Habitica
Habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.
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Still maintained? Yes: 80 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v5.52.0 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Miscellaneous: ChatGPT alternatives, DeepL alternatives.
At a glance
Habitica quick facts
- Health score
- 97/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 14,266
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v5.52.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0, CC-BY-SA-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Due to changes in the tech landscape and in how our player base interacts with Habitica on various platforms, we have made the decision to pause our acceptance of code-based contributions (Blacksmith tiers). Our codebase will remain open-source and publicly visible. If you’d like to know more about this pause, you can find additional details on the GitHub wiki."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Habitica scores 97/100, #6 of 77 in Miscellaneous: 80 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v5.52.0, 2 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 14,266 stars add 16.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 3.4 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
Health over time
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
80 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v5.52.0 released 2 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 16.6 / 20
14k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 80
- Last 90 days
- 293
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #6 of 77 tools in Miscellaneous by health , between ConvertX (#5) and Neko (#7) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0, CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Platforms | Nodejs, Docker |
| Latest release | v5.52.0 · 2 days ago |
| Stars | 14,266 |
| Open issues | 96 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | HabitRPG/habitica ↗ |
Habitica vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Habitica (Miscellaneous), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| penpot | 99 | 62k | MPL-2.0 | today |
| Reactive Resume | 99 | 45k | MIT | today |
| Anubis | 98 | 24k | MIT | yesterday |
| Infisical Community Edition | 98 | 30k | MIT | today |
| ConvertX | 97 | 19k | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| Habitica (this tool) | 97 | 14k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
Habitica: common questions
Is Habitica still maintained?
Habitica had 80 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v5.52.0, is from 2 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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