The best life tracker in 2026: what it has to do, and how Todoku does it

Every competitor price below was checked on live pricing pages or inside real accounts in August 2026.

The short version

The best life tracker is the one that sees your whole life. Habits, tasks, money, workouts, mood and focus are not separate problems: your training moves your mood, your mood moves your spending, your spending moves your stress. An app that only holds one of those can never show you that. Todoku holds all of them, works it out on your own phone, and keeps all of it on your device. That is what we built it to be, and it is what the rest of this page measures everything against.

What the best life tracker has to do

It has to	Todoku	The usual alternative
Track everything in one place	Habits, tasks, projects, focus, workouts, money, net worth, mood and journal in one app	Five apps, five subscriptions, five logins. Hevy for the gym, TickTick for tasks, Habitify for habits, getquin for money, Daylio for mood.
Keep your data yours	Everything stays on your device, no account needed, no ads, and the Play Data safety declaration says no data collected	Every app above requires an account and stores your data on its servers. HabitGenius, the nearest all-in-one, is offline too, but its Play declaration says it may collect personal info and app activity.
Connect the dots	Patterns card finds what moves your mood and your productivity, computed on your phone	Exist.io sells correlations alone for about $84 a year, with no free tier.
Let you log without limits, free	Unlimited habits, tasks, workouts, accounts and connections on the free plan	Habitify limits free habits, HabitGenius allows 4, Strong limits you to 3 routines, Hevy caps routines at 4.
Never charge you for your own data	Export, import and backups are free, always, and always will be	Todoist puts automatic backup behind Pro ($60 a year).
Cost less than the pile of apps it replaces	£0, or Pro at £34.99 a year for long-range insights	Hevy $23.99 + TickTick $49.99 + Habitify £21.99 + getquin £89.90: over £170 a year.

Category by category

Workouts. A live gym logger with rest timers that survive the app being backgrounded, warm-up and drop sets, personal records, and an estimated one-rep-max chart for every exercise. Hevy's free tier shows 3 months of charts; Todoku shows 90 days free and all of it on Pro.
Tasks. Recurring tasks, checklists, notes and file attachments inside projects, an Eisenhower matrix, and a Day view that plans your next hour. TickTick charges $49.99 a year for its day view and statistics. Todoku's are free.
Habits. Unlimited habits and quit counters, streaks, chains and an Off Mode for holidays so a week away doesn't wreck a year of streaks. Habitify charges £21.99 a year just to lift its habit cap.
Money and net worth. Spending, budgets, bank CSV import, live crypto wallets and gold and silver at spot price, with returns that don't count your own deposits as gains. Your bank login is never handed to a third-party aggregator, which is also why there are no ads.
The other all-in-ones. HabitGenius is the closest: habits, mood, expenses, focus and journal, offline, no account, since 2023. It has no net worth, no workouts and a 4-habit free cap. Full comparison.
Mood and journal. A daily mood log with a year-at-a-glance pixel view, a journal, and the Patterns card that tells you what your mood actually tracks with.

Where Todoku is still catching up

We would rather you hear it from us. Todoku does not sync between devices yet. Encrypted sync through your own cloud drive is coming as a Pro feature. It does not do shared team lists, because that needs servers and we do not run any. And there is no watch app yet. All of those are on the list. None of them changes where your data lives.

How to choose, whatever you pick

Check the history window. Many apps let you log for free and charge to look back. Hevy gives 3 months free, Todoku gives 90 days free, Todoist keeps one week. Entry caps are worse than history windows: they punish the tracking itself.
Never accept gated export. Your data going out should be free, in every app, forever. It is in Todoku.
Ask where the data lives. If the answer is "our servers", everything else on the feature list is rented.

More comparisons

See Todoku next to the apps you may already use at Todoku compared. Two shorter guides answer one need each: the best habit tracker with net worth tracking and an app that tracks habits and money. Android users can start with the best all-in-one life tracker for Android.

Competitor prices and limits were checked in August 2026 and can change. If anything here is out of date, email hello@todoku.app and it will be corrected within a day.

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