Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    14k

    Habitica: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.

    TL;DR • Habitica • as of August 2026

    Habitica is an open-source miscellaneous project, with 14k GitHub stars and a health score of 82/100. It committed 279 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: GPL-3.0, CC-BY-SA-3.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.

    14k
    GitHub stars
    82/100
    Health score
    279
    Commits (12 mo)
    12/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-08-13
    Days since last commit 4
    Commits, last 3 months 76
    Commits, last 12 months 279
    Months with activity 12 of 12
    Last release 2026-08-13
    Archived No
    Licence GPL-3.0, CC-BY-SA-3.0
    Category Miscellaneous

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    GPL-3.0, CC-BY-SA-3.0

    Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What Habitica means for your idea

    Crowded · 81/100
    Miscellaneous category →

    Habitica is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.

    Assume every prospect can find a free version in five minutes. Your wedge has to be something open source structurally cannot deliver: compliance, support SLAs, managed hosting at scale, or a workflow the maintainers refuse to build.

    Habitica: common questions

    Is Habitica still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. Habitica recorded 279 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 76 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-13. Last release: 2026-08-13. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use Habitica commercially?

    Habitica is published under GPL-3.0, CC-BY-SA-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    How crowded is the Miscellaneous category?

    76 open-source implementations, 40 of them actively maintained, led by revealjs at 72k stars. Saturation score 81/100 — Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.

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