Streaks app alternatives

Why people look for an alternative

Reason	What to look for instead
Switched to Android, or use both	Any cross-platform app: HabitKit, Habitify, Loop (Android only)
Do not want to pay $5.99	A free app without a habit cap: Virtue, Loop
Hit the 24-habit limit	Anything without a cap, though 24 habits is a problem in itself
Want a year view, not circles	HabitKit’s grid or Virtue’s per-habit heatmap
Want fewer features, not more	Virtue

The six alternatives

HabitKit is the closest like-for-like replacement and the one most Streaks users land on. The contribution-graph tiles show a full year of each habit at a glance, widgets are as good as Streaks’, and it runs on Android. The free tier limits the number of habits; Pro is a one-time purchase, roughly three times the price of Streaks.

Virtue is the opposite direction: less, not more. Every habit on one screen with the last seven days, a streak per habit, a year heatmap when you tap in. No account, no subscription, free. It does not read Apple Health and has no widgets yet. If Streaks felt like more app than you needed, this is the answer; if you used the Health automation, it is not.

Loop Habit Tracker is the Android answer. Free, open source, no account, widgets, CSV export, and a strength score that models habit decay in a way that is more informative than a plain streak. iPhone users cannot use it.

Habitify covers iPhone, Android and the web with sync, and groups habits by time of day. It is the one to pick if the reason you are leaving Streaks is a second device. It is a subscription.

Way of Life logs three states per day (yes, skip, no) and takes notes, which suits people who found Streaks’ binary tick too blunt. Free for three habits, then a one-time purchase.

Done (by Brittany Hirsch) is the closest in spirit to the original Streaks: colourful, simple, goal-per-period. It has a free tier with a habit cap and a subscription above it.

What you give up

Nothing else automates completions from Apple Health as well as Streaks does. If your habits are “10,000 steps” and “close the rings”, Streaks does the logging for you and every alternative makes you tap. That single feature is worth the $5.99 for many people, and it is fair to say so on a page about leaving it.

Feature by feature, Streaks against the six

Feature	Streaks	HabitKit	Virtue	Loop	Habitify	Way of Life
Price	$5.99 once	Free, Pro once	Free	Free	Sub	Free 3, then once
Android	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Habit limit	24	Free tier capped	None	None	Free 3	Free 3
Apple Health automation	Yes	No	No	No	Partial	No
Timed habits	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No
Widgets	Yes	Yes	Not yet	Yes	Yes (paid)	Limited
Year view	Per habit	Grid on dashboard	Per habit	Per habit	Per habit	Calendar
Negative habits (avoid X)	Yes	Yes	Yes (as a habit)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Export	Yes	Yes	Yes	CSV	Yes (paid)	Yes
Account required	No	No	No	No	Yes	No

Read down the column for what you actually use. If it is Health automation or timed habits, you are staying with Streaks. If it is Android or the cap, any of the first four alternatives will do. If it is simplicity, Virtue is the one built for that.

Moving your history

Streaks exports its data, but no other app imports the Streaks format directly. The realistic options:

1. Start fresh. Most people do. The history was motivating while it was building; it is rarely consulted once it is old.
2. Re-enter the last month by hand. Every app on the list lets you tap past days in a calendar. A month of five habits is 150 taps, ten minutes.
3. Keep Streaks installed for the archive and use the new app going forward. Nothing forces you to delete it.

Do not try to convert the export file. The formats do not line up and the afternoon is better spent doing the habits.

If you are leaving over the price

$5.99 once is the cheapest paid tracker on the market and Streaks has been maintained for a decade. If the price is the only complaint, keep it. The alternatives are worth switching to for Android, for the cap, or for a different way of seeing your habits, not to save six dollars.

The three-day switch

Switching trackers costs more in attention than in money, and the cost lands in the first three days. A method that works:

• Day one. Install the new app. Add only the habits you are currently keeping, not the aspirational ones from Streaks. Most people cut from eleven to five here and feel better for it.
• Day two. Keep both apps. Tick in the new one first, then Streaks. If the new one is not the one you reach for by the end of the day, that is information.
• Day three. Delete Streaks from the home screen, not from the phone. Out of sight for a week. If you have not opened it by day ten, the switch is done and the history is safe in the export.

If on day three you find you miss the Health automation or the timed habits, put Streaks back and stop looking. Six dollars once for an app you actually use is the best deal on this page.

If the real problem is the 24-habit cap

Twenty-four daily habits is a to-do list wearing a costume. Before switching apps, cut the list to the handful that would change your year if you kept them, using the habits to track page as a filter. Most people who do that end up under ten and find the cap was never the issue.