Routinery alternative: run the routine, keep the record
Routinery is a sequence timer that walks you through a morning. It is not really a tracker.
Quick verdict
Routinery does one thing that almost nothing else does properly: it runs your routine step by step, with a timer per step and a voice telling you when to move on. If getting started is your problem, it solves it. miniHabits solves the other half, which is what the record looks like after three months.
What Routinery does better
The guided sequence. Shower 8 minutes, stretch 5, journal 5, breakfast 15. The app runs the chain, counts down each step, and nudges you forward. For anyone who stalls between activities, including a lot of people with ADHD, that scaffolding is worth more than any chart.
Templates. Prebuilt morning, evening and study routines you can adopt and edit, which removes the blank page problem.
Cross platform. iOS and Android, so a household with both can use the same routine.
Audio cues and haptics. You do not have to look at the screen, which matters when your hands are busy and the point is to keep moving.
Where it stops being a good fit
It is a timer wearing a tracker’s clothes. Completing a routine is recorded, but the individual habits inside it are steps in a sequence rather than tracked series. Ask what your reading average was in June and there is nothing to answer with.
Habits that live outside a routine fit awkwardly. Steps, water through the day, a workout on Thursday evening: none of these are a sequence, so they end up in another app or nowhere.
There is no HealthKit fill, no counter with a target, and no long-range statistics: no year heatmap, no weekday bias, no correlations.
The subscription is required for most of the useful parts, and the free tier is a demo.
How miniHabits handles the same job
Routines exist here as blocks: group four habits into a morning block with a fixed trigger and check them with one tap. Each habit inside the block keeps its own history, its own streak and its own mode, so the block is a convenience rather than a container that swallows the data.
Timer habits do the countdown part. A 90 minute deep work timer runs as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and the minutes are stored when it ends. What miniHabits does not do is chain the timers automatically with voice prompts. If that guidance is the reason Routinery works for you, this is the wrong swap.
Everything else is the part Routinery is missing: five tracking modes, a year heatmap, weekday bias, time of day, correlations, and shields so a missed morning spends a shield instead of the chain.
Pricing compared
| Routinery | miniHabits | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | demo level | 10 habits, all 5 modes |
| Paid | subscription | 25 € a year, or 34,99 € once |
| Guided sequence | yes, the point | no, blocks with one tap |
| Per-habit history | limited | full series per habit |
| Health sync | no | yes |
Running both, which is what I would do
Routinery in the morning as the thing that gets you moving. miniHabits as the record, checked with one tap when the sequence ends. There is no integration between them, and you do not need one: seven seconds of tapping a block buys you a year of data that Routinery was never designed to keep.
If two apps is one too many, decide by the failure mode. If you fail by not starting, keep Routinery. If you fail by drifting and never noticing, keep the tracker.
Migrating your data
Routinery exports are limited, so screenshots plus our migration prompt in any LLM is the route: paste the images, get importable JSON, drop it in. Honestly, most people migrating from a sequence timer have little history worth moving and are better off starting the grid clean.
FAQ
Can I time a routine in miniHabits? Per habit, yes. There is no automatic step-to-step chain with voice cues.
Does the morning block have a reminder? Yes, at a fixed trigger time, as a local notification.
Is there a free tier? Ten habits, every tracking mode, widgets, heatmaps and CSV export.
The honest recommendation
Keep Routinery if the guided sequence is doing the heavy lifting. That is a real need and a statistics view does not meet it.
Add or switch to miniHabits when you want the routine to leave a record you can read: what you actually did, on which days, and how the pattern moved. The morning routine guide covers the block structure, and the Finch comparison is next if what you need is encouragement rather than timing.