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Add to SafariWhen comparing Habitica vs Momentum, the Slant community recommends Momentum for most people. In the question“What are the best browser-based to-do list apps?” Momentum is ranked 15th while Habitica is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose Momentum is:
Momentum has a different, beautiful background image each day. It displays the time, a welcoming message and a reminder in the middle of the page and hides all other functionality out of focus.
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Pros
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 Gamifies the process to motivate
The app takes cues from role playing games by having a system that rewards certain behavior with experience points, levels, and 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 Beautiful design
Momentum has a different, beautiful background image each day. It displays the time, a welcoming message and a reminder in the middle of the page and hides all other functionality out of focus.
Pro Provides with weather information
Current temperature and weather conditions are shown in the top-right corner.
Pro Built-in to-do list
Momentum has a simple to-do list that can be accessed from the bottom-right corner of the page.
Pro Reminds of the day's goal
Momentum asks the user what's the focus of the day and then shows that information is each time a new tab is opened.
Pro Inspirational quote
Momentum shows you a new inspirational quote, once a day.
Pro Displays bookmarks nicely
It shows your bookmarks and most frecent sites in a really nice way
Cons
Con Occasional bugs and laggyness
The app is still in beta and has the occasional bug to work out.
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 Some basic features not free
It costs to use features like changing the background manually.
Con Can't add bookmarks
You can't add bookmarks to it
Con Can't be customized
There are no customization options. Existing items can't be turned off.
Con 4K images not available
When accessed from a 4K display, the images will be bad quality.
