgets, no Android app, and push reminders aren't shipped, so a calendar alarm is the honest workaround. There's no importer either, which means a HabitKit export has nothing to load into. Apple Health auto-fill covers 15 metrics but only on iPhone and only on Pro.
- Platforms
- iPhone, iPad, web
- Price
- Free for 5 habits · $3.99/mo or $49 once
- 02
Everyday
Best for: The nearest thing to the look, in a browser
Everyday puts a year of days on one screen as a chain of colored squares, which is as close as anything here gets to HabitKit's tiles, and it opens in a browser as well as on both phones. It fixes the laptop problem without touching the depth problem.
Where it loses: Yes/no only, so no numbers with units and no clock times. Its App Store prices have climbed well past the figures most roundups still quote, so check the store before paying rather than trusting an article.
- Platforms
- Web, iOS, Android, browser extensions
- Price
- Free for 3 habits, then from about $49.99 a year
- 03
Habitify
Best for: Running on every device you own
Habitify covers more platforms than anything else on this page and does hold numeric and timed habits, so it answers the laptop question and the depth question together. It also pulls from Apple Health, Strava and Fitbit, and writes to a calendar.
Where it loses: Habitify rebuilt its pricing in April 2026 and the free plan now holds 3 habits. I found three different sets of prices across its own site and the App Store listing, so I'm not going to print one. Read the current pricing page yourself.
- Platforms
- iOS, Android, web, macOS, Apple Watch, Wear OS
- Price
- Free for 3 habits, then tiered (see the note under the table)
- 04
Loop Habit Tracker
Best for: Paying nothing at all, on Android
Loop is free the way almost nothing is: no ads, no paid tier, no account, GPL-3.0 on GitHub, and it works fine in airplane mode. It holds yes/no and measurable habits. Instead of a streak it keeps a habit-strength score that sags when you miss a day rather than resetting to zero, which some people find much easier to live with.
Where it loses: Android only, with no iOS version and none coming. No sync, so a second device means exporting a CSV by hand. If the laptop was your reason for leaving HabitKit, this goes the wrong way.
- Platforms
- Android only
- Price
- Free, GPL-3.0
- 05
Streaks
Best for: One payment, if you live inside Apple
Streaks is $5.99 with nothing recurring, auto-completes tasks straight from Apple Health, and has the best Apple Watch app in this category by a wide margin. It's an Apple Editors' Choice and it earns it.
Where it loses: Nothing outside Apple, so no Android and no browser. It caps at 24 tasks, has no free tier, and stores a checkmark rather than a value, which is the same wall you already hit.
- Platforms
- iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro
- Price
- $5.99 once
Side by side
HabitKit and its alternatives, compared
The rows that actually decide this, filled from each app’s own site and store listing.
 Habit Pocket | HabitKit | Everyday | Habitify | Loop | Streaks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad, web | iOS, Android | Web, iOS, Android | iOS, Android, web, Mac, watches | Android | Apple only |
| Free tier | 5 habits | A small cap | 3 habits | 3 habits | Everything | — |
| Price | Free for 5 habits · $3.99/mo or $49 once | $29.99 once | From ~$49.99/yr | Tiered, see note | Free, GPL-3.0 | $5.99 once |
| Numeric habits with units | — | — | — | |||
| Time-of-day habits (a 07:15 wake-up) | — | — | — | — | — | |
| The same grid open in a browser | — | — | — | |||
| Android app | Soon | — | ||||
| Open source | — | — | — | — | — |
Competitor details checked in August 2026 against each app's own site and store listing. Prices are US App Store or Google Play and move with your region. Habitify's tiers are left blank on purpose: its site and its App Store listing disagree, and I'd rather send you to read the current page than print a number that's wrong. A dash in the Habit Pocket column is a real gap, not a hidden one.
Demo
The same month-at-a-glance idea, with values in the cells.
A live Habit Pocket grid running on this page, not a screenshot. Exercise is a yes/no, Steps and Weight are numbers carrying their own units, Wake is a real clock time, and Practice is a pick from a list you define. HabitKit holds the first of those five and nothing else.
Demo
What those values turn into after a few months.
Summary cards and a streak heatmap built from numbers rather than checkmarks. This is the part a done-or-not-done tracker structurally cannot show you, because it never stored the amount in the first place.
Steps
Wake up
Weight
FAQ
HabitKit alternatives — common questions
Habit Pocket, if what you want is the grid plus more depth, and Everyday if what you want is the look. Habit Pocket keeps one screen for the whole month and adds numbers with units, real clock times, and a chart builder that reads those values back. Everyday keeps a year of colored squares on one page and stays yes/no, like HabitKit. Both open in a browser, which HabitKit doesn't. Habit Pocket is my app, so factor that in.
HabitKit has no web app, so no. Habit Pocket and Everyday are the grid-shaped trackers here that run in a browser, and Habitify has a web app too though it's built around a list rather than a grid. For Habit Pocket the web is where it started, so the browser version is the full app and not a cut-down companion.
Not as amounts. HabitKit lets you complete a habit more than once in a day, which gets you a rough count of glasses, and it has no numeric type carrying a unit, so a weight of 76.4 kg or a step count of 7,412 has nowhere to live. If a chart of those values over the next year matters to you, that gap is the whole reason this page exists.
Streaks at $5.99, if you're happy inside Apple and with checkmarks only. After that HabitKit at $29.99 once, then Habit Pocket at $49 once. Loop is free forever and open source, though it's Android only. Habitify sells a lifetime tier as well, but its own site and its App Store listing quote different figures, so check before you buy.
Not really, and I'll say plainly that Habit Pocket has no widgets at all yet. They're planned for iPhone and not shipped. Streaks and Loop both have good home-screen widgets if that's the deciding factor. If you check your habits from the home screen rather than by opening an app, staying on HabitKit is a reasonable answer to this whole page.
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