A Loop Habit Tracker alternative for every device

Loop only runs on Android. The moment your day involves a work laptop, an iPad or an iPhone, there is no version of it to open, and the habits you tracked this morning are on a device in another room.

The second reason is that there is no account behind it. That is a genuine privacy advantage, and it is also why your data does not appear on a second device unless you export a file and move it yourself. If your phone is lost, so is the history you did not export.

The third is scope. Loop tracks habits, deliberately and well. It does not hold the weekly goals, the longer-term plans or the small daily tasks that sit around those habits.

HabitCove is a website that behaves like an app. Open habitcove.com on any device, sign in, and your habits are there. On a phone you can install it to your home screen, and it opens full screen like any other app. On Android there is also a HabitCove app on Google Play, signed in to the same account.

It keeps working when the connection drops, and catches up when you are back online — so a train journey or a patchy signal does not cost you a check-in.

Alongside daily habits it holds weekly and monthly habits for the routines that don't happen every day, weekly and monthly intentions, a dreams journal for long-term goals, and a daily to-do list.

If you use Android and nothing else, want a free app with no account at all, and value being able to read the source code, Loop is a genuinely good piece of software and there is no reason to move.

HabitCove makes sense when your day spans more than one device, when you want your history backed up rather than living on one phone, or when you want the goals around your habits in the same place.