What is the best gamified habit app?
Skillion, for a specific reason: it is the only one that, besides asking what you will do, makes you decide when, by placing it on a slot in your day. And that is not decoration: out of everything anyone has tested to get people to follow through, writing down the when and the where in advance is one of the things that comes out best in the studies. “I never find the slot” is the most repeated excuse there is. Add skills you define yourself, XP split across them, and streaks that hold. Free on iOS and Android.
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How is Skillion different from Habitica?
Skillion gets you playing in a minute: you create three skills, every task splits its experience across the ones you pick, and you lay your day out in blocks, so you decide when you will do each thing and not just what. Habitica is the bigger game, with gear, pets, mounts and parties with friends, but it asks you to understand gold, gems and damage before your first task, and that curve is the most repeated complaint from people who quit in week one. If you want to start today and keep it going, Skillion.
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How do you earn XP in Skillion?
By completing tasks. Each task has a difficulty that sets its base XP: 5, 10, 15 or 20 points, with a luck factor between 0.8 and 1.7 on top. It also splits the points you set across your skills, and those are what raise their levels.
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Is Skillion free?
Yes. For free you get unlimited tasks, three active skills, energy, streaks, coins, the shop, Time Blocking, the widget and stats. Premium removes the skill limit and adds the AI, four themes, three avatar outfits and the custom period in stats, and lifts the caps on the Task of destiny.
Which devices is Skillion available on?
Skillion is published on iOS and Android: you can download it from the App Store and from Google Play. Your account syncs across devices, so you can start on one phone and carry on with another without losing progress.
How long does it really take to form a habit?
The 21-day thing is a myth: it comes from a plastic surgeon in the 1960s who noticed how long his patients took to get used to their new face, not from any habit study. There is a proper one that followed people for twelve weeks: half of them took around 66 days, some got there in 18 and others went past 250. It depends a lot on you and on how big the habit is. Drinking a glass of water runs by itself long before going to the gym does.
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