Comparison
CardHabit vs BeHard.
BeHard is the biggest of the 75-Hard-style trackers: define your challenge once, check the boxes daily, keep the streak with a group. CardHabit starts from a different question. What if the challenge changed every morning?
Updated November 2026
The short version
BeHard is a strong tracker for a challenge you design yourself. You set the daily rules, the app holds you to them, and group challenges with leaderboards supply the accountability. If you are mid-75-Hard and want a purpose-built companion, it does that job well and a large community runs on it.
The structural difference is who writes the daily list. In BeHard, you do, once, and then repeat it. In CardHabit, the deck does, every morning: five habit cards dealt at random, with the rarer ones printed in a richer finish, from plain to full gold foil. You commit to the ones you will back up. Repetition is the thing the draw exists to kill.
At a glance
| Feature | CardHabit | BeHard |
|---|---|---|
| Who writes the daily list | The deck, fresh each morning | You, once, at challenge setup |
| Structure | Indefinite daily deal | Challenge arcs (75 Hard and custom variants) |
| Variety | 172-card deck, rare foil finishes, randomness | Fixed by design; the rules are the point |
| Social | Deal a friend in: share a card, finish it together (2.0) | Group challenges and leaderboards |
| Missed day | That streak ends; a new one starts the next morning | Depends on the challenge rules you chose |
| Collection layer | Your binder (the Codex in the app): every finished card is collected | None |
| Built for | People who want the challenge to surprise them | People who want their exact rules enforced |
Where BeHard is right
Self-defined rules are the correct tool while you are inside a program like 75 Hard. The program's power is its rigidity; an app that enforces the exact list you signed up for keeps you honest, and doing it alongside a group multiplies the cost of quitting. If that is the season you are in, use the tool built for it.
What CardHabit does differently
CardHabit is built for the years around the challenge, not the 75 days inside it. A fixed list you wrote yourself has a known failure mode: the day it stops surprising you is the day it stops working, and you are both the player and the referee. The draw removes that conflict of interest. The deck decides what today asks; you decide what you will back up.
The collection is the other difference. Every card you finish goes into your binder, a record you can look back through, and rank and XP build quietly underneath. With CardHabit 2.0 you can also deal a friend in: send a card from your hand into theirs for today, and if you both finish it, you each get a paired foil card with both names on it. Discipline, with the texture of a card game instead of a checklist.