Quick answer
Yes — Streakly is a one-time-purchase alternative to Habitify. It costs $15 once, while Habitify runs $5/mo — about $60 per year, every year. Local habit tracking with a fair streak engine, GitHub-style heatmaps and reminders. It is for people who want the job done on their own hardware without a renewal date — not for teams that live inside Habitify's ecosystem.
The verdict
Switch to Streakly if you are an individual or small team paying Habitify $5/mo for work your own machine can do. Three months of Habitify costs the same as Streakly does once — your streaks shouldn't have a renewal date.
Stay with Habitify if your workflow depends on its integrations, you need enterprise features (SSO, admin controls, SLAs), or your team is large enough that per-seat collaboration tooling is worth the bill. Streakly does not try to replicate those.
Head to head
| 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 |
| 5-year cost | $15 | $300 |
Where Habitify still wins
- Ecosystem and integrations. Established tools accumulate years of third-party integrations, templates and add-ons. If your workflow is wired into Habitify's ecosystem, switching means rebuilding that plumbing — a real cost.
- Team and enterprise features. Shared workspaces, granular permissions, SSO, audit logs and a vendor to call when something breaks — that is what the higher subscription tiers actually buy, and a pay-once app does not come with it.
- Familiarity and hiring. Habitify is the name people already know. Onboarding a team onto a tool nobody has used before takes time the subscription never charges for.
Where Streakly wins
- Price, permanently. $15 once versus $60/yr for as long as you use it. There is no renewal, no seat count and no tier gate.
- 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.
The math
Three months of Habitify costs the same as Streakly does once — your streaks shouldn't have a renewal date.
- After 1 year: Streakly has cost you $15 total — Habitify has cost $60.
- After 3 years: Streakly is still $15 — the subscription is at $180.
- After 5 years: Streakly is still $15 — the subscription is at $300.
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.
Do reminders work?
Yes — native OS notifications at whatever times you set per habit.
Try Streakly — $15, one time
Or get Streakly plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.