Strides alternative for goals and habits together
Strides understood that some things are targets, not streaks. Here is what a tracker does with that.
Quick verdict
Strides is the most flexible goal tracker on iOS. Four tracker types, projections, and charts that treat a number over time as the point rather than a decoration. If you track weight, savings and running distance alongside your habits, it is still the right tool. miniHabits is the better daily driver when the habits are the point and the goals hang off them.
What Strides does better
Four tracker types, and they are the right four. Habit for the daily chain. Target for a number you are moving towards by a date. Average for something you want to keep above or below a line per week. Project for a percentage that creeps up. Most competitors only implement the first one and call it a day.
Projections. Strides tells you whether you are on pace, which is the question a target actually raises. Very few habit apps do the arithmetic.
Charts. Clean line charts over long periods with the goal line drawn on them. If your data is weight or savings, that view is the whole reason to open the app.
Flexible units and periods. Per day, week, month, year. It bends to whatever you are counting.
Where it stops being a good fit
The free tier is three trackers, so evaluating the app properly means subscribing.
It is iOS only, with a Watch app but no Android and no web client, so it does not solve the cross-platform problem either.
There is no HealthKit fill, so steps, sleep and workouts that your phone already recorded still need a manual entry, and a habit like “8 000 steps” becomes a chore.
There is no timer with a Live Activity, and the interface has not moved much in years: no interactive widgets, no Dynamic Island, and the visual design is dated next to newer apps.
A missed day resets the streak on habit trackers.
How miniHabits handles the same job
The daily half is stronger. Five tracking modes: checkbox, counter with a target, timer that runs as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, quantity with any unit, and HealthKit for steps, sleep and workouts that fill themselves. Interactive widgets check a habit without launching the app.
Numbers still behave like numbers. A quantity habit stores kilometres, kilograms or pages with the unit attached, and the statistics view shows the average, the year heatmap, the weekday bias and the time-of-day distribution. Correlations between habits are the part Strides has no equivalent for: reading is 34% more likely on days that started with meditation, and 18% less likely at weekends.
Missing a day costs a shield rather than the chain. Five consecutive days bank one, up to three, and break mode freezes everything without spending any.
What miniHabits does not do: projections against a deadline, and the average and project tracker types. If “lose 6 kg by September, am I on pace” is a question you ask weekly, Strides answers it and miniHabits does not.
Pricing compared
| Strides | miniHabits | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 3 trackers | 10 habits, all 5 modes |
| Paid | subscription | 25 € a year, or 34,99 € once |
| Tracker types | habit, target, average, project | 5 tracking modes |
| Health sync | no | yes |
| Projections | yes | no |
Migrating your data
Strides exports CSV per tracker. Each row carries a date and a value, which is what the miniHabits importer reads, so habit and quantity trackers land intact. Target and project trackers come across as a series of values, which keeps the history and drops the projection.
If the export is not available on your plan, screenshot the charts and paste them into any LLM with our migration prompt for importable JSON.
FAQ
Can I track weight in miniHabits? Yes, as a quantity habit with a unit, or through HealthKit if you have a connected scale.
Is there an on-pace projection? No. The statistics describe what happened rather than forecast what will.
Does the free tier cover five habits? It covers ten, with every tracking mode.
The honest recommendation
Keep Strides if goals with deadlines are the core of your tracking, or if the average tracker type is doing real work for you. Nothing here replaces the projection view.
Take miniHabits if the daily chain is the core and the numbers hang off it, if you want Health data to fill itself, or if you want a missed day to cost a shield instead of the streak. The Habitify comparison covers the cross-platform angle, and this post shows what the statistics actually surface.