Me+ App Alternative: What to Use When the Whole Routine Falls Apart After One Bad Day

Me+ is one of the most popular self-care apps on the App Store. It calls itself a "Daily Routine Planner and Habit Tracker" and promises that you can "Create your own daily and morning routines." On the US storefront on 13 October 2026 it was rated 4.80 from 248,359 ratings, and its listing says "Tens of millions of self-care advocates choose Me+". For many people a colourful planned day is exactly what they need. This page is for the other case: a routine that looked great on Sunday, broke on the first bad day, and never quite came back.

It is not a list of twenty apps. It explains what Me+ is built to do, when it is still the right choice, and what to look for if what you actually need is help on the day after the routine breaks.

What Me+ is built to do

Me+ is built around planning a whole day of self-care. Its listing names two systems, a "Daily Routine Planner and Habit Tracker" and a "Mood and Progress Tracker", and describes what you do with them: "Track your self-care plan, daily habits, mood, and progress daily." You can "Set friendly reminders in your daily planner for your to-do list" and "Build your own self-care schedule and daily routine planner with the icons and colors you choose!"

It also helps you decide what the routine should be. The listing suggests you "Take the MBTI test to find the routine and habits that suit you best", and to "Set a goal to become the person you aspire to be through developing habits and daily self-care routines". It promises "comprehensive evidence-based self-care information on establishing habits and healthy routines". The paid tier is a subscription at "$39.99/year and $9.99/month".

The tone is energetic: "Don't wait for tomorrow; start your healthy routines today!" What the listing does not describe is what happens when a day goes wrong: whether the app notices that the same part of the routine keeps getting skipped, or changes the plan when it does. A missed day stays a day that did not go to plan; what you do about it is up to you.

Why a bigger routine breaks more easily

A full routine feels like progress, but every extra habit competes for the same attention. Dalton and Spiller (2012) tested if-then plans, one of the most reliable tools in behaviour science, and found that they helped people complete a single goal, but the benefit shrank when people planned for several goals at once. Planning six habits is not six times as effective as planning one. It is often less effective for the one that matters.

Routines also depend on the day looking the way you planned it. Habits are built by repeating the same behaviour in the same context: Lally and colleagues (2010) found a median of 66 days to automaticity, with a range from 18 to 254, and missing one opportunity did not materially affect the outcome. A routine of eight steps has eight chances to meet a day that does not fit. When it breaks, it rarely breaks in one place; the whole morning is "ruined", and the habit you cared about is skipped together with the ones you did not.

What works better is deciding in advance what you will do in a specific situation, for one habit. Gollwitzer and Sheeran (2006) combined 94 tests of these "if-then" plans and found a medium-to-large effect on reaching goals. So if your Me+ routine keeps collapsing after one bad day, the fix is usually not a better-designed routine or a different personality template. It is one protected habit with a smaller version for bad days, chosen before the next one.

When Me+ is still the right choice

Switching apps is not always the answer. Stay with Me+, or go back to it, if any of these describe you:

• A planned day genuinely helps you. If having your morning and evening laid out keeps you calm and on track, that is what Me+ is designed for.
• You want mood tracking next to your habits. Me+ tracks mood and progress together. BeMooore tracks one habit and nothing else.
• You like to personalise. Icons, colours, routine templates and an MBTI-based starting point are part of the app. BeMooore is deliberately plain.
• You want reminders for a to-do list. Me+ puts reminders in a daily planner. BeMooore is not a planner or a to-do app.
• You value a large, proven app. Almost a quarter of a million ratings is a track record a young app cannot match.
• Your routine mostly holds. If your days are going to plan, the right number of apps to change is zero.

What to look for in an alternative

If the problem was a routine that fell apart whenever your week changed, another planner with nicer templates will give you a nicer routine to fall out of. Filter on what the app does after a bad day, not on how well it plans a good one:

If your last app was Streaks, see our Streaks app alternative guide; if it was a game that takes health points, the Habitica alternative guide; if a coached routine journey became too much, the Fabulous alternative guide; if a polished tracker recorded your skips but nothing changed, the Habitify alternative guide; if a chain of perfect days broke, the Productive app alternative guide; if a self-care pet kept you busy but one habit never stuck, the Finch app alternative guide; if you know the Atomic Habits method and the habit still slipped, the Atoms app alternative guide; if your charts showed the slide but nothing changed, the Strides app alternative guide; if a green and red grid kept showing red days, the Way of Life app alternative guide; and if one habit kept leaving empty squares, the HabitKit alternative guide. The apps side by side are in the best habit tracker app, by the reason you quit the last one.

BeMooore: one habit and a mentor that changes the plan after a miss

BeMooore is deliberately narrower than Me+. It does not plan your day; it is built around one habit and what happens after you miss it. Its App Store listing opens with the problem: "Miss one day and everything resets to zero. That is why most habit apps stop working after week two." What the listing says the app does instead:

• "Missed days do not wipe your progress. No streak shaming, no starting over."
• "An AI mentor that asks what got in the way and adjusts the plan, instead of sending another reminder."
• "Routines that flex around real life: sick days, travel, bad weeks."
• It is made for people who have quit habit trackers before, including people with ADHD whose attention does not run on a schedule.

The suggested start: pick one habit that matters this month, log it with one tap, and when you slip, let the app ask what got in the way and rebuild the plan with you. Where Me+ helps you design the whole day, BeMooore is built for the day that did not go to plan: why the habit was missed and what tomorrow should look like.

Where it is weaker than Me+, honestly: it has no daily planner, no routine templates, no mood tracking, no to-do reminders, no personality test and no icons or colours to customise. It is built for one habit rather than a whole routine, it has no public rating history yet, and it is iOS only. The BeMooore download is free and the paid plan starts with a 1-week free trial that you can cancel in Settings. Some people use both: Me+ for the routine that is working, BeMooore for the one habit that keeps falling out of it.

Whatever you choose, plan for the bad day

Any app, Me+ included, works better with one ritual it cannot do for you: deciding in advance what you will do the day after the routine breaks. Three rules help more than any app choice:

Protect one habit. Pick the step in your routine that matters most and mark it as the one that survives a bad day, even if everything else is skipped.

Never miss twice, and do not restart the whole routine. One bad day is noise. Write down now what the two-minute version of that one habit is, so the day after has a plan instead of a full routine you feel behind on. That is an if-then plan: "if yesterday fell apart, today I do the two-minute version and nothing else is required".

Name the cause, then change one thing. When the routine breaks, write one word: time, energy, place or forgot. After three weeks the pattern is usually obvious, and you can move the protected habit to a better time or anchor. More on choosing an anchor in morning rituals, and on how habits form in habit formation and change. The case for dropping streak pressure entirely is in habit trackers without streaks, and nine iOS trackers are compared on exactly this point in our missed-day comparison.

Frequently asked questions

References

• Dalton, A. N., & Spiller, S. A. (2012). Too much of a good thing: The benefits of implementation intentions depend on the number of goals. Journal of Consumer Research, 39(3), 600–614.
• Gollwitzer, P. M., & Sheeran, P. (2006). Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 69–119.
• Lally, P., van Jaarsveld, C. H. M., Potts, H. W. W., & Wardle, J. (2010). How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40(6), 998–1009.
• Apple Inc. iTunes Lookup API, US storefront: Me+ Lifestyle Routine (id1596403446) and BeMooore (id6505137869), retrieved 13 October 2026.