Alternatives · Loop Habit Tracker
Loop Habit Tracker alternatives, for the two reasons people actually leave.
Almost nobody leaves Loop Habit Tracker because it's bad. They leave because they bought an iPhone, since Loop is Android-only and always has been, or because they want the same habits on a second device, since Loop keeps everything in a local database with no sync. Habit Pocket answers both, running on iPhone and the web with the two kept current. HabitNow is the closest replacement if you're staying on Android. HabitKit covers both phones for $29.99 once, and Habitify covers every platform there is. On price and licence, none of them touch Loop, which is free under GPL-3.0 with no account and no ads.
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Last updated: August 2026
The reason
The two reasons, and they really are just two
Loop passed 5 million installs on Google Play with a 4.8 rating from roughly 62,000 reviews. Apps at that level don't lose people over quality.
- You moved to an iPhone
- Loop has never shipped an iOS version and none is planned. The similarly named apps you'll find on the App Store come from other developers, which catches people out. Switching phones is simply the end of the road for your Loop history unless you export it first.
- You want it on more than one device
- Loop stores everything locally on one Android phone. That's the source of its privacy guarantee and it's also the complaint that comes up most. A tablet or a laptop means exporting a CSV or a full backup by hand, every time.
- The pace is slow, if you were waiting for something
- Loop's releases run at roughly an annual cadence, which is normal for a volunteer-run project and worth knowing if you've been hoping for a feature. This is a mild reason and I nearly left it out, because for most people the app already does everything they wanted from it.
Before you switch
Keep Loop if you have one Android phone and no second device
I'd rather you kept a free app than moved to a paid one for no reason. Loop is GPL-3.0 on GitHub, has no ads and no paid tier, asks for no account, and runs entirely offline. Its habit-strength score is also kinder than a streak: a missed day dents the curve instead of resetting a chain to zero. Nothing below is free in that way, mine included. If one Android phone is your whole setup, you already have the right app.
The shortlist
4 Loop Habit Tracker 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: iPhone and a browser, with both holding the same data
Habit Pocket is mine, so weigh the card accordingly. It answers both exit reasons at once: a real iPhone app, a full web app, and the two stay current without you doing anything. The grid feels familiar coming from Loop, and a cell can hold a number with its own unit or a real clock time like 07:15, then the charts read those back. Like Loop, the iPhone app opens straight into the grid with no account, and nothing leaves the phone until you make one.
Where it loses: Not open source, no Android app yet, and push reminders aren't shipped while Loop's have worked for years. There's no importer, so a Loop CSV has nothing to load into. On Pro the public API takes an entry for any date, which is a scriptable way to replay one, and that's a workaround rather than a feature.
- Platforms
- iPhone, iPad, web
- Price
- Free for 5 habits · $3.99/mo or $49 once
Habit Pocket vs Loop Habit Tracker, head to head →Official site
- 02
HabitNow
Best for: Staying on Android and paying once
HabitNow is the closest thing to a straight replacement if you're not leaving Android. It holds habits, one-off tasks and timed routines in one app, has the best reminder system in this category (real alarms, the kind that keep going), and unlocks with a single payment of roughly $12 in the US rather than a subscription.
Where it loses: Android only, so it solves nothing if you switched to an iPhone. No live sync either: its cloud backup is a paid, manual save to your Google account, and the free tier caps at about seven habits and tasks combined.
- Platforms
- Android only
- Price
- About $12 once
- 03
HabitKit
Best for: Both phones, one payment, and a grid you want to look at
HabitKit runs on both phones, so it survives a switch in either direction, and it draws a tile grid that people genuinely enjoy opening. One payment of $29.99 covers it forever, with $1.99 monthly and $11.99 yearly options if you want to try before committing.
Where it loses: Yes/no only, so Loop's measurable habits have no equivalent. No web app. Its site describes optional accounts and cloud backups rather than continuous sync, and I couldn't confirm from the outside how current two devices stay in between.
- Platforms
- iOS, Android
- Price
- $29.99 once
- 04
Habitify
Best for: Every platform at once, and integrations
Habitify is the widest net here. Phones, browser, Mac, and both watch platforms, with numeric and timed habits, Apple Health and Google Fit, Strava and Fitbit, calendar sync, and an API. If your reason for leaving Loop was that you own a lot of devices, this covers all of them.
Where it loses: The free plan holds 3 habits after the April 2026 restructure, which is a hard landing from an app where everything was free. Its own site and its App Store listing quote different prices, so I'm not printing a figure. It also needs an account, unlike everything else on this list.
- Platforms
- iOS, Android, web, macOS, Apple Watch, Wear OS
- Price
- Free for 3 habits, then tiered (see the note under the table)
Side by side
Loop Habit Tracker and its alternatives, compared
The rows that actually decide this, filled from each app’s own site and store listing.
 Habit Pocket | Loop | HabitNow | HabitKit | Habitify | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad, web | Android | Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android, web, Mac, watches |
| Price | Free for 5 habits · $3.99/mo or $49 once | Free, GPL-3.0 | About $12 once | $29.99 once | Tiered, see note |
| Free tier | 5 habits | Everything | About 7 activities | A small cap | 3 habits |
| Open source | — | — | — | — | |
| Usable with no account | On iPhone | — | |||
| Devices stay current on their own | — | Backup only | Backup | ||
| iPhone app | — | — | |||
| Numeric habits with units | — | ||||
| Reminders | Soon |
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 blank on purpose: its site and its App Store listing disagree with each other, so read the current page rather than trust a number here. A dash in the Habit Pocket column is a real gap, not a hidden one.
Demo
A grid that will feel familiar, holding more than checkmarks.
A live Habit Pocket grid on this page, not a screenshot. Loop already gives you yes/no and measurable habits. What's new here is a real clock time as a value, a pick from a list you define, and all of it on iPhone and in a browser at the same time.
Demo
Two habits on one timeline.
Because the values are real numbers rather than completions, any habit can be laid over any other: steps against weight, caffeine against the time you got to bed. Loop charts each habit on its own. Example data, not a real history.
Weight, steps & calories — last 56 days
Hover any day to read the exact numbers
FAQ
Loop Habit Tracker alternatives — common questions
No. Loop ships on Google Play and F-Droid only and has never had an official iOS version, so anything you find on the App Store under that name belongs to a different developer. Habit Pocket is the closest calm, grid-shaped equivalent on iPhone and the web, and HabitKit is the option that runs on both phones if you want to keep a foot in each.
Honestly, no. Loop is GPL-3.0, has no paid tier at all, shows no ads, asks for no account and works offline. Habitica's free plan is the nearest thing in spirit if you can stand the role-playing game wrapped around it. Otherwise you're choosing between free tiers with caps: 5 habits in Habit Pocket, about 7 activities in HabitNow, 3 in Habitify. On price alone, staying put wins.
None of them keep it exactly, because local-only with no account is the model and everything here is hosted. Habit Pocket gets closest on iPhone, where the app opens into the grid as a guest and nothing is sent to a server until you sign up. HabitNow and HabitKit also work without accounts. Habitify needs one. What Habit Pocket offers instead is free CSV and JSON export of everything, and account deletion that clears your data in a single transaction.
Loop exports a CSV and a full backup file, and none of the apps here take that as a direct import. Habit Pocket has no importer at all today, which is a real cost of switching and I'd rather you heard it now. On Pro its API accepts an entry for any date you name, so a short script can replay an exported CSV. Otherwise the practical move is to leave Loop installed for the old history and start clean.
Nothing here copies it, and it's the feature I'd most like to steal. Loop weakens a score gradually when you miss, so one bad day dents a curve instead of resetting a chain. Habit Pocket keeps ordinary streaks and softens them a different way: mark a day as a skip and the run pauses instead of breaking, and per-habit excluded weekdays count neither way. Whether decay or skips is the better model I genuinely don't know. They solve the same problem from opposite ends.
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