What is the best free habit tracker app for iPhone?

HabitKit. It tracks four habits free with streaks, reminders and backups, and it needs no account and shows no ads. If you want no limits and nothing to buy, Table Habit is open source.

Is there a habit tracker for iPhone that's completely free?

Yes. Table Habit and HabitShare have nothing to buy, and Habitica can be used fully for free, with an optional subscription. HabitShare hasn't been updated since January 2023.

Which free habit tracker has a Home Screen widget?

TickTick, whose free plan includes its basic widgets, and Habitica, which lists widgets in its free app. HabitKit keeps widgets for Pro.

Is there a habit tracker with no subscription?

Yes. Streaks costs US$5.99 once on the App Store and tracks up to 24 habits, and HabitKit sells a one-off Pro beside its monthly and yearly plans.

How many habits should I track at once?

Three. That fits every published free cap here, from Habitify's three to TickTick's five, and habits take months to settle: in Phillippa Lally's study at University College London, people took between 18 and 254 days to get near their own peak.

Can a habit tracker help me quit a bad habit?

Yes. HabitKit counts clean days until you log a slip, Table Habit tracks habits you want to cut down, and Streaks counts habits you want to stop.

9 best free habit tracker apps for iPhone in 2026

How we chose

A free habit tracker earns its place if you're still ticking it off in week six. Most of them are free to download and then stop you somewhere: at your fourth habit, at the widget, or at the backup you need when you change phones. So the question isn't which app is free. It's where each one stops, and whether you'll hit that line.

We put every app through six questions:

How many habits does the free version track, and what does it keep back?
Does it remind you at a time you choose?
Can you tick a habit off without opening the app, from a widget?
Do your streaks survive a new phone, through sync or a backup file?
Does it ask for an account, and does it show ads?
What does it cost once you outgrow the free version?

We read every feature and price on each maker's own site and App Store listing on 30 October 2026. Nobody here tested these apps by hand, so you won't find scores or star ratings of our own. Prices are in US dollars from the US App Store as of October 2026, and your country's store sets its own.

The 9 best free habit tracker apps for iPhone

The first pick suits most people. The other eight each beat it at one thing: no paywall at all, a game, a to-do list, a pet, your Apple Watch, an Android phone, or a friend who checks in.

1. HabitKit: best for most iPhone owners

HabitKit gives each habit a grid of tiles, one per day, and every day you log fills one in. The free version covers four habits with streaks, a calendar for past days, a note on any day, reminders, and backup files you export and import yourself. There's no account to make and no ads, and your habits stay on your phone, so it works offline.

It handles habits you want to quit too. Every day counts as clean unless you log a slip, so the streak is your run of clean days. A habit can be a yes or no, a count such as pages read, or an amount in your own unit, and it can repeat on set days or a number of times a week.

HabitKit Pro adds unlimited habits, charts and statistics, Home Screen widgets and up to three reminders per habit. Pro costs US$1.99 a month, US$11.99 a year or US$29.99 once. It runs on iPhone and Android.

Pick it if you have four habits or fewer and want a clean grid with nothing to sign up for. Skip it if you want a widget without paying, because widgets are part of Pro.

2. Table Habit: best if you never want to pay

Table Habit is open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, and its App Store listing has no in-app purchases at all. Apple's privacy label for it reads "Data Not Collected". Instead of a bare streak, each habit gets a score and growth charts, and it tracks good habits and habits you want to cut down.

Your data stays on the device. You can export it as a JSON file, or sync it between devices through a WebDAV server you set up yourself. According to its GitHub page, it runs on iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux, and the App Store shows an update on 19 October 2026.

Pick it if you want every feature free and don't mind a young app with two ratings on the US App Store. Skip it if you want sync that just works through iCloud, because the second device needs that WebDAV server.

3. Habitica: best for turning habits into a game

Habitica makes you a pixel-art character. Tick off a habit in real life and you earn gold, experience and items, and you level up. It keeps three kinds of list: habits you do several times a day or now and then, dailies that repeat on a schedule, and one-off to-dos. Streak counters, reminders and widgets come with it, and so do parties: friends go on quests together, and a friend's missed dailies cost you health too.

You can use all of it for free. The optional subscription costs US$4.99 a month or US$47.99 a year, and the app runs without it. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web.

Pick it if points and a party of friends would get you out for a run. Skip it if you want a quiet checklist, because the game is the whole app, and the App Store rates it 13+.

4. TickTick: best for habits beside your to-do list

TickTick's free plan is a to-do app with a habit tracker inside it. You get 5 habits, 9 lists of up to 99 tasks, 2 reminders on each task, dates typed in plain words and sync between devices. Its free widgets are the basic ones, which still puts your habits on the Home Screen without paying.

The paid plan costs US$49.99 a year. It raises you to 299 habits and 299 lists and adds more calendar views. TickTick runs on iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux and the web, and you sign up for an account to sync.

Pick it if you'd rather keep habits and tasks in one app than run two. Skip it if a to-do list is the last thing you want to see when you tick off a walk.

5. Finch: best for gentle self-care habits

Finch gives you a small bird to look after, and you look after it by doing small things for yourself. Set goals as small as a glass of water, check your mood in the morning, and note one good thing at night, and the bird grows and goes off on adventures.

Finch's help centre says the core features are free and will stay free: the pet, your goals, reflections, the good vibes you send friends and the seasonal events. Finch Plus adds more reflection prompts, every breathing and soundscape option at every length, and extras in the shop. It costs US$9.99 a month or US$69.99 a year. Finch runs on iPhone, iPad and Android.

Pick it if a streak feels like pressure and you'd rather have a reason to check in each morning. Skip it if you want numbers and charts, since Finch is built around the pet rather than the data. Want breathing and sleep sessions instead? Headspace and Calm are in the best self care apps.

6. Habit Tracker by InnerGrow: best for Apple Health and Lock Screen widgets

Habit Tracker, from the developer InnerGrow, syncs with Apple Health and reads data such as steps, walking and running for some habits, without sending it off your phone. You log a habit from Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, set reminders by time or place, add as many reminders as a habit needs, and track habits with friends.

It's free to download with paid upgrades, but the listing doesn't say where the free version stops. The App Store shows a monthly plan at US$4.99 and a lifetime membership at US$19.99. It runs on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

Pick it if your watch already counts your steps and sleep and you want those habits filled in for you. Skip it if you want the free limits in writing before you start.

7. Habitify: best if you also use a Mac or an Android phone

Habitify's pricing page lists 3 habits on the free plan, with sync across your devices included. Its latest App Store notes add that free users can create more, but anything past the limit turns view-only, and its reminders still arrive. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Android.

Habitify Plus costs US$29.99 a year and lifts the cap. Habitify Pro costs US$49.99 a year after a 7-day free trial and adds Apple Health and app integrations and timers.

Pick it if you switch between an iPhone and a Mac or an Android phone and want your streaks on all of them. Skip it if you need more than three habits for free, because HabitKit gives you four and TickTick five.

8. HabitShare: best for sharing habits with friends

HabitShare costs nothing and sells nothing inside the app. You choose which friends see which habit, so your running club sees your runs and your family sees something else, and any habit can stay private. You can send each other gifs when someone keeps going. Use it alone and you still get reminders, streaks, charts and daily or weekly goals.

The catch is upkeep. The last update on the App Store was version 2.1.99, on 27 January 2023. It runs on iPhone and iPad.

Pick it if a friend has agreed to keep each other honest and neither of you wants to pay. Skip it if you want an app that's still being updated.

9. ActivityTracker: best for habits next to your tasks and goals

We make ActivityTracker, and unlike the eight above, it has no free version. Each habit is a routine that repeats daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, with a target for the period, such as three runs a week. Its Streaks and records view shows each routine's current and best streak and its consistency over 30 days, along with a heatmap of all your routines, one square per day, and your consistency by weekday. Mark a routine as one to avoid, such as scrolling in bed, and ticking it logs a slip instead of a win.

Give a routine a time, and if that time comes and it isn't done, the assistant nudges you. Your yearly goals sit in the same app and show what each month needs, and after you file a weekly reflection, a coach replies with one focus for the week ahead.

It costs SGD 34 a month for one person, with the habit tracker included, plus a one-time setup that covers your first month. It runs in your phone's browser, and on an iPhone its reminders ring only once you've added it to your Home Screen.

Pick it if you'd pay to keep habits, tasks and goals in one place, with a nudge when a routine slips. Skip it if you want a free habit tracker, because this one is paid from the first day.

What each one gives you free

Prices are in US dollars as of October 2026, except ActivityTracker's, in Singapore dollars.

App	Free version	A paid plan	Also on
HabitKit	4 habits	US$1.99 a month	Android
Table Habit	Everything	None	Android, Mac, PC
Habitica	Everything	Optional, US$4.99 a month	Android, web
TickTick	5 habits	US$49.99 a year	Android, Mac, web
Finch	Core features	US$9.99 a month	Android
Habit Tracker (InnerGrow)	Limit not published	US$4.99 a month	Apple Watch
Habitify	3 habits	US$29.99 a year	Android, Mac
HabitShare	Everything	None	iPad
ActivityTracker	No	SGD 34 a month	Phone browser

Three of the nine ask nothing of you at any point: Table Habit, Habitica and HabitShare. Everywhere else, money buys more habits, widgets or charts.

What free versions hold back, and when to pay

Most free versions stop you at a number of habits. Habitify stops at three habits, HabitKit at four and TickTick at five. That sounds tight until you try running eight new habits at once, which is the faster way to quit all of them. Start with three. Habitify's free plan holds three, and a fourth can wait until the first three run without thinking.

Widgets and charts are the next thing to go. HabitKit keeps both for Pro, and TickTick's free widgets are its basic set. A widget matters more than it looks: ticking a habit from the Home Screen takes one tap, while the app itself takes three steps: open it, find the habit, tap it.

Then there's your history. An app that keeps data only on the phone needs a backup before you change phones, or the streaks go with the old one. HabitKit's free backup files and Table Habit's JSON export cover that, as long as you make them.

Give any app a few months before you judge it. Phillippa Lally and colleagues at University College London followed 96 volunteers who each picked one thing to eat, drink or do every day in the same situation. The time each person took to get near their own peak of automatic ranged from 18 days to 254. Missing a single day made no material difference. So expect to live with the free version you choose for a whole season, and read how to build a habit for what to do in those months.

Pay once the cap gets in the way of a habit you've already kept for a few weeks. If you'd rather pay once than subscribe, Streaks costs US$5.99 on the App Store with no subscription. It tracks up to 24 habits, runs on your Apple Watch, ticks some off from the Health app, and counts habits you want to stop.

For a morning that runs in order, such as stretch, shower, then plan, a routine app does a sequence better than a habit grid.

Set one up in ten minutes

Do this once, before the first habit:

Write down three habits, each small enough to do on your worst day, like ten minutes of reading. Tie each one to something you already do: Spanish after the first coffee, a walk after lunch. That's habit stacking.
Open the app's App Store listing and read the In-App Purchases section. If your list doesn't fit the free cap, pick another app today, before you've built three weeks of streaks in it.
Add the widget if the free version has one. Touch and hold an empty part of the Home Screen until the apps jiggle, tap the add button, then tap Add Widget. Find the app, choose a size and tap Add Widget again.
Set one reminder for each habit, at a time the phone is already in your hand, such as after lunch or on the train home.
Lock the phone and set a test reminder for two minutes ahead. If nothing arrives, check the app's notifications in Settings before you trust it with anything.
Turn on sync or export a backup in the first week, while there's little to lose.

In ActivityTracker each habit is a routine with a target and a time, and if the time comes and it isn't done, the assistant nudges you.

See how routines work

Dana's first three weeks with a free tracker

Made-up example: Dana designs packaging for a food company and wants three habits: 20 minutes of Spanish, a walk after lunch, and her phone out of the bedroom by 11pm.

On Sunday she installs HabitKit. Spanish and the walk go in as daily habits with a reminder each, at 7:30pm and 1:15pm. The phone goes in as a habit to quit, so each night counts as clean unless she logs a slip.

Week one: Spanish on 6 of 7 days, the walk on 4, and two slips with the phone. She wants a widget, but that's part of Pro, so she moves HabitKit's icon to her first Home Screen page beside her messages.

Week two she adds a fourth habit: ten minutes of reading before bed. Four is the free cap, so she still pays nothing.

Day 21: Spanish on 18 of 21 days, walks on 14, reading on 6 of 7, and three slips with the phone in three weeks. She exports a backup file to iCloud Drive and keeps going on the free version.