Habit Tracker With Friends: 7 Apps Compared

Seven habit trackers let another person see your daily result. StellarHabit, Daily Pact and Habit Huddle put it on a shared group scoreboard, Habitica turns it into a party game, HabitShare grants visibility friend by friend, and Cohorty and WIP show it to a wider group of people building the same thing. HabitShare is free with no in-app purchases, Habitica and Habit Huddle are free to start, and Daily Pact costs $0.99 a month after a 14-day trial. Progress monitoring raised goal attainment across 138 studies and 19,951 people, and the effect was larger when results were reported or made public (Harkin et al., 2016), which is the part a solo tracker cannot give you.

Search for a habit tracker you can use with friends and most of the results are lists of apps where nobody sees anything. A share button that exports a picture of your streak is not a friend feature. Before you talk three people into signing up for something, the question worth answering is narrow: when you tick a box tonight, what does your friend see tomorrow morning, and do they see it without you sending it?

What is the best habit tracker to use with friends?

The best one is the one whose sharing model your group will accept. If you want a small group to see every completion and a weekly ranking, StellarHabit is the one we build and the one we would pick, and Daily Pact is the closest native alternative. If you want to share two habits with one person and keep the rest private, HabitShare does that for free. If your friends would rather play than report, Habitica turns the week into a party quest. If you have no friends signed up yet, Cohorty matches you with strangers working on the same habit. Those are four different answers, and the comparison below is organised that way rather than as one league table.

The 7 best habit trackers with friends in 2026

Every price, platform and group limit below was read from the vendor’s own site or store listing on 19 August 2026. Where we could not find a figure on a page we could read, the cell says so instead of guessing.

The four ways an app can show a habit to a friend

Sharing is not one feature, it is four, and they produce very different amounts of pressure. A per-friend permission is quiet and easy to agree to, and it is also easy to ignore. A shared scoreboard is the loudest, because your record sits next to other people’s without anyone asking. Between them sit the game model, where your misses cost the team something inside the fiction, and the community model, where the audience is people you have never met.

The seven apps, one by one

1. StellarHabit, for a group that wants a scoreboard

StellarHabit is ours. You join a clan of a few people, and every completion lands in a live feed the group sees, alongside a weekly leaderboard and a consistency percentage. The percentage is the deliberate part: a missed Tuesday costs you a few points rather than resetting a streak to zero, which is the failure mode we wrote about in streaks versus consistency. It runs in any browser, so a group joins from a link with no app store account and no install. It is free to start, then $4.99 a month or $34.99 a year. What it does not do: there is no money at stake, and it is not the right tool if you want to track quietly on your own.

2. Daily Pact, the closest native alternative

Daily Pact is built on the same idea and shipped as a mobile app. You create a group, share an invite code, pick challenges together, and check in with one tap. Groups hold up to 50 members, and the leaderboard ranks by streak, weekly completions and all-time stats. PactPause is a nice touch: you request a break and the group votes on it. It is the paid option here, at $0.99 a month, $9.99 a year or $39.99 once, after a 14-day trial. What it does not do: it is iOS and Android only, so everyone in the group needs a phone that fits.

3. Habit Huddle, for a group that likes a floor

Habit Huddle asks you to set a floor and a ceiling for each habit, a minimum that still counts and an ambitious version, then counts a check in either case. The group builds a shared Checkin Chain on top of individual streaks, and members send cheers and nudges. It has the widest platform coverage in this list: web, iOS, Android and a Discord bot, which matters if your group already lives in Discord. The free tier starts with one habit. Night Owl check-ins accept a tick until 8am the next day, and a streak freeze covers one miss per 30 days.

4. Habitica, for friends who would rather play

Habitica turns tasks into a role-playing game, and the social layer is the Party. In the App Store’s own words, parties “let you team up with friends for extra accountability and battle fierce foes by completing tasks”, while Challenges are shared task lists you add to your own and Guilds group people around a shared interest. The accountability is indirect: your friends do not review your habit list, they feel the quest go slower. The app is free, including the social features, with a subscription from $4.99 a month that is mostly cosmetic. What it does not do: it is a lot of interface for someone who only wants to tick three boxes.

5. HabitShare, the free two-person default

HabitShare is the simplest honest answer to this query. You add friends, and for each friend you choose which habits they can see. The site is explicit that “by default, all habits are private”, which is why it works for a couple or for one accountability partner rather than for a group dynamic. It has reminders, streaks, charts and messages with gifs, it is on iOS and Android, and it is free with no in-app purchases. What it does not do: there is no leaderboard and no group feed, so nothing happens unless a friend goes looking.

6. Cohorty, when you have nobody to invite

The awkward part of every app above is that you need friends who will install it. Cohorty skips that by matching you with 5 to 15 people working on the same habit for a 30-day challenge, with a daily check-in and no obligation to post. Strangers are a weaker tie than a friend, but a weak tie that shows up beats a strong tie that never signed up. We could not find a pricing page we could read on 19 August 2026, so treat the cost as unconfirmed until you see it in the app.

7. WIP, for public accountability

WIP is not a habit tracker in the usual sense. It is a public feed where members post what they did today and keep a visible streak, built around people shipping projects. If your habit is work you are willing to publish, the audience is real and the tone is supportive. If your habit is flossing, this is the wrong room. Reading is free, there is a paid Pro tier, and we found no published price.

Which apps show up on these lists with no friend feature?

Enough of them that the list you are reading is worth checking before you trust it. We read the top-ranking article for this query on 19 August 2026. Of the seven apps it ranks as habit trackers with friends features, Streaks and Loop Habit Tracker have no mechanism at all for another person to see your record: Loop is an offline open source Android app with no accounts, and Streaks is a single-device Apple tracker. Habitify, which appears on many similar lists, is an excellent tracker whose own pricing page lists no social feature.

This is not a small editorial detail. If you pick an app from a list like that, invite two friends and then discover the sharing is a screenshot, the group is done before the second week. The test takes thirty seconds: open the app’s own site and look for a sentence about what a friend sees. If the only word you find is “share”, it is an export button.

Does tracking habits with friends actually work?

The visibility is the ingredient with evidence behind it, not the app. A 2016 meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin by Harkin and colleagues pooled 138 randomised studies covering 19,951 people and found that prompting people to monitor their progress raised goal attainment, with an effect size of d+ = 0.40. The same analysis reported that the effect was larger when progress was reported to someone or made public. That is the gap between a private tracker and a shared one, and it holds whichever of the seven apps you choose.

The evidence is about being seen, not about the app you were seen in.

One caution about what a group can and cannot fix. In the 2010 University College London study by Lally and colleagues, missing a single day did not measurably affect the automaticity curve, while repeated inconsistency did. So a group that punishes one missed day is optimising the wrong thing. What you want from the people watching is that they notice a pattern, not that they react to a Tuesday. That is also why a percentage is a better shared number than a streak, and why the apps in the scoreboard group differ from each other mostly in what they choose to rank.

How StellarHabit handles habits with friends

StellarHabit is built for the scoreboard model only. You join a clan of a few people, each completion shows up in a live feed the whole clan sees, and the number next to your name is the percentage of days you actually showed up, not a streak that resets. There is a chat in the clan and a weekly leaderboard, and the whole thing runs in a browser, so the friend who never installs anything has no excuse left. Free to start, $4.99 a month or $34.99 a year.

Where it is the wrong choice: if you want a financial penalty when you miss, we do not have one, and the apps that stake money are a different category. If you want to track privately with nobody watching, a solo app will annoy you less. And if you have nobody to invite yet, start with finding one accountability partner before you build a clan, because a group of one is just a tracker with extra steps.