# HabitShare Alternatives: 6 Apps for Tracking Habits With Friends (2026)

> Looking for a HabitShare alternative? Six social habit trackers compared by model, price, platforms, and what happens on a missed day, plus how to switch wit...

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The best HabitShare alternative depends on what you liked about HabitShare. If you want to keep your own streak and add a group that builds something together, [Habit Huddle](https://habithuddle.com/app) is the closest match with a free plan. If your friends want a leaderboard, Daily Pact. If they want a game, Habitica. If you want a gentler app, Finch. If you only want a free tracker and will share wins in a group chat, Loop Habit Tracker on Android.

That is the short version. The rest of this guide explains what HabitShare does well, the three reasons people go looking for a replacement, the four models a social habit tracker can use, and six apps compared on price, platforms, and what happens on the day you miss. Prices and store facts were checked on 28 September 2026.

## What HabitShare is, and why it is still worth keeping

HabitShare is a free habit tracker where you choose, habit by habit, which friends can see your progress. It launched on iOS in November 2015, runs on iOS and Android, and its [own site](https://habitshareapp.com) says it is 100% free, with no paid tier anywhere in the app.

The feature list is short and honest: reminders, streaks, charts, daily and weekly habit goals, flexible schedules, daily comments, sync across devices, and a messaging feature with high-five and chest-bump gifs for cheering a friend on. Every habit is hidden from friends by default, and you decide per friend which habits they can see. That per-habit control is still better privacy design than most social trackers, which expose your whole profile the moment you connect with someone.

People like it. On the [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/habitshare-habit-tracker/id1048191045) it holds a 4.6 rating from 662 ratings, and on Google Play it sits at 4.3 from about 1,600 reviews with more than 100,000 downloads. For "let two or three friends see my habit calendar", it still does the job, and if that is all you need, you can stop reading and keep using it.

![Two friends in different rooms each holding a phone, sharing one habit calendar between them with a chat bubble and a high-five](https://habithuddle.com/storage/seo/legacy/af79e7d3ff1b12d2d2c42c159a7895b9e16bb775.jpg)

## Why people look for a HabitShare alternative

Three reasons come up again and again, and only one of them is a feature request.

**The app has stopped changing.** HabitShare's last App Store update shipped on 27 January 2023, version 2.1.99. It still works, but an app that has not been touched in over three and a half years is in maintenance mode: it keeps running until an operating system change breaks something, and nobody is adding what you wish it had.

**Sharing is passive.** HabitShare shows your calendar to the friends you pick. It never asks anyone to do anything. There is no group, no shared goal, no daily moment where the whole friend group shows up together. When a friend gets busy and stops opening the app, the accountability quietly ends while the tracker keeps working.

**The calendar shows the gap.** A shared calendar shows every square, empty ones included. A rough week is on display to whoever you shared the habit with. Some people find that motivating. Many people find it is the reason they stop opening the app after a bad stretch, which is exactly when they need it most.

If your reason is the first one, any actively developed app on this list fixes it. If it is the second or third, the fix is choosing a different model, not a different calendar.

## Four models a HabitShare alternative can use

Every social habit tracker uses one of four models, and picking the model matters more than picking the app.

![Four ways friends track habits together: comparing calendars, a leaderboard podium, a circle holding one chain, and a person hugging a pet bird](https://habithuddle.com/storage/seo/legacy/0bd836d48ccfe134550362927b01733805fa6bb1.jpg)

**Shared visibility.** You track alone and chosen friends can look. HabitShare and HabitRix work this way. It is the lightest model and the easiest to ignore, because nothing happens when nobody looks.

**Leaderboards.** Checkins become a ranking. Daily Pact ranks a group by streak and completion. It works for competitive friends and quietly pushes out the friend who falls behind.

**A joint game.** Everyone's habits feed one shared outcome. Habitica's parties fight quest bosses together. Strong glue while the group is into the game, and it collapses when two people stop playing.

**One streak each, one chain together.** Each friend keeps a personal streak in days, and every checkin also adds a link to something the group builds. Duolingo's Friend Streak is the best known version, and Duolingo reported that learners with at least one Friend Streak were [22% more likely to complete their daily lesson](https://blog.duolingo.com/friend-streak/). Habit Huddle applies the same idea to any habit through its Checkin Chain.

The evidence favors sharing in general. A meta-analysis of 138 studies ([Harkin et al., 2016](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26479070/)) found that monitoring progress toward a goal reliably improved attainment, and the effect was larger when progress was reported to someone else. The open question is which model keeps you reporting after week three, and that is what the entries below are sorted by.

A social habit tracker works when it multiplies the cheers for showing up, and fails when it multiplies the audience for a bad week.

## The 6 best HabitShare alternatives compared

| App | Model | What happens on a missed day | Price | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Habit Huddle | One streak each, one Checkin Chain together | Freeze can cover it; missed days are never shown to your huddle | Free plan; paid plans from $7.58/mo billed yearly | Web, iOS, Android, Discord bot |
| Daily Pact | Group leaderboard and challenges | Streak resets unless the group approves a PactPause | 14-day trial, then $0.99/mo, $9.99/yr, or $39.99 once | iOS, Android |
| Habitica | Party game | Missed dailies damage the whole party | Free core app, optional subscription | Web, iOS, Android |
| HabitRix | Shared visibility, activity grid | Gap shows on the grid | Free to download | iOS, Android |
| Finch | Gentle self-care with friend Good Vibes | Nothing; the bird is fine | Free core app, optional subscription | iOS, Android |
| Loop Habit Tracker | Solo, open source | Shows in your own heatmap only | Free, no account | Android |

### 1. Habit Huddle: keep your streak, add a chain your friends build

Quick disclosure: Habit Huddle is our app, so judge the reasoning rather than the ranking.

[Habit Huddle](https://habithuddle.com/app) puts every habit in a huddle: an invite-only space where each member tracks their own habit and posts a daily checkin. You keep your own streak in days, exactly as you did in HabitShare. The huddle also keeps a Checkin Chain, measured in links, where each member's first checkin of the day adds one link. A huddle of five that all show up adds five links, so the group has something to build that no single calendar can show.

![A huddle in Habit Huddle showing members' daily checkins and the Checkin Chain](https://habithuddle.com/assets/img/product/home-phone.webp)

The missed-day design is the biggest change from HabitShare. Your friends see and cheer the days you show up. Your missed days are not shown to them, not on a calendar, not in a feed, not in a summary. Everyone gets one streak freeze on their second checkin day, paid plans earn one per 30 checkin days, and one freeze covers a whole missed day. Each habit also has a Floor, the smallest version that still counts, and a Ceiling to aim for on good days, so a tired Tuesday can still be a checkin instead of a gap.

The trade-offs: checkins are on the honor system, with no photo proof unless the huddle turns on Photo Checkins. There is no per-habit privacy toggle in the HabitShare sense, because huddles are public to view and exclusive to join, and your streak is visible to your huddle by design. The free plan covers one active habit you start yourself, though joining a friend's huddle by invite never costs anything, so one person starts a huddle and the whole friend group tracks free. Accounts are for ages 13 and up. For the wider comparison, see our [habit streak app with friends](https://habithuddle.com/blog/habit-streak-app-with-friends) guide.

**Best for:** HabitShare users who liked having their own streak and want a friend group that builds something together, without a bad week going on display.

### 2. Daily Pact: leaderboards for a friend group

Daily Pact is built around a group doing the same challenge. You create an invite-only group with a code, pick daily or weekly challenges, and log the day with one tap. Leaderboards rank the group by streak and completions, everyone gets a push when a friend completes a challenge, and PactPause lets you request a break that the group votes on, keeping your streak intact if approved. Groups cap at 50 members.

The trade-offs: there is no permanent free plan. After the 14-day trial the whole group pays, though $9.99 a year is cheap. The App Store listing launched in March 2026 and holds a 5.0 rating from just four ratings, so the user base is tiny. There is no web app and no per-habit privacy toggle: the group sees the challenge. And the leaderboard is the ranking model working as designed, which is exactly what the friend having a bad week does not want to see.

**Best for:** competitive friends who want rankings and a formal way to pause a streak for a holiday.

### 3. Habitica: if your friends would rather play a game

Habitica turns habits into a role-playing game. Habits and daily tasks earn experience, level up your avatar, and unlock gear. The social layer is the party: two to ten friends fight quest bosses together, and a missed daily damages the whole party. The core app is free and fully playable on web, iOS, and Android, with an optional subscription of about $4.99 a month for cosmetics and gems.

The trade-offs: the game is mandatory. If RPG mechanics do not appeal to you, the whole thing reads as chores with extra steps, and when the party goes quiet the accountability goes with it. Setup is far heavier than HabitShare. If the idea appeals but the execution does not, we compared the field in [Habitica alternatives](https://habithuddle.com/blog/habitica-alternatives).

**Best for:** friend groups who like games and want shared consequences.

### 4. HabitRix: the "Habit Share" app that is actually being updated

If you searched "habit share app" and found an app called Habit Share: HabitRix, that is a different, newer product. It launched in May 2025, was updated on 27 September 2026, and is free to download on iOS and Android. It keeps HabitShare's core idea, sharing your progress with friends, and adds a GitHub-style activity grid, daily, weekly, and monthly habits with custom goals, milestone celebrations, and home screen widgets.

The trade-offs: it is very new, with a 4.6 rating from 24 App Store ratings at the time of writing, so expect a small user base and a product still finding its shape. It is the same shared-visibility model as HabitShare, so it fixes the maintenance-mode problem and nothing else. The grid shows your gaps to the friends you share with, just as HabitShare's calendar does.

**Best for:** people who want HabitShare with an active developer and a nicer grid, and nothing structurally different.

### 5. Finch: gentle support instead of accountability

Finch is a self-care app where completing goals raises a pet bird. The core loop is free, the friend feature lets you send Good Vibes and support each other's goals, and it holds a 4.9 App Store rating from more than 750,000 ratings, which tells you how loved it is.

The trade-offs: Finch is encouragement by design, not accountability. Friends cheer you on, but nobody is expecting your checkin and nothing happens on a missed day. For some people, especially during a hard stretch, that gentleness is exactly right. For habit accountability with real expectations, it is the wrong tool on purpose.

**Best for:** anyone who found HabitShare's shared calendar stressful and wants support without expectations.

### 6. Loop Habit Tracker: free, open source, and solo

Loop is a free, open-source Android app with no ads, no account, and no tracking. Data stays on your device, the heatmap statistics are excellent, the scheduling is flexible, and it holds a 4.7 rating on Google Play.

The trade-offs: there are no friend features at all. Sharing means screenshotting your heatmap into the group chat. Loop earns its place because it is the best genuinely free tracker on Android, but if friends were the point of HabitShare, you would be rebuilding the social layer by hand. iPhone users are out of luck.

**Best for:** Android users who want the free part of HabitShare above everything else.

## Also worth a look

**Squad** runs 10 to 30-day group challenges around a specific goal, from fitness to sleep to personal finance, on iOS and Android. Its App Store listing shows a 4.5 rating from 59 ratings. It suits a friend group that wants a sprint with a finish line rather than an open-ended tracker.

**Stakes apps** take a different route entirely. StickK and Beeminder put money on the line instead of friends, and they answer the honesty problem in a way no friend-list app can. They are a poor fit if what you liked about HabitShare was the friends, but if you want to see how they compare, our [Beeminder alternative](https://habithuddle.com/beeminder-alternative) page covers the trade.

## Pick by what you liked about HabitShare

- **It was free.** Habit Huddle's free plan, Habitica's free core app, Finch, or Loop. Daily Pact is a trial, not a free app.
- **Your own streak.** Habit Huddle, HabitRix, or Loop. Daily Pact folds it into the leaderboard.
- **Per-habit privacy.** HabitRix keeps the closest version. In Habit Huddle, huddles are exclusive to join and your streak is visible to the members you invited.
- **Seeing friends' progress.** Daily Pact for a ranking, Habit Huddle for cheers on the days they show up.
- **Simplicity.** Daily Pact or HabitRix. Habitica is the opposite of simple.
- **Android and iPhone in the same group.** Habit Huddle, Daily Pact, Habitica, HabitRix, and Finch all run on both. Loop is Android only.

For the free options in more depth, see our [free habit tracker with friends](https://habithuddle.com/blog/free-habit-tracker-with-friends) roundup. If you and one friend are all that matters, the [accountability buddy app](https://habithuddle.com/blog/accountability-buddy-app) guide is built for pairs.

## How to switch without losing your friend group

![Four friends carrying one big green checkmark across a bridge from an old grey phone to a bright new one](https://habithuddle.com/storage/seo/legacy/2455f16d578476c1a477dc60d27dda39c8574856.jpg)

None of these apps import HabitShare data, so your streak numbers will not carry over. That matters less than it sounds, and here is how to handle it.

1. **Pick the model before the app.** Ask the group one question: do we want to compare calendars, compete, play, or build something together? The answer picks the app in about a minute, and it saves you from switching twice.
2. **Start a fresh 30 days with the same friends.** A new start line is more motivating than a migrated counter. Give the habit a Floor small enough that every member can hit it on their worst day, and let the first month be about showing up, not about the number.
3. **Run both for a month.** Keep HabitShare installed while the group tries the new app. If everyone drifts to the new one, delete the old. If they do not, you have learned that the group needed a different model, not a different app, and you can pick again with better information.

The friend who set up the HabitShare group is the one who should send the new invite. Groups follow the person who started them.

## Try the with-friends model free

If the part of HabitShare you loved was having friends in it, start a huddle in [Habit Huddle](https://habithuddle.com/app). Set one habit with a Floor you can hit on a bad day, send the invite link to the friends from your HabitShare list, and post your first checkin. You keep your own streak, the group starts a Checkin Chain, and nobody ever has to stare at your empty squares. Joining is free for everyone you invite. Our [habit tracker with friends](https://habithuddle.com/habit-tracker-with-friends) page walks through the setup.

## Frequently asked questions

### Is HabitShare still free?

Yes. HabitShare's own site says the app is 100% free, and the App Store and Google Play listings both show no price. There is no paid tier to upgrade into. The catch is that the iOS app has not been updated since January 2023.

### Is HabitShare still being updated?

The App Store listing shows the last update on 27 January 2023, version 2.1.99. The app still works on current phones, but there has been no new feature or fix in over three and a half years, so treat it as maintenance mode.

### What is the best HabitShare alternative?

Habit Huddle if you want to keep your own streak and add a group that builds a Checkin Chain together, with a free plan and apps on web, iOS, and Android. Daily Pact if your group wants a leaderboard. Habitica if your friends want a game. HabitRix if you want HabitShare's exact model with an active developer.

### Is there a free HabitShare alternative with groups?

Yes. Habit Huddle's free plan covers one active habit with unlimited friends in the huddle, and joining by invite is always free. Habitica's free core app includes parties of up to ten. Daily Pact is a 14-day trial rather than a free app.

### Can I move my HabitShare streaks to another app?

No. None of the apps in this guide import HabitShare data. Start a fresh 30-day run with the same friends in the new app, and keep HabitShare installed for a month while the group settles in.