Loop Habit Tracker reviews
What users love and hate · 500 reviews analyzed · ★ 4.7
An ascetic open-source habit tracker that beats paid rivals through radical simplicity and zero ads, yet the same minimalist philosophy turns away anyone who needs sync, grouping, or serious numeric-habit tracking.
What users love
Minimalism isn't styling here — it IS the product promise
People come back precisely because the app doesn't try to keep them inside: tick the habit and leave. This 'anti-engagement' becomes the core differentiator — the user focuses on the goal, not the UI. For an audience burned out on bloated trackers, it's the deciding factor.
The best tracking app. Pretty minimalistic and simple - no unnecessary features that make you spend more time in the app then needed. You really concentrate on your goal and not on the interaction with the app.
Simple, as an ideal habit tracker should be. Not overengineered at all and that's how it stands out from the rest.
It does what it promises without being annoying with extra features nobody asked
No ads and no paywalls turn trust into loyalty
In a category where widgets and basic features hide behind subscriptions, making everything free reads as an ethical stance, not marketing. Users explicitly contrast it with 'money suckers' and stay for years. That builds a moat a freemium rival can't leap by simply cloning features.
In the world of money suckers with the name of a habit tracker. There's one habit tracker.
Widgets aren't hidden behind a paywall like other habit apps! Super simple interface, I love it
Absolutely love this app, no predatory microtransactions or subscriptions, clean and straightforward UI, and really good options.
Flexible 'X times per Y days' frequency is a killer feature rivals lack
Letting users set a habit as '3 times a week' rather than 'every day' matches how people actually live, and it's exactly why users abandon other trackers. It turns the app from a checklist into a tool for realistic, irregular goals. For people frustrated by binary 'done/failed', this frequency model is the reason to stay.
i think i have tried multiple apps but none can compete when it comes to the setting up frequency of habits. Like x times in y days. Best recommended.
track in various ways, like frequency: # of times per week or measurement: how many hours per day, month
please add feature of frequency of habit tracking I want to frequency of 2 times a day
Widgets are the core return mechanism — they work without opening the app
Home-screen tile widgets let users tick a habit with a single tap without launching the app — perfectly aligned with the minimal-friction philosophy. The widget, not the app screen, becomes the daily touchpoint that sustains the routine. Users explicitly credit it for making logging 'fuss-free'.
Very handy app, the little tile widgets are great for quickly marking the item done without any fuss or nonsense. 5 stars
Amazingly simple and simply amazing. the widgets specially make tracking so so easy.
Love this app. Helps me keep track of my pills and medicines. Has a very simple interface and the checkmark widget is amazing.
Supporting medical and work routines makes the app indispensable, not just 'nice'
When people use it to track pill schedules, day-specific work tasks, and health metrics, the app stops being a self-improvement toy and becomes a critical tool they don't abandon for years. This 'high-stakes' use-case is the strongest retention driver: here reliability and simplicity matter more than any decoration. These are the users who stay 6–7 years and bring others in.
I've been using it to remind me to do important tasks on certain days for my job, and to also keep track of taking my pills. I've been using it for 6 years and I recommend it to every new manager.
Love this app. Helps me keep track of my pills and medicines.
Gr8 app, I am using it on my dad's phone to remind him to take tablet. etc
What users hate
No cloud sync pushes away the most engaged users
The most loyal users — those with several devices and years of history — hit manual backup export/import as the only way to move data. The longer someone uses the app, the more this wall hurts: they're invested but can't work across a second phone or tablet. It systematically loses exactly the audience that would otherwise stay forever.
Awesome if only there's a way to sync it across devices. Just please please I love this app, but I'm tired of having to export a full backup to sync accross my devices.
how can I use the same app in another device?? I don't have same device every time..
It only lacks the ability to connect to Google or any other storage space to create cloud storage.
A long habit list breaks the product — no groups, no search
The app shines for 5–10 habits, but a 'successful' user who adds dozens falls into endless scrolling through a flat, category-less, search-less list. The paradox: the more actively someone builds habits, the less usable the tool becomes. Collapsible categories are the single most-requested feature, and the gap hits the engaged core hardest.
I really love the app, but I would love it even more if I could search for a particular habit/task instead of constantly scrolling to find the specific habit/task I'm looking for.
I'd use this if it supported categories to fold/unfold rows.
Need toggle option , because long list of habit goes deep blow , from toggle we can organise long habits and more easily trackable
Measurable habits are an afterthought — manual entry kills the routine
Users who came to count water, runs, or pills expect a quick increment but get a popup keyboard for manual number entry. That turns a 10-second gesture into annoying labor and erodes the very habit of logging. +/− buttons with a custom step are the obvious fix that's missing, and it makes measurable use-cases lose to rivals.
logging measurable habits needs an upgrade. Typing numbers manually is tedious. Adding '+' & '-' buttons on the home screen would fix this.
tapping a +1 button 80 times for an 80m run is exhausting, but a custom +10 would be perfect.
I would love a widget for measurable habits thats simply a button that increments the score rather than having to write the amount!
The streak is buried inside the card — the main motivator is hidden
The streak is the whole reason people track habits, yet seeing it requires opening the habit and scrolling down. It's absent from the home screen and widgets, so the daily 'dopamine' signal is lost. Surface the streak count on the home screen and daily motivation would rise with no new feature at all; as is, the product hides its own hook.
It would be nice to see the current streak right next to the habit on the home screen. I don't like having to click on it and scrolling down to see that number.
amazing app! just one tiny suggestion: I wish to be able to see the streaks for all habits next to the habit name in the home page, after all the streak is what defines a habit.
can you add the streak counters for each habit at the homepage also?
Deliberate absence of gamification keeps adults but loses reward-seekers
The app deliberately offers no animations, rewards, or sounds — for some that's a plus (they even ask to make confetti toggleable), for others it's why the habit doesn't 'stick'. A segment explicitly asks for stars, applause, a Duolingo-style streak widget. It's a strategic fork: the product picked the mature audience and knowingly forgoes those held only by external reward.
it should also show a streak or, should grant a reward , star animation/applause sounds or something like that.
in streak widget the number ex:1 2,3 are too small which can be better in big size and a background like Duolingo's streak widget.
Confetti should be optional. Should be disable-able in settings. Rest app is good and does what it says!
Unreliable reminders undermine the very point of a habit tracker
For a habit tracker, the reminder isn't an add-on but the retention core, and when it silently stops firing (even with battery optimization off) the user loses the exact signal they came for. A separate pain is inflexible logic: with an 'every N days' goal, reminders don't follow the floating day. A broken reminder doesn't annoy — it quietly severs the habit, and the user leaves.
on second day ... it completely stopped sending me notifications... I'm deeply annoyed 😠.... I made sure battery optimization is not a problem.. giving one star
i am not getting any reminders for the set habits
If I set my goal to every 2 days then the reminders should come every two days.
Android-only lock-in cuts off entire user scenarios by itself
The lack of iOS and web versions doesn't just cap reach — it makes a habit ecosystem impossible: a mixed-device household, a work computer, switching to an iPhone, and the accumulated history is cut off. For some users it reads as 'outdated', even when the app is functionally stronger than rivals. Platform lock-in works against the very idea of long-term tracking.
Nice app but it is constrained only to android which makes it feel outdated. I would definitely use it if it would work on iOS and Web and would allow synchronization via Google drive
It would be so much better if it was smartwatch-compatible.
I am using it on my dad's phone to remind him to take tablet. etc
Charts and analytics promise insight but don't earn trust in the data
Users who want to track weight or metrics and see a trend hit charts that, by their account, don't reflect their actual data and won't let them plot real captured values. When the visualization stops being trustworthy, analytics flips from a strength into a reason to switch. For the data-oriented segment, a broken chart nullifies the point of tracking numeric habits here at all.
The line graphs don't accurately depict my captured data, and I cannot choose to set them to plot out my actual captured data to see trends over time.
Following my weight metrics and trying to achieve a goal just made no sense. None of the charts or graphs were especially useful, and the data they showed didn't make much sense.
i want to see all my habits data in one graph...
A narrow 5-day view window breaks the sense of weekly rhythm
The home screen shows only the last 5 days, and users who think in weeks can't see the full picture without exporting or scrolling. Habits live on a weekly cycle, but the interface clips that cycle — a tiny default decision that breaks the natural mental model. For some, this alone is the reason to 'try something else', even though the tracking itself satisfies them.
you can only view 5 days at a time. I'm going to try something else. it lets you download but I don't want to do that just to see the rest of the week.
I just wish that it would display the full week and not just the past 5 days.
Why can I only scroll back a very limited time on the main screen? I have notes beyond the 2 months I can scroll back that I want to access but can't.
A single closed-off developer turns 'maturity' into stagnation
Some long-time users read the unresponsiveness to requests and rare updates as a signal the product has frozen: three- and four-year-old requests go unimplemented, and people start eyeing rivals after years of loyalty. For an open-source tracker that lives on trust and longevity, the feeling that 'development has stalled' is more dangerous than any single missing feature — it undercuts the 'I'll stay forever' bet.
The developer is a stickler and doesn't respond to feature requests even if volunteers add features. Therefore there are few updates.
It's been 3.5 years that I posted some requests: option to skip in the notification, a search option for those of us with a long list
you'll start to get the idea that the creators put minimum effort into the app.