Moving from Productive to HabitForge
Productive offers templates, guided challenges and reminders that fire at a place. HabitForge has one daily reminder at a time you choose, and you write the habits yourself.
Should you move at all?
If you rely on habit templates or a reminder that fires when you reach the gym, stay. HabitForge has neither.
Also check what HabitForge does not do. HabitForge has no iOS app, no home screen widgets and no health sync, and nothing guides you through replacing one habit with another.
The move, step by step
HabitForge has no importer, so this is done by hand.
- Get your list out. List the habits you still do. The pages we read do not mention an export, so write them down.
- Sign in. Open HabitForge and sign in with Google. There is no password to set.
- Add your habits. Add each one by hand. If you liked starting from a template, the Draft with AI button on a new habit fills in the loop from its name, and you can change every word. Create a habit has every field.
- Write the loop on the ones that matter. Add the cue, routine and reward to two or three habits first. The rest can stay as a name until you need more.
- Set up what surrounds them. A paused habit stays paused here too: see manage habits. Guided challenges against other users become community challenges, which you or a friend set up.
- Keep both for a week. Your old numbers stay in Productive. In HabitForge every rope starts as a thread on your first check-in, and that first week is when it looks thinnest.
The facts, side by side
Last checked 7 November 2026. Prices and features change, so every fact links to the page it came from. Check Productive yourself.
| Plan | Price | Terms | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free trial | Amount not stated | Try free for a week; the App Store lists the app as Free with in-app purchases | productiveapp.io |
| Premium 1 Month | $10.99 a month | App Store in-app purchase list, US | apps.apple.com |
| Premium 1 Year | $79.99 a year | The same list also shows 1 Year items at $19.99, $39.99 and $59.99 | apps.apple.com |
| Feature | Productive | HabitForge |
|---|---|---|
| Cue, routine and reward written on each habit | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| A picture of the habit beyond a streak number | Yes (productiveapp.io) | Yes |
| A missed day leaves the kept days in place | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Habits you want to stop | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Pause a habit and come back | Yes (apps.apple.com) | Yes |
| Reminders | Yes (productiveapp.io) | Yes |
| Friends, challenges or a feed | Yes (productiveapp.io) | Yes |
| Web app | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Android app | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| iOS app | Yes (apps.apple.com) | No |
| Check in offline | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Export your data | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| AI drafts and reflections | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| A per-seat household plan | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Home screen widgets | Not stated on the pages we checked | No |
| Health or wearable sync | Not stated on the pages we checked | No |
| A free plan | Partly (productiveapp.io) | Yes |
| Open source | Not stated on the pages we checked | No |
Where to next
- Check-ins and streaks: what a day counts as here.
- All the guides: the other apps we have written this for.
- Productive beside HabitForge: the same facts, on the comparison page.