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I've been "starting Monday" for about a year now, so I went a bit overboard and tested 12 habit apps simultaneously to find one worth actually sticking to.

Tier lists are always subjective, but I tried to be objective and ranked them based on

• Look and feel
• Ease of use
• Onboarding experience
• Paywall conditions
• Extra features

S tier
These apps have the little extra or a very unique take that made me gravitate toward using them first each day.

Finch - It felt like a game in many ways. It was fun to use and it leans closer to Tamagotchi than any other app on this list. One con is that it might feel too much like a game sometimes and use similar mechanics to get you to pay.

Improve: Habit Tracker - Very unique approach in how you progress. The objective is less about individual habits and more on productive days. Combining habit tracker with a planner helps to reduce the amount of apps needed and it was great to add friends. The art is not as cute as Finch, but focus more on clean UI.

A tier

Structured: Daily Planner - Elegant design and focuses more on users planning a specific time to do something. It does that very well however and it feels good to see the time progress while you're doing the goal. It does feel a bit shallow tho and not as feature packed.

Atoms - Based on the book that everyone has read. It leans into similar design as is in the book. I liked it once I got into it but I had a hard time sticking to it the first couple of days. The onboarding was confusing and it is not as flexible as other apps.

B/C tier

These apps do what you expect, it is similar features in a similar way. Nothing really against them but nothing that makes them very unique. The ones in B tier I found easier to use.

D tier

Fabulous - To me, this was the most confusing of all of them. I feel like this must be for a very specific user and I'm probably not it. There were a thousand things trying to grab my attention at the same time and I found it hard to keep up.

Once again, tier lists are never based on hard science. Just sharing my experience and happy to hear other perspectives!

With all the ads of these on this Reddit, I figured I would give them all a chance. I tried them all in parallell for a week with the same habits.

I tried to be objective but it is always hard with tier list. I ranked them based on their ease of use, flexibility, look, paywall conditions, extra features.

Top three were
Finch - the artstyle got to me and I looked forward using it each day

Structured - very polished app that was easy to get a hold off to understand what to do

Improve - most novel in concept and with good visuals, planner and adding friends.

Not sure which one I will continue with. But I can recommend anything in A tier and above