When comparing Habitica vs Productive, the Slant community recommends Habitica for most people. In the question“What are the best habit tracking apps for iOS?” Habitica is ranked 1st while Productive is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose Habitica is:
The app takes cues from role playing games by having a system that rewards certain behaviour with experience points, levels, gear upgrades. It also allows you to set custom rewards that you come up with yourself such as watching an episode of your favorite TV show.
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Pros
Pro Gamifies the process to motivate
The app takes cues from role playing games by having a system that rewards certain behaviour with experience points, levels, gear upgrades. It also allows you to set custom rewards that you come up with yourself such as watching an episode of your favorite TV show.
Pro Can use peer pressure to motivate
The app allows creating a party with other people and go on a quest together. Here, your actions affect not just you, but everyone else in the party as well. If you fail a task, the party loses health, if you complete a task, the party gains experience, etc.
Pro Great user interface
The minimal UI focuses on usability.
Pro Avoids artificial game world
Instead of creating an artificial world to introduce gamification, Productive implements streaks and stats as positive reinforcement.
Cons
Con Can cause needless stress
As with most gamified systems it includes punishments for failures. Fear of failure can cause stress and failures can demotivate.
Con Occasional bugs and laggyness
Can be buggy and sometimes crash.
Con Expensive
It's hard to understand why the Productive team chose to go with a hefty subscription model to access "all the features" of this app [unlimited number of habits + better reminders]. It's a $14/year for this; there are competitors available without a pricing model like this one.