Habitica: Gamified Taskmanager 4+

I absolutely love this app. For both me and my partner, it has inspired genuine change. I love the concept, and think it’s really nicely executed, it has helped me establish and keep up genuine habits! The only problem I am finding, is that it’s buggy. I will regularly load the app, and it won’t have caught up from the day before. I tick off habits, that will then disappear and re-appear at random points. For a day, I lost my entire character, and with it all my to-do’s / habits. Thankfully they all came back, but the other bugs still continue. Hoping it can get patched out, but I feel performance does need improving a little. Would be 15 out of 5 stars if that was the case.

This app was really helpful when i first started it made doing tasks very rewarding, but now once i’ve got to a higher level, getting exp and levelling up doesn’t feel as rewarding as its sort of become routine and levels don’t really mean as much when you’ve already levelled up many times. And bosses don’t that challenging when you complete all dailies. I feel like the game needs more content and stuff to do/complete/unlock to make it consistently rewarding even at higher levels. Perhaps something like dungeons with exclusive rewards which require a certain amount of tasks to be done in a limited time or in one day to open doors, or a certain number of habits. Maybe some animations and backgrounds could be cool too when you deal damage to a boss, to make the game more stimulating. I really do love the concept and think it can be very successful if you struggle with productivity, but i feel more can be done to gamify it further to make doing tasks just as rewarding as a video game.

I never write reviews for apps but this is a really really funky concept for an app to be honest. I love games, especially ones where I can level up, gain experience, have my own avatar & generally feel like I’m being rewarded for my efforts

My psychology is really weird, when I compete a task normally, I don’t get any gratification from it instantly, example, going to the gym, but I’m still not ripped yet lol. By going to the gym now, I can actually gain experience for doing it which makes me feel like I have been rewarded for doing it, thus making we want to do it again

I’ve only had the app for a couple of days but I love it, I’m going to continue using it, invite some friends to I keep myself accountable & try to make the most out of it!

I would recommend to anyone who just struggles to find the motivation to do something, I’ve been a long lover of games since I was a kid (and I will be for many many many more years to come) and it’s just something about this app that does it for me, it’s pleasant, user friendly & really well presented.

All of the reviews you see about the app being “buggy” or “glitchy”, I’ve not encountered any bugs or glitches as of yet, everything worked incredibly well!

Thanks Habitica!