Habitify costs $5/mo — and unlike a tool you buy once, that bill never stops. Over three years that's roughly $180 for software doing a job your own hardware could just as easily do.
Where the subscription actually goes
$5/mo ($60/yr, forever) is the sticker price. It compounds: cancel and you typically lose access to your own history, and most plans ratchet the price up as you add usage, seats or storage — the bill rarely stays flat for long.
Streakly: the pay-once alternative
Streakly does the same core job for $15, once. Local habit tracking with a fair streak engine, GitHub-style heatmaps and reminders.
| 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.
Is the subscription ever still worth it?
If you need Habitify's specific ecosystem, integrations or managed infrastructure and that's genuinely load-bearing for you, the subscription earns its keep — that's a real trade-off, not a trick. Streakly is for everyone else: people paying every month for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.
Try Streakly — $15, once
Local habit tracking with a fair streak engine, GitHub-style heatmaps and reminders.