The Best Free Habit Tracker Apps With Friends (2026)

Solo habit trackers have a problem: it's too easy to stop using them. There's no one watching, no consequence for skipping a day, and no one to celebrate with when you hit a streak.

That's why habit tracker apps with friends have been gaining ground. When your friends can see your progress — and you can see theirs — skipping feels harder and showing up feels more rewarding.

This is a comparison of eight habit tracker apps with friends, ranked by how much of the social part you get without paying. Prices are US storefront, checked 10 September 2026. We build Daily Pact, so read our pick with that in mind; the rest of the list says plainly where another app does something better.

The quick comparison

One honest note before the list: only three of these are fully free with friends included — HabitShare, Cohorty and Squad's private squads. Everything else is a free tier, a trial, or a one-off purchase.

1. Daily Pact — best habit tracker app with friends for group accountability

Daily Pact is built specifically for building habits with friends. You create a private group, invite friends with a code, and set daily or weekly challenges for any goal. Everyone checks in with one tap, and the leaderboard ranks the group by completion percentage.

Why it stands out:

• Groups, not just sharing — your friends aren't just watching; you're doing the challenge together
• Leaderboards — real-time rankings by completion percentage
• PactPause — your group votes to protect your streak when life gets in the way
• One-tap check-in — the fastest way to mark your day done
• Push notifications — know when friends complete their challenges

What's free: 14 days with every feature — unlimited groups with up to 50 members, unlimited challenges, leaderboards, streak tracking and push notifications. No credit card required.

After the trial: $0.99/mo, $9.99/yr or $39.99 for lifetime access. There is no permanently free tier, which is the honest trade-off: the price is low precisely because there are no ads and no upsells inside the app.

Download: iPhone · Android

2. HabitShare — best fully free option for sharing with friends

HabitShare lets you share your habit streaks with friends. Create daily or weekly habits, track them, and pick habit by habit which friends can see your progress. Habits are private by default.

Pros:

• Completely free, no premium tier
• Per-habit privacy: share specific habits with specific friends
• Simple and clean interface, on both iOS and Android

Cons:

• No group challenges — it's individual habits only
• No leaderboards or competitive features
• No streak protection
• The App Store listing hasn't been updated since January 2023

Best for: people who want to share individual habits with a few close friends without any competition, and don't mind an app that isn't actively developed.

3. Habit Huddle — best free tier for a bigger community

Habit Huddle organises people into "huddles", which can be public communities or invite-only groups. Each member keeps their own streak while contributing to a shared "Checkin Chain", and monthly seasons reset the leaderboard so new members can still win.

Pros:

• Free tier with unlimited habits
• The most forgiving app here: a streak freeze every 30 days, a 14-day vacation mode, and night-owl check-ins that count until 8am
• Works on the web and through Discord, as well as iOS and Android

Cons:

• Paid plans are steep: Builder from $8/mo or $54/yr, Champion from $16/mo
• Launched in late 2025, so the community is still small
• A lot of features to learn before your first check-in

Best for: people who want a community around their habit, not only their own friends, and who like seasons and analytics.

4. Squad — free with friends, credits with strangers

Squad runs time-boxed challenges of one to four weeks. Private squads with friends are completely free. Public squads use credits: you join with credits, earn them back by checking in, and lose one every time you miss.

Pros:

• Private squads with friends cost nothing
• Structured 10, 21 and 30-day challenges starting every week
• Logging a miss is part of the design, which keeps the data honest

Cons:

• Public squads need credits: 12 for $9.99, 30 for $24.99, 60 for $49.99
• Squad Pro is $8.99/mo or $74.99/yr
• No leaderboards or streak protection; challenges end after four weeks

Best for: friend groups who like a start and end date, and people who stick to a goal when missing costs something.

5. Cohorty — free, and you don't need friends

Cohorty matches you into a cohort of 5 to 15 people doing the same 7 to 30-day challenge. There's no group chat and no obligation to encourage anyone. You check in, your cohort sees a mark, and that's the whole deal.

Pros:

• Free at the time of checking, with premium features planned
• No friends required — the cohort is matched for you
• Low-noise "quiet accountability"

Cons:

• You're accountable to strangers, which some people find easy to ignore
• Web and iOS only; Android is listed as coming
• The cohort ends when the challenge does

Best for: anyone whose friends keep dropping out of challenges.

6. Habitica — best free option if you want a game

Habitica turns your habits into an RPG. Complete habits to earn XP, level up your character, and join parties to battle bosses together — miss a daily and your party takes damage.

Pros:

• The core app is free on web, iOS and Android
• Parties give you real peer pressure; guilds and challenges add community
• Huge community and wiki

Cons:

• Complex onboarding (5–10 minutes to set up)
• The gaming metaphor isn't for everyone
• Habitica Plus ($4.99/mo or $47.99/yr) is cosmetic — it doesn't add tracking features
• Social features are secondary to the RPG mechanics

Best for: people who love RPGs and want to gamify their whole task and habit system.

7. Streaks — best solo tracker on Apple, but nothing is free

Streaks is an Apple Design Award winner with a beautiful, minimal interface. It's focused on daily habits tracked from iPhone and Apple Watch. It's on this list because people searching for habit trackers keep finding it, not because it has friends features — it has none.

Pros:

• Gorgeous Apple Watch complication
• A 24-habit limit keeps you focused
• One-time purchase, no subscription

Cons:

• $5.99 up front, no free version
• iOS only — no Android
• No social features whatsoever

Best for: solo habit trackers in the Apple ecosystem who want a premium, minimal app.

8. Finch — best free self-care companion, solo only

Finch is a self-care companion where you raise a virtual pet by completing self-care activities. It's gentle, encouraging and focused on mental health, and it has one of the largest and happiest user bases of any app on this list.

Pros:

• Free core app with a genuinely kind tone
• Great for mental health and small daily routines

Cons:

• Solo app — no friend or group features inside the app
• Focused on self-care specifically, not general habits
• Finch Plus is about $9.99/mo or $69.99/yr

Best for: people looking for a gentle self-care companion rather than accountability.

Shared habit tracker apps: which of these actually share?

"Shared habit tracker" means two different things, and the apps above split between them. HabitShare shares a view: you track alone and let chosen friends see it. Daily Pact, Habit Huddle, Squad and Cohorty share a challenge: everyone is on the same goal with one scoreboard. If you want the second kind for a family or a team, our shared habit tracker comparison goes deeper, including the Notion template route.

Which habit tracker app with friends should you choose?

• Want group accountability with people you know? → Daily Pact is built for this
• Want to share habits casually, for free? → HabitShare
• Want a community bigger than your friends? → Habit Huddle
• Want stakes? → Squad
• Don't have reliable friends for this? → Cohorty
• Want a game? → Habitica
• Want a minimal solo tracker? → Streaks
• Want a self-care companion? → Finch

If you've tried solo habit trackers and keep quitting, the social element is probably what's missing. Give Daily Pact a try — the 14-day free trial gives you full access to every feature. For a wider look at paid coaching and AI accountability, see our roundup of the best accountability apps for friends and groups.