Loop Habit Tracker for iPhone: The Best iOS Alternatives

If you searched for Loop Habit Tracker on the App Store, you probably came up empty. Loop is one of the best-loved habit trackers on Android, but there is no official iPhone version. The good news is that what makes Loop good isn't magic. It's a handful of design choices you can look for in any iOS habit tracker.

This guide covers what Loop actually does well, which of those features matter most, and how to choose an iPhone app that keeps them.

Is Loop Habit Tracker available on iPhone?

No. Loop Habit Tracker is an open-source Android app, distributed through Google Play and F-Droid. Its developer has not released an iOS version, and apps on the App Store using similar names are not the same project.

That leaves iPhone users choosing between three paths: a different native iOS app, a spreadsheet, or giving up on the Loop experience entirely. The first is the only one that keeps reminders, widgets and one-tap check-ins.

What makes Loop worth copying

People don't love Loop because it has the most features. They love it because it gets a few fundamentals right.

A habit score that forgives missed days

Loop's signature idea is its habit strength score. Instead of only counting streaks, it calculates how strong a habit is based on your recent history. Each check-in strengthens the score, and each miss weakens it a little. A single missed day after a month of consistency barely moves the number.

That matches what research says about how habits form. In a well-known study of 96 people building new daily behaviors, Lally and colleagues at UCL found that automaticity took a median of 66 days to plateau, and that missing one opportunity did not materially affect the process. A tracker that resets you to zero after one miss is measuring something different from habit strength.

Flexible schedules

Not every habit is daily. Loop lets you set targets like three times a week or every other day. That matters more than it sounds: forcing a gym habit into a daily streak usually means you either overtrain or "fail" four days a week.

No account, no clutter

Loop works offline and doesn't ask you to sign up. There's no feed, no leaderboard and no coaching content between you and the checkmark. The app opens, you tap, you leave.

Widgets and fast check-ins

Loop's home-screen widgets let you log a habit without opening the app at all. The less friction there is between doing a habit and recording it, the more likely you are to keep tracking.

What to look for in an iPhone alternative

Use Loop's strengths as a checklist when you compare iOS apps:

• Forgiving progress tracking. Look for something beyond a single all-or-nothing streak, such as history views, completion rates or trends that show consistency over time.

• Flexible frequency. Weekly targets or specific days, not only daily habits.

• Home-screen widgets. Checking off a habit should take one tap from the home screen.

• Reminders you control. Per-habit times, so a reminder arrives when you can actually act on it.

• A clean interface. If the app feels like work, you'll stop opening it.

• Clear pricing. Know what's free and what's paid before you build months of history in an app.

If an app fails on more than one of these, it won't feel like Loop, however good its screenshots look.

iPhone habit trackers that come closest

There's no perfect clone, but several iOS apps cover most of what Loop users want.

Kabit is a native iPhone habit tracker built around the same minimal philosophy: fast check-ins, visible streaks, calendar and history views, progress insights, smart reminders and home-screen widgets. It exists because its maker wanted a clean iPhone equivalent of Loop and couldn't find one. If Loop's simplicity is what you miss most, it's the closest fit.

Streaks is a polished, long-running iOS tracker with strong Apple Health integration. It's a one-time purchase and leans on streak counts more than Loop does. See our Streaks app guide for a closer look.

Habitify works across iPhone, Android and the web, which helps if you switch devices often. It has more features and a subscription model. We compared the two in our Habitify alternative guide.

For a wider list, see the best habit tracker apps of 2026.

Moving your habits over from Loop

If you're switching from Android, there's no direct import between Loop and iOS apps. In practice that's less of a loss than it seems:

1. Export your Loop data first. Loop can export to CSV, so you keep a permanent record of your history even if you don't bring it into the new app.

2. Rebuild only the habits you still care about. A switch is a good moment to drop habits you've been tracking out of guilt.

3. Keep the same cue for each habit. If you meditated after coffee on Android, keep meditating after coffee on iPhone. The cue carries the habit, not the app.

4. Expect your numbers to restart, not your habit. A habit you've done for six months doesn't disappear because a counter starts at one. If a fresh streak feels discouraging, read what to do after breaking a streak.

The bottom line

You can't install Loop on an iPhone, but you can keep what made it work: a forgiving view of progress, flexible schedules, a fast check-in and an app that stays out of your way. Pick the iOS app that matches those, move over the habits that still matter, and keep the cues the same.

If you want the closest thing to Loop's simplicity on iPhone, download Kabit on the App Store and set up your first three habits in under a minute.