Is it worth paying for…

Is it worth paying for Habitify?

Last reviewed September 2026. Pricing and plans change; check Habitify's own site for current figures.

Short answer: Not for counting. Habitify's free tier stops at three habits and one reminder each, which is the cap most people hit in their first week, and the maths of a streak is not what the money is for. Pay if you want the habits on your phone's home screen as a widget, synced across devices, reminding you with the app closed, and reading your step count. A browser cannot do any of those. Everything else is free here, with no cap on how many habits you track.

Where the paywall sits

Habitify reorganised its plans in April 2026 into three tiers. Free allows three active habits and one time based reminder each. Plus removes those limits and adds custom areas, notes with mood logging and a countdown timer, and is sold annually only. Pro adds checklists, end conditions, an off mode for breaks, calendar sync with Google, Outlook and Apple, health integrations including Apple Health and Strava, automation through Zapier and IFTTT, NFC tags and API access, and is sold monthly, annually or once for life. Its own pricing page in September 2026 showed a paid plan from about US$2.49 a month when billed annually, and a lifetime option around US$59.99. Check the current page before you buy; these tiers are five months old.

The pattern is the familiar one. Splitting habits into three and charging for the fourth puts the paywall on the core action, because the number of habits is not what costs Habitify anything to run. Sync, widgets and integrations genuinely do.

What the free version here does

As many habits as you want, each every day, on chosen weekdays, or a number of times a week.
Streaks that understand a rest day. A Monday, Wednesday and Saturday habit keeps its run over the days in between, and a habit due today does not break until the day is actually over.
A weekly target counts in weeks, so three times a week means consecutive weeks you hit three, not a broken chain every Sunday.
A year of history per habit as a calendar, the completion rate over the last thirty days, and the current and best run.
One daily reminder while the page or the installed app is open, which the page says plainly is a weaker thing than a real notification.
Export everything as a file and import it on another device, or take a CSV into a spreadsheet. Your data is a file you hold, not an account you rent.
No account, no ads, nothing uploaded, and it works offline after the first visit.

Open Habit Tracker — free, no account

When paying might still make sense

You want a home screen widget, or a reminder that arrives when no browser tab is open. Both need a native app, and they are the honest reason these apps charge.
You track on a phone and a laptop and want them to agree without passing a file around. Sync needs a server, and a server needs paying for.
You want habits to tick themselves from Apple Health, Strava or a Zapier automation, or to appear in your calendar.
You want the mood notes, the checklists and the off mode for a planned break, which are real features and not padding.

How this one stays free

It runs entirely in your browser. There is no server to pay for, nothing is uploaded, and the code is open source. There is nothing to cancel because there was nothing to sign up for.

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