Best Free Habit Tracker for Android (2026)

Two of the big Android habit trackers are free with nothing to buy. The other four are free up to a point, and the point is different in each one.

Everything below was checked against the US Google Play listings on 10 October 2026, and each app was installed on a Samsung phone for the screenshots.

The short answer

If you want one line: Loop if you want free forever, HabitKit if four habits is enough and you care how it looks, HabitNow if you want many habits and hate subscriptions.

Loop Habit Tracker: free, with nothing to buy

Loop Habit Tracker is the easy recommendation. Its Play listing shows no ads and no in-app purchases, and the developer describes it as "completely ad-free and open source". On install it opened straight into the habit list with no sign-up screen.

A habit is either yes-or-no ("Did you exercise today?") or measurable, with a unit and a daily target. That is most of the app, and 63,440 reviewers have it at 4.7 stars. Nothing nags you to upgrade because there is nothing to upgrade to.

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Goal & Habit Tracker Calendar: also free, and plainer

Goal & Habit Tracker Calendar, from Intrasoft, is the other one with nothing for sale. No ads label, no in-app purchases, 52,222 reviews at 4.8 stars. It works the same two ways as Loop, a yes-or-no goal or a goal with a value such as "at least 2 miles", and each habit gets its own statistics page with last streak, best streak and percentage done.

It looks plainer than Loop and leans toward scheduling: each habit has a time, a repeat rule, and a reminder set relative to it, such as "30 minutes before".

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HabitKit: four habits, then Pro

HabitKit is the prettiest app here, and the cap is stated up front. The developer's description says it is "free to use with up to four habits", and that is what we got on install: four, then the Pro screen.

Each habit is a grid of small tiles, one per day, which fills in as you go. There are no ads, and the listing says "No account. No sign-up. No ads. Your habit data stays on your device, and the app works completely offline."

Pro unlocks unlimited habits, home screen widgets, up to three reminders per habit, charts, and import and export. It is sold three ways: monthly, yearly, or once as a lifetime purchase. The US Play listing shows in-app purchases from $0.99 to $37.99.

Four habits is more than most people keep up, so the free tier is a real one. It stops being free the day you want a fifth.

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HabitNow: seven habits, then pay once

HabitNow is one of the largest dedicated trackers on Android, with 93,125 reviews at 4.7 stars, and it combines habits with a to-do list and a timer.

The free tier allows seven habits, the highest fixed cap on this page. Past that, the premium screen lists "Track unlimited habits" first. Checklists are marked as a premium feature when you create a habit.

What sets it apart is how it charges. Premium is labelled "One-time purchase", with the line "Pay only once. Unlock premium forever!" The US Play listing shows in-app purchases from $0.99 to $11.99. If the objection to paying is the monthly charge, this is the one to look at.

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Habit Tracker - Habit Diary: free, with ads

This is the most reviewed tracker of the six: 135,667 reviews at 4.7 stars and more than 10 million downloads, from Leap Fitness Group.

It is also the one with ads. A full-screen video ad played before we reached the habit list, and a banner sits in the History tab. The Play listing is labelled "Contains ads".

The habit limit is unusual. We created seven habits without being stopped, yet the Go Premium screen lists "Unlimited number of habits". The developer explains the gap in a reply on its Play listing: free users "can unlock more free habits by watching video ads". So the cap is real and you pay it in ad time.

Premium removes the ads and the cap, and adds guided "journeys". It is a yearly subscription with a 7-day trial, and the US listing shows in-app purchases from $7.99 to $29.99.

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Habitica: the tracking is free, the game costs extra

Habitica turns your habits into a role-playing game. You get an avatar with a health bar, habits earn gold and experience, and a missed daily costs health overnight. It needs an account before you can start, with Google or email.

Nothing about tracking is locked. The subscription, sold for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months, buys game perks: monthly gems, mystery gear, pet drops. The Play listing shows in-app purchases from $0.99 to $47.99 and is labelled as containing ads.

Whether it works depends on you. If numbers going up motivates you, it is free and deep. If not, the game becomes one more thing to maintain, which is covered in the Habitica alternatives roundup.

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Habit Doom: 3 habits, tied to app blocking

Ours, so judge it accordingly.

Habit Doom is a habit tracker connected to an app blocker. You pick the apps that eat your time, they lock, and they open when the day's habits are done. The free tier is:

• 3 habits
• App blocking
• Streaks
• Anti-Cheat photo verification, which runs an on-device model so a check-in cannot be faked
• No ads

Pro raises the habit cap and adds Hard Mode and analytics at $4.99/month, $19.99/year with a 7-day free trial, or $29.99 once.

Two Android notes: what iPhone calls custom alarms are notifications here, and Block Adult Sites is iPhone only. It needs Android 10 or newer. As with any Android app, the blocking depends on an Accessibility Service you can switch off in Settings.

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What a free tracker will not do

All six trackers above record what you did. Only Habitica reacts when you skip, and it reacts inside a game.

That matters more than the price. The reason most people stop using a habit tracker is not the paywall. It is that nothing happens when you miss a day, so the app slowly becomes one you do not open. A free tracker you abandon in week three cost you nothing and gave you nothing.

So pick on what will keep you opening it, then check the price.

Picking

You want free forever and nothing to configure. Loop Habit Tracker.

You want targets with numbers and per-habit statistics. Goal & Habit Tracker Calendar, also with nothing to buy.

You track four habits or fewer and want it to look good. HabitKit.

You want a long list of habits and refuse to subscribe. HabitNow, and pay once if you need more than seven.

Ads do not bother you. Habit Tracker - Habit Diary, where watching one buys another habit slot.

Games genuinely motivate you. Habitica. You will know within a week.

You have installed three trackers and abandoned all three. The pattern is the tracker having no consequence. Tying your apps to your habits is the version that has one, and the full Android roundup goes deeper on why.