Habitica
Habitica is a free habit building and productivity app that treats your real life like a game.
- Freemium • Open Source
- Task Management Tool
- Todo List Manager
- Habit Tracker
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
What is Habitica?
Habitica is a free habit building and productivity app that treats your real life like a game. With in-game rewards and punishments to motivate you and a strong social network to inspire you, Habitica can help you achieve your goals to become healthy, hard-working, and happy. Treat your life like a game to stay motivated and organized! Habitica makes it simple to have fun while accomplishing goals. Input your Habits, your Daily goals, and your To-Do list, and then create a custom avatar. Check off tasks to level up your avatar and unlock features such as armor, pets, skills, and even quests! Fight monsters with friends to keep each other accountable, and use your gold on in-game rewards, like equipment, or custom awards, like watching an episode of your favorite TV show. Flexible, social, and fun, Habitica is the perfect way to motivate yourself to accomplish anything.
For information on how to set up a locally hosted instance of Habitica, see https://habitica.fandom.com/wiki/Setting_up_Habitica_Locally
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Habitica information
- Developed byHabitica
- LicensingOpen Source and Freemium product.
- PricingOne time purchase (perpetual license)
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.1
- Alternatives172 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Hebrew
- Italian
- Japanese
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Chinese
- Spanish
- Ukrainian
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- 4.03 avg rating
GitHub repository
- 10,585 Stars
- 3,843 Forks
- 237 Open Issues
- Updated
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Tags
- Task Management
- Todo List Manager
- Game
- User interface
- work-gamification
- Task List
- habit-formation
- humane-tech
- habit-training
- getting-things-done
- habits
- Task Manager
- tasks
the concept of gamification is very addictive loved it highly recommand it the best habit tracker out there
Can't even undo a habit activity. If you accidental click.
[Edited by ugurozturk, April 21]
We can edit right now, via web. Editing points manually
You can if you click on less button
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Such applications (and I mean todo managers here) are needed so that you don't have to keep all the things in your mind and can quickly write them down even on the go. They serve as electronic notebooks. The latter don't require internet connection to create a task or grocery list etc. And Habitica does, sadly. That's a breaking "feature" for me so I didn't go further creating my virtual hero in the Android application. Keep that in mind while considering using Habitica.
Ignoring the gamification element of this application and just looking at its functionality as a todo list manager and habit manager, this is the only app which checks ALL of my boxes without a paywall. Web/mobile sync, tasks and subtasks, reminders (🤬 todoist), repeating tasks, and of course habits. The "freemium" is just for extras, mostly vanity items (which support the devs).
The gamification element does help too, although I haven't really gone in-depth in it yet. You gain levels/items/currency from doing tasks and good habits, you lose health from succumbing to bad habits.
Overall, I think this app is a viable replacement for any to do list app if you can get through the lengthy intro, and I look forward to having it help me manage ADHD and remember to do stuff.
Habitica is a good service to keep single days events and habits on track, but it lacks the possibility to sync then with other services. it has a good gamification system, the community challenges are a very good way to buid up habits, but the main "problems" is that Habitica isn't a simple task manager. In Habitica, you cannot act like you using a simple task manager, you need to LEARN how to use Habitica and learn how to make it funny in your day, and this can be frustrating and a waste of time to someone that just want a place to put annotations and tasks, but if you put some effort in this task and make good use, your book reading, exercises and well-being goals will become more easy to achieve. The big problem is that Habitica doesn't integrate with no calendar available in market, so you cannot track your scheduled events in Google calendar, for example, and this is the worse point a "task manager" can have. So, again, don't use Habitica like another task manager, Habitica is unique and need time to be a effective tool in your belt. Habitica is open source and has a public API, maybe in future we can see third party apps that can connect Habitica with other services, like calendars, evernote and more...
It really motivates you into doing stuff because it almost feels like playing a game. The only concern is that the app is hard to get used to. However, once you do that, it is easy to use.
It's interesting and not too overwhelming as I was afraid it might be :)