When comparing Habitica vs HabitBull, 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 HabitBull is ranked 2nd. 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.
Specs
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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 Contextual motivational quotes
The app will display quotes depending on the category of the task. If the task is related to reading, the quote will be about reading, etc.
Pro Cloud backup
Pro Has different ways of knowing if you did your habit
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 Looks and UI
Just look at Loop and then this app, this one sucks.
Con App has been sold off and abandoned
Use the free version for its great features, but be aware there have been no updates since August 2020, plus reviews will show there have been no replies to support queries for at least as long.
Con Slow and laggy
The app can be very slow to open and make entries.
