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Habitica is an open-source gamified task manager turning Habits, Dailies, and To-Dos into RPG quests with avatars, gear and social features.
14.1k stars4.5k forkslast commit Actively maintained
6 self-hosted Way of Life alternatives
Habit tracker and behavior-journal app for tracking daily routines, goals, streaks and progress over time. Users log habits, add notes, view statistics and charts, and review trends to support habit formation and behavior change.
Alternatives to Way of Life
#2
Ryot is a self-hosted personal tracking platform for media, workouts, and daily habits, with analytics, integrations, and an API for your own data.
3.6k stars124 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
A self-hosted habit tracking app without goals, designed for quick daily check-ins, streak tracking, and lightweight data storage via SQLite or local files.
1.8k stars78 forksBSD-3-Clauselast commit Actively maintained
HabitTrove is a gamified habit tracker that rewards daily progress with coins, enabling habit creation, tracking, and rewards via a built-in wishlist.
680 stars41 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Slowing down
#5
Perfice is a local-first self-tracking app (Svelte + TypeScript) to record arbitrary metrics, set goals, view correlations, export data, and optionally sync via a backend.
465 stars26 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
HabitSync is a self-hosted PWA habit tracker offering goals, challenges, social sharing, OIDC SSO, Apprise notifications, API-first design, and a mobile app.
336 stars7 forksBSD-3-Clauselast commit Actively maintained
What replacing Way of Life actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 5 of 6 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: GPL-3.0, BSD-3-Clause, AGPL-3.0, MIT. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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