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Thomas Frank Study Tips, The 8 Best Habit Tracking Apps in 2019

The 8 Best Habit Tracking Apps in 2019

- Hey what is up guys?

So in today's video we're gonna be taking a look

at one of my favorite types of apps in the entire world,

the humble habit tracker.

This very simple type of app helps you

to build strong habits or break bad ones

by leveraging what's been called

the don't break the chain strategy.

For some reason when our brains see

that we have done something for a long period of time

or haven't done something

for the same long period of time,

we don't wanna break the chain,

we don't wanna break the pattern.

So essentially a habit tracker just lets you check off

whether or not you've done something every single day

and over time you get a visual indication of your progress

and that keeps you motivated

to keep progressing in the right direction.

Now since habit trackers are very simple,

they're also not that difficult to make

in comparison to other apps

and as a result there are a ton of them out there

whether you're on iOS, Android,

or just looking for a web app version.

So what we're gonna do today is I'm gonna share my picks

for the top eight habit trackers

that deserve your attention here in 2019.

And for an app to make my list,

it has to do something beyond

just letting you check off whether or not you did a habit,

it has to bring something unique to the table

and without further ado

let's just jump into the number eight pick on my list

which is called Habitify.

Now Habitify makes my list because it is very well designed.

In fact, across all the apps that I tested for this video,

I found Habitify's combination of simplicity

and really nice UI

to be at least the most attractive to my eyes

and in addition to that it is also cross-platform,

you're gonna find it on Android, iOS, iPad,

and there's even a Mac app as well.

Additionally, you're gonna find features like a dark mode,

lots of fancy charts and graphs to track your progress

and if you are an iOS person,

you're gonna find Apple watch apps,

a widget for your iPhone home screen,

even an iMessage app as well

which I have not seen in any other app that I've looked at.

Next up on my list is an app called HabitHub

which gains the distinction

of being the only Android exclusive app to make this list.

Now a lot of the other apps

I'm gonna talk about in a little bit have Android versions

but this is the only Android exclusive

so if you're an Android person and you wanna

lord it over your iPhone friends

that you got an app that they can't use,

well this is probably the one

that you're gonna wanna pick.

HabitHub also has a really nice design

and it has a couple of other features

that I really enjoyed as well

including the ability to have goals for your habit streaks

so you can do things like having a 30-day challenge

and the ability to mark a habit as skipped

instead of just failed.

So if you had a business trip

or you found yourself sick for some reason,

you could mark something as skipped,

you could add a note to it to explain why you had to skip it

and you're gonna get a visual indication

of it being skipped rather than just failed

or not marked altogether.

That brings us to number six on the list which is TickTick

and TickTick isn't really a purpose-built habit tracker,

it's actually a full-fledged task management/to-do app

that is very similar to Todoist

and I actually talked about it in my video

on the best task management apps since 2019

which you'll find linked in description down below

if you haven't seen that

but now they have actually integrated

a habit tracker into the app and for a really long time,

I've been getting questions from all kinds of people

asking me, Tom is there a task management app out there

that also integrates a habit tracker

and for the longest time,

my answer to that question has been no

or at least I don't know of one.

But now TickTick has filled that void

so if you wanna have your task management

and your habit tracking living in one place,

in the same app, on the same screen,

TickTick is gonna be what you probably wanna go with

for both of those purposes.

Now if you are one of those people

who wants a little bit more complexity

in your habit tracking,

then you might want to pay attention

to number five on my list which is Beeminder.

And yes, I've talked about Beeminder

many, many times in this channel,

it was most recently profiled in my video

on apps that force you to work

so I'm not gonna talk too much about Beeminder

but in case you haven't heard of it,

it is an app that allows you to essentially

put money on the line to ensure that you do your habits

and in addition to that financial incentive part of the app,

there is just a lot of data in Beeminder.

You can look at all these crazy charts and graphs,

you can see all of your data points,

you can get really, really nerdy with this app

and it also holds the distinction of being the app

that can pull in data from the largest amount of sources

that I've ever seen.

It can pull on Apple health data,

it can pull on data from all kinds

of other quantified self-apps

and it can even connect up to IFTTT

which can basically let you pull data from literally

any other service in the world

that you can probably think of

through some weird combination of home automation

Python scripts and whatever it is

you programming nerds like to build out there,

you can probably use it to shove data into Beeminder.

But let's say for a second that all that data

is not the top priority for you

because you are a person of culture,

you are a person who prides and values aesthetics

over everything else.

Well if that is the case and if you have an iPhone

'cause the one we're gonna talk about here

is an iOS exclusive,

then you may want to look at number four on the list

which is called Today.

Today is a beautiful app, in fact,

it might even be a little bit too beautiful for my taste.

In fact, the reason that it's not a little bit higher

on this list is because I feel

some of the aesthetics get in the way

of using the app really quickly and efficiently.

That being said, it is a very capable habit tracker

under the hood in addition to all the nice design and UI

and it even packs in some features for free

that other apps charge you monthly subscription fee for.

Now of course you can do all the basics,

you can add habits, you can check them off,

you can do multiple check-ins per day

but you can also set specific covers for your habits

so you get that nice little splash screen for each one

and one thing that I'd really like

is that for each habit you can add

what are called custom cards to the data area for the habit

and well, it can't pull in your Apple health data

to actually hold your feet to the fire like Beeminder can,

so you can't do something like having a walking goal

and then pulling in your steps data to check it off

or not check it off, you can add in Apple health data

for some extra context for your habits

which is a really nice touch.

Plus Today is just pretty, did I mention that?

All right, I will stop gushing about Today's design.

Let's move on to number three on the list

which is Coach.me and I didn't put it on there

'cause it rhymes though that is a nice little coincidence.

So Coach.me is actually the first habit tracker

that I ever used back when I was using it,

it was called Lift,

though it has since rebranded to Coach.me

and as you might imagine

there is now a coaching component to the app

and that is actually what makes it pretty unique.

Now at its core, Coach.me is a very capable habit tracker,

you can add in your habits, you can check them off,

there's nice high-five animations sometimes

but there's also a big community element to the app as well

both in the form of coaching

and in the form of a simple community with discussions.

So for any habit that you add to your list,

if it is a common habit,

there's probably gonna be questions

and discussion threads for those questions from other users.

You can use that to get tips and additional motivation.

If that discussion area isn't enough for you,

you can also go over to the coaching section of the app

which is where it gets its namesake

and for a lot less money than I've seen

in almost any other coaching venue

that I've come across online,

you can get personalized check-ins with coaches

for basically any habit that you're trying to build

or goal that you're trying to achieve.

Now if I had to guess, I would say you probably get

a little less personalized attention,

a little less time than you'd get with an actual coach

but a lot of people don't need

a ton of personalized attention,

a lot of people don't need to pay $60

for an hour of a coach's time.

Some people just need to be able

to check in with somebody a couple of times a week

and just have someone there to keep them on track

and that's the need that this app fills.

All right, homestretch baby,

we are on to number two on the list

and it is what has been my favorite habit tracker,

my habit tracker of choice for a very long time,

it's called Strides and it is unfortunately

an iOS exclusive once again

but hey, the Android people got HabitHub

so you can't complain too much, right?

So at least on the surface, I would say that Strides

is pretty similar to Habitify.

Both have really clean professional UIs,

both are very fast, they're snappy, they are a joy to use.

But where Habitify is a little bit more rigid

in the types of goals that you can set up and track,

Strides is more flexible, it has some additional options

for the types of habits that you can set up within it.

For one, you can set up street goals

which are great for things like 30-day challenges

and you can also set goals to be either yes or no,

did you do them, did you not,

or based on a certain quantity of things,

so if you wanna take like 10,000 steps a day,

you could actually type in that number

if you really wanted to

but the feature that I like the most about Strides

and this is something that I have not seen

in any other habit tracker that I've tested

is the ability to track an average for a specific habit.

So if you want to make sure

you're not playing too many hours of video games each week

or you wanna just track the number of times

you go to the gym

which you don't have a specific goal for it,

this is a great feature and I love it.

But not as much as I love the number one app on this list

which is of course Habitica.

In my humble opinion, Habitica goes beyond

all other habit trackers out there

because instead of just letting you track your habits,

it lets you turn your life into a bonafide video game.

Habitica is basically an RPG

with habit tracking elements built in

and instead of just working on yourself,

you're working on yourself

while also building up a character in the game

that can go on quests and party up with people

and get mounts and all kinds of gear

and all kinds of fun stuff.

Now I will readily admit that I am a nerd

and not everyone out there is a nerd,

maybe you're not a nerd.

- Nerd!

- So Habitica is not for everyone,

there's a lot going on in that game,

there's all kinds of stats and buffs

and all kinds of crazy stuff

which is why I made this list.

There's seven other picks on the list that you could go for

if you want something a little bit more simple

but in my experience, all of the gamification elements

that are built in to Habitica are really, really motivating.

If you get into the game,

then you really don't want to fail on your habits

'cause you're trying to build up some gold

to get a new piece of gear or you're trying to level up

so you can actually cast more powerful spells

or, and I think this is the most genius part of Habitica,

you can actually party up with other people,

real-life humans, and you can go on quests

and fight bosses together and when you are fighting a boss,

at the end of each day that boss is going to attack you

and it will never damage you

unless somebody in your party fails to do their habits

or if they mark off a negative habit

like smoking a cigarette or eating junk food.

If people don't stick to what they're supposed to be doing,

everyone in the group gets hurt

and if you run out of health and die,

you actually lose a piece of gear

so there's this great accountability element to Habitica

that a lot of other habit trackers just don't have.

Plus in contrast to a lot of the other

habit tracking apps out there,

all the core habit tracking functionality

in Habitica is free.

If you get really into the game,

you can buy gems for certain purposes

or you can actually donate directly to the team if you want

but all of the habit tracking features,

those don't cost anything to use

and this is something that I really respect about Habitica.

That and the fact that I can put

a pair of steampunk goggles and a top hat on my character.

Now no matter which habit tracker you do choose to go with,

one habit that should probably be on it

is taking some time to do some independent learning each day

and that's something that you can easily do

with the daily challenges feature on Brilliant.

Each day new challenges are posted

that can test and stretch your problem-solving skills

in areas like calculus, physics, computer science,

statistics, astronomy, and much more.

And if a particular problem piques your interest,

you'll also find dozens of full-fledged in-depth courses

in Brilliant's course library

that can improve your knowledge even further.

Each course uses the principle of active learning

to help you learn as effectively as possible

while keeping your level of interest high at the same time

so if you want to start boosting your problem-solving skills

on a daily basis which can help improve your job prospects

and even help you become more creative,

then head over to Brilliant.org/ThomasFrank

and sign up for free.

Free account gets you access

to new daily challenges every single day

and if you do decide to go for their premium subscription,

you're gonna get access

to their entire daily challenges archive

with lots more problems to sink your teeth into

and all their in-depth courses as well.

Plus if you're one of the first 200 people to sign up

using that link which you'll find

down in the description below

you're also gonna get 20% off

that annual premium subscription.

Huge thanks as always goes out to Brilliant

for sponsoring this video

and being a big supporter of my channel

and thank you to you as well for watching.

If you enjoyed this video, hit that like button

to get subscribed right there

so you don't miss out on future ones when they come out.

And you can also click right there

to get a free copy of my book on how to earn better grades

if you haven't done so already.

Or if you are perhaps in the mood

to watch more videos here on YouTube,

you can find one more video on this channel right over here

or listen to our latest podcast episode right over here.

Thanks again for watching

and I will see you as always in the next one.

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- Hey what is up guys?

So in today's video we're gonna be taking a look

at one of my favorite types of apps in the entire world,

the humble habit tracker.

This very simple type of app helps you

to build strong habits or break bad ones

by leveraging what's been called

the don't break the chain strategy.

For some reason when our brains see

that we have done something for a long period of time

or haven't done something

for the same long period of time,

we don't wanna break the chain,

we don't wanna break the pattern.

So essentially a habit tracker just lets you check off

whether or not you've done something every single day

and over time you get a visual indication of your progress

and that keeps you motivated

to keep progressing in the right direction.

Now since habit trackers are very simple,

they're also not that difficult to make

in comparison to other apps

and as a result there are a ton of them out there

whether you're on iOS, Android,

or just looking for a web app version.

So what we're gonna do today is I'm gonna share my picks

for the top eight habit trackers

that deserve your attention here in 2019.

And for an app to make my list,

it has to do something beyond

just letting you check off whether or not you did a habit,

it has to bring something unique to the table

and without further ado

let's just jump into the number eight pick on my list

which is called Habitify.

Now Habitify makes my list because it is very well designed.

In fact, across all the apps that I tested for this video,

I found Habitify's combination of simplicity

and really nice UI

to be at least the most attractive to my eyes

and in addition to that it is also cross-platform,

you're gonna find it on Android, iOS, iPad,

and there's even a Mac app as well.

Additionally, you're gonna find features like a dark mode,

lots of fancy charts and graphs to track your progress

and if you are an iOS person,

you're gonna find Apple watch apps,

a widget for your iPhone home screen,

even an iMessage app as well

which I have not seen in any other app that I've looked at.

Next up on my list is an app called HabitHub

which gains the distinction

of being the only Android exclusive app to make this list.

Now a lot of the other apps

I'm gonna talk about in a little bit have Android versions

but this is the only Android exclusive

so if you're an Android person and you wanna

lord it over your iPhone friends

that you got an app that they can't use,

well this is probably the one

that you're gonna wanna pick.

HabitHub also has a really nice design

and it has a couple of other features

that I really enjoyed as well

including the ability to have goals for your habit streaks

so you can do things like having a 30-day challenge

and the ability to mark a habit as skipped

instead of just failed.

So if you had a business trip

or you found yourself sick for some reason,

you could mark something as skipped,

you could add a note to it to explain why you had to skip it

and you're gonna get a visual indication

of it being skipped rather than just failed

or not marked altogether.

That brings us to number six on the list which is TickTick

and TickTick isn't really a purpose-built habit tracker,

it's actually a full-fledged task management/to-do app

that is very similar to Todoist

and I actually talked about it in my video

on the best task management apps since 2019

which you'll find linked in description down below

if you haven't seen that

but now they have actually integrated

a habit tracker into the app and for a really long time,

I've been getting questions from all kinds of people

asking me, Tom is there a task management app out there

that also integrates a habit tracker

and for the longest time,

my answer to that question has been no

or at least I don't know of one.

But now TickTick has filled that void

so if you wanna have your task management

and your habit tracking living in one place,

in the same app, on the same screen,

TickTick is gonna be what you probably wanna go with

for both of those purposes.

Now if you are one of those people

who wants a little bit more complexity

in your habit tracking,

then you might want to pay attention

to number five on my list which is Beeminder.

And yes, I've talked about Beeminder

many, many times in this channel,

it was most recently profiled in my video

on apps that force you to work

so I'm not gonna talk too much about Beeminder

but in case you haven't heard of it,

it is an app that allows you to essentially

put money on the line to ensure that you do your habits

and in addition to that financial incentive part of the app,

there is just a lot of data in Beeminder.

You can look at all these crazy charts and graphs,

you can see all of your data points,

you can get really, really nerdy with this app

and it also holds the distinction of being the app

that can pull in data from the largest amount of sources

that I've ever seen.

It can pull on Apple health data,

it can pull on data from all kinds

of other quantified self-apps

and it can even connect up to IFTTT

which can basically let you pull data from literally

any other service in the world

that you can probably think of

through some weird combination of home automation

Python scripts and whatever it is

you programming nerds like to build out there,

you can probably use it to shove data into Beeminder.

But let's say for a second that all that data

is not the top priority for you

because you are a person of culture,

you are a person who prides and values aesthetics

over everything else.

Well if that is the case and if you have an iPhone

'cause the one we're gonna talk about here

is an iOS exclusive,

then you may want to look at number four on the list

which is called Today.

Today is a beautiful app, in fact,

it might even be a little bit too beautiful for my taste.

In fact, the reason that it's not a little bit higher

on this list is because I feel

some of the aesthetics get in the way

of using the app really quickly and efficiently.

That being said, it is a very capable habit tracker

under the hood in addition to all the nice design and UI

and it even packs in some features for free

that other apps charge you monthly subscription fee for.

Now of course you can do all the basics,

you can add habits, you can check them off,

you can do multiple check-ins per day

but you can also set specific covers for your habits

so you get that nice little splash screen for each one

and one thing that I'd really like

is that for each habit you can add

what are called custom cards to the data area for the habit

and well, it can't pull in your Apple health data

to actually hold your feet to the fire like Beeminder can,

so you can't do something like having a walking goal

and then pulling in your steps data to check it off

or not check it off, you can add in Apple health data

for some extra context for your habits

which is a really nice touch.

Plus Today is just pretty, did I mention that?

All right, I will stop gushing about Today's design.

Let's move on to number three on the list

which is Coach.me and I didn't put it on there

'cause it rhymes though that is a nice little coincidence.

So Coach.me is actually the first habit tracker

that I ever used back when I was using it,

it was called Lift,

though it has since rebranded to Coach.me

and as you might imagine

there is now a coaching component to the app

and that is actually what makes it pretty unique.

Now at its core, Coach.me is a very capable habit tracker,

you can add in your habits, you can check them off,

there's nice high-five animations sometimes

but there's also a big community element to the app as well

both in the form of coaching

and in the form of a simple community with discussions.

So for any habit that you add to your list,

if it is a common habit,

there's probably gonna be questions

and discussion threads for those questions from other users.

You can use that to get tips and additional motivation.

If that discussion area isn't enough for you,

you can also go over to the coaching section of the app

which is where it gets its namesake

and for a lot less money than I've seen

in almost any other coaching venue

that I've come across online,

you can get personalized check-ins with coaches

for basically any habit that you're trying to build

or goal that you're trying to achieve.

Now if I had to guess, I would say you probably get

a little less personalized attention,

a little less time than you'd get with an actual coach

but a lot of people don't need

a ton of personalized attention,

a lot of people don't need to pay $60

for an hour of a coach's time.

Some people just need to be able

to check in with somebody a couple of times a week

and just have someone there to keep them on track

and that's the need that this app fills.

All right, homestretch baby,

we are on to number two on the list

and it is what has been my favorite habit tracker,

my habit tracker of choice for a very long time,

it's called Strides and it is unfortunately

an iOS exclusive once again

but hey, the Android people got HabitHub

so you can't complain too much, right?

So at least on the surface, I would say that Strides

is pretty similar to Habitify.

Both have really clean professional UIs,

both are very fast, they're snappy, they are a joy to use.

But where Habitify is a little bit more rigid

in the types of goals that you can set up and track,

Strides is more flexible, it has some additional options

for the types of habits that you can set up within it.

For one, you can set up street goals

which are great for things like 30-day challenges

and you can also set goals to be either yes or no,

did you do them, did you not,

or based on a certain quantity of things,

so if you wanna take like 10,000 steps a day,

you could actually type in that number

if you really wanted to

but the feature that I like the most about Strides

and this is something that I have not seen

in any other habit tracker that I've tested

is the ability to track an average for a specific habit.

So if you want to make sure

you're not playing too many hours of video games each week

or you wanna just track the number of times

you go to the gym

which you don't have a specific goal for it,

this is a great feature and I love it.

But not as much as I love the number one app on this list

which is of course Habitica.

In my humble opinion, Habitica goes beyond

all other habit trackers out there

because instead of just letting you track your habits,

it lets you turn your life into a bonafide video game.

Habitica is basically an RPG

with habit tracking elements built in

and instead of just working on yourself,

you're working on yourself

while also building up a character in the game

that can go on quests and party up with people

and get mounts and all kinds of gear

and all kinds of fun stuff.

Now I will readily admit that I am a nerd

and not everyone out there is a nerd,

maybe you're not a nerd.

- Nerd!

- So Habitica is not for everyone,

there's a lot going on in that game,

there's all kinds of stats and buffs

and all kinds of crazy stuff

which is why I made this list.

There's seven other picks on the list that you could go for

if you want something a little bit more simple

but in my experience, all of the gamification elements

that are built in to Habitica are really, really motivating.

If you get into the game,

then you really don't want to fail on your habits

'cause you're trying to build up some gold

to get a new piece of gear or you're trying to level up

so you can actually cast more powerful spells

or, and I think this is the most genius part of Habitica,

you can actually party up with other people,

real-life humans, and you can go on quests

and fight bosses together and when you are fighting a boss,

at the end of each day that boss is going to attack you

and it will never damage you

unless somebody in your party fails to do their habits

or if they mark off a negative habit

like smoking a cigarette or eating junk food.

If people don't stick to what they're supposed to be doing,

everyone in the group gets hurt

and if you run out of health and die,

you actually lose a piece of gear

so there's this great accountability element to Habitica

that a lot of other habit trackers just don't have.

Plus in contrast to a lot of the other

habit tracking apps out there,

all the core habit tracking functionality

in Habitica is free.

If you get really into the game,

you can buy gems for certain purposes

or you can actually donate directly to the team if you want

but all of the habit tracking features,

those don't cost anything to use

and this is something that I really respect about Habitica.

That and the fact that I can put

a pair of steampunk goggles and a top hat on my character.

Now no matter which habit tracker you do choose to go with,

one habit that should probably be on it

is taking some time to do some independent learning each day

and that's something that you can easily do

with the daily challenges feature on Brilliant.

Each day new challenges are posted

that can test and stretch your problem-solving skills

in areas like calculus, physics, computer science,

statistics, astronomy, and much more.

And if a particular problem piques your interest,

you'll also find dozens of full-fledged in-depth courses

in Brilliant's course library

that can improve your knowledge even further.

Each course uses the principle of active learning

to help you learn as effectively as possible

while keeping your level of interest high at the same time

so if you want to start boosting your problem-solving skills

on a daily basis which can help improve your job prospects

and even help you become more creative,

then head over to Brilliant.org/ThomasFrank

and sign up for free.

Free account gets you access

to new daily challenges every single day

and if you do decide to go for their premium subscription,

you're gonna get access

to their entire daily challenges archive

with lots more problems to sink your teeth into

and all their in-depth courses as well.

Plus if you're one of the first 200 people to sign up

using that link which you'll find

down in the description below

you're also gonna get 20% off

that annual premium subscription.

Huge thanks as always goes out to Brilliant

for sponsoring this video

and being a big supporter of my channel

and thank you to you as well for watching.

If you enjoyed this video, hit that like button

to get subscribed right there

so you don't miss out on future ones when they come out.

And you can also click right there

to get a free copy of my book on how to earn better grades

if you haven't done so already.

Or if you are perhaps in the mood

to watch more videos here on YouTube,

you can find one more video on this channel right over here

or listen to our latest podcast episode right over here.

Thanks again for watching

and I will see you as always in the next one.