Productive or HabitForge
A habit planner with templates, guided challenges against other users, and location-based reminders.
Last checked 7 November 2026. Check Productive yourself
Who is better off where
Choose Productive if you want a library of habit templates, guided programmes and reminders that fire when you reach a place.
Choose HabitForge if you want a free plan that stays free after the first week, a web app, and a rope that keeps what you kept instead of a chain that counts from the last miss.
What it costs
On Productive
- Free trial: Amount not stated. Try free for a week; the App Store lists the app as Free with in-app purchases. productiveapp.io
- Premium 1 Month: $10.99 a month. App Store in-app purchase list, US. apps.apple.com
- Premium 1 Year: $79.99 a year. The same list also shows 1 Year items at $19.99, $39.99 and $59.99. apps.apple.com
What HabitForge costs
- Free: 30 habits, for ever
- Pro: $9.99 a month · $99.90 a year
- Family: $8.99 a seat a month · 3–6 people
Feature by feature
Our column comes from the code we ship. Theirs comes from their own pages and store listings. A row they do not mention says so, which does not mean they lack it.
| Feature | Productive | HabitForge |
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| Cue, routine and reward written on each habit | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| A picture of the habit beyond a streak number | Yes (productiveapp.io) | Yes |
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| A missed day leaves the kept days in place | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| Habits you want to stop | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| Pause a habit and come back | Yes (apps.apple.com) | Yes |
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| Reminders | Yes (productiveapp.io) | Yes |
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| Friends, challenges or a feed | Yes (productiveapp.io) | Yes |
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| Web app | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| Android app | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| iOS app | Yes (apps.apple.com) | No |
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| Check in offline | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| Export your data | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| AI drafts and reflections | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| A per-seat household plan | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| Home screen widgets | Not stated on the pages we checked | No |
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| Health or wearable sync | Not stated on the pages we checked | No |
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| A free plan | Partly (productiveapp.io) | Yes |
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| Open source | Not stated on the pages we checked | No |
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What HabitForge does not do
- No iOS app. There is no iPhone or iPad app. On those devices HabitForge runs in the browser.
- No home screen widgets. To check in, you open the app. Nothing sits on your home screen.
- No health or wearable sync. Nothing reads your watch, your step count or another app. A check-in is something you do on purpose.
- No guided way to replace a habit. You can mark a habit as one to break and write down its cue and reward. Nothing here walks you through keeping that cue and reward while you change the routine.
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