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.
This is the full pricing breakdown: what Habitify actually costs over one, two and three years, what Streakly gives you for $15 paid once, and the honest cases where the subscription is still the right call.
What Habitify actually costs you
At $5/mo, one Habitify subscription adds up to $60 every year — $180 over a three-year window, for software you stop owning the day you cancel. Streakly is $15 the day you buy it, and the meter never runs again.
| Streakly | Habitify | |
|---|---|---|
| Sticker price | $15 once | $5/mo |
| Cost after 1 year | $15 | $60 |
| Cost after 2 years | $15 | $120 |
| Cost after 3 years | $15 | $180 |
Three years in, the gap is $165 — and every year after that adds another $60 to the subscription side of the ledger.
Streakly vs Habitify, feature by feature
Price is only half the story — here's how the two line up on the things that decide day-to-day use:
| 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 |
What you get for $15, once
Local habit tracking with a fair streak engine, GitHub-style heatmaps and reminders. The highlights:
- 🗓️ 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.
Three months of Habitify costs the same as Streakly does once — your streaks shouldn't have a renewal date.
Switching is 3 steps
- Buy once on Whop. One-time $15 — the cheapest app in the suite, tied with Deepdesk.
- Create your habits. Icon, color, schedule and optional numeric goal — reorder your today list by dragging.
- Check in daily. Tick habits (or count reps), keep streaks alive fairly, and watch the year heatmap fill in.
When paying Habitify is still the right call
Being straight about it: the subscription earns its keep in three situations. If your team is large enough that Habitify's collaboration features, permissions and admin controls are genuinely load-bearing; if your workflow is built on its integrations and leaving means rebuilding that plumbing; or if you have enterprise requirements — SSO, audit logs, SLAs, a vendor to call — that a pay-once app doesn't come with. Everyone else is paying $5/mo for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.
If that's you, Streakly is $15, once. For the deeper dive, read the Streakly vs Habitify head-to-head or the full Habitify comparison.
Frequently asked 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.
Do reminders work?
Yes — native OS notifications at whatever times you set per habit.
What if the app disappears?
Nothing happens — your data is a human-readable JSON file on your own disk, and the MIT source builds the app anywhere Electron runs.
More on Habitify pricing
Streakly — product page, demo & full feature list · All OneTimeSuite pricing breakdowns
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Local habit tracking with a fair streak engine, GitHub-style heatmaps and reminders.