The best free habit trackers, and how to pick between them
Almost every habit tracker has a free tier, and most of them are genuinely usable. The choice is rarely about features. It is about which failure mode you can live with, because that is what decides whether you are still using it in March.
No affiliate links. Facts checked 31 August 2026.
The short answer
On Android and want it free forever with no account: Loop Habit Tracker. It is open source, ad-free, and unlimited, and nothing here beats it on those terms.
On iPhone and happy to pay once: Streaks. It integrates with Apple Health, which no browser-based tool can do, and a one-time price beats a subscription for a tool you keep for years.
Motivated by games: Habitica. If turning habits into a role-playing game works on you, it works far better than any grid, and the core is free.
Want the whole month visible at once, on any device, with no install: that is what we built, and it is the case where we would pick ours. If you want a month-at-a-glance view and you move between a laptop and a phone, a browser tool has an advantage that a native app does not.
Free habit trackers compared
Free habit trackers compared
Tool
Platform
Model
Best for
Where it wins
Loop Habit Tracker
Android only
Open source, free
Android users who want no account and no upsell
Genuinely unlimited and ad-free, with a habit strength score rather than a raw streak
Habitica
Web, iOS, Android
Free core, open source
People who respond to games and rewards
The deepest free tier here, and the only one where the motivation system is the product
Streaks
iOS
One-time purchase
iPhone users who want Apple Health integration
Pulls activity straight from Apple Health, so some habits tick themselves
HabitKit
iOS, Android
Free core, optional Pro
People who want a visual grid on a phone
Native apps on both platforms with the grid aesthetic done well
TickTick
Web, iOS, Android
Free tier, paid upgrade
People who want tasks and habits in one place
Combines a real to-do list with habit tracking, which we deliberately do not
BeHabitual
Any browser
Free in early access
Seeing a whole month at once across devices
Counts and timers as well as ticks, a month grid, weekday breakdown, and CSV export
Platform and business model are stable. Prices and free-tier limits change often, so check the developer's own page before deciding. Facts here were verified on 31 August 2026.
Free tiers fail in three different ways
Knowing which kind you are looking at tells you more than a feature list will.
Capped free tiers, which give you three or five habits and ask for money at six. Fine if you genuinely track three, and most people should.
Ad-supported free tiers, which cost you attention every time you open the app. For a tool you open daily, that adds up faster than a subscription would.
Genuinely free tools, usually open source or early-stage. The risk is different: open source projects can go unmaintained, and early-stage products can disappear. Neither is free of cost, the cost is just not money.
Where we are the wrong choice
There is no reminder system here, no native app, and no widget. If what actually makes you log a habit is a notification at 9pm, this will not fix that, and an app with reminders will serve you better.
There is also no way to track anything automatically. Streaks can read step counts from Apple Health and tick a habit without you. Every box here is one you clicked yourself. That is deliberate, but if half your habits are things a phone can already measure, you are doing manual work a different tool would do for you.
And it is early access. There is no support team and no uptime guarantee. A tracker you intend to keep for five years is a reasonable thing to want, and we cannot promise that yet.
What actually decides whether you keep using one
Every tool on this list can record that you drank water. The differences that matter show up in week three, not week one.
The question to ask about any of them is how much a single missed day costs you inside the interface. Tools built around an unbroken streak turn one missed day into a reset to zero, and a reset to zero is where most people quit. Tools built around a rate treat one missed day as a rounding error. Neither is wrong, but they suit different people, and it is worth knowing which one you are before you pick.
A note on this page
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Questions people ask
What is the best completely free habit tracker?
On Android, Loop Habit Tracker: open source, no ads, unlimited habits, no account required. Cross-platform, Habitica's free core is the deepest if gamification suits you. If you want a month-at-a-glance grid in any browser with no install, that is what BeHabitual does, free while in early access.
Is there a free habit tracker with unlimited habits?
Loop Habit Tracker and Habitica both allow unlimited habits at no cost. BeHabitual allows 30, which is a practical ceiling rather than a paywall. Most people should track three to five, so these limits rarely bind in practice.
Do I need to install an app to track habits?
No. Browser-based trackers work on any device with no install and no app store account, which matters if you move between a work laptop and a personal phone. The tradeoff is no home screen widget and no notifications.
Which habit tracker is best for iPhone?
Streaks, if you are willing to pay once. It integrates with Apple Health, so habits tied to movement or exercise can complete themselves, which no web tool can match. HabitKit is the stronger option if you want the grid look with a free core.
Are free habit trackers actually free, or do they sell data?
It varies, and you should check each privacy policy rather than assume. Open source options like Loop and Habitica are auditable, which is the strongest guarantee available. For our part, no advertising runs on this site, and nothing you track is sold, shared, or sent to the traffic statistics we keep for the public pages.
Free tools, no account
If you are still deciding, these work on their own. Nothing you type leaves your browser.