Moving from Loop Habit Tracker to HabitSync

You can bring your history with you. Export it, map your columns once, and every day you logged comes across dated as the day you logged it. It is free and takes about a minute.

What Loop Habit Tracker is good at

Open source, no account, no tracking, and completely free. If those are the things you care about, it is hard to beat.

It is Android-only with no sync, so the record lives on one phone and a lost phone is a lost history. There is no web app and nothing that reads across habits.

Getting your data out

1. Open Loop and go to Settings, then Export, and choose the full CSV export.
2. You will get a zip. Unzip it and look for the combined checkmarks file rather than the one-file-per-habit versions.
3. That combined file has a date column and one column per habit, which is exactly what to import.

Export menus move around. If these steps do not match what you see, look for anything that says export, backup or download, and pick the CSV.

Bringing it in

1. Make a free account. No card, and the import works on the free plan.
2. Go to Profile, then Account, and choose Import from a spreadsheet or another app.
3. Upload the file, or paste the rows straight in.
4. Check what each column is. We guess, you correct anything wrong.
5. Look at the summary of what is about to be added, then bring it in.

What comes across

Every habit as its own column, with completed days recognised automatically. Loop writes a number rather than a tick for a completed day, and the importer reads that.

What does not

Loop's per-habit notes and its reminder schedules. If a habit was archived in Loop it may not be in the export at all.

And you can leave too

The export sits next to the import, on the same free plan. Everything you log comes back out as a CSV whenever you want it, including your medication history. That is the whole reason this page can exist: nobody should be stuck somewhere because their record is.