🔥 Streakly
The desktop habit tracker you buy once — streaks, heatmaps and schedules that match real life.
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.
Streakly screenshot is being captured — the app is shipped and real.
Features
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.
Reminders
Native OS notifications at the times you choose.
Stats + notes
Current & best streak, total completions, completion % over 30/90/365 days — and a journal line on any check-in.
Your data is a JSON file
Human-readable, in your user folder — JSON export/import for backup, CSV for spreadsheets. No network calls at all.
Streakly vs Habitify
Habitify at $5/mo runs roughly $60/year — $120 over two years. Streakly is $15, once.
| 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.
Three steps, no subscription
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.
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/habit-tracker. $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.
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Own Streakly forever
$15 once. Signed installer, 1-click setup, updates included. No renewal, no account with us, no meter. Or build it yourself from the MIT source — it's the same app.