Coach.me vs Strides

Coach.me combines habit tracking, community support, and coaching for goals related to health, productivity, personal life, and business growth. Its free Habit Tracker supports unlimited habits, progress tracking, community participation, weekly and monthly trends, reminders, Q&A, and step-by-step plans. Users who want individual guidance can choose Habit Coaching, which provides daily support through private in-app chat. Coaches can be browsed by specialty and reviews, or matched through CoachMatch using goals, personality, and coaching style. Leadership Coaching adds twice-monthly live lessons, a peer lab, and weekly leadership lessons. Coach.me is available on web, iOS, and Android; the tracker also lists an iPhone Today widget and Apple Watch check-ins and reminders. The free plan includes habit tracking and community Q&A. Habit Coaching is $87.00 per month, and Leadership Coaching is $150.00 per month. Users can hide a goal’s check-ins and notes from their profile, but posts in its Q&A remain public. Chats are private between user and coach, though anonymized transcripts may be reviewed for coach certification.

Strides is a tracker app that brings goals, habits, daily routines, tasks, and projects together. It offers Habit, Target, Average, and Project tracker types. Users can set SMART goals through a three-step process or start from a template; the app includes more than 150 templates and supports custom trackers. Progress tools include pace lines, streaks, success rates, calendars, line charts, and reports. The Daily Goals view filters trackers to those due for logging according to their repeat settings. Users can invite accountability partners to view selected goals or collaborate on a goal using iCloud on Apple devices. The app listing says Strides integrates with Apple Health, and the listed platforms are Android, iOS, and macOS. The maker says it does not rent, sell, or share user data with other companies or advertisers. Apple-only users can store data on devices and in iCloud; Android data is stored on the phone by default, with Firebase backup available if enabled.