Everyday app alternative: the grid, with data behind it
Everyday made the calendar grid the whole interface. That is its strength and its ceiling.
Quick verdict
Everyday is a beautiful, quiet tracker built around one idea: a grid of days you fill in. If you want a wall chart on your phone and nothing else, it is close to ideal. miniHabits starts from the same grid and keeps going into values, timers, Health data and statistics.
What Everyday does better
The grid as the interface. Not a summary screen, not a chart tucked in a stats tab. The grid is the app, and filling a square is the whole interaction. There is real design confidence in that.
Calm. No mascots, no streak shouting, no confetti. Everyday is one of the few trackers that trusts you to look at your own record and draw a conclusion.
Apple ecosystem coverage. iPhone, iPad, Mac and Watch, with iCloud sync between them, which is more surface than miniHabits covers today.
A simple purchase model. No account, no feed, and pricing that has stayed reasonable.
Where it stops being a good fit
A filled square carries almost no information. Did you read two pages or forty? Was the deep work block 20 minutes or 90? Everyday stores the fact of the day, so any question with a number in it is unanswerable later.
There is no timer, no counter with a target, no unit, and no Health integration, so habits that your phone already measures still need a manual tap.
The statistics are the grid plus a completion percentage. There is no weekday bias, no time of day, no correlation between habits.
A missed day breaks the chain with nothing in between.
How miniHabits handles the same job
The grid is still the centre. A year heatmap on the Today screen, a heatmap widget on the Home Screen, and a 26 week view per habit. If the wall chart is what you came for, it is here, in 23 themes, with a matching app icon for each.
Underneath it, the values. Five tracking modes: checkbox, counter with a target, timer that runs as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen, quantity with any unit, and HealthKit for steps, sleep and workouts that fill themselves. The square still fills. It just knows what filled it.
Then the statistics the grid implies: weekday bias, time of day, correlations between habits, and the shield ledger. Shields bank one per five consecutive days, up to three, so a missed day spends one and the chain holds without the log lying about what happened.
What you give up: iPad, Mac and Watch clients. Web arrives in August 2026, then Android, then Watch.
Pricing compared
| Everyday | miniHabits | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | limited habits | 10 habits, all 5 modes |
| Paid | subscription or one-off | 25 € a year, or 34,99 € once |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch | iPhone, web August 2026 |
| Values per day | no | yes, four numeric modes |
| Export | limited | CSV and JSON, free tier |
Migrating your data
Everyday syncs through iCloud and its export options are basic. Screenshots are the practical path: capture the grid for each habit, paste the images into any LLM with our migration prompt, and it returns importable JSON. A filled square becomes a 1, which is a lossless translation given what the app stores.
If you have a CSV from a backup, paste the contents in directly.
FAQ
Will my grid look the same? Close. Cell size, corner radius and palette are configurable, and the free heatmap tool lets you preview a year of your own data before you install anything.
Do I need an account? No. Offline first, optional sync with a device key.
How many themes are there? Twenty three, each with a matching app icon. The build log explains why the icon mattered more than the theme.
The honest recommendation
Keep Everyday if you want a calm wall chart across your iPad and Mac and you genuinely do not care about the numbers. It does that job with more restraint than most apps manage.
Switch when a filled square stops being enough, or when you want the missed day to cost a shield rather than the whole chain. The Way of Life comparison is worth reading too if the skip state is what you value most.