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24 alternatives to Atomic – A to-do app inspired by GitHub squares and Atomic Habits
Atomic is a super simple to-do app I built last year, mainly for fun. It's inspired by GitHub’s green contribution squares and the ideas from James Clear’s Atomic Habits. Each completed task turns the calendar entry of the day greener, making consistency visible and oddly satisfying. It’s not a serious productivity tool — just a vibe-coded experiment to gamify streaks and daily wins. Now there's a .exe available if you want to try it out.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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An app for building good habits and breaking bad ones
2024 · atoms.jamesclear.com · its alternatives →
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Atomic▲140Hey HN, I’ve been building Atom (https://github.com/rush86999/atom), an open-source, self-hosted AI automation platform. I built this because while tools like OpenClaw are excellent for one-off scripts and personal tasks, I found them difficult to use for complex business workflows (e.g., managing invoices or SaaS ops). The main issue was State Blindness: the agent would fire a command and assume it worked, without "seeing" if the UI or state actually updated. I just shipped a new architecture to solve this called Canvas AI Accessibility. The Technical Concept: Instead of…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Atomic.io 2.0▲328Ultra fast, scalable and fully collaborative prototyping
2016 · atomic.io · its alternatives →
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GitHub for Atom▲311Git and GitHub integration right inside Atom
2017 · github.blog · its alternatives →
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Atomic▲106Hey HN - I first posted about my knowledge base product, Atomic, here around a month ago; since then, a viral tweet by Karpathy has produced a torrent of AI powered knowledge base projects. meanwhile I've been shipping like crazy, here are some of the new features shipped in the last month: - Rebuilt the iOS app with an Android app on the way - expanded both the MCP and internal agent chat toolkit immensely - A custom, CodeMirror6-based markdown editor with obsidian-style rendering - A dashboard view that provides a daily summary of atoms created or updated in the last day And many bug fixes…
Apr 2026 · atomicapp.ai · its alternatives →
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The Todo App for Procrastinators ;)
2011 · tomorrow.do · its alternatives →
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Atomic CRM▲157The open-source CRM toolkit for personalized solutions
2024 · marmelab.com · its alternatives →
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Atomic Habits▲208A book on how to change your habits and get 1% better daily
2018 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Listify▲251A minimal space for your to-dos, tasks & reminders 📝
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Get the most out of Atomic Habits with AI-powered search
2023 · gptbook.club · its alternatives →
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We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
2015 · atom.io · its alternatives →
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Habit tracking and insights inspired by Atomic Habits
2023 · atomicprogress.com · its alternatives →
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Free management app for tasks, notes, projects and cooperation suitable for both professional and personal life.
2015 · notello.com · its alternatives →
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Free printable monthly habit tracker inspired by <a href="https://amzn.to/40hF5gm">Atomic Habits by James Clear</a>. Add your habits, pick a month, and print your tracking calendar. No sign-up required.
Feb 2026 · atomichabits-calendar.com · its alternatives →
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Pi▲117The all-in-one productivity powerhouse for your whole day
2018 · pipipi.co · its alternatives →
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