Import your Loop Habit Tracker history

Before you start

You need Loop's full backup — the .db file. Not the CSV export. The CSV is a readable summary of your check-ins; the .db is the actual database, and it is the only one of the two that carries your schedules, targets and complete history.

Step by step

1. In Loop Habit Tracker: Settings → Export full backup Loop writes a file called something like Loop Habits Backup 2026-08-16.db and lets you save or share it. Put it somewhere you can find again — Downloads is fine.
2. Install Kaizenly and open it On a fresh install the home screen shows a card reading "Coming from Loop Habit Tracker?" — tap it and you go straight to the file picker.
3. Already have habits in Kaizenly? Go through Settings instead Settings → Data backup → Import from Loop. Because you have data to protect, this route asks whether to add the Loop habits to what you have or replace everything. On an empty app that question never appears — there is nothing to merge with.
4. Pick the .db file Loop's export has no registered file type, so the picker shows everything on your device rather than filtering. Choose the .db file by name; Kaizenly checks the contents and will tell you if it isn't a Loop backup.
5. Read the import report When it finishes you get a summary of what came in, plus anything worth a second look. The next section explains those.

What carries over

• Every habit, with its name and description
• Every check-in, back to the first day you logged — the full history, not a summary
• Numeric habits with their values, not just a tick
• Schedules: daily, chosen weekdays, and "x times per week" targets

Loop doesn't store an icon per habit, so Kaizenly picks one from the habit's name. Change any that guessed wrong in a couple of taps.

What to check afterwards

Two habit trackers are never a perfect map of each other. Kaizenly imports everything anyway — dropping years of somebody's history to avoid an awkward label is the worse trade — and then names the specific habits you should look at.

"At most" habits read backwards

Loop lets you set a limit — smoke at most 5 a day — where staying under the number is the win. Kaizenly has no equivalent yet, so those import as ordinary count-up goals and will read inverted until you edit them.

Weekly and monthly targets become daily goals

A Loop habit measured per week, like run 20 km a week, keeps the number 20 but it now means per day. The number is carried across unchanged rather than quietly divided, because dividing produces goals like 2.86 km and hides the change from you.

Unusual repeat cycles get rounded

Loop can schedule "every 3 days" or "2 times per 5 days". The closest thing here is a flexible N times per week, so those cadences are approximated.

If the import is refused

Keep your Loop backup

Importing doesn't touch the file, and Loop itself is untouched — it stays installed with all its data until you remove it. Give the new app a couple of weeks before you uninstall anything, and keep that .db somewhere safe regardless. It is the only complete copy of your history that doesn't depend on a phone.