LockIn30 vs Fabulous: Daily Habit Tracker

Quick answer

Fabulous: Daily Habit Tracker by Fabulous, listed on Google Play as Fabulous Daily Routine Planner, is a morning and evening routine planner that has been on the App Store since 2017. Its listing sells guided content: coaching series grouped by anxiety, self-love, productivity, or depression, Premium Journeys, meditation and breathing sessions, journaling, and community Live challenges. The catch is the price list, which carries six separate entries all named Fabulous Premium at six different prices and no stated billing period for any of them.

LockIn30 tracks one habit at a time for a run you set yourself, from 7 to 365 days, and logs it once a day with a checkbox, counter, duration, photo, text, or measurement. It is free to download, and the listing does not say which features need Pro.

Fabulous is for people who want a coach and a routine library, and who like having other members on the same challenge. LockIn30 is for people with one habit and a number of days, who want to watch the grid fill in.

Side-by-side

Where Fabulous: Daily Habit Tracker wins

It has a track record LockIn30 does not. Fabulous has been on the App Store since November 2017 and has a 4.4 lifetime rating from about 89,000 US ratings. On Google Play it sits in the 10M+ installs bucket with 3.9 stars. LockIn30 was released in May 2026 and has 3 ratings, all of them five-star, which is a sample too small to tell you anything.

It is a content library with a tracker attached. The listing sells coaching series grouped by topics including anxiety, self-love, productivity, and depression, Premium Journeys for mental health, self-care, and fitness, and personal one-on-one coaching. Around the routine itself there are short workouts, breathing exercises, daily affirmations, meditation sessions, a gratitude journal, mood tracking, and a deep-work focus mode. LockIn30 gives you a 36-task library and a day grid, and nothing that talks back.

It goes places LockIn30 does not. Fabulous has an Apple Watch app that needs watchOS 8.0 or later, a home-screen Motivation Widget added in November 2024, Dynamic Island support added in April 2025, and Picture-in-Picture for routine mode added in June 2025. LockIn30 has none of those. Fabulous also ships in 7 languages. LockIn30’s store page lists one, English.

It has other people in it. The listing says Live challenges will introduce you to other Fabulous members worldwide. Unlimited habits for morning and evening routines is on the upgrade list, so if you run five routines at once, Fabulous is built for you. LockIn30’s own listing describes it as one habit at a time.

Where LockIn30 wins

You set the length and the rules. LockIn30 runs any duration from 7 to 365 days with 30 as the default. You also pick the mode: tough mode is strict and opens a Be Honest dialog when you miss a day; soft mode carries no penalty. A miss has two other outs: a once-per-device auto-fill rescue, or a restart that bumps an attempt counter. Fabulous states no challenge duration options and no missed-day handling anywhere in its listing.

The photo record is the point. Log a photo each day and it goes into the gallery with its day number. Put two days side by side. When the run ends, the app renders a 1080x1920 timelapse at 4 FPS that you can save to your gallery or share. Fabulous’s listing never mentions photos or video.

There are two prices and you can read them both. Pro is $2.99 a week or $29.99 a year, with a 7-day trial. Fabulous’s App Store list has six identically named Fabulous Premium entries between $16.99 and $59.99 with no billing period on any of them, plus a quarterly, an annual, an Offer, and a separate product called Sphere sold from inside the same list.

No account, and it keeps working on a plane. LockIn30 works completely offline, needs no account, and keeps every challenge, photo, and log on the device. Fabulous’s listing says nothing about offline use or about where habit content lives. LockIn30 also runs on iPad, which Fabulous does not.

Pricing

• LockIn30 is free to download. Pro is $2.99 a week or $29.99 a year, with a 7-day trial. The listing does not spell out what Pro unlocks, so treat the free side as unknown until the store page says.
• Fabulous: Daily Habit Tracker is free to download, and its description never uses the word free or names a tier’s limits. Six App Store entries named Fabulous Premium run from $16.99 to $59.99 with no period listed, beside Premium Quarterly at $39.99, Fabulous Annual Subscription at $49.99, Fabulous Premium Offer at $49.99, and Sphere: Annually 50% Off at $59.99. Google Play reports $3.99 to $299.99 per item. No store source states a trial length.

A year on LockIn30’s annual plan is $29.99. The closest thing Fabulous publishes to an annual price is its $49.99 Fabulous Annual Subscription, which is $20 more, and the listing does not tell you which of its Premium entries you would actually land on.

In recent US reviews, billing is the main complaint: reviewers call the charges a scam or predatory, report being billed after cancelling or during a trial, and say cancelling was hard or impossible. That recent sample runs far more negative than the lifetime 4.4 from about 89,000 ratings, so read it as what recent reviewers report, not as the store’s verdict.

Which one should you pick?

Pick Fabulous: Daily Habit Tracker if you want guided content rather than a blank tracker: coaching series, Premium Journeys, meditation and breathing, a gratitude journal, unlimited routines, an Apple Watch app, 7 languages, and a community to do challenges with. And read the in-app purchase list, all of it, before you subscribe.

Pick LockIn30 if you have one habit and a fixed number of days: a run from 7 to 365 days, tough or soft mode with Be Honest recovery, daily photos that become a timelapse, per-habit reminders with quiet days, no account, and full offline use on iPhone, iPad, or Android.

If you want to plan the run before you install anything, our free 30-day habit challenge tracker and habit streak calculator run in the browser with no download.