Habitify
vs ONA
Updated
The short answer
Habitify is a habit tracker in the full sense: as many habits as you like, grouped by time of day or area, with streaks, stats, notes and a mood per habit, synced across iPhone, Android, Apple Watch, the web and Mac, and fed by Apple Health. ONA tracks one goal for a 7-day chapter in one area of your life, with up to three daily rituals beside it, on your phone. If you want a habit database, Habitify. If you want one thing done, ONA.
At a glance
| Habitify | ONA | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Tracking ten-plus habits, synced across phone, watch, web and Mac, with health data. | One area of your life at a time: score the wheel, pick one, set a goal for 7 days and do one small thing a day. |
| Habits or one focus | Many habits, grouped by time of day or by area. Three are free. | One goal per chapter, with up to three daily rituals and side quests alongside. Two-week and month-long chapters open as you earn XP. |
| Game elements | Streaks, challenges and monthly leaderboards. | Three kinds of XP, a streak with a safety net for one missed day a week, and a magazine-style issue when a chapter ends. No levels, avatar or badges. |
| Journal | Notes and a mood per habit. | An evening check-in: mood, energy, a line for your journal and a photo of the day, printed as a card. |
| Price model | Free for three habits, then a subscription (monthly or yearly) or a lifetime purchase. | Subscription after setup: monthly, or yearly with a 7-day free trial. No ads, no account. |
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Android, Web, Wear OS | iPhone and Android |
01 What does Habitify do well?
Habitify is the habit tracker the productivity lists keep recommending, and its store page shows why: habits grouped by morning, afternoon and evening or by area, streaks and stats for each, notes and a mood per check-in, challenges, monthly leaderboards, and sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Android, the web and Wear OS. Apple Health can tick habits off for you.
If you track a lot, it’s the one to track a lot in. The data is the product: how your habits go by weekday, by time, by month, everywhere you are.
Three habits are free. Past that it’s a subscription, or a one-off lifetime purchase, which is rarer than it used to be.
02 How is ONA different?
ONA isn’t a habit database. It holds one goal in one area of your life, chosen from a life wheel, for a 7-day chapter, with one small thing each morning toward it. Up to three daily rituals sit alongside, each belonging to an area of your wheel, and a fourth opens at a 7-day streak. That’s the cap, on purpose.
What you get instead of stats is a story. Each evening’s check-in adds a mood, your energy, a line and a photo; when the chapter ends they become an issue you turn page by page, and the wheel shows what moved. History shows each chapter as a band across the month.
It’s a phone app, iPhone and Android, with no watch, web or Mac versions.
Which one should you pick?
Pick Habitify if
- You keep more than three habits and want every one of them tracked.
- You want your habits on your watch, in a browser, on a Mac.
- You want Apple Health to tick off steps, sleep or workouts for you.
- You want stats: streaks per habit, completion by weekday, the lot.
Pick ONA if
- You’ve tracked a lot of habits before and it didn’t change much.
- You want to pick one area of your life and give it a week.
- You want an end date and an issue to show for it, not a completion rate.
- A phone is enough.
FAQ
Questions about Habitify and ONA
Is ONA a Habitify alternative?
Only if what you want from Habitify is a few habits done well. ONA keeps up to three daily rituals (a fourth at a 7-day streak), but it’s built around one goal per chapter, not around the habits.
Does ONA sync across devices?
No. ONA is a phone app, on iPhone and Android, and there’s no watch, web or Mac version.
Does ONA connect to Apple Health or Google Fit?
No. You tick things off yourself.
Does ONA show habit statistics?
Not per habit. It shows your XP, your streak, the wheel’s scores chapter by chapter, and History: photos, a calendar and a shelf of past issues.
Does ONA have a lifetime plan?
No. It’s monthly or yearly, with a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan. See pricing.
Where these facts come from
Everything here about Habitify is what its own store pages said in September 2026, not the result of testing the app, so check the store before you decide. ONA’s side is what the app does today, and How it works has the detail. No prices and no ratings on this page: the stores show those.
Get ONA
ONA is on iPhone. It’s free to set up, and after that it needs a subscription.
