I have downloaded four habit trackers and abandoned all four. The pattern was identical every time: a good first week, a decent second week, then one missed day I did not want to look at, and by week six I had stopped opening the app entirely. Meanwhile my actual task list stayed open all day, every day, because it had real work in it.
That is the case for putting both in one app, and it is also where most combined apps go wrong. Here is what the options actually look like in 2026. I build one of them.
Why Separate Habit Trackers Die
A habit tracker has nothing in it except your own virtue. There is no incoming work, nobody waiting on you, no consequence to not opening it. So the only thing keeping you in the app is the streak, and the moment the streak breaks, the app's single reason to exist goes with it. That is a brutal design to survive a bad week.
A task list is the opposite. Things arrive in it whether you feel like it or not, so you open it regardless of mood. Anything attached to it inherits that momentum. That is the real argument for combining them, and it has nothing to do with saving an app icon.
The Options, Compared
| App | Habits | Tasks | Setup cost | Paid from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TickTick | Full tracker, goals, streaks | Full task manager | High | $3.99/mo |
| Habitica | Habits and dailies, gamified | Basic to-dos | High | About $5/mo |
| Streaks | Excellent, up to 24 habits | None | Low | $5 one-off, iOS only |
| Notion | Only if you build it | Only if you build it | Very high | About $10/mo |
| Loop Habit Tracker | Good, open source | None | Low | Free, Android |
| Taskaro | No habits, year-long activity graph | Board, notes, timer | None | $3.49/mo |
1. TickTick: The Real Answer If You Want Both Properly
If the brief is literally "one app with a habit tracker and a to-do list," TickTick is the honest recommendation. The habit section has goals, custom schedules, streak history and reminders, and it sits next to a genuinely strong task manager and a Pomodoro timer.
The catch: setup. Creating a habit means naming it, choosing a goal, picking days, setting a reminder time. Do that eight times and you have spent an evening on a system you have not tested. I ended up with 14 habits, most of which I had stopped doing, which I wrote about in TickTick vs Taskaro. The habit tracker is also behind Premium limits past a few habits.
2. Habitica: Best If Guilt Does Not Work on You
Habitica turns habits and tasks into a role-playing game. You have a character, it takes damage when you skip dailies, and you can join a party with friends. For people who are entirely unmoved by a streak counter, the external structure genuinely works.
The catch: it is a game, with the maintenance a game implies. If you stop caring about the character, the whole motivational layer collapses at once. The task management underneath is also basic, so it will not replace a real list.
3. Streaks or Loop: Best Habits, No Tasks
Streaks on iOS and Loop Habit Tracker on Android are both excellent at the one job. Big buttons, clear streak history, fast. Loop is free and open source. Streaks is a one-off purchase.
The catch: no tasks at all, so you are running two apps. Which is fine, and sometimes correct, but it is the arrangement that failed for me and for most people who go looking for a combined app in the first place.
4. Notion: Both, Eventually
You can build a habit tracker and a task board in one Notion workspace, with a checkbox grid and rollups that calculate streaks. It is impressive and it will work.
The catch: the build. A habit tracker that requires formula properties is a project, and the time goes into designing the tracker rather than doing the habit. Fine if you enjoy that. Fatal if you were already struggling with consistency.
5. Taskaro: No Habits, and That Is the Design
Mine, and it is the odd one out here, so let me be straight about it. Taskaro has no habit tracker. You cannot create a habit, set a goal, or get a reminder to meditate. What it has instead is a contribution graph: a year of squares that fill in when you complete tasks, like the activity grid on a GitHub profile.
The difference matters. A habit tracker asks you to declare your intentions in advance and then measures you against them. The graph measures what you actually did, with no setup and no declaration. Nothing to configure, nothing to feel bad about having configured and abandoned. It lives next to the kanban board, so it fills in as a side effect of work you were doing anyway.
The catch, plainly: this is not a habit tracker and it will not do a habit tracker's job. If you want to track flossing, meditation or gym days specifically, Taskaro cannot do it, and you should use TickTick or Loop. The graph is also a Pro feature, and the free tier caps you at 3 tasks a day. No iOS app. Pro is $3.49 a month or $26.99 a year.
Which to Pick
- Pick TickTick if you want a real habit tracker properly attached to a real task manager.
- Pick Habitica if streaks alone have never motivated you and a game might.
- Pick Streaks or Loop if habits are the actual priority and you will keep tasks elsewhere.
- Pick Notion if building the tracker is part of the appeal.
- Pick Taskaro if what you want is evidence you showed up, not a list of commitments to break.
If a streak counter is what kept you going in the past, read why I put habits and tasks in one app before you pick.
The Thing Worth Knowing Before You Install Anything
Every app here can hold a habit. None of them can make you do it on a bad Tuesday, and the ones that lean hardest on streaks can actively make a bad Tuesday worse. Before you pick, read how productivity streaks backfire, because the failure mode is specific and worth seeing coming.
The combined app is a real advantage for one boring reason: you already open your task list. Attach consistency tracking to the thing you open anyway, and it survives. Give it its own icon, and it is gone by week six.