Apps: Habits On Android

Form A Habit
A simple looking habit tracker, Trackendar presents you with a calendar and marks whether you did what you wanted to do or not. You add a habit using the plus button and you get three choices: you can track the occurrence of the habit — did or did not; you can focus on seeing how you're doing while forming a habit; or set a value for when you want to track events to see how you're doing. The last is bound to be a little confusing. You can create multiple habits and events and get reminders and analytics. As you create new tracking items, you can choose colours and icons to make input quicker as you go on. But this app isn't as simple as it looks. As you delve into values you find you have quite a few choices on how to track numerically. This one is also available on iOS.

Analyse That Data
Whether you want to remember to read the news each day or update your blog once a week or pay your bills, you can just select from a whole database of these in Habit Tracker. There are even things like switching off all screens before going to bed. You can as well enter your own events, of course. For each item you can have a start date, end date, reminder, and notifications set when you want them. You can put them into categories, set frequency and repetitions and take notes. You don't get to choose unlimited habits though because you'll need to go premium for that. This will also enable different themes. The app also gives you analytics and let's you back up data. The premium version costs you Rs 166. It would have been nice to have a bit more going on in this interface though because habit tracking should also be a great pleasure.

Meet Your Goals
Based on android's flat 'material design,' Day by Day has a nice interface to punch in compliance with your goals. On one side we have the date and on the other, squares or circles to just touch to mark as done. You can track several things this way. Workout done or not done, blood sugar tested or not ... etc. As ever, you can set a notification to remind you of what you need to do. For those who don't want it to be complicated to track something, this could be the answer. It's also more visually appealing and lets you see at a glance, how you've been doing. Rather unnecessarily, the app has a separate part in its settings to let you change the order of the way you see your tracked habits. This could have so easily been part of the overall preferences which are anyway about the layout. But, Day by Day's got its appeal.