Routine Planner, Habit Tracker reviews
What users love and hate · 500 reviews analyzed · ★ 3.8
A visual-timer routine coach that walks you through your day step by step, out loud and on the clock — a lifeline for ADHD and time-blind users, yet the same rigid time-binding and an uncontrollable alarm push away anyone who doesn't want to feel rushed.
What users love
A visible per-step timer removes the «decide what's next» moment — that's the whole product
The core mechanism: a routine is split into timed steps and the app walks you from one to the next, removing the «what now» decision. For ADHD and decision-paralysis users this turns morning chaos into autopilot — they leave on time and finally hold a pace.
When I am struggling with decision paralysis having the routines already laid out and timed makes it possible to drag myself into productivity.
I can now stay on track in the morning and get up and out of the house with everything done with no distractions.
It's visual timer keeps me focused and the ability to see what task I'm doing with how much time left is really good too.
«Pause / reorder / delay» flexibility is what separates a coach from a dumb schedule
Being able to pause, extend and reorder steps on the fly makes the routine survive real life — parents with unpredictable kids keep the structure without it shattering at the first disruption. It turns a rigid timetable into an adaptive helper and keeps people for years.
I love the flexibility so that I can use it with kids, even when I have to change the order of things because babies and kids are unpredictable!
The flexibility to delay pause and rearrange task is Soo useful in real world use amazing amazing.
It's very flexible. I normally use it for morning and bedtime routines, but I have made used it to make a timed task list
The voice coach and «robot» offload mental load — no constant checking of what's next
Speaking steps aloud means you don't hold the phone and check — the voice tells you what to do while your hands are busy. For an overloaded brain this frees working memory: users describe «decreased mental load» and calm as the main effect, not the task list itself.
I love the robot remind me throughout the day of what I need to do.
all my mental load is decreased, finally I feel calm and not letting my neurodivergence devour my mental health
I like the nudges when I've gotten distracted & spoken prompts to avoid continuously checking to recall each step.
What users hate
An alarm with no on-screen button that overrides silent mode turns the app into a sound bomb
The routine-start alarm is loud, has no snooze and no visible off-button — users panic and kill the app process to stop it. It overrides system volume and silent mode, switches itself back on after updates, and must be disabled per-routine. A tool meant for a calm morning is the thing that wrecks the morning.
this app has no stop or snooze button on its morning alarm reminder.
It overrides your phone's notification and volume settings to set off a MAX VOLUME, extremely obnoxious alarm and it is the DEFAULT SETTING. you have to switch it off for every routine. It makes this app a sound bomb
the alarm went off and I had no clue which app it was coming from and there were no buttons on screen to turn it off.
Reminders only fire at «time's up», not during the task — a failure for the exact users it's built for
The app sells itself as a cure for time blindness, yet it only reminds you once a task has already ended — announcing failure after the fact. Distracted mid-way through a 10-minute task, you get no nudge; the notice arrives when it's already time for the next step. The most paying segment leaves precisely over the missing mid-task reminders.
It doesn't help me that when I'm doing a 10 minute task and get distracted it tells me it finished and I need to go to the next one
there's no visual or audio alarm so I just keep doomscrolling without knowing my time is already up, and this sucks for someone with severe time blindness!!!!
The reminders occur at 1 minute, 5 minutes, and 10 minutes after you're supposed to have finished a task. If my task is only 2 minutes long, a reminder 10 minutes later is honestly pretty useless.
Broken drag-to-reorder kills the exact flexibility the product is built on
Dragging steps glitches: a task slams to the bottom, hides behind another, snaps back to the original order. You have to restart the app to move a single item. This strikes at the heart of the promise — «adapt your routine to the day» — and angers even five-year loyalists who otherwise worship the app.
I hold and drag and it will glitch and slam to the bottom of the list then disappear or overlap behind another task. I have to restart the app over and over again just to move one tiny task.
sorting the routine items is a struggle, their developer needs to go back to a bootcamp.
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The free 2-routine cap blocks the very core use case — separate routines
The product's value is running distinct routines — morning, gym, evening, weekends. But free gives only two, so the core use case hits a wall before the user ever sees the payoff. People defect to unlimited gym-workout timers: the verdict is «two slots is the product, not a teaser».
I wanted to use this app to have a morning routine and ones for my gym days, but the limitations for the free versions ruins the app.
Only 2 routines for free. Have switched to using a gym workout timer instead. Almost the same functionality, but no limit on routines.
if you are using the free version, you can't add more than 2 schedules!!
Hard time-binding turns help into stress for perfectionists
The same timer that rescues ADHD users repels another segment: when every step is on the clock, perfectionists and anxious users feel rushed and start rejecting the task itself. The product's mechanism splits its audience — it cures time blindness at the cost of pressure, and for some that pressure outweighs the benefit.
I don't like that the routines are by the clock. I don't like to feel rushed, it makes me reject what I'm doing because I feel stressed about having to complete it within a time frame
I felt a little stressed due to the timer because I'm a perfectionist so.. yeah!!
it always feels like I'm racing myself to see how fast I can get chores done but that makes it fun.
A huge «Done» button with no undo marks the whole day complete on one mistap
A giant complete button and no back/undo mean one accidental tap marks a step — or the whole day — done, with no way to reverse it. For the ADHD users who are exactly the ones to mistap and to test a routine, this breaks the key motivator — streaks and honest progress — and forces re-running the routine to get back a step.
there 100% need to be a back button. Should not have to skip through the whole thing, then restart it, skip through till I get back where I was, and do all that just because I accidentally press the huge complete button.
As far as I can tell nowhere to undo or delete a task completion, if I test some changes I made to a routine, whoop, I've "done" it for the day and there's no going back.
I don't like that I can't go back and check off what I did yesterday if things get crazy.
Losing months-built routines after updates burns the most loyal users
Updates wipe routines users built over months of analyzing their own behavior and roll data back to old versions. That accumulated setup is the switching cost and the attachment; destroying it, the app demolishes the very thing that held the user. The longest-tenured leave precisely after losing what they invested in.
Not only did I lose all the routines I had built over months of analyzing my behavior, they also removed the archive feature for non premium users AND added ads.
no, i'm actually going to cry. all of my routines were deleted.
I've just lost my routines and its put me back to routines I had around 3 months ago!!
The watch as a standalone device is the unkept promise: a wrist timer would solve the core pain
People install the app specifically for the watch — a wrist timer would solve their biggest problem: glance at the phone for something and forget the routine. But the watch app crashes, returns a null countdown, and sync forces you to end a routine twice, on both phone and watch. The most valuable scenario — «timer always in view» — doesn't work.
having the timer not visible is my biggest problem with using this app effectively. I look up something on my phone and completely forget I was supposed to be doing my routine. the app on the watch would really help.
it would actually even be better if they let you disable the sync, and have them work as two standalone apps, but they don't allow you to do that.
Every time I run a routine and finish it on my phone, I get the notification that I need to also end it on my watch.
A lock-screen widget/player is the most-asked feature to keep the routine from getting lost behind other apps
Users repeatedly ask for a lock-screen widget or media-style player showing the timer with next/skip buttons. The reason is behavioral: apps get closed and forgotten, and the routine gets lost. The current widget is called poor. Without an always-visible timer, the core mechanism — holding attention on the current step — breaks.
I wish there was a home widget showing the timer in progress with the options to complete or skip for example
the only thing i would really appreciate is a music-app-like media player so i could check the running routine on the lock screen
I wish there was a way to keep a popup of routinery open on top of my phone while I have other apps open
Social features and AI contradict why users came — to escape feeds
The app adds a social feed, video anime ads and AI features, but the audience came precisely to escape Instagram/TikTok and focus. These don't just annoy — they work against the stated value (focus, calm) and make the app heavier and less stable. Paying users explicitly ask for an opt-out.
Not everything needs to be a social network.
you added social features which are distracting/not useful for many users, who are already trying to escape Instagram/TikTok.
I love this app, please don't ruin it with AI. Make it optional, I want to opt out.
Randomized free-tier icons punish the exact segment that shouldn't waste time
In the free version task icons are handed out at random via a «shuffle», so to get the one you want you press again and again. For an ADHD audience already struggling with time management this isn't an upsell but a time trap — it reads as mockery. The monetization design hits the target segment's exact pain point.
Having icons randomized in the free version is a really dirty trick to play on people who have ADHD. You know we struggle with time management. Yet you have this feature that will result in someone wasting valuable time by pressing the shuffle button repeatedly.
doesn't add unnecessary emojis to your previously written tasks. Good for organized people who have divergent brains.
they add skin tone options for the main image icons (not task text) since you can't select stock phone emojis for those.
No per-weekday task scheduling — a flexible weekly plan is impossible without subscribing
You can't assign specific tasks to specific weekdays (gym on weekdays, cleaning on weekends) — the basic way people run a paper planner. Without it the app doesn't replace the thing it's adopted for. The segment that needs a flexible weekly rhythm hits a wall and goes back to paper.
cannot set different tasks for different days? That's the entire thing I use my paper schedule for, to note down what days to do different things.
Not as flexible with scheduling things at different times as I wish it was.
I wish you could pick your week days and weekends but overall great app