Habitify charges $5/month, forever, to store your checkmarks on their servers. Streakly is $15 once: habits with schedules that match real life, numeric goals, a streak engine that's actually fair, GitHub-style heatmaps and native reminders — 100% local, zero cloud, zero telemetry. Your habits are not a subscription.
If you've searched for a Habitify alternative, Streakly is the pay-once option worth putting at the top of the list: Streakly is $15, one time, and covers the same core job Habitify charges $5/mo for.
What makes Streakly the pick for 2026
- Schedules that match real life — Every day, specific weekdays, or N times per week — with an icon and color per habit.
- Numeric goals — "8 glasses of water", "50 pushups" — increment through the day; only hitting the goal completes it, partial counts still tracked.
- A streak engine that's fair — Weekday-only habits survive the weekend, N-per-week habits count weekly quotas, and today doesn't break your streak just because it isn't done yet.
- Vacation mode — Skip days freeze your streaks instead of killing them.
- GitHub-style heatmaps — A year heatmap per habit plus an all-habits month view with per-day dots.
Streakly vs Habitify, at a glance
| Streakly | Habitify | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $15 once | $5/mo ($60/yr, forever) |
| Cost after 3 years | $15 | $180 |
| Your data lives | On your machine | Their cloud |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Streak freeze / vacation mode | Yes | Premium feature |
| N-times-per-week quotas | Yes | Yes |
| Export your data | JSON + CSV, one click | Limited |
| Telemetry | None | Analytics SDKs |
Three months of Habitify costs the same as Streakly does once — your streaks shouldn't have a renewal date.
Common questions
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/habit-tracker-mvp. $15 buys the packaged Windows installer and updates.
Why is the streak engine "fair"?
Because most trackers punish you for their own bad math. In Streakly, a weekdays-only habit doesn't break over the weekend, an N-per-week habit counts weekly quotas across week boundaries, skip days freeze streaks, and an unfinished today never kills a streak prematurely. The engine is a pure zero-dependency module with its own test suite.
Is there a phone app or sync?
No — Streakly is desktop-first with no cloud, which is exactly why it can promise zero network calls. Your entire history is one JSON file; sync it yourself via Dropbox, Drive or Syncthing if you want it on two machines. If phone-first tracking matters most, Habitify is the better fit.
The bottom line
Streakly won't out-feature Habitify on every axis — no subscription tool with a bigger team and a bigger roadmap loses on everything. But for the core job, $15 once against $5/mo forever is a trade most people should at least look at. Streakly is part of OneTimeSuite, a catalog of pay-once apps that replace subscription SaaS.
Try Streakly — $15, once
Local habit tracking with a fair streak engine, GitHub-style heatmaps and reminders.