# SmartHabits review (2026): is it worth it? > Blocks distracting apps until you hit fitness, learning or sleep goals Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. SmartHabits is a phone app that blocks apps you mark as distracting, such as social media, until you have done something you marked as good. That can be time in learning or wellness apps, enough steps or enough sleep, read from the phone's health data. Time spent on the good apps earns temporary access to the blocked ones. - **Category:** Habit Trackers - **Made by:** SmartHabits - **Website:** https://smarthabits.app - **Runs on:** Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you use an iPhone, as the App Store link was dead. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing SmartHabits's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Block distracting apps:** Pick the apps to block, such as TikTok, Twitter or YouTube, or cap the time you spend on them directly in the app. - **Earn time on blocked apps:** Spend time on apps you choose as good, such as Duolingo, Kindle or Headspace, to earn temporary access; the site gives 15 minutes for 15 minutes as an example. - **Step goals:** Access to blocked apps can be tied to a step count, for example 10,000 steps. - **Sleep goals:** The app reads sleep from the phone's health app and blocks apps if you slept less than the minimum you set. ## Good for - People who want screen-time limits tied to fitness, learning or sleep - Anyone who finds a plain habit checklist too easy to ignore ## Worth knowing - The pricing could not be confirmed: the site shows no prices, and the Google Play listing shows only a range of $3.99 to $49.99 per in-app item with no plan names. - The site asks visitors to join as a beta tester for lifetime discounts, and its footer carries a 2023 copyright date. - The site links an App Store listing, but that listing returned a not-found page from the US store, so only Android is listed here. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. SmartHabits blocks apps you mark as distracting until you've done something you marked as good, like steps, sleep or time in a learning app. The site shows no prices, asks for beta testers and carries a 2023 copyright date, and it's Android only. - **Value for money: C.** No price on the site, and Google Play lists only a $3.99 to $49.99 range for in-app items with no plan names. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Listed as a free download with in-app purchases, but the site doesn't say what's free. - **Features: C.** App blocking, earning time through good apps, and step and sleep goals. A narrow job, and what each purchase unlocks isn't shown. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You mark your good and bad apps and set the rules yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: D.** Android only. The App Store link on the site returned a not-found page from the US store. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SmartHabits's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among habit trackers - SmartHabits's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 1 of the 64 other habit trackers we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on value for money (C, above 6 of 64) and worst on platforms and integrations (D, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/habit-trackers ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** A habit tracker at its plainest is a list of habits, a tick for each day and a count of the streak. You could make the core of SmartHabits for yourself: habit tracking and goals. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. - You could make: Habit tracking and goals: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Blocking that reaches every browser and app and is hard to switch off. - You could not: A real app for Android. Something home-made would be a web page. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Habit tracking, Site & app blocker, Goals ## Alternatives - [Habitica](https://toolgpa.com/tools/habitica): Habit and task tracker that works like a role-playing game. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/habitica-vs-smarthabits) - [Habitify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/habitify): Cross-platform habit tracker with health-data sync and an API. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/habitify-vs-smarthabits) - [Streaks](https://toolgpa.com/tools/streaks): Habit tracker for Apple devices built around daily streaks. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/smarthabits-vs-streaks) - [HabitNow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/habitnow): Android habit tracker and to-do list with a one-time upgrade. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/habitnow-vs-smarthabits) - [Beeminder](https://toolgpa.com/tools/beeminder): Goal tracker that charges you money when you fall behind. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beeminder-vs-smarthabits) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://smarthabits.app - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.smc.smarthabits&hl=en&gl=US Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/smarthabits Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).