Habit Tracking App - vacation suspend

July 7, 2017 9:11 PM

Last year, I did very well establishing and tracking habits on HabitBull in my iPhone but now I need a new habit tracker for Android.

None of the habits were too fancy - floss teeth daily, walk the dogs, eat two servings of fruit. However, it always bothered me that Habit Bull didn't have a "vacation" or "sick" setting for a habit, so you could account for not walking the dogs while out of town on vacation, far away from your dogs. I'd prefer to suspend a habit than lie and say I did it when I couldn't, which Strides app seems to recommend.

I eventually found Habit List that let you skip for vacation when I was still on my iPhone, but now I'm on an Android phone.

So what I'm looking for is a fairly simple habit tracker for Android, similar to Habit List for iPhone, that allows you to suspend habits without breaking your streak or ruining your stats.

posted by Squeak Attack to Technology (3 answers total)

I've been using Loop Habit Tracker for the past year and a half, and mostly love it--it's flexible, fairly customizable with lots of granular timing and reminder options, and the UI is simple and plain. I don't think they offer a vacation mode (but I do think you can archive tasks, then un-archive them), but I've been wanting a feature like this for a while so just wrote them to ask!
posted by tapir-whorf at 2:39 AM on July 8, 2017

Have you tried Habitica? (formally Habit RPG). When you want to pause you can check in to the inn. Its on desktop and phone. You can even form groups with your friends and do quests if you want (but you don't have to)
posted by missmagenta at 9:53 AM on July 8, 2017

Response by poster: I have avoided Habitica because 1) I don't want a game, I don't play computer games, I just a want a tracker, and 2) I don't have an interest in any social or sharing aspect.

But if it's the only option that does the pause/suspend, I'll take a look at it.
posted by Squeak Attack at 11:17 AM on July 8, 2017