HabitSync Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

HabitSync hosting on xCloud gives you a self-hosted habit tracker with shared habits and challenges on your own domain. Deploy HabitSync and xCloud runs the pinned official image as one container, creates the sign-in account from the username and password you set, serves the web app and API over HTTPS, and keeps the database on one persistent volume. There is no public sign-up, so only accounts you approve can use it.

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What is HabitSync?

Self-hosted HabitSync is a habit tracking platform with social features. Upstream describes habits with flexible goals and frequencies, negative habits, shared habits with friends and family, monthly challenges with voting and leaderboards, Apprise notifications, a Progressive Web App, an Android app in development, and an import from Loop Habit Tracker. It is an open-source alternative to hosted habit apps such as Habitica, and it is BSD-3-Clause licensed.

On xCloud the template runs ghcr.io/jofoerster/habitsync 0.19.3, pinned by digest, as one container with an H2 database on the habitsync_data volume. A one-off init container hashes your password at start. The web app and REST API share one address, there is no setup wizard or public sign-up, and further users come only through an OIDC provider you configure.

From Sign-Up to a Live HabitSync In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting HabitSync normally means a container, a generated password, persistent storage and a certificate before you can log your first habit. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick HabitSync from the OneClick catalog. Enter a username — default admin — and leave the password blank to have xCloud generate one.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the vendor-maintained HabitSync 0.19.3 image, hash your sign-in password through a short-lived helper container, mount the persistent data volume, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Create Your First Habit
Open your HTTPS URL, choose Sign In with Username, and use the credentials from your installation page. Create your first habit with the + button and log today's entry.

Loop Habit Tracker Import, And Everything HabitSync Does

HabitSync runs in full here: habit tracking, sharing and monthly challenges on infrastructure you control.

Yes/No And Numerical Habits
Track habits with daily, weekly, monthly or custom goals, including negative habits you're trying to reduce.
Shared Habits And Challenges
Share habits with friends and family and compare progress. Monthly challenges add voting, leaderboards and medals.
Reminders And Alerts
Get reminders and threshold alerts through Apprise — Discord, email, Signal, Home Assistant and 80+ other services — or plain e-mail.
PWA, Android And REST API
Install it as a Progressive Web App or use the Android app. A REST API with API keys covers integrations like Home Assistant.
Import From Loop Habit Tracker
Bring your existing history over instead of starting a blank streak.
Your Streaks, Your Server
Habits, history and accounts stay in the embedded database on a server you own, not a third-party habit-tracking account.

Everything You Need To Run Your Habit Tracking 24/7

Managed hosting for HabitSync, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

HabitSync 0.19.3 deployed instantly
Generated sign-in account
Apprise reminders ready to configure
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With HabitSync

Track daily habits
A person logs habits with flexible goals, daily, weekly, monthly or custom intervals, including negative habits they want to reduce, from the browser.
Share habits with friends and family
A household shares habits to compare progress, and runs monthly challenges with voting and leaderboards, on a server only invited people can reach.
Bring your Loop Habit Tracker history
A Loop user imports an existing export into HabitSync instead of starting streaks again, within the importer's file size limit.
Connect reminders and scripts
An owner points HabitSync at an Apprise server for notifications, and uses an API key with the REST API from scripts or Home Assistant.

HabitSync vs Alternatives

Habitica: Habitica is a gamified habit app with its own OneClick page. As a HabitSync alternative to Habitica, you get shared habits, challenges and leaderboards on your own server.
Beaver Habits: Beaver Habits is a habit tracker with its own OneClick page. HabitSync vs Beaver Habits: HabitSync centres on shared habits and monthly challenges, with Apprise notifications and a REST API.
Loop Habit Tracker: Loop Habit Tracker is a habit tracker app for phones. Upstream lists an import from Loop Habit Tracker, so an existing history can move to HabitSync.
Spreadsheets and notes apps: HabitSync keeps goals, frequencies, progress and reminders in one app, and compares progress with the people you share with.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for HabitSync hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

Larger communities running bigger monthly challenges.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
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Cloud VPS 24 GB

HabitSync alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. HabitSync itself is free under the BSD 3-Clause licence.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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Ready To Own Your Habits?

HabitSync on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is HabitSync free and open source?

Yes. HabitSync is BSD-3-Clause licensed, which allows free use of its open source code. xCloud bills the dedicated Cloud VPS only. The template adds no paid HabitSync tier, and your habit data stays in a volume on your own server.

Can I run HabitSync with Docker?

Yes, and this template is HabitSync Docker hosting without the assembly. It starts the ghcr.io/jofoerster/habitsync 0.19.3 image, pinned by digest, as one container, proxies port 6842 behind HTTPS and mounts the habitsync_data volume at /data. A short-lived init container prepares the password hash.

How much RAM does HabitSync need?

The manifest floor is 768 MB of RAM, one core and 2 GB of disk; the container itself is capped at 768 MB, with the Java heap taking up to three quarters. We sell the 6 GB Cloud VPS for a HabitSync cloud install, mostly as headroom.

Can I import Loop Habit Tracker data into HabitSync?

Yes. Upstream lists an import from Loop Habit Tracker, and the template README says the importer accepts files up to about one megabyte. Sign in, open the import option and upload your Loop export. Check a few habits afterwards to make sure the history and streaks look right.

Is there a HabitSync mobile app?

HabitSync installs as a Progressive Web App straight from the browser. Upstream also offers an Android app from its releases page, and warns that the app is in development and must be kept up to date with the server version. Upstream names no iOS app.

Does HabitSync have an API?

Yes. Upstream describes an API-first design with Swagger docs. Sign in on the web interface once, create an API key on the Profile page, and send it in the X-Api-Key header from scripts or Home Assistant. Upstream links a Home Assistant guide that uses this REST API.

How do reminders work in HabitSync?

Upstream supports scheduled reminders, threshold alerts and overtake notifications through Apprise. Push notifications are off until you point the APPRISE_API_URL setting at an Apprise API server. Email is also off by default, until you enable the mail settings and supply host and credentials.

Can other people sign up on my HabitSync?

No. There is no public sign-up and no setup wizard. Sign in as the account created at install with the username and password you set. To let others in, configure an OIDC provider in the environment settings; new OIDC users wait for approval from an existing user.

How do I back up HabitSync?

Back up the habitsync_data volume, which holds the H2 database, scheduler tables and sessions. Stop the application first so the files agree, restore the volume as one unit, and keep JWT_SECRET the same across restores, otherwise everyone is signed out. Test a restore on a spare server first.

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How do I update HabitSync?

Your install stays on its pinned 0.19.3 version until you adopt a newer template version. Back up the habitsync_data volume first and read the upstream release notes, because the mobile app must match the server version. Afterwards sign in, open a habit and log today's entry.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.