Fabulous Daily Routine Planner reviews
What users love and hate · 500 reviews analyzed · ★ 2.9
A beautifully designed habit coach built on tiny steps and gamification that genuinely helps people build routines, but is notorious for predatory monetization: trap subscriptions, forced upsells, and charges after cancellation.
What users love
The "tiny steps" gentle start genuinely hooks people
The start-small approach — adding habits gradually without overwhelming you — is the main reason users stick around. For people who repeatedly failed at routines (especially with ADHD), the gentle pace takes off the pressure and finally produces lasting results.
this app helped me build successful sustainable habits, I've tried so many, but fabulous gave me the tools to stop going on my adhd side quests.
It builds things slowly, so I don't get overwhelmed - a big problem with me.
the "start small" approach is brilliant. The AI tools are exceedingly helpful, the little celebrations are great and if you're really committed to making positive changes this app will help.
Beautiful design, coaching and content create a warm vibe
Fans praise the beautiful, thoughtful interface, calming color palette, motivating letters and quotes, audio snippets and coaching. To many it feels like a caring friend, and that aesthetic is what keeps them coming back for years.
Inspiring and motivating app, super friendly interface with lots of warmth and pleasing design.
l also really appreciate the letters, they remind me why l started, how hard it can get to stay on track and why l should keep going anyway.
The colors theme elements in the UI are chooses wisely to give you that calm. Also the journey has been designed so that you are pushed subtly to achieve your ideal routine.
For some, it genuinely changes their life for the better
Those who truly engage describe tangible change: climbing out of a low point, becoming more consistent, sleeping better, getting more done, being kinder to themselves. For them the subscription is worth it, and they return to the app year after year.
I found this app when I had reached an incredibly low point in my life, honestly struggling to grasp things together
I have learnt that how even after years of bad habits, depression and lack of motivation that through incremental small,sometimes miniscule steps I can change myself and my life for the better.
sleeping better, more productive and stronger, and fitter than I've been in a long time. I manage my time with the kids better, and we all seem a lot happier and content.
What users hate
They keep charging after you cancel
The single most common complaint: people cancel (often still inside the trial) and still get charged weeks and months later. The subscription shows up neither in the app nor in Google Play, so the only way to stop the charges is to block the card.
they steal money from you even after you cancel the subscription. it's never fully cancelled even after you do. I'm a student and I needed that money.
i immediately cancelled the free trial of this app in january 2026 and received confirmation of the cancellation through email. But, my credit card was billed $39 on March 2026 and May 2026 respectively. The subscription wont show in the app and google play.
Even if you cancel your subscription, they will charge your bank account months later.
Unauthorized and duplicate charges at sign-up
Signing up for a single plan triggers multiple back-to-back charge attempts, often for large amounts and from different countries. Frequently the only thing that saves users is their bank flagging the transactions as fraud and declining them.
I had over ten charges for $40 from this app in one day from paris and elsewhere, thankfully my bank flagged it and declined it.
They have taken THREE (!) payments from my card within 10s although subscribing only to one plan and authorising only one payment.
My card was charged 8 times!!! (attempted, my bank flagged/stopped and put a hold on my card immediately , thankfully) when I was signing up for the free trial!
Bundled into a stack of separate subscriptions for other apps
During onboarding users get quietly signed up to 5+ "bundle" apps, each of which must be cancelled separately. Cancelling the main subscription doesn't cancel the add-ons, and they get billed for them anyway.
Even after Cancelling the bundle subscription, they charged me $110 for some add-ons anyway. Why make it a bundle if you have to go and CANCEL EVERY SINGLE ADDON SEPARATELY?
it signs up for over 5 bundle apps that you have to cancel individually and ofcourse they charged me for all those bundle apps
I cancelled my subscription to Fabolous, but I was still charged through other connected apps that I never subscribed to or authorised.
Dark patterns: "Continue" silently agrees to pay
The paywall flow is built so the "Continue" button at the bottom confirms add-on purchases (sometimes with non-refundable "setup fees"), while the opt-out is hidden in a faint "Skip this offer" at the top. One tap — or a child poking the screen — charges money with zero confirmation.
you checkout with an agreed upon price and then it present you with add ons, if you press "continue" at the bottom you are agreeing to pay for these add ons some of which have "non refundable" set up fees, you must click the "skip this offer" at the top.
child pressed button, charged me 8.99, took half an hour to cancel all the things that that one blue button had committed me to.
accidentally spent 40$ on extra services and bundles that weren't communicated properly. completely unrefundable, bought with a single touch and ZERO confirmation of purchase.
Preys on people with ADHD and those who are vulnerable
The app is deliberately marketed at people with ADHD, depression and self-control struggles — exactly those most likely to forget to cancel. Users read it as cynical exploitation of the very audience it promised to help.
This app is deliberately marketed at people with ADHD and that struggle with focus and habit building, and in my opinion, is exploiting that.
They seek ADHD people: The single demographic that is simultaneously Most desperate, Most willing to try new things and Most likely not to unsubscribe… And they bend them over the table.
for an app targeted at people with executive dysfunction is exploitative. Reckless exploitation at best, quite possibly an out and out scam.
Cancellation is made deliberately hard
You can't cancel inside the app — you're sent to a website that often doesn't work, made to take a quiz, or pushed through several "discount" offer screens. Cancellation only takes effect next billing cycle, and support replies with bots or not at all.
I am trying to cancel my account and I just keep getting asked to complete a quiz!!! how can I get past this quiz page to get to my account to cancel it??
I want to cancel my suscription but your website doesn't work! I can't even log in into my account again because your website doesn't work!
you can't cancel in the app, you have to go to the website, and worse, your cancellation isn't effective until the next billing period.
Cluttered interface drowning in upsell pop-ups
Even paying users get a screen buried in "rate me", "invite a friend", "buy another app" pop-ups, coaching and banners. Getting to the actual habit tracker is a slog, and many avoid opening the app at all because of the visual noise.
There's an app somewhere below the barrage of ads for premium. Uninstalled in annoyance before being able to see if this might actually be useful.
great idea! But the interface is really annoying to use. There is so much going on, on the home page alone its really distracting and annoying when you just want to focus on habit tracking.
I use this app just for the habit tracking (which is excellent), but the interface is just so visually noisy I often avoid opening the app altogether.
Forced animations and cut-scenes on every check-off
Every completed habit triggers a loud, unskippable animation with a streak counter and a clip you have to sit through. On Android it lags, ignores reduce-motion and Do-Not-Disturb settings, and quickly turns from a reward into an irritant.
every day when you tick your first habit off your checklist there is essentially a loud unskippable cut scene with your day streak number. I beg the developers to remove this.
The introduction of animations is terrible, they do not work well on Android, make the app slow and I hate I can't opt out of them or x out of them.
whenever you do the first habit they start bombarding you with congratulations a d you have to wait for that video to stop than tap continue. You should remove this because it's very annoying and distracting.
Broken streaks: one missed day wipes weeks of progress
The streak resets to zero over a single missed day, or even for logging a habit at the wrong time. You used to be able to go back and tick missed boxes — now you can't, and losing a 38-day streak is brutally demotivating. Users beg for grace days or a history calendar.
even if you go back the next day to check a missed box, it still acts like you broke your streak and resets. Now the app is updated and won't even let you go back. 38 days gone due to 3 missed days
I’ve lost long streaks twice just because I missed one day, and seeing it reset to 0 makes it feel like all the progress didn’t matter 😭 I wish there was a calendar/history of completed days or 1–2 grace days before a streak resets completely.
in the centering part of the app you used to go back to different days to check off things you forgot to check off and it's bugging me!
Too expensive for a "glorified habit tracker"
Even sympathetic users find the price inflated: at its core it's a habit tracker with a drink-water reminder, the kind you can get free by the dozen. The paid content is simple common-sense wisdom, and even basic functions (like adding tasks to a routine) are locked behind the paywall.
Liked the idea behind the app, but felt it costs too much for what is essentially a gradual, glorified To-Do list that takes it one step further with annoying compulsory animations.
it is advertised as something much bigger than it is - it is a habit tracking app, like a dozen others.
It was fine until they charge you to add tasks to your routines.
Drains the battery and spams notifications in the background
The app is constantly doing something in the background and drains the battery fast. Its alarm-notifications ignore Do-Not-Disturb, wake users and their kids, and can't really be turned off.
Eats battery on my Samsung Z Flip 7, constantly doing something in the background. Had to uninstall it.
Nice idea, but drains battery in background. 136% over 2 days of use. On screen for less than 10 minutes.
Ignores DnD for irrelevant notifications, waking the user up. Fix your notifications, folks.