Is Habitica or Tana better?

Neither clearly leads. Habitica starts at Free and Tana at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Habitica or Tana?

Habitica starts at Free and Tana at Free.

Does Habitica or Tana run on more platforms?

Habitica runs on Web, IOS, Android. Tana runs on Web, Desktop.

Can I use Habitica for free?

Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.

What is Habitica best used for?

Habitica is most often used for you have abandoned every plain to-do list and need an external consequence for skipping a routine., a small group of friends or a study group wants mutual accountability without a project tracker., building daily habits such as medication, exercise or practice, where the streak matters more than any deadline., you want a task tool you can export from and in principle self-host, rather than one that holds your data.. Of those, you have abandoned every plain to-do list and need an external consequence for skipping a routine. and a small group of friends or a study group wants mutual accountability without a project tracker. are not what Tana is typically brought in for.

What can Habitica do that Tana cannot?

Habitica covers Three task types, Health and damage, Parties and quests, Classes and skills. Tana covers Outliner interface, Supertags, Live queries, AI integration.

Productivity · head to head

Habitica vs Tana

Habitica

Productivity

Open source task manager that runs your habits, dailies and to-dos as a role-playing game

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

Tana

Productivity

The everything app for your personal workspace

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Habitica nothing verifies a completed task, so the entire reward economy runs on self-report, and the first time you tick a Daily you did not do, the health and gold mechanics stop meaning anything and the app becomes a checklist with a cartoon on it.; Tana the free plan hosts only 5 meetings a month with AI transcripts and summaries
They diverge on capability: Habitica covers Three task types, Tana covers Outliner interface.
Prices and features above were last checked on 30 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Habitica and Tana actually diverge.

Attributes where Habitica and Tana differ
Attribute	Habitica	Tana
Pricing model	freemium	subscription
Platforms	Web, IOS, Android	Web, Desktop
Founded	2013	2020

Identical on both: starting price (Free), free tier (Yes), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Productivity).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Habitica

Three task types
Health and damage
Parties and quests
Classes and skills
Pets and mounts
Challenges
Custom rewards
Group plans

Only in Tana

Outliner interface
Supertags
Live queries
AI integration
Graph views
Email capture
API
Zapier

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Habitica

You have abandoned every plain to-do list and need an external consequence for skipping a routine.not Tana
A small group of friends or a study group wants mutual accountability without a project tracker.not Tana
Building daily habits such as medication, exercise or practice, where the streak matters more than any deadline.not Tana
You want a task tool you can export from and in principle self-host, rather than one that holds your data.not Tana

Tana

Structured note taking with a graph based supertag data modelnot Habitica
Automatic meeting capture with AI transcripts and summariesnot Habitica
Turning notes into queryable structured databasesnot Habitica

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Habitica

Nothing verifies a completed task, so the entire reward economy runs on self-report, and the first time you tick a Daily you did not do, the health and gold mechanics stop meaning anything and the app becomes a checklist with a cartoon on it.
Missed Dailies cost health whether you were ill, travelling or on holiday, so returning after a week away can mean death, a lost level and stripped gear, which is the point at which many users abandon the account rather than rebuild it.
The task features are thin next to conventional managers, with no subtask dependencies, no file attachments, no nested projects and limited recurrence rules, so anything more structured than a flat list has to be kept somewhere else.
Development is carried by a small core team with volunteer contributors, so mobile releases, sync fixes and platform updates arrive slowly and reported bugs can sit on the community boards for a long time.
There is no organisational layer at all, meaning no admin console, no single sign-on and no way to provision or remove members, so a company cannot adopt it centrally even where individual employees rely on it.

Tana

The free plan hosts only 5 meetings a month with AI transcripts and summaries
The free plan connects only 1 calendar and allows 50 AI queries
Pro is $30 per user per month at standard price, with $20 shown as an early bird rate
Max is $120 per user per month at standard price, with $80 shown as an early bird rate
Integrations and full MCP require the Pro plan
Dedicated support and onboarding, and unlimited agents, skills and types, require the Max plan
The Business plan is custom priced, billed yearly and has no published rate
The free trial runs 30 days

Pricing, plan by plan

Habitica

Free

FreeFree
- Basic habit and task tracking
- Character creation
- Community features
Membership$4.99/month
- Premium items and gear
- Extra experience
- Pet and mount system

Tana

Free

FreeFree
- 5 hosted meetings monthly with AI transcripts
- 1 calendar connection
- 50 AI queries
Pro$20/month
- Early bird pricing (regular $30/month)
- Unlimited hosted meetings
- Botless meeting agent for Zoom, Teams, Google Meet
Max$80/month
- Early bird pricing (regular $120/month)
- 5x more AI than Pro plan
- Dedicated support and onboarding
Business$null/year
- Custom pricing (billed yearly)
- SAML SSO and advanced security controls
- Designated customer success manager

Which should you pick?

Choose Habitica if

You need three task types.
You want to start without paying.
You work on Web, IOS, Android.
You also want health and damage.

Habitica review

Choose Tana if

You need outliner interface.
You want to start without paying.
You work on Web, Desktop.
You also want supertags.

Tana review

Questions people ask

Is Habitica or Tana better?: Neither clearly leads. Habitica starts at Free and Tana at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Habitica or Tana?: Habitica starts at Free and Tana at Free.
Does Habitica or Tana run on more platforms?: Habitica runs on Web, IOS, Android. Tana runs on Web, Desktop.
Can I use Habitica for free?: Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.
What is Habitica best used for?: Habitica is most often used for you have abandoned every plain to-do list and need an external consequence for skipping a routine., a small group of friends or a study group wants mutual accountability without a project tracker., building daily habits such as medication, exercise or practice, where the streak matters more than any deadline., you want a task tool you can export from and in principle self-host, rather than one that holds your data.. Of those, you have abandoned every plain to-do list and need an external consequence for skipping a routine. and a small group of friends or a study group wants mutual accountability without a project tracker. are not what Tana is typically brought in for.
What can Habitica do that Tana cannot?: Habitica covers Three task types, Health and damage, Parties and quests, Classes and skills. Tana covers Outliner interface, Supertags, Live queries, AI integration.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Habitica: Is Habitica actually free?

Yes. Every task feature is free with no time limit. The subscription buys gems, monthly mystery items and higher drop rates, so not paying never costs you access to your own lists.

Tana: What is Tana's cheapest paid plan?

Tana Pro starts at $20/month with early bird pricing (regular $30/month) per user, offering unlimited hosted meetings and AI transcripts.

Source

Habitica: Can I get my data out?

Yes. Habitica exports your user data as JSON and your task history as CSV, and the code is open source, so the data is genuinely portable even though nothing else will import the game state.

Tana: Does Tana offer a free trial?

Yes, Tana provides a 30-day free trial with no credit card required, plus a 60-day refund window for yearly plan subscribers.

Source

Habitica: Does it work offline?

Badly. The mobile apps queue some actions, but scoring, drops and party activity need a connection, and long offline stretches tend to produce sync conflicts.

Tana: What is the difference between Tana Pro and Max plans?

Max provides 5x more AI than Pro ($80/month early bird or $120 regular), dedicated support, onboarding, and unlimited agents and skills.

Source

Habitica: Can a team at work use it?

There are paid group plans for parties, but no admin console, no single sign-on and no company billing, so it suits a group of willing colleagues rather than a managed rollout.

Habitica vs Tana

Habitica

Tana

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Habitica

Only in Tana

What people use each for

Habitica

Tana

Where each one falls short

Habitica

Tana

Pricing, plan by plan

Habitica

Tana

Which should you pick?

Choose Habitica if

Choose Tana if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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