A free habit tracker with unlimited habits

Where the caps actually sit

The limit is almost never a technical one. Storing a sixth checkbox costs an app nothing it was not already spending on the first five, so the number is chosen to be just under what a motivated person wants.

In practice the two common ceilings are three and five. Way of Life caps its free tier at three habits. Productive caps its free version at five, and tracking more than five needs its paid Premium subscription. HabitBull also stops the free version at five, and its paid version raises the ceiling to 100.

Five is the awkward number, because a normal morning is already water, medication, a walk, stretching and reading. The sixth habit is the one that costs money.

What lifting the cap usually buys you

Honestly: the same checkbox, more times. The paid tiers in this category tend to bundle the habit cap together with themes, widgets, extra statistics and sometimes cloud sync across devices.

Sync is the one with a real cost behind it — running accounts and a server that holds your data is an ongoing expense, and charging for it is fair. The habit count is not. If all you want is more rows in a list, you are paying for a number someone chose.

Tracking without a cap at all

tickbook puts no limit on how many habits you add. Six, or sixty: the list just gets longer. There is no account, no email and nothing to install — the page you land on is the checklist, and ticking a box works immediately.

It can do that because there is no per-person cost to recover. Your habits are stored by your own browser with IndexedDB, so there are no accounts to hold and no database keeping your data. Reminders are a calendar file your own calendar repeats, so there is no notification service to pay for.

Bringing your history with you

Switching trackers is only worth it if the months you have already logged come along.

Export from the app you are leaving — most can write a CSV — then open tickbook and choose the file under "Your data, in and out". A CSV with a date column and one column per habit is read directly. Loop Habit Tracker's export is a ZIP archive rather than a single file, and that ZIP can be opened as it comes, without unzipping it first. Habits whose names match are merged rather than duplicated.

Going the other way works too: export to CSV or JSON whenever you like. That matters more than usual here, because habits stored in one browser are habits you can lose to a new phone or a cleared cache. Export every so often and keep the file.