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Habitify alternative: a habit tracker with no account
Published 6 August 2026 · Updated 10 August 2026
The short version. If you are shopping for a Habitify alternative, the honest answer depends on what you want to drop. Habitify is still the better choice if you want your habits on every device you own and you like studying your own numbers. Colors is the better choice if you would rather no account existed, and if you want a month you can read at a glance instead of a dashboard.
This is a genuine trade, not a close call dressed up as one: syncing across devices requires an account and a server. Colors does not have one, which is the whole reason it cannot sync.
Side by side
| Habitify | Colors | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | From ~$2.49/mo, up to $64.99 lifetime | $4.99/mo · $29.99/yr · $49.99 lifetime |
| Free tier | 3 habits, 3 reminders | 3 habits, this month and last, 1 reminder |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, Mac, web | iPhone (Android planned) |
| Data model | Account required for sync | On device, no account, no analytics |
| Visualisation | Detailed statistics and charts | Month calendar, one color per habit |
Colors prices are US pricing and may vary by region. The yearly plan includes a 7-day trial.
Choose one or the other
Choose Habitify if…
- You use more than one device. iOS, Android, Mac and web, kept in sync. Colors does none of that in version 1.
- You want analytics. Habitify’s strength is its statistics, and if you enjoy looking at your own completion data it goes deeper than Colors does.
- You are on Android today. Colors is planned there, not shipped.
- You want a cheaper monthly entry point: Habitify starts around $2.49/mo against Colors’ $4.99.
- You want your history safe from losing your phone, which an account gives you and local-only storage does not.
Choose Colors if…
- You do not want an account for a habit tracker. Colors has no sign-up, and no analytics or advertising identifier either.
- You want to see which habits you finished on each day, in color, rather than read charts about them.
- You want your habit journal to stay on the phone, with nothing to breach because there is no server.
- A free tier with more reminders matters less to you than the free tier existing at all. Both offer 3 habits free.
The account is the whole argument
Habitify syncs across iOS, Android, Mac and web. That is genuinely useful, and it is why it needs an account: your habits have to exist somewhere both your laptop and your phone can reach.
Colors has no account because it has no server. Your habits, check-ins and notes live in a database on your phone and are not transmitted anywhere. That means no sign-up, no email address, no analytics, and nothing for anyone to leak.
It also means the thing you would expect: no sync. If you want the same habits on a laptop and a phone, Colors cannot do that today and Habitify can. Your backup with Colors is your iPhone backup, plus a CSV export on Premium.
Neither answer is the correct one in general. It depends entirely on whether “on all my devices” or “nowhere but my phone” is the sentence you want to be true.
Numbers versus pictures
Habitify is strong on analytics: completion rates, trends, the statistics of your own consistency. If you like that kind of feedback, it is the better instrument.
Colors deliberately does less arithmetic and more drawing. The month calendar paints each day as a ring divided into the habits you completed, one color each, so a glance at August tells you the shape of it. Not a percentage: a picture.
If you want to know your exact completion rate for the last 90 days, Habitify will tell you and Colors will not. If a chart of your own inconsistency makes you want to close the app, the calendar is a gentler instrument.
Free tiers
Both give you three habits free, which makes them unusually easy to compare.
Habitify’s free tier includes three reminders. Colors’ free tier includes one reminder and the current month plus the previous one, with the full history on Premium. So Habitify’s free tier is the more generous of the two on reminders, and it is fair to say so.
Questions
Does Colors sync between my phone and my laptop?
No. Version 1 has no sync, because it has no account and no server. Habitify does sync, across iOS, Android, Mac and web.
Do I need an account for Habitify?
An account is required for syncing across devices.
Which is cheaper?
Habitify starts lower per month (~$2.49 against $4.99) and its lifetime option is $64.99 against Colors’ $49.99, so it depends which you buy.
Is Colors on Android?
Not yet. It is planned after the iOS launch. Habitify is on Android now.
What is the best Habitify alternative?
It depends on which part of Habitify you are replacing. Colors if the account is what you want gone, and you would rather read a month than a dashboard. HabitKit if you need Android and a per-habit grid. Streaks if you want to pay once and stay inside Apple. Our buying guide sorts them by category.
Colors is our app. Facts checked August 2026 from public listings; if something is outdated, tell us at hello@getcolors.app.