The Streaks alternative for the habit you are breaking.

Streaks handles the building side of habits about as well as anything on iOS. The trouble starts when the habit you care most about is one you are trying to break. In Streaks, quitting is modeled as a negative task: a box you check each day for not doing the thing. For small habits, that is genuinely enough. For a serious quit, nicotine, energy drinks, late-night scrolling, the daily checkbox flattens the whole story into done or not done. You want to know how long it has been, what it is saving you, which milestones you have passed, and what actually happened on the night things went sideways. That is because a quit is a journey, not a daily task.

Unlooped is built around that journey. Every quit habit gets a day counter, a money saved total, a milestone history, and a setback log, so the record reflects what the quit actually looks like instead of a row of checkmarks. When a craving hits, Craving SOS and an on-device AI coach walk you through the minutes that matter. And because quit mode is free forever, trying it costs nothing: you can keep Streaks running for your build habits and point Unlooped at the one habit that needs more than a checkbox.

The streak is the heart of Streaks, and that is exactly why it can hurt during a quit. Miss a day on a build habit and the broken chain stings for a moment, then you start a new one. Fail a do-not-do task forty days into a quit and the same mechanic lands very differently: the number you have been protecting is gone, and the app now shows the same zero it showed the day you started. For a lot of people that reset reads as proof the whole attempt failed, and it becomes the excuse to put off trying again until Monday, or next month, or January.

Unlooped refuses to treat one night as a verdict on forty days. Progress is milestone-based: when you slip, you log a setback, note what led to it, and your history, milestones, and money saved stay on the board. The timeline is honest that the slip happened, but it does not pretend the rest of the record never existed. That difference sounds small until it is the morning after, when the choice is between opening the app and avoiding it. People keep going when their progress is still visible, and a setback log that does not zero the record is what makes that possible.

A checkbox tells you whether today went well. A quit journey needs more instruments than that. Unlooped gives every quit habit a live day counter, so the length of the run is always in front of you, and a money saved total that turns abstinence into a number you can feel. Skipping the vape refills or the delivery orders adds up fast, and watching that figure climb is one of the most reliable motivators there is. Milestones mark the week, the month, and the stretches in between, and the milestone history becomes a record of every summit you have reached rather than a single fragile chain.

Then there is the moment no dashboard can handle: the craving itself. Unlooped ships Craving SOS for exactly that minute, a guided way through the urge while it peaks, and an on-device AI coach you can talk to when you need more than a breathing exercise. Because the coach runs on your iPhone rather than a server, the conversation about what you are quitting stays yours. None of this replaces the satisfying tap of completing a task, and it is not meant to. It is the layer underneath, for the days when completing the task is the hard part.

Honestly, plenty of people. If your goals live mostly on the build side, drink water, stretch, close the rings, Streaks remains one of the finest pieces of software in the category. The HealthKit automation is real magic: tasks that complete themselves when the walk or the workout shows up in Health, widgets and a watch app that people genuinely love, and a pay once model with no subscription. An Apple Design Award is not handed out for nothing. Build-habit purists who want their tracker automated, beautiful, and bought outright may be happier staying exactly where they are.

Unlooped earns its place when the breaking side gets serious. If one habit on your list is the reason you downloaded a tracker in the first place, it deserves more than a negative task: a day counter, money saved, a milestone history, setbacks that do not erase the record, and help that shows up during the craving instead of after it. Since quit mode is free forever, there is no cost to finding out. Plenty of people run both apps, Streaks for the routines they are building and Unlooped for the one loop they are breaking, and let each do what it does best.