Habitica: Turn your to do list into a role-playing game

Habitica is a habit-forming app that turns your life into a role-playing game. I discovered it in August 2020 and have become a tad obsessed. This is the space for me to share the awesome stuff I find on Habitica, as well as information on how I’m getting involved in different spaces on the platform.

Since starting to use this app, I have improved my sleep, started to eat more vegetables, written more letters, taken more time to be creative, and made friends—and this is the short list. 

Habitica has two sides to it: one is your own personal task list, and the other is the social side of the platform. The difference between Habitica and social media sites (all of which I left in 2020) is that because it’s a self-improvement app, everyone is nice to and encouraging of each other. Plus, the app has a very active moderating team which deals with problems very quickly as they arise. The app is inclusive by nature and asks everyone to be respectful of members and their choices. 

The task list part of the site is divided into 3 types of tasks: habits, dailies, and to dos. You can add your own tasks or get ideas from the app on what to add. Stay tuned for a post explaining all these tasks in more detail.

The social side of the app has two parts: guilds and challenges. Guilds are groups of people with common interests, where you can discuss just about anything, from 80s nostalgia to how to be more productive when you have ADHD, and many things in between.

Challenges are created by different members and are based on a variety of topics. When you join a challenge, the challenge tasks get added to your own task list. By joining challenges, you have a chance to earn a winning title for your profile, and you can sometimes also have a chance to win gems. Gems allow you to purchase fun things for your avatar, like cool backgrounds, pet eggs which you can hatch and feed to become mounts, and more.

Habitica is not a pay-to-play game. Everything you need to advance in the game is included in the free version of the site. But if you want to help out the team that makes Habitica possible, you can choose to purchase a membership or gems, which will give you fun things for your profile. These things don’t have an impact on your status in the game, but they are fun to have and display on your profile. 

If you want to learn more, be sure to explore this section of the site, where I’ll be adding more information about my adventures with the app as well as instructional articles on how to make the best of its use.