Habit-Bull

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 117 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R4] 5/5 · US Love the self-accountability: I’ve just been using this x 1 week but already can see my behavior changing. Habits I want to instill and those I want to eliminate are more in my mind as I go through my Habit Bull list each day. Like the way I can customize (mine is a color-coding brain). So far, very pleased with this personal development tool. Thank you!
2. [R14] 5/5 · US Best Habit Tracking App: I was sceptical using this app. It turned out to be more productive for me. It helped me understand my pattern of habit tracking and thus keeping me on my toes to achieve things with discipline. It is like a target you can set up and be happy every day you click that day as success boosts your confidence to push yourself further. Appreciate all your efforts on this app :)
3. [R15] 5/5 · US Really Helps w/ Scalp Scratching!!!!!: Makes me aware of my habit! I love this app!
4. [R22] 5/5 · US Great!: Used this to kick my social media habit. Will certainly use it for more good habit building.
5. [R5] 5/5 · US Ugly hero: Love this app. Simple, flexible, effective. Gives you all functionality you need for free, while being much more robust and thought through than other apps I tested (I tracked 5 habits for more than a year). Yeah, you can’t turn “pretty UI” in settings, it goes as it is. Statistics could look better, and I want to be complemented more often. But I moved to paying users right now becaus
6. [R12] 5/5 · US Great app: I love this app. I stopped using for a while but now I’m back to track my mini habits. Easy to use.
7. [R21] 5/5 · US Easy to use, easy to track!: It’s a nice app for being free. Could use a few more extras but it works. Easy to see progress and understand, easy to adjust. All around, it’s pretty ok.
8. [R27] 5/5 · US Great Habit Tracker: Easy to use and nice design. I like that it’s easy to view all my habits at a glance and can track most with 1-click.
9. [R2] 4/5 · US Great app on phone wished it had an app on Apple Watch: I tried a few habit apps and really like this one. I like how you can keep track in different ways. You can track ounces of water, times a week, or just daily. You can even set habit without having a goal for when you want to keep track of an occurrence. My only wish is that it had a companion on the Apple Watch so I didn’t have to keep my
10. [R29] 4/5 · US Easy to use: This app is easy to use and I like that I can quickly add my successful habits in the daily view and then switch to monthly progress to look at the big picture. Lost a star because while I do like that there are a lot options for setting habits, I wish there was some way to just track successful overall minutes for the week in addition to setting minutes goals by day or week. More o
11. [R32] 5/5 · US Simple yet powerful: This app is super easy to use and incredibly flexible. So far my first bad habit is almost broken!
12. [R33] 3/5 · US Gives me credit for my exercise: It tells me how I’m doing compared to my goals. Love the cumulative percent for each sport/exercise I do.
13. [R71] 5/5 · US Great motivation: I have trouble sticking to new habits and have tried several apps. HabitBull has a good balance of simplicity and depth of data - it’s easy and intuitive to use, was easy to set up, and lets you look at your history / trends if you like to dig in to that kind of thing. It’s got a “don’t break the streak” component, motivational quotes and upbeat reminders. The app isn’t avail
14. [R80] 5/5 · US Data driven results: If you work best seeing data ( how many drinks did I have each day, each week, a month, how long was I able to keep to my goals) then this is a simple and effective app. The free version allows you to track 5 goals, which is a good amount. I’ve had this for a long while and the visualization of my accomplishments (days exercised, meditation, quit drinking, any goal you have) o
15. [R90] 5/5 · US LOVE THIS APP: This has been a game changer for me! I love that I can track a gazillion things in one place. I also love that I can use the stats to track my over all consistency! I have tried bullet journals, notebooks, tracking things in my notes sections, but this is hands down the best for staying consistent!!
16. [R66] 5/5 · US Great Functionality - try it & change your life: HabitBull works flawlessly as described. You can get creative with how you create goals/habits if they overlap slightly and make the most of the 5 allowed in the free version. One example, I started with 3 individual goals each for one a snack during the day; this used most of my goal but after a week I reworked that to be one ‘numeric’ goal with th
17. [R3] 1/5 · US Was great but: I get a pop up to purchase premium services every single time I open this app now. I used this app on IOS and Android paying for the premium app, but now they want $20 a year. I would definitely subscribe if the cost were reasonable, but this app is way too basic for such an absurd price.
18. [R7] 4/5 · US Four out of five: I would give 5 out of 5 if they would stop trying me to pay $20 a year for pro. Just ask once and don’t make it pop up every time I launch the free app and it gets 5
19. [R10] 4/5 · US Easy to use: I like the app, it’s easy to use and helpful. But the add that comes up every time I open the app (I have the free version) make me want to delete it. And I actually did delete it in the past because it that.
20. [R19] 1/5 · US Pop-up: Annoying pop-up, I enjoy the app and use it to track things but this pop up comes up every time I open the app for a subscription. Either charge an amount like 2.99 and keep the sub as an option.
21. [R41] 1/5 · US F'ing paywall: No, will definitely not pay $19.99! Bye!
22. [R57] 4/5 · US Beautifully designed but premium is way overpriced!: The app is beautifully designed, virtually bug free, and very effective for building habits. My big criticism is that the premium pricing is insane! $20 per year for a simple one-function app? $5 to $10 as a one-time fee would be reasonable. I’d love to pay for this, to support the great developers behind it, but that’s soooo far out of line. I
23. [R6] 1/5 · US Update is buggy, support not helpful: For some reason the update deleted my data and the app no longer recognizes that I’ve purchased the premium version. When I reached out to help they provided several canned pre written answers that didn’t apply to me or address the issue.
24. [R9] 3/5 · US Not going premium: I've used this for 3 months. Had no problems an update didn't fix. I need to upgrade or exit (i want to track a 5th habit). Two online reviews that premium customers had posted convinced me not to. Support didn't help either get their data back when it mysteriously disappeared. No thank you!
25. [R20] 2/5 · US Sync Problems: I like the app but it does not automatically sync between my iPhone and iPad. I understand that there is a manual way to do it, but with a paid app especially I should not have to do it manually. It is a very inconvenient way to work the app. I do not have this problem with any other app.
26. [R51] 1/5 · US App is buggy and data syncing is unreliable, lost all habit data: Data syncing is buggy and unreliable. App on new phone was not able to import data that was supposedly auto-synced to the cloud. App has issues logging out and logging back in, causing app to crash on launch and preventing access to data. There’s no way to import from csv, meaning that if the cloud syncing is broken, you have no wa
27. [R30] 1/5 · US Third grade support: I sent an idea for improvement I got crude response and my support ticket was closed. It made me feel like they do not appreciate their users, therefore I uninstalled the app.. there are plenty of other apps that do the same. I’ll look for one but I will never come back to this one. It seems like the paint peanuts for people to do their support and there’s no quality contro
28. [R38] 2/5 · US Abandoned?: I’ve used this app for years now, and love it! However, the Export to CSV functionality isn’t working, the website returns 403 Forbidden, and support emails are ignored. Update: The latest update doesn’t work properly with dark mode. Export to CSV appears to lock up the app.
29. [R18] 1/5 · US Just broke all of a sudden: I used this app every day for the last couple of weeks. Bought the premium subscription also. Then yesterday (25 October 2020) it just stopped working. It shows the little red circle with the number of habits to complete but when I try to open it, it crashes and shuts down. I've tried everything. Quit the app, and reopened. Same thing. Uninstall, reinstall, sign-in agai
30. [R23] 2/5 · US Crashing a lot: Glitching a lot recently. So bummed it’s one of my fave apps
31. [R73] 2/5 · US Newest update makes app unusable: I‘be using this app to track a variety of habits and love it! Unfortunately, it has been crashing uncontrollably on iOS 13. I’ve reached out to their support team but no response back yet after 48hours. Hoping to get a fix soon so I can keep using!
32. [R89] 3/5 · US Crashes: Nice app but it crashes, crashes, crashes, and has for many versions.
33. [R11] 2/5 · US Awful on iPad: Not the right ratio for the screen, really not made for the iPad at all
34. [R31] 3/5 · US Restore landscape please: Since a recent update, I can only use this great app in portrait mode, which makes it harder to look back and see entries from previous days. Please restore landscape as an option.
35. [R36] 1/5 · US Bad sizing and color: On iPhone 11, it is small and doesn’t fill screen. In addition, the app is black font on dark grey background. Can see anything.
36. [R37] 2/5 · US The Return.. Uh oh: I used HabitBull several years ago and finally decided to come back and try building my routines again. I remember loving the app and interface and was excited to get started. However, shortly after opening the app I saw that the color scheme was off. I’m not sure if this is just an instance for my phone, but I tried updating and nothing worked. Here’s the issue I’m seeing (si
37. [R25] 1/5 · US Works great until...: After using and enjoying for a couple months it now won’t let me open the app without trying to force me to pay to get into my data.
38. [R42] 1/5 · US Have LOVED this app...until now...: I have been using this app for well over a year; it WAS great, simple, motivating. But starting this week, when I open the app, it goes to a page that wants to charge me $19.99 to use the app. It won’t even let me access my prior data. Every day I open it, hoping that it is fixed. But it won’t let you do anything at all in the app now, without agreeing to the f
39. [R43] 1/5 · US Stop blocking the app with a pay request: ...
40. [R48] 1/5 · US No longer free: Out of the blue when I opened the app today, I was greeted with a screen which -seemed- like upgrading to premium for $20 was an option, but it wasn’t. Why am I suddenly being forced to pay a subscription for an app which has been free, with no warning? Will be deleting and looking elsewhere.
41. [R98] 5/5 · US Awesome app for Change: This app is easy to use. You can use it for multiple habits. And, you can visually see your results. With an app like this, you have no excuse for not making or breaking your habits. My only reason for not giving it five stars is that there is no web integration. Being able to use it on my computer and my phone would be better.
42. [R16] 2/5 · US Keeps Changing End Date: I have no idea why I don’t see anyone else talking about this but the app repeatedly shifts my habit’s set end date, which makes it very difficult to track progress. Instead of counting down the days, the “days to completion” number stays the same, which results in the end date repeatedly getting pushed out with each passing day. And this is with me meeting my habit goals
43. [R1] 5/5 · US Very good app. I love it: Highly recommended
44. [R56] 1/5 · US Premium features don’t work: I purchased the premium version specifically to use it on both my phone and tablet, because it said that premium could be used on multiple devices. It would never sync and I was left with different entries on each device even though I was logged in and other info such as my username appeared on both. Message to customer support went unanswered.
45. [R64] 4/5 · US Great but Sync problems: This is a great app but there are still challenges syncing between devices